daily links: february 2015

2.2.15
ABCnews.com—CDC says measles outbreak in the US continuing to grow
CBS News—RadioShack being delisted from NYSE
USA Today—Google may be working on Uber competitor
Fox News—Gates Foundation awards $50 million to Stanford to help with vaccine development
NBC News—Johnny Manziel enters rehab program. Also, the Seahawks give away the Super Bowl with the worst play call of all time, but I don't really want to talk about it.
CNN.com—First new Catholic church being built in Cuba since the start of Castro's regime


2.3.15
CNN.com—Harper Lee to publish long-awaited sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird
ABCnews.com—Art project by Georgia State students shuts down major Atlanta highway
NBC News—New apocryphal gospel disovered hidden in 1500 year old book
Fox News—Chinese teen cuts off his own hand in an attempt to end his internet addiction
CBS News—Coke to start selling premium, protein-enriched milk
USA Today—Real money being inserted into 80 Monopoly sets to celebrate the board game's 80th anniversary


2.4.15
USA Today—Syracuse self-imposes postseason ban on men's basketball team after NCAA announces investigation
CNN.com—Amazon opens its first brick and mortar retail store
Fox News—Bruce Jenner transitioning to a woman
ABCnews.com—Staples buys Office Depot for $6 billion
CBS News—California man convicted of running revenge porn site
NBC News—Large Hadron Collider set to restart operations after two years of upgrades


2.5.15
Fox News—Harvard bans faculty members from having sex with undergraduate students
CNN.com—Police say man set up a fake sleep study as a pretext for drugging and raping over 100 women
CBS News—Gary Glitter convicted of sex crimes by British jury
USA Today—RadioShack files for bankruptcy
NBC News—Hotel in Japan will be staffed almost entirely by robots
ABCnews.com—California wants to limit vaccine exemptions


2.6.15
NBC News—Hack of major health insurance company could have exposed the personal infomation of up to 80 million people
USA Today—Netflix developing live action Legend of Zelda series
CBS News—Japan considering law that would force workers to use their vacation time
BBC News—Gauguin painting sells for $300 million at auction, setting a new record for a work of art
Fox News—6 year old boy's family staged his kidnapping to teach him about stranger danger
CNN.com—Twitter and Google reach agreement that will allow moer tweets to show up in Google search results


2.9.15
CNN.com—Chapel Hill's coach Dean Smith dies at 83
USA Today—Some Alabama courthouses refusing to issue gay marriage licenses despite federal order that they must
ABCnews.com—Neil Armstrong's widow finds sack full of souvenirs from his moon mission in a closet after the astronaut's death
Fox News—Papa John's delivery driver leaks Iggy Azalea's private phone number
CBS News—Heinz launches sriracha flavored ketchup
NBC News—700 year old copy of Magna Carta discovered in scrapbook


2.10.15
CNN.com—NBC anchor Brian Williams suspended without pay for six months after lying about being in a helicopter that was shot down 12 years ago in Iraq
USA Today—Jon Stewart announces that he is planning to leave The Daily Show sometime this year
CBS News—Sony and Marvel reach agreement that will allow the Spider-Man character to appear in an upcoming Marvel film
ABCnews.com—Apple shares close at record high and set new US record for a company's market value
Fox News—Texas teen fired before her first day of work after tweeting a negative comment about her future employer
NBC News—Apple building $850 million solar farm in California


2.11.15
ABCnews.com—Puerto Rico wants to institute fines for parents of obese children
CNN.com—Obama asks Congress to authorize military action against ISIS
USA Today—Three muslims gunned down in Chapel Hill in what is suspected to be a hate crime
CBS News—Little League World Series champions stripped of their title after being caught cheating. Any bets on whether the Patriots will receive as harsh a punishment?
Fox News—NYU researchers say it takes about 1,000 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
BBC News—Alleged swatter, a person who calls in false threats on others, arrested in Las Vegas


2.12.15
NBC News—Travel site Expedia buying rival Orbitz for $1.34 billion
Fox News—Season 3 of House of Cards briefly available on Netflix two weeks ahead of the announced debut
ABCnews.com—Harvard and MIT sued over lack of closed captioning in online videos and podcasts
CNN.com—United will not honor thousands of first class tickets that were mistakenly sold for as little as $69
CBS News—Record number of people renounced their American citizenship last year
USA Today—Netflix launches in Cuba


