daily links: april 2011

4.1.11
Fox News—Ancient books discovered in Jordan could be the earliest known books of Christianity
USA Today—FTC forces Google to submit to 20 years of independent privacy audits in response to consumer complaints about Google Buzz
BBC News—Chicken feathers could be used to make new type of plastic
CNN.com—DOJ prosecutor who took on Microsoft is now calling Google a monopoly
ABCnews.com—Google to bring high speed broadband network to Kansas City, Kansas
MSNBC—Jersey Shore's Snooki paid $32,000 to give talk at Rutgers


4.4.11
CNN.com—Navy panel votes not to discharge openly homosexual sailor
USA Today—Pay package for Goldman CEO skyrockets from $1 million to $14 million
CBS News—Two Dodgers fans hospitalize Giants fan in parking lot after home opener between the two teams
ABCnews.com—Confederate flag raised alongside US flag outside Texas courthouse
Fox News—Charlie Sheen bombs in his first stop on his live tour
BBC News—Next season of Mad Men delayed until 2012, but new contract for series creator could mean three more seasons of the acclaimed drama


4.5.11
CBS News—Obama officially announces re-election campaign
Fox News—Names and email addresses of millions of customers at several major businesses exposed in data breach of online marketing firm
CNN.com—McDonald's to hire 50,000 new US workers in a single day
CBS News—Yale grad alleges that the university systematically covers up crime and sexual harrassment
USA Today—Katie Couric leaving her job as anchor of CBS Evening News
MSNBC—Woman attacks a Gaugin painting on display at the National Gallery


4.6.11
Fox News—Charlie Sheen wants to copyright 22 phrases, including "tiger blood" and "Vatican assassin"
ABCnews.com—Georgia man fined $300 and sentenced to 12 months probation giving his three year old son a tattoo
MSNBC—Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie to be filmed in Pittsburgh
USA Today—Judge overturns $625 million judgment against Apple in patent dispute
CNN.com—Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion
BBC News—SpaceX to launch largest rocket since the Apollo program in 2013


4.7.11
Fox News—Newly minted birther Donald Trump sends team to Hawaii to investigate claims that Obama was not born in the US
CBS News—Terror alerts from the US government coming to Facebook and Twitter
CNN.com—Fox News ending Glenn Beck's show, although he will continue to work with the network on other projects
MSNBC—Facebook releases its server designs to the open source community
USA Today—30 Rock's Tina Fey is pregnant with her second child
ABCnews.com—Three Jersey Shore cast members to get spinoff shows


4.8.11
CBS News—Boy Scouts add merit badge for robotics
Fox News—Army deploys mortar shells guided by GPS
USA Today—US government approves Google's purchase of online travel search company
CNN.com—YouTube adds live streams
MSNBC—New subatomic particle may have been detected at Fermilab
BBC News—Elizabeth Taylor's jewels to be sold at auction


4.11.11
CNN.com—Burqa ban goes into effect in France
USA Today—Texas considers raising the maximum speed limit on its highways to 85
ABCnews.com—Toddler accidentally served alcohol in his apple juice at Applebee's restaurant in Detroit
MSNBC—Ozzy Osbourne owes nearly $2 million in back taxes to the US government
CBS News—Authorized biography of Steve Jobs to be released in 2012
Fox News—Boston mayor bans sweetened soft drinks from city property


4.12.11
CBS News—NASA announces which museums will house decomissioned space shuttles
MSNBC—Freelance bloggers sue Huffington Post for $105 million
CNN.com—Man claims to have emails proving he owns 50% of Facebook
USA Today—Cisco halting production of Flip video camera
ABCnews.com—Members of Patriotic Millionaires group disappointed that Obama did not end Bush-era tax cuts for the rich
BBC News—Microsoft launching competitor to Google's StreetView


4.13.11
USA Today—Barry Bonds found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice
MSNBC—Ohio town cancels 900 speeding tickets issued by a speed camera
Fox News—Florida man arrested after video shows him urging his teenage son to knock out another teen
CNN.com—Yale student killed in machine shop accident in campus lab
CBS News—Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 for gay slur
ABCnews.com—Amazon dropping price of Kindle by $25 if users agree to view ads placed on the device's homescreen


4.14.11
CNN.com—E-books outsold paperbacks for the first time in February
CBS News—New book reveals that Google bid $10 billion for Twitter
ABCnews.com—$1 million comic book stolen from Nicolas Cage is 2000 resurfaces in storage unit
BBC News—Sony considering two week shutdown due to power shortages
MSNBC—Long running soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children canceled simultaneously
USA Today—Long-delayed white iPhone 4 may hit shelves this month


