daily links: july 2014

7.1.14
Fox News—Supreme Court rules for Hobby Lobby in decision that could allow employers to discriminate against employees and customers on religious grounds
ABCnews.com—Obama announces his intention to take unilateral action on immigration reform in the face of a gridlocked do-nothing Congress
USA Today—Study finds that some of the highest paid CEOs do the worst jobs in the long run
CBS News—Facebook admits to conducting social experiments on users for research purposes without informing them, violating ethics guidelines
CNN.com—Yahoo picks up canceled NBC comedy Community for 13 episode sixth season
NBC News—Reading Rainbow Kickstarter sets new record for most backers


7.2.14
USA Today—FTC accuses T-Mobile of adding hundreds of millions of dollars worth of false charges to customer bills
CNN.com—Team USA goes to extra time with Belgium in World Cup match but is defeated 2-1
BBC News—Blackwater official threatened to kill government investigator
ABCnews.com—Heisman-winning quarterback buys insurance that will pay him $8-$10 million if he is injured before next year's draft
CBS News—Southwest to offer international flights
ABCnews.com—Details of Lou Reed's will revealed


7.3.14
USA Today—Lindsey Lohan sues makers of Grand Theft Auto for unauthorized use of her likeness
Fox News—Associated Press to start using software to write some of their stories
CNN.com—Facebook COO offers non-apology for unauthorized experiments on users
CBS News—Target asks customers not to bring guns to its stores
ABCnews.com—Team USA star goalie set to cash in with endorsements
NBC News—McDonald's burgers ranked worst by consumers


7.7.14
USA Today—Competitive eater Joey Chestnut wins his eighth Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, held every July 4 at Coney Island
ABCnews.com—TSA may require that passengers show their cell phones can be powered on before allowing them on flights coming into the US
BBC News—BMW factory workers issued 3D printed "superthumbs" to help ease stress on their joints while on the job
Fox News—Pet store owner decides to eat only dog and cat food for a month
CNN.com—Google will no longer run ads for porn sites on its ad network
CBS News—Opie and Anthony radio show host fired after series of racially charged tweets


7.8.14
NBC News—Latest Hyundai Genesis can alert drivers to hidden speed cameras and even automatically slow down to avoid tickets
CNN.com—New startup makes reservations under fake names and them sells them to consumers at a premium
CBS News—Minnesota Twins ballpark is first to introduce self-service beer stations
Fox News—US Army looking for new, more powerful handgun for its soldiers
USA Today—TGI Friday's introduces all you can eat appetizers
ABCnews.com—Google cofounder says automation and robots should enable everyone to work less while maintaining the same standard of living


7.9.14
Fox News—GOP chooses Cleveland to host its 2016 convention
USA Today—J.K. Rowling releases new short story featuring Harry Potter at 34
NBC News—Cats musical being revived with new rapping feline. Yes, really.
CNN.com—Brazil knocked out of World Cup in devastating 7-1 loss to Germany
CBS News—John Wayne's family and Duke University feuding over right to trademark the word "Duke"
BBC News—Cupcake chain Crumbs closing its doors


7.10.14
CBS News—Earth's magnetic fields are shifting in such a way that suggest the magnetic poles may be preparing to flip
Fox News—High end prostitute accused of murdering Google executive on his yacht
CNN.com—Elon Musk pledges $1 million to museum dedicated to Nikolai Tesla
NBC News—Disneyland Paris unveils ride based on Ratatouille movie
USA Today—FTC sues Amazon over in-app purchases, following similar litigation against Apple
BBC News—Google Glass modification allows users to control certain functions by just thinking about them


7.11.14
CNN.com—LeBron James returning to Cleveland
CBS News—Virginia police back away from plan to force a teen to get an erection so they could take a picture of his penis to be used as evidence in a criminal trial
ABCnews.com—CDC shutting down two labs involved in recent anthrax scare
Fox News—Amazon asks FAA for permission to test delivery drones
USA Today—SEC accuses golfing buddies of insider trading
NBC News—Study finds that most STEM graduates do not have careers in STEM fields


7.14.14
CNN.com—Tommy Ramone, the last living original member of the Ramones, dies at 65
BBC News—Author declines writing award after he finds out that it is sponsored by Amazon
NBC News—Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe reveals he is gay
Fox News—Atlantic City's Trump Plaza casino expects to cease operations by September
CBS News—Tracy Morgan suing Walmart after one of its trucks caused the deadly accident that caused him to be hospitalized
USA Today—Regulators halt trading of former penny stock for tech company with no products that rose to a $4 billion in market value in the past few weeks, increasing it's valuation by 24,000%


7.15.14
BBC News—Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90
USA Today—Two Florida policemen out of jobs after FBI reveals that they are members of the KKK
ABCnews.com—Department of Education to review financial aid policies at for-profit University of Phoenix
CNN.com—African-American metal band comprised of three middle schoolers signed to six album deal by Sony Music
Fox News—DARPA successfully tests prototype smart bullets
CBS News—Octomom pleads guilty to welfare fraud


7.16.14
CBS News—Johns Hopkins Hospital falls to number 3 in US News rankings after holding the top spot for the previous 21 years
ABCnews.com—Apple and IBM team up to offer mobile devices and services to enterprise
USA Today—Google Glass project leader leaves Google for Amazon
NBC News—Marvel reveals that Thor will now be a female
Fox News—Panda Express testing new upscale concept
CNN.com—Woman recants her claim that singer Conor Oberst raped her


