Here are a ton of helpful links for learning French and finding French news

General French Info

http://www.tf1.fr/ - best site i've found yet for modern French news and videos! (it has all sorts of French media, including current newscasts, articles on various subjects, and games like 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' in French!)

http://french.about.com/library/vocab/argot/bl-argot.htm - About.com's "Argot" or French Slang

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/cool/ - Cool French from BBC Languages

http://www.linternaute.com/ - Modern online French magazine

http://www.gailhyatt.com/ - a comprehensive website full of links and information brought to you by a French teacher named Gail Hyatt

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ - a source for webquests

http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html - Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links, extensive French resource site with links on history of France, virtual tours, and more.

http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3392 - teachers can use this for standards

French Language Learning

http://fsi-language-courses.com/French.aspx - the Foreign Service Institute has put together a comprehensive resource for French learning online that is broken into sections you can listen to (with real French speakers) and a student text and instructor's manual as well.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/French/Appendices/Slang - Wikibooks has a learning French series , and this is the link for slang. 

News

http://www.lemonde.fr/ - Le Monde, daily French news
http://www.lefigaro.fr/ - Le Figaro, left-winged French news
http://www.afp.com/francais/home/ - L'Agence France Presse news (afp.com - English version)
http://www.france2.fr/ - France 2, a French tv channel's online website
http://tf1.fr/- Another online French channel with lots of current videos- EXCELLENT RESOURCE

Dictionaries

http://www.wordreference.com/fren - Word Reference Dictionary has translation for French as well as Spanish and a few other languages. This one might be my favorite because it has so many translations and some colloquialisms. (link is for French one)
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/ - French Linguistics Dictionary is good too. It has links to other French language information.

Verbs

 Verbe 2 verbe - http://www.verbe2verbe.com/
Francais interactif - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi