2.1.11
ABCnews.com—Democrats will hold 2012 convention in Charlotte, NC
USA Today—Madden NFL game simulation predicts Steelers Super Bowl win. Along with anyone with a pulse who's not wearing a giant piece of cheese on their heads.
Fox News—George Bush's daughter Barbara endorses gay marriage
BBC News—Citigroup takes ownership of EMI
MSNBC—Airbags for the ski slopes headed for the consumer market
CBS News—South Dakota bill would require all citizens to buy a gun

2.2.11
CNN.com—Google claims that Microsoft's Bing search engine is stealing its search results
USA Today—News Corp unveils iPad-only newspaper for 99 cents a week
Fox News—Google Art Project posts high-res versions of famous works of art online
CBS News—Farrah Fawcett's iconic swimsuit headed for the Smithsonian
MSNBC—White Stripes announce that they are breaking up
ABCnews.com—Yellow Pages introduces opt-out site for consumers who no longer wish to receive hard copies of the phone books

2.3.11
CBS News—NYC bans smoking outdoors at public parks and beaches
Wired News—British border agent fired after putting his wife on the terror watch list to prevent her from re-entering the country
CNN.com—Andy Pettitte to announce his retirement. Weird. I kinda thought that had already happened.
MSNBC—TSA will no longer allow airports to opt-out of using its officers and hire private security companies in their place
Fox News—Hawaiian restaurant institutes mandatory gratuities for non-English speaking diners
BBC News—Larry Hagman to reprise his role as J.R. Ewing on reboot of Dallas on TNT

2.4.11
MSNBC—Google offers $20,000 for anyone who can hack their Chrome browser
CBS News—32% of Americans admit to stealing someone else's Wi-Fi connection
Fox News—Purported UFO hovers over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
USA Today—Verizon sells out all of its preorders for the iPhone 4
CNN.com—Facebook moving to new headquarters
BBC News—Gabrielle Giffords husband decides to go on Space Shuttle flight as planned

2.7.11
CNN.com—AOL acquires the Huffington Post
USA Today—Super Bowl ad gives glimpse of PlayStation smartphone
MSNBC—Starting babies on solid foods early could lead to obesity later
Fox News—Winner of Simon Cowell's new talent search show will receive $5 million contract
BBC News—Last.fm will end its free service for mobile phones next week
CBS News—British study says that alcohol is more harmful than heroin

2.8.11
MSNBC—Man attending illegal cockfight in California killed by rooster with a knife tied to its leg
ESPN—400 fans who had tickets that were not honored at Super Bowl XLV are given tickets to next year's Super Bowl
USA Today—Wake Forest baseball coach donates a kidney to one of his players
CNN.com—This year's Super Bowl draws a record 111 million primetime viewers
CBS News—US will formally recognize South Sudan as an independent nation in July
Fox News—NASA releases first 360 degree view of the sun

2.9.11
BBC News—The Hobbit movies will finally begin filming next month after years of delays
CNN.com—First living recipient of Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War is leaving the army
MSNBC—Extension of key Patriot Act provisions fail to make it past the House
USA Today—Philadelphia bringing back mounted police
CBS News—Lindsay Lohan to be charged with grand theft for stealing a necklace
Fox News—Pregnant woman accidentally given abortion pill in pharmacy mix up

2.10.11
USA Today—Married GOP congressman resigns amid allegations that he was trying to pick up women on Craigslist
CNN.com—Activision killing off Guitar Hero
CBS News—New Republican head of the Energy and Commerce Committee says that global warming is not the result of human activity
ABCnews.com—Judge revokes Lindsay Lohan's probation
MSNBC—Ford suing Ferrari over F-150 name
Fox News—17 year old girl says she had sex with Jets QB Mark Sanchez

2.11.11
ABCnews.com—Mississippi Confederate group wants to put founding member of the KKK on a license plate
MSNBC—Apple reportedly working on smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone
Fox News—Equipment manager at the University of Texas charged with filming women in the locker room showers
CNN.com—After killing off the Human Torch character in the Fantastic Four comic book, Marvel is replacing him on the team with Spider-Man
BBC News—Rare Gaugin fails to sell at auction
CBS News—Facebook and Google in preliminary talks to buy Twitter

2.14.11
CNN.com—In the wake of Mubarak's resignation, Egypt's military dissolves parliament and suspends the constitution
USA Today—Midwest chain of sub restaurants files suit against Subway, saying the larger chain cannot hold a trademark on the word "footlong"
ABCnews.com—Nokia ditching its own Symbian OS for Windows Phone software
Fox News—Tiger Woods fined for spitting on the golf course
MSNBC—Screeners at New Jersey airport admit to stealing cash from passengers' bags
BBC News—Scientists discover why some of the bright yellows in Van Gogh's works are turning brown over time