4.15.11
CNN.com—Arizona passes birther bill, forcing presidential candidates to prove their US citizenship before they can be placed on the state's ballot
ABCnews.com—Statue of Liberty on new stamp is actually the Las Vegas clone, not the original that was intended
CBS News—First 3D porn movie premiered in Hong Kong
USA Today—Nintendo may unveil Wii 2 at this year's E3
BBC News—Richard Branson wants to import lemurs to live in the wild on his private caribbean islands
Fox News—Man who says he wrote "charge" stadium cheer wants royalties


4.18.11
USA Today—Playboy mansion hot tub responsible for dozens of people contracting Legionnaires' disease
Fox News—400 NYC cops under investigation in ticket-fixing corruption probe
MSNBC—Former Sarah Palin aide writiing tell-all
CBS News—Volkswagen introduces new design for its iconic Beetle
ABCnews.com—Match.com to remove sex offenders from among its users
CNN.com—Nicolas Cage arrested


4.19.11
CNN.com—Arizona governor vetoes birther bill
ABCnews.com—College student in Toronto killed while boyfriend watched helplessly on webcam in China
CBS News—First offshore wind farm in US approved by Massachusettsl
MSNBC—Robot to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at an upcoming Phillies game
Fox News—Sex line company has acquired nearly 25% of all 800 numbers in the US and Canada
USA Today—Class action lawsuit challenging the beef content in Taco Bell's meat dropped with no settlement


4.20.11
USA Today—MLB takes control of day-to-day operations of the LA Dodgers
ABCnews.com—Enraged over child support order, man beats his ex-wife in front of the judge finalizing their divorce
CBS News—First offshore wind farm in US approved by Massachusetts
CNN.com—iPhones may be storing information about their location in a hidden file unbeknownst to their owners
MSNBC—Alabama fan accused of poisoning historic trees at Auburn attacked after leaving courthouse
Fox News—Resident of home next to golf course accused of shooting and killing golfer after shooting the golfer's dog


4.21.11
CNN.com—Amazon experiences major outage for its cloud services
USA Today—Mattel loses copyright suit against Bratz dolls
BBC News—Kindle users will soon be able to borrow e-books from their local libraries
ABCnews.com—8 year old boy suing insurance company of drunk driver who killed his mother
Fox News—Princeton professor kills himself after losing job
CBS News—NY Times says 100,000 people have signed up for digital subscriptions in the first three weeks


4.22.11
Fox News—New Jersey college to charge higher tuition for students living in America illegally
MSNBC—Republican senator from Nevada resigns amidst ethics probe
CNN.com—Google rolls out limited trial for Google Offers, a daily deal service meant to compete with Groupon
USA Today—High school girl fakes pregnancy for 7 months for school-approved social experiment
ABCnews.com—Army testing new uniforms for female soldiers
BBC News—Austrian museum says it will return Klimt painting looted by Nazis to the grandson of the original owner


4.25.11
Fox News—Apple's cloud music service could be launched imminently
CNN.com—China sends police to block worshippers from attending Easter service
USA Today—Former Sony chairman credited with the development of CDs dies
BBC News—Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines
MSNBC—Developer who built Grand Canyon Skywalk says the tribe that owns the land has shortchanged him on their deal
CBS News—Gangster's tattoo of crime scenes leads to his arrest for murder


4.26.11
USA Today—Judge sides with players, tells NFL owners to end lockout
BBC News—Nintendo formally announces Wii 2 console and says it will ship in 2012
Fox News—Hackers bring down Sony's PlayStation Network and may have accessed personal information in player accounts
CBS News—Last remaining typewriter manufacturer only has 500 units left in stock
CNN.com—Common book on genetics listed on Amazon for millions due to automatic pricing algorithm
MSNBC—Human cannonball dies when safety net fails


4.27.11
CNN.com—Facebook launches Groupon competitor in five cities
USA Today—Obama wants Congress to end oil subsidies
CBS News—Aflac picks new voice for its duck mascot
MSNBC—Katie Couric leaving CBS Evening News
Fox News—Netflix's latest user totals reveal it has more subscribers than Comcast
BBC News—U2 drummer stars in film debuting at Cannes


4.28.11
CBS News—Obama convinces Hawaiian authorities to release his long-form birth certificate
Fox News—China to build its own space station by 2020
BBC News—Inventor of the teleprompter dies at 91
USA Today—Peyton Hillis to be featured on next Madden NFL cover
CNN.com—Armadillos may be spreading leprosy to humans
MSNBC—San Francisco considers ban on circumcision


4.29.11
ABCnews.com—Man beheads his girlfriend in front of her classmates after the woman's parents refused to allow them to marry
CBS News—NYC considers making the purchase of counterfeit merchandise a crime
USA Today—NCAA institutes moratorium on new bowl games while it reviews the system
CNN.com—Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders
MSNBC—Some data permanently destroyed when Amazon's cloud services crashed last week
BBC News—PayPal driving eBay profits

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