9.1.09
USA Today—Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion
CBS News—Feds charge 3 with traveling overseas to have sex with minors
CNN.com—India loses contact with lunar orbiter
Fox News—New Jersey teacher accused of sellling grades
MSNBC—Google makes deal with Sony to have its Chrome browser come pre-installed on some Sony PCs
ABCnews.com—British police reviewing new evidence in 1969 death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones

9.2.09
MSNBC—Gmail suffers major outage
ABCnews.com—Chrysler's sales fell 15% in August compared to the previous year even with the Cash for Clunkers program in effect
Fox News—Wake Forest University hit with outbreak of H1N1
CNN.com—eBay selling most of its stake in Skype
USA Today—As ticket sales slump, some NFL fans could see blackouts of home games for their local team
BBC News—Microsoft to launch new version of Windows Mobile for smartphones in October

9.3.09
BBC News—Scientists say we all have at least 100 new mutations in our DNA
CNN.com—Diane Sawyer to anchor ABC's World News when Charles Gibson retires later this year
Fox News—Bank won't cash check for armless man because he could not provide them with a thumbprint
MSNBC—Levi Johnston says in Vanity Fair interview that there was frequent talk of divorce in the Palin household and that she quit the governorship to focus on making money for herself
New Scientist—California wildfire threatens Mount Wilson Observatory
ABCnews.com—Nokia makes deal with Facebook to make phones that integrate with the social networking site

9.9.09
Fox News—California parents suing schools over mandatory class that teachers tolerance of the gay lifestyle
USA Today—Malaysian McCurry restaurant chain wins trademark battle against McDonald's for the right to use the "Mc" prefix
CNN.com—Photographer Annie Leibovitz could lose the rights to her entire portfolio if she does not repay a massive $24 million loan
CBS News—Cadbury rejects buyout offer from Kraft
ABCnews.com—Ludacris gives away 20 cars to people who need transportation to keep their jobs
BBC News—Judge rules that Microsoft can continue to sell Word while patent dispute is settled

9.10.09
CNN.com—Steve Jobs unveils new iPod lineup in first major public appearance since taking a leave of absence to have a liver transplant
ABCnews.com—Ellen DeGeneres joining American Idol as a judge, taking Paula Abdul's slot
USA Today—Temperatures in the Arctic during the 1990s were the highest they've been in 2000 years
Fox News—Scientists use magnetic fields to levitate mice
MSNBC—Garrison Keillor sufferes minor stroke
BBC News—Newly repaired Hubble returns stunning images

9.11.09
when the walls fell

9.14.09
USA Today—Madden curse strikes again as cover costar Troy Polamalu is injured in his team's season opener
CNN.com—Segway inventor sets his sights on water purification
CBS News—Serena Williams fined $10,000 for yelling at a judge during the US Open
MSNBC—Twitter changes its terms of service to allow advertising
ABCnews.com—H1N1 vaccine to be available earlier than expected
BBC News—Facebook launches Lite version for users with slow internet connections

9.15.09
CNN.com—Patrick Swayze succumbs to cancer
USA Today—EZ Pass expands to midwest
Fox News—Three teens sue minor league baseball team after being ejected for refusing to stand during God Bless America—not the national anthem, mind you, but God Bless America
ABCnews.com—H1N1 claims life of NY college student
BBC News—802.11n wireless standard officially approved after being used in the marketplace for years
MSNBC—China breaks ground on fourth space center

9.16.09
CNN.com—Johns Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword
ABCnews.com—Boy fakes his own kidnapping to hide a bad report card
Fox News—Obama calls Kanye West a jackass in a conversation with a reporter that was supposed to be off the record
USA Today—Harry Potter theme park to open at Universal Studios next spring
CBS News—Facebook reaches 300 million users
BBC News—Google's Fast Flip content format tries to recreate the magazine experience online

9.17.09
MSNBC—Lunar orbiter finds promising signs of water on the moon
CNN.com—Twitter will soon allow users to make phone calls on their site
CBS News—Google partners will personal printer and hopes to allow users to make their own copies of out of print books
USA Today—70% of surveyed Facebook-using college admissions officers have received friend requests from applicants
ABCnews.com—Skype founders file lawsuit against eBay
Fox News—Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 72

