Great minds think alike ;-) Wrt newsmax, I'm not sure, but IIRC I've seen their stuff posted. The only thing I could find on the FR home page were suits by LA Times and WA Post for copyright infringement - don't see anything about other sites. I usually check the bottom of the article and if it doesn't have something like: this article and no portion of thereof can be reposted, re-broadcasted, blah, blah, then I think we're ok. I think a lot of sites like that their articles get linked and posted or partially posted - - brings more hits to them, which means they can sell more ads.
OK, good rule of thumb. I normally don't care if I cause trouble, but I don't want to cause the Mods a headache either.