7.17.14
CNN.com—Missile takes down passenger jet over the Unkraine, likely killing all 298 people on board
CBS News—Amazon considering ebook subscription service that would allow access to hundreds of thousands of books for a monthly fee
USA Today—Microsoft announces intentions to eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year
Fox News—Manuel Noriega suing Activision over how he was depicted in Call of Duty video game
NBC News—Lays introduces new customer-suggested flavors, including cappuccino and mango salsa
BBC News—Forbes names Real Madrid world's most valuable sports team, estimating its worth at nearly $3.5 billion


7.18.14
USA Today—Houston Astros fail to reach deal with their top draft pick, the first time in 31 years that the number one overall pick hasn't been signed by the team that picked them
Fox News—California couple fined by their city for having a brown lawn because they were trying to comply with state water restriction policies
NBC News—Three states sue 5 Hour Energy drink maker for false claims about their product
BBC News—Microsoft says it will stop making Anrdroid-based smartphones and concentrate on its own Windows Phone platform
CNN.com—Marvel unveils new African-American Captain America
CBS News—Scientists name newly discovered species of water mite after Jennifer Lopez


7.21.14
USA Today—25 year old British Open winner Rory McIlroy's father cashes in on 500-to-1 bet he made 10 years ago that his son would win the tournament before he turned 26
BBC News—JK Rowling reveals that her series of crime novels released under a pseudonym will eventually outnumber the Harry Potter series
ABCnews.com—Recently declassified documents reveal that US considered building an installation on the moon in order to surveil all of Earth
CNN.com—Actor James Garner dies at 86
Fox News—Facebook testing button that would let you purchase items without leaving the social networking site
NBC News—New York becomes first state to propose regulations for Bitcoin


7.22.14
CNN.com—Johns Hopkins to pay $190 million to female patients who were secretly photographed by a Hopkins gynecologist
Fox News—JJ Abrams reveals X-Wing from Star Wars VII
USA Today—R.J. Reynolds Tobacco says it will fight $23.6 billion in damages awarded to widow of smoker who died of lung cancer
NBC News—Campbell's planning line of organic soups
ABCnews.com—Netflix crosses 50 million subscribers threshold
CBS News—FXX will air all 25 years of Simpsons episodes consecutively this summer


7.23.14
Fox News—FAA cancels all US flights to Tel Aviv for 24 hours
CNN.com—Mom arrested for leaving 9 year old daughter to play in a park alone while she went to work
ABCnews.com—Chinese town quarantined after man dies from bubonic plague
NBC News—Michigan jail opts to return to traditional black and white striped prison uniforms after the orange ones become fashionable
CBS News—Robert Downey Jr. is Hollywood's highest paid actor
USA Today—American flags on Brooklyn Bridge mysteriously replaced with flags that had been bleached white


7.24.14
ABCnews.com—Twitter reveals that 90% of its workers are white or asian and 70% are male
Fox News—Latest person to be executed by Arizona takes nearly two hours to die
CBS News—Minnesota man and his daughters booted off a Southwest flight after he posted a negative tweet about the airlines' poor customer service
NBC News—Samsung to sell ultra HD 105 inch curved smart tv for $120,000
CNN.com—Stephen Colbert will keep The Late Show in New York
USA Today—Apple inviting 1 million customers to test drive beta of the next version of Mac OS X


7.25.14
CNN.com—Female student at a Christian university expelled after she marries another woman
USA Today—Bose sues Beats for noise cancelation patent infringement
Fox News—Weird Al Yankovic scores his first number one album ever
BBC News—Wikipedia blocks all edits from US Congress, citing persistent and disruptive alterations
CBS News—Colleges that do not require standardized tests from applicants may be helping themselves more than they are prospective students
NBC News—Real estate app Zillow may be looking to acquire rival Trulia


7.28.14
ABCnews.com—US releases images that prove Russia has been firing artillery across the border into Ukraine
CNN.com—Federal judge rules DC's ban on handguns is unconstitutional
USA Today—LeBron James announces that he will wear 23 when he returns to the Cavaliers, the same jersey number he wore during his first stint with the team
Fox News—New fitness band gives you electric shocks when you don't keep up with your workout goals
CBS News—College pitcher with major league aspirations can throw with either arm
NBC News—Russia considering ban on some McDonald's menu items for having too much fat and too many calories


7.29.14
Fox News—2020 Olympics host country Japan wants to see a robot competition during the games
NBC News—Verizon to start throttling data speeds for heavy users with unlimited plans
ABCnews.com—George R.R. Martin says he will not participate in the creation of Game of Thrones season 5 so he can finish his next book
USA Today—Samsung delays launch of smartphone that was intended to showcase its own mobile OS
CBS News—AMC reveals that The Walking Dead season 5 will premiere on October 12
CNN.com—Dollar Tree buying Family Dollar for $8.5 billion


7.30.14
ABCnews.com—South Korean baseball team puts robots in the stands that fans can control from their homes
BBC News—OKCupid admits that it sometimes sends people on bad dates on purpose
CBS News—Jesse Ventura wins $1.8 million in defamation case
CNN.com—ESPN suspends commentator after comments that seemed to put some of the blame for domestic abuse on provocation from the abused partner
USA Today—EA offering subscription service for some of its games exclusively on Xbox One
NBC News—Two thirds of Americans say they're actively avoiding soda


7.31.14
BBC News—Netflix to pay fee to AT&T to insure that its streams are given priority on the telecom giant's network
USA Today—New York proposes "bill of rights" for student data
CBS News—More mysterious craters found in Siberia
CNN.com—NSync's label releases a new album without telling the band
ABCnews.com—Peace Corps pulling its volunteers from countries affected by Ebola outbreak
Fox News—Virgin Mobile phones will allow parents to set curfews after which kids won't be able to use them

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