SOURCES OF FREE NEWS AND JOURNAL ARTICLE (with a few for a fee)

http://news.google.com
http://news.yahoo.com
http://www.magportal.com
http://www.news.com (from C|Net}
http://www.smartbrief.com
http://www.newsisfree.com (newspapers, international in scope)
http://www.doaj.org, (Directory of Open Access Journals, “categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals”)
http://www.highbeam.com (not free, but very inexpensive for what you get)
http://findarticles.com

Free RSS news feeds are available at: http://w.moreover.com/site/products/ind/rss_feeds.html

Gale Thompson offers AccessMyLibrary (http://www.accessmylibrary.com), which “gives you free [full-text] access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library.” They will even send a plain text version of the article to your email address.

The resources below come from Gary Price of ask.com.
NewspaperARCHIVE, (http://newspaperarchive.com/), a fee-based service with millions of articles, offers their “special collections” with tens of thousands of articles for free (http://newspaperarchive.com/SpecialCollections.aspx). These are the same articles (full text and full image) that you have to pay for elsewhere. If you are a K-12 school library or a public library, nearly the entire database is available for free (see http://access.newspaperarchive.com/
SiteLoading.aspx?from=default.aspx) for details.

Time magazine offers a free archive back to 1923, http://www.time.com/time/, with a nice selection of options to focus results.

Topix is primarily a web-based news site, but does a good job of making sure “older links” are still available. They now offer case sensitive searching and useful interactive graphs to see trends and go directly to older material. For example, look for the graph at the top of this search results page (http://www.topix.com/search/article?q=%22
Los+Angeles+International+Airport%22).

Remember that many libraries in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere offer free access to numerous full text article databases for personal use, but this is usually for card holders only. Access from any web computer. For example, http://www.sfpl.org/sfplonline/dbcategories.htm or http://www.cpl.org/databases-links.asp. Remember every library offers different resources.