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3.27.24
CBS News—OpenAI being sued by several media groups and newspapers over copyright violations
CNN.com—Car prices expected to surge by thousands of dollars due to Trump's tariffs
ABCnews.com—US moving ahead with plans to sell 8 armed military drones to Qatar for $2 billion
USA Today—Supreme Court upholds Biden-era regulation related to untraceable ghost guns
NBC News—Babysitter finds intruder hiding under child's bed after the child asked her to check there for monsters
BBC News—Chinese coporation that owns WeChat makes $1.25 billion investment in video game studio Ubisoft


3.26.24
CBS News—Federal appeal court upholds lower court's block on Trump using the Alien Enemies Act to deport people
CNN.com—Multistate measles outbreak continues to grow, affecting mostly the unvaccinated
BBC News—Trump announces 25% tariffs on all cars imported into the US
NBC News—United Airlines flight to China diverted to San Francisco after pilot forgets to bring his passport
USA Today—Napster sold for $200 million to digital media company. I had no idea this service still existed.
ABCnews.com—Mega Millions jackpot announces new rules


3.25.24
ABCnews.com—Trump's incredibly unqualified defense secretary reveals classified war plans on group chat that included a reporter from the Atlantic
CNN.com—Florida considering revocation of child labor laws to fill vacancies left by undocumented immigrants, including allowing children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts on school nights
BBC News—DNA testing site 23andMe files for bankruptcy, meaning the private medical data of millions of customers could be up for sale to the highest bidder
NBC News—FDA approves first new antibiotic for UTIs in almost 30 years
USA Today—Holder of winning $83 million lottery ticket having her winnings withheld by Texas because she purchased her ticket through a third party vendor
CBS News—Pennsylvania doctor arrested after trying to push his wife off a hiking trail in Hawaii


3.20.24
ABCnews.com—Trump signs order aiming to dismantle the Department of Education, but because it was created and funded by Congress, it will take Congressional approval to carry out, including at least 60 votes in the Senate
CNN.com—Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing Social Security records
BBC News—Current NBA champions the Boston Celtics are sold to an investment group for $6.1 billion
NBC News—Jury awards two families $750,000 after finding that a campground discriminated against them because one of the campers in their party was Black
USA Today—Former Michigan football coach accused of hacking the accounts of thousands of undergraduate students and stealing intimate photos and videos from female students
CBS News—Scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough around dark energy


3.19.24
CNN.com—The Fed makes no change to interest rates, acknowledging the negative impacts that Trump's trade wars have had on the economy, but saying that a recession isn't unavoidable yet
ABCnews.com—State Department official who was tasked with dismantling USAID on Trump's orders steps away from that role
USA Today—US universities warn international students not to leave the country for spring break given the uncertain immigration directives from the Trump administration
NBC News—Federal judge rules that art created by AI cannot be copyrighted
BBC News—Greenpeace ordered to pay oil firm $650 million for its role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline
CBS News—Google says it is suing scammers who added more than 10,000 fake listings to Google Maps


3.18.24
BBC News—Texas arrests midwife for allegedly providing abortions through a network of clinics in the Houston area
NBC News—Filmmaker charged with defrauding Netflix to the tune of $11 million after spending the money meant to produce a show for the streaming service on luxury personal items and cryptocurrency investments
CNN.com—Google pays $32 billion to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz, the most it has ever paid for another company
USA Today—Forever 21 to close all its retail locations by May 1
CBS News—Trump revokes Secret Service protection for Biden's children
ABCnews.com—Two astronauts who had an extended stay on the ISS due to concerns about Boeing's Starliner capsule finally return to Earth after nine months in space


3.13.24
NBC News—Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow him to ignore the Constitution and end birthright citizenship through an executive order
ABCnews.com—Nearly 100 peaceful protestors arrested at Trump Tower in New York
CBS News—USPS to cut 10,000 workers using early retirement incentives
CNN.com—Johns Hopkins, the largest employer in the state of Maryland, announces it is cutting 2200 jobs in the wake of federal funding cuts, the largest layoffs in the institution's history
USA Today—Scientists discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274
BBC News—Measles cases in the US continue to trend upward as Trump appointee RFK Jr. promotes unproven and ineffective treatments


3.12.24
ABCnews.com—Trump once again grovels at the feet of a foreign oligarch by doing a car commercial for Tesla with his boss Elon on the White House grounds
CBS News—Fort Bragg and Fort Benning revert to their original names, which honored Confederate generals but which are now nominally named after different soldiers with the same last names as the traitors to America
CNN.com—FTC asks judge to delay Amazon trial due to staff shortages caused by President Musk's budget cuts
USA Today—SpaceX forced to scrub launch meant to being American astronauts home due to mechanical issues
NBC News—Founder of Texas megachurch indicted on multiple counts of lewd acts with a child
BBC News—Doctors say children under 8 should avoid slushies that contain glycerol


3.11.24
CNN.com—Ukraine agrees to ceasefire proposal as US restores aid and intel
ABCnews.com—President Elon and his Russian girlfriend Trump slash Department of Education workforce by 50%
CBS News—Stock market craters as Trump announces more tariffs
NBC News—For the first time in its history, Southwest Airlines will charge for checked bags
USA Today—Former NFL player sentenced to 2.5 years in prison on fraud charges after taking millions in a Ponzi scheme to fuel his gambling habit
BBC News—Black Lives Matter plaza in DC demolished after Trump administration threatened to withhold funding to the city if it was not removed


3.6.24
USA Today—Trump delays implementation of tariffs on Canada and Mexico after a negative reaction from the public and, more importantly to him, Wall Street
NBC News—Former US Olympic snowboarder now on FBI's most wanted list after being accused of running a violent drug trafficking operation
BBC News—Intuitive Machines, a private spaceflight company, has landed one of its spacecrafts on the moon, but it may have botched the landing and might be unable to carry out its scientific research
CNN.com—Walgreens announces plans to become a private company again
ABCnews.com—South Carolina will execute death row inmate via firing squad tomorrow, the first time that method of execution has been used in 15 years
CBS News—SpaceX's Starship rocket has its second failed test flight in a row, breaking apart before reaching its planned altitude


3.5.24
CNN.com—Pathetic GOP in control of Congress beg unelected, illegal "advisor" Musk to let them do their jobs, which is to allocate funding for the federal government
ABCnews.com—CDC hires back 180 of the employees who were fired during a recent DOGE purge
CBS News—Supreme Court narrowly rejects one of Trump's illegal power grabs related to freezing $2 billion in funding that has already been approved and allocated by Congress
USA Today—ABC News announces layoffs, including the shuttering of Nate Silvers 538 political prediction website
BBC News—Three heli-skiers die in Alaskan avalanche
NBC News—Pokemon-shaped Flaming Hot Cheeto sells at auction for $88,000


3.4.24
CNN.com—Dow falls by over 700 points after Trump's tariffs and retaliation by our trading partners stokes fears of a trade war that could exacerbate inflation and stall our economy
CBS News—BlackRock investment firm strikes $23 billion deal with Hong Kong congolomerate that will give US control of ports on the Panama Canal
USA Today—24 hour economic blackout on Feb 28 did not have a noticeable effect on major retailers
ABCnews.com—11 middle schoolers hospitalized in New York after student distributes cannabis gummies at school
BBC News—World's largest iceberg runs aground off remote island that is home to millions of penguins and seals
NBC News—Star running back Saquon Barkley signs 2 year extension with the Eagles weeks after winning a Super Bowl with the team

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