12.1.14
NBC News—Scientists working on breath test for marijuana
ABCnews.com—Woman finds rare purple pearl in a clam she bought at a roadside shack
CNN.com—Girl Scouts to allow online cookie sales for the first time
CBS News—Hacker group that shut down Sony's computer systems last week releases five current and upcoming Sony films online
Fox News—Amazon using thousands of robots to make its warehouses more efficient
USA Today—Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board of trustees

12.2.14
NBC News—Amazon CEO admits that the company's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, was an expensive flop
USA Today—MLB umpire comes out as gay
CBS News—New study from the CDC says that circumcision has heatlh benefits and encourages the government to make insurers cover the procedure
Fox News—Google and Microsoft each roll out their seasonal Santa trackers
CNN.com—Rolling Stone names U2's Songs of Innocence the best album of 2014, thereby cementing the cultural irrelevance of both brands
ABCnews.com—Stephen Hawking gets new tech to help him speak

12.3.14
CNN.com—Grand jury declines to indict white cop who used an illegal chokehold on an unarmed black man that later resulted in the man's death, despite the fact that the coroner ruled the death a homicide
CBS News—Two men charged with raping a 16 year old girl at a Johns Hopkins frat party
Fox News—Public university in New Jersey criticized for paying $219,000 for an executive conference table
ABCnews.com—American teacher stabbed to death in mall in the UAE
USA Today—Google exploring ways to overhaul the CAPTCHA user verification system
NBC News—Gangnam Style video is viewed so many times (over 2 billion) that YouTube is forced to upgrade its view counting system

12.4.14
BBC News—Court rules that a chimpanzee does not have the same rights as a human
CNN.com—Microsoft sells its stake in the Nook e-reader and loses $238 million on the investment
ABCnews.com—Gas falls below $2 a gallon in some parts of the country
USA Today—Amazon launches line of premium products exclusively for Prime members
CBS News—Next James Bond film will be called Spectre and will once again feature Daniel Craig as the iconic spy
Fox News—German company developing maglev elevators

12.5.14
Fox News—Texas woman suing Chik-fil-A, claiming that one of their milkshakes gave her a heart attack
USA Today—Rolling Stone apologizes for story about gang rape at a UVA frat
CNN.com—Verizon ending support for 3G
NBC News—Scientists say California's current drought is its worst in over a millenium
CBS News—James Watson's Nobel Prize sells for nearly $5 million at auction
ABCnews.com—Latest round of investment values Uber at $40 billion

12.8.14
ABCnews.com—Pugsley from the Addams Family tv show dies at 59
USA Today—Hackers who breached Sony's systems last week demanded that the studio pull the upcoming movie The Interview, a comedy about North Korea's dictator
Fox News—Grumpy Cat's owner has made over $100 million off the animal in the past two years
CNN.com—Inventor of the first home gaming console dies at 92
NBC News—NYC set to vote on bill to ban horse carriages
CBS News—American Airlines planning $2 billion upgrade to its fleet of planes

12.9.14
CNN.com—Major report detailing the use of torture by American military forces and operatives released by Senate committee
NBC News—Cleveland Browns name Johnny Manziel their starting quarterback
USA Today—Nike making new uniforms for the four college football teams in the playoffs
Fox News—Study finds that left-handed people make less money
CBS News—Star NFL quarterback Cam Newton suffers fractures in his back after car crash
ABCnews.com—Russian billionaire who bought James Watson's Nobel Prize for nearly $5 million gives it back to the scientist

12.10.14
Fox News—Apple's discontinued iPod Classic selling for a premium on eBay
NBC News—18% of Americans believe they will never be debt-free
CBS News—David Letterman will host his final Late Show on May 20, 2015
CNN.com—Time names Ebola care workers their "Person of the Year"
USA Today—McDonald's cutting menu items and simplifying ingredients lists in an effort in speed up service times
BBC News—Instagram announces that it now has more than 300 million users, eclipsing Twitter's user base

12.11.14
CNN.com—Iowa will begin testing driver's licenses on a smartphone app instead of issuing the traditional plastic card
CBS News—Michigan bill would allow healthcare workers to refuse treatment to gay people
BBC News—Microsoft to start accepting Bitcoin for online payments
ABCnews.com—Salvation Army bell ringer robbed in Mississippi
USA Today—Convicted sexual predator wins $3 million from scratch-off lottery ticket in—where else?—Florida
Fox News—Ford will no longer use Microsoft to power its digital dashboard

12.12.14
USA Today—Tornado hits Los Angeles as part of massive storm system
NBC News—Microsoft executive predicts that Windows 10 will be released fall 2015
Fox News—Scientists now think most of Earth's water came from asteroids, not comets
ABCnews.com—1 year old dies after ingesting liquid nicotine used in vaping
CNN.com—Google pulls the Amazon app from the Android app store
CBS News—YouTube introduces GIF creator tool

12.15.14
ABCnews.com—Police officer placed on leave after threatening protesters on Twitter
BBC News—Facebook considering Dislike button
CBS News—Spelman suspends endowed professorship named after Bill Cosby
USA Today—Trans Am used in Smokey and the Bandit sells at auction for $450,000
Fox News—One of the six white rhinos left in the world dies
NBC News—Judy Blume to publish novel for adults next year

12.16.14
CNN.com—Taliban attacks school in Pakistan, killing over 130 children
CBS News—Apple halts online sales in Russia due to the instability of the currency
USA Today—Creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog dies at 86
BBC News—Jury finds that Apple is not guilty of anti-competitive behavior with its early DRM scheme for digital music purchases
Fox News—Google reveals top searches of 2014
NBC News—McDonald's running low on fries in Japan due to US port strike on the west coast

12.17.14
CNN.com—Sony cancels the theatrical release of The Interview after hackers threaten that theaters showing the movie would be in danger
USA Today—Obama reestablishes diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba after 56 years
CBS News—A 14 year old boy who was executed in 1944 is posthumously exonerated
ABCnews.com—Johns Hopkins sends emails to rejected students welcoming them to the class of 2019, and then does a terrible job of apologizing for it
Fox News—Actor Randy Quaid suing State Department over the revocation of his and his wife's passports
NBC News—New York considering a ban on fracking

12.18.14
USA Today—Uber driver in Massachusetts accused of raping a passenger
Fox News—Priest installs cell phone jammer in his church to keep his congregation off their cell phones during sermons
ABCnews.com—School punishes 8 year old blind boy by taking away his cane
CBS News—Amazon introduces 1 hour shipping service in Manhattan
BBC News—Painting by Winston Churchill sells for over $3 million at auction
CNN.com—Ferris Bueller's Day Off added to the National Film Registry

12.19.14
USA Today—US government makes $15 billion profit from TARP bailout of banking and auto industries
CBS News—18 time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps pleads guilty to DUI
CNN.com—Eastern Airlines is back in the sky after going bankrupt in 1991
Fox News—City workers banned from complaining about their town on social media
ABCnews.com—Caramel apples linked to four deaths in listeria outbreak
BBC News—Stage musical based on School of Rock coming to Broadway next year