5.1.06
CNN.com—Puerto Rican leaders can't reach deal on budget and is forced to close schools and government offices
ABCnews.com—Mild form of avian flu detected at bird market in New Jersey
Fox News—AmEx web site taken over by virus
CBS News—Mission: Impossible III promo devices are mistaken for bombs in Los Angeles
MSNBC—Duke defense team says that the DA is using the rape case to get reelected and demand that he remove himself from the case
USA Today—Limbaugh must undergo random drug testing for 18 months as part of his deal to have fraud charges against him dropped

5.2.06
ABCnews.com—Biden suggests splitting Iraq into 3 distinct ethno-religious regions
Fox News—Secret Service will release logs of all Abramoff's visits to the White House, including who he met with
BBC News—Polar bears and hippos make the list of species threatened with extinction
CNN.com—Supreme court rules in favor of Anna Nicole Smith in her pursuit of her share of her deceased husband's estate
MSNBC—Chinese man buys MiG fighter jet off eBay
USA Today—Napster unveils new sales model that allows users to listen to any song up to five times for free by watching ads while they listen

5.3.06
MSNBC—Apple will keep selling songs on the iTunes music store for $.99, despite pressure from the record labels to raise prices on more popular songs
USA Today—Google says that beta versions of IE7 have hard-to-change default settings that direct people to Microsoft's search site
CNN.com—Condemned man sits up during his execution by lethal injection and tells his executioners that the drugs aren't working
ABCnews.com—Iran threatens to attack Israel if the US attacks Iran
CBS News—60% of young Americans aged 18-24 can't correctly identify Iraq on a map, and 30% can't find Louisiana
Fox News—Publisher cancels book deal for Harvard undergrad when striking similarities between her work and the work of two other authors are revealed

5.4.06
CBS News—Beverage makers and distributors agree to halt sweetened soft drink sales in public schools
CNN.com—Post office considering another rate hike next year in addition to a bizarre scheme to sell "forever" stamps that would hedge against future rate increases
ABCnews.com—Jury opts to give Moussaoui life in prison instead of the death penalty
USA Today—MLB finally chooses a new owner for the Washington Nationals
BBC News—The EU will make battery recycling mandatory starting in 2008
MSNBC—More and more professors banning laptops from their classrooms

5.5.06
USA Today—Mexico's president refuses to sign a bill making it legal to posess personal-use quantities of many drugs that was passed by the legislature
New Scientist—A universe that has collapsed in on itself and exploded in a big bang repeatedly could explain the cosmological constant
BBC News—A three week deep water trawl in the Atlantic yields hundreds of new species
CNN.com—Rumsfeld heckled at speech in Atlanta
MSNBC—Picasso painting of the artist's mistress nets $95 million at auction
CBS News—The Vatican excommunicates four Chinese bishops

5.8.06
CBS News—Polygamist added to FBI's ten most wanted list
CNN.com—Florida legislature votes to require high school majors. Worst. Idea. Ever.
Fox News—Ohio man arrested for driving his lawn mower while drunk
USA Today—40% of Americans consider themselves to be at least casual gamers
MSNBC—AOL to offer free phone numbers to AIM users
ABCnews.com—Man convincted of marijuana possession must remove canabis leaves painted on the side of his house as part of his plea deal

5.9.06
Wired News—British court rules in favor of Apple Computer in the case brought against it by Apple Records
USA Today—Another Monday, another dip in Bush's approval ratings
BBC News—China claims that the Three Gorges Dam will be done this month, nine months ahead of schedule
CNN.com—Fox may bring back Futurama
CBS News—California wants to add catalytic converters to lawn mowers to cut down on pollution
MSNBC—Intel to abandon the Pentium brand name for its newest line of chips

5.10.06
Fox News—New study finds link between secondhand smoke and heart disease
CNN.com—Fatah and Hamas to join forces
BBC News—Sony's PS3 will debut in November and sell for $500
USA Today—Baseball minor leaguer given 50 game suspension for throwing a bat at an umpire
Wired News—Ex-NSA chief criticizes Bush's illegal wiretapping program
MSNBC—Canadian business that depend on US tourists concerned about new passport regulations

5.11.06
MSNBC—Bush says his brother Jeb would make a great president, and I guess maybe he would if W was your only point of comparison. But I'm so fucking sick of the Bushes and the Clintons—can we please some other families on deck here?
USA Today—Many colleges see drop in average SAT scores from applicants
New Scientist—German researchers working on car that can anticipate an impact and shapeshift itself to better protect passengers
CNN.com—Massachusetts calls on MySpace to raise the minimum age for users from 14 to 18
ABCnews.com—Ex-NSA chief criticizes Bush's illegal wiretapping program
CBS News—Sanitation worker finds a detailed itinerary for Bush's trip to Florida in the trash

5.12.06
USA Today—At Bush's direction, the NSA has been keeping a massive database of all domestic phone calls over the past five years
Wired News—And on a related note, the DoJ has been forced to drop its investigation into the warrantless (and illegal) eavesdropping program because the NSA would not give the prosectutors the appropriate security clearances
New Scientist—Ships' logs going back hundreds of years reveal that the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field is a recent development
CBS News—Trees falling as a result of brush fires have closed parts of I-95 in Florida
MSNBC—ICANN nixes proposed .xxx domain extension for porn sites
ABCnews.com—FDA approves a second anti-smoking pill

