Academic Search Complete and JSTOR are both databases containing articles from scholarly journals that will help you find peer-reviewed sources. Both are multi-disciplinary databases, but only JSTOR is entirely full-text.
The New York Times is widely considered to be one of the newspapers of record for events and news coverage in the U.S. Other newspapers listed below cover more localized areas of the country and, while they may provide less in-depth coverage of events, may often contain items of regional interest that are not included in large, national newspapers.