These are my favorite websites for news. I'm curious to hear what others are ;D
Real estate news
http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html (http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html)
Economy & Peak Oil
http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html (http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html)
Interesting mixed bag news
http://www.survivalblog.com/odds_n_sods/ (http://www.survivalblog.com/odds_n_sods/)
Popular news
http://digg.com/ (http://digg.com/)
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/
http://curry.com/
BishopKnight, if you like digg, you should take a gander at reddit.
I like this for world events, but they are not ear ticklers. I especially like to read the comments from all parts of the world.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php
http://www.theonion.com/content/index
www.thedailyshow.com/
www.colbertnation.com
http://www.kitco.com/
Scroll down to the "Contributed Commentaries" box in the middle of the screen. It's a precious metals oriented site, but you get a lot of different authors (with different viewpoints) contributing on general economic issues.
second kitco
and add
http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
for some (so far anyway) excellent, on target, financial predictions -- lots of links too