I have the BBC RSS feed on my Firefox browser. It offers a great (non-US) perspective on the news. And I just started reading the Economist magazine, which again offers a non-US POV, and provides nice commentary to help you understand the deeper issues involved in the daily news.

I also sometimes check CNN, but I choose the international version.

These are all a nice alterntive to my local news which, the other morning, could not say enough about a house fire out in the suburbs. They had a live helicopter report, a phone interview with the fire chief, lots of anchor discussions about it, and updates about how traffic was effected (it wasn't). This was all over a single-family house fire that injured no one and caused no damage to anything else.

Jeez!