2.13.15
NBC News—GM making elecric car that can travel 200 miles on a single charge
CNN.com—Geico accused of discriminating against low-income drivers
ABCnews.com—Oregon's new governor will be first in US who is openly bisexual
CBS News—Comedian David Cross will allow fans to pay whatever they want to download his latest movie
USA Today—Apple has had hundreds of employees working on secret automobile-related project for a year
Fox News—Study finds that dogs are the only non-human mammal so far who can recognize human facial expressions


2.16.15
ABCnews.com—New genetically modified apple doesn't turn brown when exposed to air
CBS News—FAA releases new regulations for commercial drones
CNN.com—Founder of Italian candy empire that also makes Nutella dies at 89
USA Today—Lance Armstrong ordered to pay $10 million in perjury lawsuit
NBC News—Sushi is most popular dish ordered on Valentine's Day
Fox News—Study finds that dogs are the only non-human mammal so far who can recognize human facial expressions


2.17.15
CNN.com—Hacking ring steals over $1 billion from more than 100 banks
NBC News—NFL investigating further shenanigans by the Patriots with the footballs during the AFC championship game
CBS News—HBO renews John Oliver's Last Week Tonight for two more seasons
USA Today—Man who claims excessive force was used against him sues police department after officer turns off dashcam during traffic stop
ABCnews.com—Carnegie-Mellon accidentally sends admit letters to 800 applicants who were actually denied admission
BBC News—Blizzard introduces new tech to World of Warcraft to make the game easier to play for those with color blindness


2.18.15
BBC News—HTTP overhaul will speed up the web
CNN.com—Oklahoma legislature set to ban AP History classes from being taught in public schools
CBS News—Man caught punching himself in the face on video and then trying to blame cops
NBC News—Recently discovered Dr. Suess manuscript to be published later this year
Fox News—Vanilla Ice arrested on burglary charges
USA Today—Woman accidentally shoots and kills herself while adjusting her holster bra


2.19.15
Fox News—Utah court allows woman to sue herself
ABCnews.com—Same sex couple claims that pediatrician refused to see their newborn daughter
CBS News—Photoshop turns 25
NBC News—Texas Supreme Court puts a halt to gay marriage in the state
USA Today—Walmart to spend $1 billion to give raises to over half a million workers at the lower end of its pay scale
CNN.com—Apple accused of poaching employees from battery maker


2.20.15
Fox News—Court finds that not discosing HIV positive status to a partner before having unprotected sex is a misdimeanor
NBC News—New killer virus that may be carried by ticks identified in Kansas
CBS News—New York wants to ban plastic microbeads used in many beauty products
BBC News—Dozens may have been exposed to antibiotic-resistant superbug from contaminated medical equipment
CNN.com—Clothing made with embedded glass nanospheres meant to foil paparazzi
USA Today—Tech pundits speculate that most expensive version of Apple Watch could cost over $10,000


2.25.15
CNN.com—Obama vetoes Keystone pipeline bill
NBC News—Two high school basketball teams banned for attempting to throw the same game
CBS News—New York wants to ban plastic microbeads used in many beauty products
BBC News—Dozens may have been exposed to antibiotic-resistant superbug from contaminated medical equipment
CNN.com—Clothing made with embedded glass nanospheres meant to foil paparazzi
USA Today—Tech pundits speculate that most expensive version of Apple Watch could cost over $10,000


2.26.15
ABCnews.com—LeBron James says that his 10 year old son is already getting scholarship offers from colleges
USA Today—Pebble launches Kickstarter for a new color smartwatch called Time
CBS News—Germany to allow Hitler's Mein Kampf to go on sale in bookstores again
NBC News—Researchers say pot is less harmful the alcohol or tobacco when used recreationally
Fox News—Browns unveil new logo, which is essentially just a different shade of orange
CNN.com—Poll finds that majority of Americans want vaccines to be required


2.27.15
USA Today—FCC votes to approve net neutrality rules
Fox News—Surgeon thinks we're only a few years away from being able to transplant a human head onto a new body
NBC News—Despite having already having 58 options for gender, Facebook adds a fill-in-the-blank option
CNN.com—Adultery legalized in South Korea after being a criminal offense for decades
ABCnews.com—Bionic eye allows blind man to see again
CBS News—Missouri gubernatorial candidate dead after apparent suicide

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