8.1.11
Wired News—Diablo III will allow players to buy in-game items with real money, and sell in-game items for cash as well
ABCnews.com—Foxconn, Chinese manufacturer of iPhones and iPads, plans to add 1 million robots to its assembly lines within three years
Fox News—Some people have figured out how to game the lottery and legally win millions. And no, I'm not talking about Wall Street.
CNN.com—FBI says it has a new lead in the D.B. Cooper case
MSNBC—New regulations require insurance comapnies to cover birth control for women with no copays
USA Today—Consumer Reports removes Honda Civic from its list of recommended cars

8.2.11
CNN.com—Yay! An overly-theatrical resolution to our made-up debt crisis!
USA Today—Skype finally releases iPad app with support for video calls
ABCnews.com—Air-conditioned clothes selling big in Japan
CBS News—Apple reveals pricing for iCloud storage
Fox News—Missouri law bans school teachers from contact with their students on social networking sites
MSNBC—Universal considering Friday Night Lights movie that would pick up where the television series left off

8.3.11
ABCnews.com—Congress leaves town before taking care of FAA issues that could cost the government over $1 billion in revenue and keep 4,000 workers furloghed for weeks
CNN.com—Report claiming IE users had lower IQs turns out to be an elaborate hoax
CBS News—Earth may have once had two moons
Fox News—Exploration team claims to have found UFO on the ocean floor
MSNBC—Budweiser getting makeover
USA Today—Former NFL star and actor Bubba Smith dies

8.4.11
CNN.com—Lost film by Alfred Hitchcock found in New Zealand
USA Today—New poll finds that a record 82% of Americans disapprove of Congress after the debt ceiling debacle
CBS News—Dow falls 512 points, the biggest single day drop since 2008a
MSNBC—Liquid saltwater may exist on Mars
BBC News—Kraft to split into two companies
Fox News—Peace Corps volunteer accused of molesting young girls in South Africa

8.5.11
USA Today—US credit downgraded for the first time in history
CBS News—New NFL CBA includes testing for HGH
CNN.com—Five New Orleans cops convicted in post-Katrina shootings of unarmed people
MSNBC—Pregnant airline passenger claims that the TSA confiscated her insulin
Fox News—Army to shorten tours of duty to warzones from 12 months to 9 months
BBC News—Man charged with sending 27 million spam messages using Facebook

8.8.11
CNN.com—22 Navy SEALS, including members of the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
USA Today—New graphic novel chronicles the life of physicist Richard Feynman
CBS News—45,000 Verizon workers strike in contract dispute
ABCnews.com—Rioters in London set fire to several buildings to protest a police shooting
Fox News—Rapper Big Boi arrested for ecstasy possession in Miami
BBC News—NASA launches Juno probe to further investigate Jupiter

8.9.11
USA Today—IRS says that nearly 1,500 millioinaires paid no taxes in 2009
CNN.com—Stocks take another massive drop. Great job, Tea Party! (And to a lesser extent our spineless executive branch.)
ABCnews.com—Miss Mexico stripped of her crown before the Miss World competition because she gained six pounds
Fox News—Tape played in court has audio of Warren Jeffs training young girls how to sexually pleasure him
MSNBC—Donations reactivate SETI program
BBC News—Two US military contractors may sue Donald Rumsfeld for his role in their torture in Iraq after court rules that he has no immunity

8.10.11
CNN.com—Philadelphia institutes curfew to curb flash mobs
Fox News—Michigan taking 30,000 college students off food stamps in cost cutting measure
USA Today—Apple poised to become world's most valuable company
CBS News—Hacker group Anonymous says it will destroy Facebook
MSNBC—World of Warcraft has lost nearly 1 million players worldwide so far this year
BBC News—Google helping to restore British WWII codebreaker facility

8.11.11
ABCnews.com—US military testing aerial drone that can fly at Mach 20
CNN.com—UK considering ban on social media sites to curb rioting
USA Today—Amazon launches web-based Kindle reading app that lets you read Kindle titles from any web browser on any device
CBS News—911 will soon accept text, picture, and video messages
Fox News—Drunk JetBlue passenger urinates on sleeping 11 year old girl during flight
MSNBC—Corey Feldman says that pedophilia is rampant in Hollywood

8.12.11
CBS News—Google+ announces gaming platform for the nascent social media site
USA Today—Tiny patch could one day replace current monitoring systems for patients' temperature and heart rate
MSNBC—18 year old who urinated on an 11 year old girl while intoxicated kicked off US Olympic ski team
Fox News—Teen becomes first casualty of vampire bat bite in the US
BBC  News—Star of The Wire pleads guilty to drug distribution charges in Baltimore
ABCnews.com—Researchers reveal promising new treatment for leukemia

8.15.11
USA Today—Obama's approval rating falls below 40%
CNN.com—University of North Dakota must change its name by tomorrow or face NCAA sanctions, but a North Dakota state law prevents them from doing so
Fox News—Michele Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll
MSNBC—Rapper could face criminal charges after prank tweet overloads police phone system in Los Angeles
CBS News—Google buying Motorola Mobility
ABCnews.com—Stage collapses at Indiana State Fair, killing 5

