Simplified news for learners

• Times in Plain English
• Japan Times ST
• Breaking News English
• VOA
• News in Levels

Japanese news

• NHK World
• Daily Mainichi
• Japan Times
• Japan Today
• News on Japan
• Yomiuri
• Nikkei

News Wire Services

• Reuters
• AP
• Kyodo
• EFE (also in Spanish)
• DW (also in German and other languages)

News Indexes

• Google News
• Newsmap
• Wikinews

Specialist Magazines

• New Scientist
• Scientific American
• Science Daily
• Science Magazine
• Economics
• Monga Bay (environment)

Specific Country News

For news from specific countries, the Guardian has a list of newspapers for each area, but note that many of these are not even trying to be neutral on some topics.

For TOEFL

Some US Student Newspapers might have useful vocab and topics for integrated campus task:

• Harvard
• Yale
• Kansas
• UCLA