daily links: june 2011

6.1.11
CNN.com—Nepal recognizes third gender in most recent census
USA Today—World Health Organization says that cell phones may cause cancer
CBS News—19 year old Muslim beauty pageant contestant stoned to death
MSNBC—The Pentagon says that hacking by another country can be considered an act of war
Fox News—Bigfoot purportedly caught on iPhone video
ABCnews.com—Woman on trial for killing rapper with a single punch as part of a $5 bet


6.2.11
ABCnews.com—Republican New Jersey governor takes state helicopter to son's baseball game
CNN.com—Woman dies after falling over Niagara Falls
CBS News—Shaq posts video saying he's retiring
USA Today—Food pyramid being replaced with a plate
MSNBC—Nine waitresses suing casino after they were fired because they couldn't fit into skimpy costumes
BBC News—Names and release dates of The Hobbit films announced


6.3.11
CNN.com—Groupon files for IPO
Fox News—California bill would allow cross dressers to wear whatever they wanted to work, even if their clothing violated company dress codes
MSNBC—Mitt Romney launches 2012 presidential bid
CBS News—Tennessee lawmakers make it illegal to use someone else's login to sites like Netflix or Rhapsody to stream music or movies
ABCnews.com—Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel wants to bring casinos to the city
USA Today—New 3 cylinder engines from Ford could get up to 50 mpg


6.6.11
BBC News—Apple announces iCloud and iTunes Match services
CNN.com—Florida governor wants to require drug tests for welfare recipients
Fox News—Man claims he has found evidence of life on Mars from images found on Google
USA Today—Former NFL star Plaxico Burress released from prison
CBS News—Scientists have found a way to contain elusive antimatter particles for more than 15 minutes
MSNBC—Sarah Palin completely screws up Paul Revere story...and then claims that her story is the correct one


6.7.11
USA Today—Nintendo reveals new Wii system
ABCnews.com—Li Na's French Open victory is first Grand Slam win for Chinese player
CBS News—Man cited with disorderly conduct after paying bill with 2,500 pennies
BBC News—French government bans media in that country from using the names of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on the air
CNN.com—Dutch government wants to keep foreign tourists out of shops that sell marijuana
Fox News—Human Centipede 2 banned in the UK


6.8.11
ABCnews.com—Two new elements added to periodic table
BBC News—New IPv6 internet address system being tested by major web sites today
CBS News—Delta changes policy on charges for extra bags for soldiers returning home
CNN.com—Facebook rolling out automatic facial recognition feature for uploaded photos
USA Today—UPS testing new trucks made from advanced lightweight materials as a way of cutting fuel costs
MSNBC—Former Cub Mark Grace arrested on suspicion of DUI


6.9.11
ABCnews.com—Los Angeles may get rid of red light cameras
CBS News—The Sims coming to Facebook
USA Today—Key members of Gingrich's campaign team quit
BBC News—Music festival will be meat-free on the day vegetarian singer Morrissey performs
Fox News—Microsoft to sell branded tablets
CNN.com—Telecommunications equipment maker Avaya files for $1 billion IPO


6.10.11
BBC News—Three men arrested in Spain on suspicion of being in hacker group Anonymous
MSNBC—Lunch with Warren Buffett sells for $2.6 million at auction
ABCnews.com—Two gamblers walk away with over $5 million in winnings from the same casino
Fox News—Disabled special needs man subjected to pat-down by TSA
CNN.com—Lady Gaga's new album sees steep drop in second week sales
USA Today—Anchor from ship believed to be Blackbeard's recovered off North Carolina coast


6.13.11
BBC News—Scientists create new laser with single living cell at its heart
CNN.com—GM could reclaim American sales crown from Toyota
MSNBC—Book of Mormon wins 9 Tony Awards
Fox News—11 year old girl shot for playing on her neighbor's front lawn
CBS News—Clarence Clemons, saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, suffers stroke
USA Today—Tests show that proposed high speed wireless network could interfere with GPS


6.14.11
CNN.com—Facebook growth stalling in North America
Fox News—FBI's surveillance powers expanded
CBS News—83 year old minister who mounted a global campaign to convince people that the Rapture would happen on May 21 is hospitalized after a stroke
USA Today—GOP presidential hopefuls grilled about a return to the gold standard
MSNBC—Early exposure to a household pet could help reduce allergy sensitivity later in life
ABCnews.com—US law student arrested in Egypt and accused of being a spy


6.15.11
Fox News—Hugh Hefner's fiancee calls of their wedding just days before the ceremony
ABCnews.com—Detroit to raze 10,000 abandoned homes in the next two years
CNN.com—Duke Nukem 3D finally released after more than a decade of delays
CBS News—Apple now selling unlocked iPhones
USA Today—Electronic Arts to open EA Sports retail stores
MSNBC—Woman tries to hire hitman on Facebook


6.16.11
USA Today—Los Angeles school district bans chocolate milk
CBS News—Members of Congress suing Obama for violating the War Powers Act in Libya conflict
CNN.com—Paul McCartney putting a lifetime of recordings into his own personal cloud
CBS News—Two men arrested for plotting to rob and kill singer Joss Stone
MSNBC—Sony launches cloud music service
Fox News—Army decides that soldiers should wear formal uniforms rather than fatigues while in the Pentagon