8.16.11
CBS News—Black Sabbath may be reuniting with original lineup
USA Today—Tobacco companies sue FDA over order to put graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes
CNN.com—Flash mob robs 7-Eleven in less than a minute
Fox News—New weather prediction method forecasts heat wave on the east coast at the end of August
MSNBC—Former Miami booster claims he gave millions of dollars to players in violation of NCAA rules over the course of a decade
BBC News—Production on Lone Ranger film starring Johnny Depp shut down

8.17.11
MSNBC—New biography of Coco Chanel claims that she was a Nazi collaborator in WWII
CNN.com—NCAA raising academic requirements for student athletes
Fox News—Tampa high school student arrested in bomb plot
BBC News—Abercrombie and Fitch offers money to Jersey Shore cast NOT to wear its clothes on the show
USA Today—MGM wants to destroy 27 story hotel in Las Vegas before it opens
CBS News—Facebook appears to be blocking Google+ invite links

8.18.11
MSNBC—Air Force discharging soldier who refused to report for duty because he does not believe Obama is a legitimate president. I thought the military code of justice had stronger penalties for that kind of behavior…
USA Today—University of North Texas opens nation's first vegan cafeteria
CNN.com—Facebook version of The Sims is released
CBS News—Cadillac confirms that it is making an electric car
Fox News—Chinese officials divert air traffic away from major airport after a UFO was spotted hovering above a runway
BBC News—AC/DC launching its own brand of wines

8.19.11
MSNBC—West Memphis Three freed after nearly 20 years in jail
CBS News—HP kills TouchPad, says it will focus on software instead of hardware
Fox News—Texas city offers reward to any student who reports another student for skipping school
ABCnews.com—Lesbian bride-to-be says store owner refused to sell her a wedding dress once she found out she was gay
MSNBC—Lindsay Lohan suing rapper Pitbull for using her name in a song. Good luck with that.
BBC News—US military develops new type of explosive material

8.22.11
ABCnews.com—12 year old solves robbery case before police
CBS News—South Carolina pastor accused of kidnapping and raping several women
MSNBC—76 year old scout leader stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while hiking with his troop
CNN.com—German government orders web sites to stop embedding Facebook's Like button in their pages
Fox News—Miramax partners with Facebook to release movie streaming app on the social networking site
USA Today—Newly announced Pixar movie will explore the world of dinosaurs

8.23.11
CNN.com—Earthquake with epicenter near Richmond rattles the east coast
MSNBC—Obama unveils plans to roll back hundreds of federal regulations. How is it that anyone still claim that he's liberal/progressive? Also, he's a moron for continuing to think that his gestures to placate his opponents are going to result in anything besides more criticism and disdain from them.
Fox News—Woman denied discounts at grocery store for being a habitual coupon user
CBS News—Postal worker in Philadelphia attacked with paintball guns
ABCnews.com—Amy Winehouse autopsy finds no drugs in her system
USA Today—Facebook revamps privacy settings again

8.24.11
CNN.com—Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
CBS News—NASCAR points leader Kyle Busch has his license suspended for 45 days after being caught driving 128 mph in a 45 mph zone
Fox News—Florida woman arranges a sexual encounter between her husband and a 12 year old girl
USA Today—Sprint will become third carrier in the US to sell the iPhone starting in October
MSNBC—New book claims that Ikea founder was member of Swedish Nazi party in his youth
BBC News—Price for Webb space telescope climbs to nearly $9 billion

8.25.11
Fox News—Texas to start deporting foreigners convicted of crimes
USA Today—Warren Buffett invests $5 billion in Bank of America
CNN.com—Former Cy Young winner with the Orioles commits suicide
CBS News—Washington Monument closed indefinitely after being damaged in the earthquake
BBC News—New fossil puts divergence of marsupial and placental mammals much earlier than previously thought
MSNBC—Mark Wahlburg to open Wahlburgers restaurant. Seriously.

8.26.11
MSNBC—Maryland teen who was set to attend Johns Hopkins held on terrorism suspicions
CNN.com—Apple grants new CEO Tim Cook $384 million stock bonus if he stays with the company for 10 years
CBS News—Rapper DMX arrested in Arizona for the sixth time in the past three years, this time for driving 102 mph with a revoked license
Fox News—Former NBA player charged with murder
BBC News—Large Hadron Collider data puts supersymmetry theory in doubt
ABCnews.com—Tech billionaire building his own island nation in the Pacific

8.31.11
CNN.com—US government files antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger
USA Today—Texas A&M leaving Big 12 Conference
CBS News—Amazon set to launch its own tablet in time for this year's holiday shopping season
MSNBC—Maya Angelou criticizes inscription at new MLK memorial
BBC News—Beach Boys will finally release original Smile sessions
Fox News—Facebook to launch music service in September