2.15.11
CBS News—Anti-immigrant vigilante found guilty of two murders
ABCnews.com—California prison system testing new system that would render cellphones useless for prisoners
CNN.com—Pandora files for IPO
USA Today—Microsoft plans to let Windows Phone users connect their phones to their Xboxes
BBC News—China to partner with Colombia to build alternative to the Panama Canal
MSNBC—Coke's secret recipe may have been revealed

2.16.11
MSNBC—IBM's Watson crushes its human competition in the first of two games of Jeopardy
Fox News—Lost tombs in Saudi Arabian desert revealed on Google Earth
CBS News—Senate proposes bill that would punish people who disseminated body scan images with up to a year in prison
ABCnews.com—Google buries search some search results for JC Penney after it found that the retailer was employing unethical tactics to boost its rankings
USA Today—Apple announces subscription service for magazines and newspapers on iPads and iPhones
BBC News—Chevron fined $8.6 billion for polluting the Amazon

2.17.11
USA Today—Obama to meet with Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Eric Schmidt among other tech luminaries
MSNBC—A poor tomato harvest forces Wendy's to provide tomatoes on their sandwiches by request only
Fox News—Chicago charter high school sending all seniors to college for the second year in a row
CNN.com—Friday Night Lights actress to play Wonder Woman for tv reboot of the franchise
ABCnews.com—Group uses internet to raise $50,000 for statue of RoboCop in Detroit
CBS News—Japan considering sending a humanoid robot to the space station

2.18.11
CBS News—Massive solar flare interfering with radio communications
CNN.com—High school athlete refuses to wrestle a female opponent
USA Today—With a lockout looming, the NFL and the players' union agree to federal mediation
ABCnews.com—IBM's Watson wins both matches and $1 million for charity in Jeopardy tournament against two human champions
Fox News—Red light cameras could be repurposed as genuine safety devices rather than enforcement (read: revenue) tools
MSNBC—Alaska governor refusing to enact federal health care law

2.21.11
USA Today—The Book of Mormon musical coming to Broadway courtesy of South Park and Avenue Q creators
CBS News—20 year old rookie driver wins Daytona 500
Fox News—California school district using GPS to keep track of chronic absentee students
ABCnews.com—Justin Bieber reveals that he thinks abortion is wrong even in cases of rape, because "everything happens for a reason"
CNN.com—Facebook adds new options to its relationship statuses in a nod to same-sex couples
MSNBC—Party crasher steals $3,000 cakd from Paris Hilton's 30th birthday bash

2.22.11
MSNBC—Egyptian man names his new daughter Facebook to honor the social networking site's role in ousting Mubarak
ABCnews.com—Leaked manuscript from former Palin aide alleges that the former governor broke election laws during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign
CBS News—Learning a second language could ward off Alzheimer's
CNN.com—Blockbuster puts itself up for sale
BBC News—Scientists build first anti-laser
USA Today—Domino's expands its chicken offerings

2.23.11
ABCnews.com—Rahm Emmanuel elected mayor of Chicago
CNN.com—Apple wants to improve sound quality of music downloads
USA Today—Harry Reid's call to end legal prostitution in his home state of Nevada is met with a chilly response by state legislators
Fox News—Kansas approves bill that would allow motocyclists to run red lights
CBS News—Woman arrested in scuffle over Thin Mint cookies
MSNBC—Apple will unveil iPad 2 next week

2.24.11
Fox News—London shop serving ice cream made from human breast milk
MSNBC—Airline accidentally loads only pork-based meals onto plane flying out of Israel
CNN.com—Psy-ops soldier in Afghanistan says he was ordered by a general to use his skills to manipulate visiting lawmakers into sending more troops and funding
ABCnews.com—Texas student arrested on terror charges; was allegedly targeting George W. Bush
USA Today—Apple updates Macbook Pros
BBC News—Microsoft admits that 10% of users who tried to update their Windows Phone software had problems that prevented them from completing the process

2.25.11
MSNBC—Texas group to offer college scholarships exclusively to white males
CNN.com—Boeing wins $35 billion Air Force contract to build new aerial refueling tankers
Fox News—Georgia bill would make miscarriages a felony if the woman cannot prove that there was no human involvement
CBS News—Obama says Qaddafi has lost legitimacy and must step down now
ABCnews.com—Google tweaks its ranking algorithm to lower the positions of content farms
USA Today—Harvard and Princeton will offer Early Admissions again next year, abandoning their push to end all EA/ED programs