This list has evolved over many years of W&L courses and research and was most recently enhanced for the Congress and the Legislative Process course, taught by Brian Alexander.  Professor Alexander's discussion of these sources is available:

Daily Essentials

• Axios (especially Axios AM)
• Washington Post  (especially Politics section)
• New York Times  (especially Politics section)
• Wall Street Journal  (especially Politics section).   Individual accounts for access to Digital WSJ is available to current W&L students and faculty @ this link .  (In your initial login, you may be prompted to enter your W&L ID and password, but then you will need to set up and use your own individual WSJ personal ID and password.)
• Politico  (especially Huddle)
• Roll Call
• National Public Radio  (especially Morning Edition)

Focus on Congress

• C-Span
• CQ Magazine  W&L subscription.
• National Journal Daily  (also Hotline)  W&L subscription.
• The Hill
• Congressional Record  (Daily Digest)

More Excellence

• BBC News  (U.S. and Canada)
• Bloomberg News
• The Economist  (U.S. section)
• Morning Consult  (Washington section)
• PBS NewsHour
• RealClear Politics
• Sabato's Crystal Ball