5.15.06
USA Today—Cheney's handwritten notes tie him to the Valerie Plame leak
CNN.com—House passes bill creating $10 million H-Prize for the creation of technology that uses hydrogen as a power source
ABCnews.com—California senate wants gay history taught in public schools
MSNBC—Report shows that soldiers with diagnosed mental problems have been sent to Iraq and kept in combat
CBS News—Two teenagers arrested for arson after bragging about setting fires on their MySpace page
C|NET—And in related news, congress wants to make sites like MySpace and LiveJournal off-limits for public schools and libraries

5.16.06
USA Today—ABC reporters told that feds are monitoring their phone calls in an attempt to discover their sources
MSNBC—Supreme court rules that injunctions in certain patent technology cases should not be issued automatically
Sports Illustrated—Third Duke lacrosse player indicted
ABCnews.com—Snap.com will mix paid advertisers' links in with real search results without making any distinction between the two for users
CBS News—MTV launching its own music download service
Fox News—Bush wants to call up 6000 national guardsmen to patrol the border with Mexico

5.17.06
CNN.com—Class action lawsuit filed against AT&T, BellSouth, and Verizon for giving records to the NSA without the customers' permission
New Scientist—Microscopic bubbles may be used to deliver gene therapy for diabetes
BBC News—Creative suing Apple over iPod navigation, which it claims to own the patent on. Another example of our patent system gone wrong—if Apple couldn't stop Microsoft from stealing its desktop, then there's no way you ought to be able to patent MP3 navigation layouts.
ABCnews.com—Saudi king orders newspapers in his country to stop publishing photos of women, even those in traditional muslim garb
USA Today—Late penalty may be waived for millions of seniors who missed the initial deadline to sign up for a new Medicare plan
Fox News—Judge strikes down Georgia law that bans gay marriage

5.18.06
MSNBC—Bush tax cuts become permanent. Gee, and in an election year, too. Who would have thought?
USA Today—New survey finds that over 60% of workers would give up their coffee before their internet access
BBC News—NYC to offer free wireless internet access in Central Park and other public locations
ABCnews.com—Town may evict unmarried couple with three children because their living arrangement is in violation of a town statute
New Scientist—Bacteria from South African soil yield new antibiotic that kill superbugs that have become immune to more common antibiotics
Fox News—Pat Robertson says god told him that a tsunami would hit the US this year

5.19.06
USA Today—Woman's power cut off because she was one penny short when paying her bill
CNN.com—Bush's nominee to head the CIA defends the NSA's illegal wiretapping
Wired News—Man sues developer over virtual property in the game Second Life
Fox News—Court approves cops' use of laxative to retrieve a bag of heroin swallowed by a suspect
BBC News—Final chromosome in human DNA mapped
C|NET—Dell will start using AMD chips for certain models, ending the longstanding exclusive use of Intel chips

5.22.06
MSNBC—Democratic congressman videotaped accepting $100,000 bribe
CBS News—Rolling Rock to be bought out by Busch
CNN.com—Apple opens new store on Fifth Avenue with dramatic entryway
Fox News—Nagin wins reelection and will remain New Orleans' mayor
BBC News—Microsoft reveals hardware requirements for Vista
USA Today—Minnesota approves financing for new Twins stadium

5.23.06
ABCnews.com—Microsoft developing a pay-as-you-go system for home computer usage—not the internet, just the computer
USA Today—Supreme court rules that police don't need to knock or have a warrant to enter your home during what they deem an emergency situation
BBC News—New, powerful telescope to be built on a mountain in Chile
CNN.com—South Korean opposition leader has her face slashed in an attack during a campaign stop
MSNBC—Apple files its own lawsuit against Creative, which recently sued Apple for patent infringement
Fox News—Freddy Krueger impersonator stabs a man on Hollywood Boulevard

5.24.06
Wired News—Nike to offer sneakers that will interface wirelessly with runners' iPods
CBS News—Fannie Mae fined $400 million
CNN.com—Two elderly women charged with taking out large life insurance policies on homeless men and then having them killed
BBC News—Complete wooly mammoth skelton found in Siberia
MSNBC—Charles Gibson tapped to anchor ABC's newsdesk
USA Today—Microsoft tells its contract employees to take a week off in an effort to stay on budget

5.30.06
USA Today—Bush signs law making it illegal to protest at military funerals
CBS News—Barry Bonds hits homer number 715, passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list
MSNBC—Ricky Williams will play the 2006 season with the Canadian Football League while on suspension from the NFL
BBC News—Google makes deal with Dell to have its software pre-installed on the hardware manufacturer's machines
Fox News—X-Men 3 takes in $107 million in biggest Memorial Day weekend box office in history
C|NET—Microsoft introduces a challenger to the JPEG image format

5.31.06
BBC News—EU high court nullifies deal that required european airlines to transfer passenger data to the US
New Scientist—Teens with bipolar disorder are more likely to interpret neutral facial expressions as hostile
CBS News—New Mexico commits $125 million to construction of spaceport
CNN.com—13 year old arrested after crashing his boat into an anchored vessel, sinking it and killing a 6 year old snorkeler in the process
USA Today—Guard at 3 Mile Island nuclear facility so absorbed in playing handheld video game that he did not see an inspector during a surpise review
MSNBC—Goldman Sachs CEO nominated as new treasury chief