6.17.11
CNN.com—UN passes gay right resolution
ABCnews.com—Man arrested near Pentagon on suspicion of having bomb-making materials
USA Today—Oprah wants O.J. Simpson to confess to murder on live television in an interview with her
Fox News—Lesbian couple claims they were harassed by a security guard after they kissed at a baseball game
BBC News—Juror in major drug trial sentenced to 8 months in prison after contacting one of the defendants on Facebook
CBS News—Oracle claims that Google owes it billions of dollars in damages for patent violations


6.20.11
CNN.com—Supreme Court blocks class action status for massive lawsuit against Walmart claiming a pattern of discrimination against female employees
Fox News—ICANN to allow virtually unlimited domain name extensions, potentially including brand-oriented domains like .nike and .coke
ABCnews.com—McCain claims the Arizona wildfires were set by illegal immigrants
MSNBC—Facebook focusing new efforts on music, and may soon allow users to stream music directly from the site
CBS News—Jackass star killed in car crash
USA Today—Data breach affects 1.3 million Sega users


6.21.11
Fox News—Physics professor at Fairleigh Dickinson accused of operating a prostitution ring
CNN.com—FDA unveils graphic new warning labels for cigarettes
USA Today—New $105 million school in California will sit unused for at least a year because the state does not have the money to operate it
CBS News—Marilyn Monroe's iconic Seven Year Itch dress sells for nearly $5 million
MSNBC—Man robs bank for $1 so he could get free medical care in jail
BBC News—Stradavarius violin sells for $16 million at auction


6.22.11
USA Today—New type of digital camera creates images that can be refocused after the shot is taken
CBS News—Tobey Maguire being sued by man who lost money to him in illegal high stakes poker game
CNN.com—Greece plans to sell off billions in state assets like airports and roads to private companies
Fox News—Pulitzer Prize winner says he's an illegal immigrant
ABCnews.com—Hostage taker updates Facebook status during standoff with police
MSNBC—Woman arrested for videotaping police on public street while standing in her own front yard


6.23.11
Wired News—J.K. Rowling unveils Pottermore site, which contains new Harry Potter-related content and allows fans to purchase e-book versions of the popular novels
CBS News—Mafia boss Whitey Bulger apprehended after 15 years on the run and remanded to Massachusetts to face charges
MSNBC—Obama taps strategic oil reserve in an effort to foil speculators
CNN.com—Washington Nationals manager resigns in midst of hot streak due to frustration over contract negotiations
USA Today—EA in talks to acquire PopCap for as much as $1 billion
Fox News—Austrian firm unveils new type of aircraft that does not use fixed wings or rotor blades


6.24.11
CNN.com—Peter Falk dies at 83
USA Today—Google's top execs refuse request to testify at Senate hearing
ABCnews.com—Boston bans Segways on sidewalks
Fox News—Mexican soldiers cross border into US
CBS News—Last year's AL MVP claims he's hitting poorly in day games because of his blue eyes
MSNBC—Cleveland makes Duke freshman whose only college season was shortened by injury the top pick in this year's NBA draft


6.27.11
ABCnews.com—New York legalizes gay marriage
CBS News—Painting long believed to be a self portrait by Van Gogh may actually be the artist's depiction of his brother Theo
CNN.com—Hacker group LulzSec says it's disbanding
USA Today—Nationals name Davey Johnson as their new manager
Fox News—Contestant on Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref says that his wife dumped him as a result of their appearance on the show
MSNBC—Rare photograph of Billy the Kid sells for $2.3 million


6.28.11
USA Today—Supreme Court rules that law preventing minors from purchasing violent video games is unconstitutional
CNN.com—Former Illinois governor Blagojevich convicted on 17 of 20 corruption counts
Fox News—FTC confirms that it has opened an antitrust investigation on Google
ABCnews.com—Mother accused of murdering her six week old daughter after traces of morphine were found in her breast milk
MSNBC—Los Alamos nuclear lab threatened by wildfire
CBS News—Star Wars Galaxies MMO to be shuttered at the end of this year


6.29.11
CBS News—John Lennon's former assistant claims he was a fan of Ronald Reagan and a conservative at the time of his death
Fox News—Google unveils Google+, a Facebook competitor
CNN.com—Appeals court upholds key part of Obama's healthcare reforms
MSNBC—NBA appears to be headed for a lockout
ABCnews.com—Greek parliament passes austerity bill
USA Today—News Corp sells the struggling MySpace for $35 million, a fraction of the $585 million it paid for the service six years ago


6.30.11
CNN.com—MSNBC commentator suspended for calling Obama a dick on air
USA Today—Fast food chains in some parts of the country starting to serve alcohol
Fox News—Justin Timberlake part of group that is buying MySpace
MSNBC—Senate cancels at least a couple of days of their summer recess to continue working on the debt ceiling issue
CBS News—BBC experiments with technology that allows viewers to reduce the sound of grunting tennis players at Wimbledon
BBC News—Scottish nuclear plant shut down because of jellyfish

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