daily links: june 2012

6.11.12
ABCnews.com—Ray Bradbury dies at 91
Fox News—Teen falls to her death in the Grand Canyon on her first day of work at Yellowstone
CBS News—Bidder in charity auction pays $3.5 million for lunch with Warren Buffett
CNN.com—Google previews upgrades to its mapping service in advance of a suspected rival service from Apple
MSNBC—Head injury turns man into musical savant
USA Today—Madagascar 3 beats Prometheus for top weekend box office slot


6.12.12
USA Today—Microsoft and Yahoo admit to selling tracking data to political campaigns
CNN.com—KKK chapter in Georgia wants to adopt a highway
MSNBC—Man who was arrested for carrying an unloaded handgun locked in a case in his checked baggage is suing Delta for failing to advise him of local gun laws
CBS News—Freezer failure destroys 150 frozen brains that were to be used for autism research at Harvard
ABCnews.com—Apple previews iOS 6 at developers conference
Fox News—Texas father beats to death man he caught trying to sexually assault his 4 year old daughter


6.13.12
USA Today—Burger King unveils bacon sundae
ABCnews.com—North Dakota voters could eliminate local property taxes
CNN.com—George Zimmerman's wife arrested on perjury charges
BBC News—Children with older fathers live longer
Fox News—David Arquette files for divorce from Courteney Cox
CBS News—USPS releases Miles Davis stamp


6.14.12
ABCnews.com—Texas election decided by literal roll of the dice
USA Today—Lance Armstrong faces more doping charges from US agency
CNN.com—10th grade teacher accused of showing his students a muder and dismemberment video
Fox News—Samsung plans to launch Facebook competitor next year
BBC News—Blizzard will now allow Diablo III players to sell their virtual items for real cash
MSNBC—Apple to kill off its struggling music-oriented social network Ping later this year


6.15.12
CNN.com—Anonymous bidder pays $375,000 for working Apple I motherboard
CBS News—Oldest known cave paintings may have been made by Neanderthals
MSNBC—New vending machines make fresh pizza on demand
Fox News—China sends its first female astronaut into space
BBC News—Facebooks Chief Technology Officer leaving the company to start up his own business
ABCnews.com—Microsoft may announce its own tablet on Monday


6.18.12
Fox News—Experimental US Air Force unmanned spacecraft lands in California after secret 15 month mission
CNN.com—US is once again home to the world's fastest supercomputer
ABCnews.com—Voyager I will soon become the first man-made object to leave the solar system
CBS News—Facebook buys facial recognition company Face.com
BBC News—Stage collapse before concert kills Radiohead drum tech
USA Today—Mozilla exploring Firefox release for iPad


6.19.12
CNN.com—Roger Clemens found not guilty of perjury
CBS News—Vandalism of Picasso painting filmed and posted on YouTube
ABCnews.com—Rodney King dies from apparent drowning at 47
USA Today—Federal judge rules that a portion of Chicago's gun law is unconstitutional
BBC News—Oracle buying back $10 billion in shares
Fox News—Oldest known pearl discovered at Neolithic site in Arabia


6.20.12
CBS News—UConn among ten teams banned from 2013 men's basketball tournament for poor academic performance
USA Today—California parents accused of planting drugs in an attempt to frame a volunteer teacher's aide
ABCnews.com—Drunk driver blames GPS for wrong turn into a cornfield and onto a golf course
BBC News—Fox planning Sesame Street movie
Fox News—Star Wars fan restores site of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home in the Tunisian desert
MSNBC—Adidas cancels release of sneaker that featured faux orange shackle


6.21.12
CNN.com—Democratic Michigan legislator banned from speaking on the legislative floor by Republican leadership after using the word "vagina" during a debate about reproductive rights
USA Today—Oracle's Larry Ellison buying 98% of Hawaiian island of Lanai
CBS News—New Google-backed project will try to preserve endangered languages
MSNBC—New Louisiana law requires convicted sexual offenders to identify themselves as such on social networks
ABCnews.com—Woman sues matchmaking service after bad date
BBC News—Duke University engineers develop camera with 50 gigapixel resolution


6.22.12
MSNBC—Spectator at Little League game suing player after being accidentally hit with a ball during pregame warm-ups
ABCnews.com—Facebook will now allow users to edit their posted comments, but a history of the edits will remain
CBS News—Miami Heat win NBA championship
CNN.com—White Americans are on average 22 times wealthier than African Americans
Fox News—Registered sex offender arrested while babysitting 3 year old
BBC News—American convert to Islam sentenced to 11 years in jail for online threats against South Park creators


6.25.12
USA Today—Alex Trebek hospitalized after heart attack
Fox News—School bus driver beaten to death after clipping mirror of double-parked car
BBC News—Official ruling of Alan Turing's death as a suicide now in doubt
ABCnews.com—Man impersonating a police officer pulls over a real cop
CBS News—Congress has until July 1 to keep student loan rates at their current levels
MSNBC—Unknown structure discovered in ancient lake in Wales


6.26.12
MSNBC—UVA president reinstated two weeks after being ousted by board
ABCnews.com—Lesbian couple gunned down in Texas
CNN.com—Nora Ephron dies at 71
CBS News—New college football playoff system approved by school presidents
USA Today—Orbitz ranks more expensive hotel options higher for Mac users
Fox News—Study of 10,000 year old ruins in Syria being hampered by war


6.27.12
MSNBC—New mineral found in ancient meteorite
USA Today—Google unveils $200 tablet meant to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire
CBS News—Vaccine that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain may help smokers quit
BBC News—US court bans sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet
Fox News—Dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded
ABCnews.com—Google's Project Glass prototypes on sale to developers for $1500


6.28.12
CNN.com—eBay experimenting with pricing model for cars that will see the price reduced every hour until the car sells
USA Today—New data from Cassini probe strengthen argument that Saturnian moon Titan has an ocean beneath its icy crust
CBS News—Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane finances purchase of Carl Sagan's personal papers for the Library of Congress
MSNBC—Federal judge upholds Indiana's law banning sex offenders from using Facebook
Fox News—US Army developing lightning weapon
BBC News—Hoard of Roman coins worth up to $10 million found by metal detector hobbyists in Britain


6.29.12
CNN.com—Supreme Court upholds healthcare reform, with conservative Chief Justice Roberts writing the majority decision
CBS News—Timekeepers to add a leap second to offical atomic clocks tomorrow
MSNBC—Adobe will no longer support Flash on Android
USA Today—20,000 year old pottery discovered in China
BBC News—New technique will allow batteries to be spray-painted onto virtually any solid surface
Fox News—Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing after five years of marriage. In accordance with the terms of their contract.

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