9.18.09
USA Today—Ticketmaster testing new system to thwart scalpers
BBC News—Brazil considers ban on sugar cane plantations in environmentally sensitive areas
Fox News—Suspected killer of Yale grad student may have had help hiding the body
MSNBC—Google contradicts Apple and tells the FCC that the iPhone maker rejected the Google Voice application from the iPhone app store
New Scientist—Moon is home to coldest known place in the solar system
CNN.com—Disney Studios chairman resigns

9.21.09
CNN.com—Netflix awards $1 million prize for a new recommendation algorithm
USA Today—Heart attack rates fall in the wake of smoking bans
CBS News—FCC chairman pushes for net neutrality
ABCnews.com—Unemployment benefits may be extended in states with high unemployment rates
Fox News—New government guidelines put strict rules with hefty fines on sales of used items, including garage sales
MSNBC—Plague researcher dies from the disease he was studying

9.22.09
MSNBC—Microsoft reportedly working on tablet device that would compete with Apple's rumored tablet set to launch next year
BBC News—Yahoo relaunches home page
USA Today—FDA bans sale of clove cigarettes
ABCnews.com—Judge rules that grizzly bears should still be considered an endangered species
CNN.com—First 3D televisions should hit the market in 2010
Fox News—Heather Locklear to return to revamped Melrose Place

9.23.09
ABCnews.com—Dust storm in Sydney makes the Australiann city look like Mars
CBS News—Some electric car makers consider adding artificial noise to alert pedestrians of oncoming vehicle
Yahoo News—South Korean telecom regulators approve iPhone, clearing the way for the device to go on sale in the country
MSNBC—Eminem's music publisher suing Apple
Fox News—College football hall of fame moving from South Bend to Atlanta
MSNBC—Prison guards sue for the right to complain about their boss on Facebook

9.24.09
MSNBC—Sony unveils Segway competitor
Fox News—Unemployed man finds trove of Anglo-Saxon treasure with metal detector
CNN.com—Nintendo to cut price of Wii by $50 to $199
CBS News—NTSB considers ban on cell phones for all truck and bus drivers
BBC News—Microsoft invests $19 million in South Korean gaming firms
New Scientist—Large scale clinical trial of AIDS vaccine shows signs of success

9.25.09
Fox News—Census worker found naked and hanged in rural Kentucky with word "fed" scrawled across his chest
New Scientist—Astronauts could use microwave beams to extract water from ice on the moon
CNN.com—Gmail experiences another outage
ABCnews.com—Twitter receives $100 million in new investments and is now valued at $1 billion
BBC News—Iceland gets back into whaling to feed demand for whale meat in Japan
MSNBC—AT&T says Google Voice has unfair advantage because FCC allows it to block calls to certain high-cost rural areas

9.28.09
ABCnews.com—Obama to campaign for Chicago to receive Olympic bid in 2016
CNN.com—Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland on decades-old warrant from the US
USA Today—FDIC chair wants limits set on overdraft fees
MSNBC—Obama wants longer school days and shorter summer breaks
CBS News—Bird-eating fanged frog discovered in Thailand
Fox News—New SNL star says "fuck" during live broadcast of the season premiere

9.29.09
Fox News—EU considering standard volume limit for portable music players
CNN.com—iPhone to be launched in China in October
MSNBC—Inspiration for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" dies at age 46 from lupus
ABCnews.com—Underresourced Detroit police forced to ignore some infractions to focus on the highest priority crimes
USA Today—Microsoft advertises Bing search engine on Seattle Seahawks practice jerseys
CBS News—Bank of America suspends its dealings with ACORN

9.30.09
CNN.com—Starbucks unveils instant coffee
Fox News—Former Bush speechwriter claims J.K. Rowling was denied the Presidential Medal of Freedom because her works encourage witchcraft
USA Today—CNN releases pay iPhone app that will let users view video and contribute their own videos and photos to the news site
ABCnews.com—Hugh Jackman stops Broadway performance to admonish audience member whose cell phone was ringing
MSNBC—Jon Gosselin removed from the newly renamed Kate Plus Eight
BBC News—Microsoft releases free security and anti-virus package for Windows