daily links: april 2015

4.1.15
CNN.com—Stanford giving free tuition for families making less than $125,000 per year in income
CBS News—High school student rejects Duke's rejection letter
NBC News—Creator of pet rock dies at 78
Fox News—California announces mandatory water restrictions
USA Today—McDonald's to raise pay for 90,000 workers starting in July
ABCnews.com—Sony replaces its in-house music service with Spotify on PS3 and PS4 consoles


4.2.15
CBS News—Alabama bill would allow minors to possess handguns
BBC News—Android apps can now run in any Chrome browser, including ones running on Windows and Macs
NBC News—Portland bans the use of insecticide linked to colony collapse in honey bees
Fox News—Too much iced tea leads to kidney failure for Arkansas man
CNN.com—Microsoft previews Spartan, its replacement for Internet Explorer
USA Today—House of Cards renewed for fourth season


4.3.15
Fox News—Comcast promises gigabit internet speeds to most of its customers by the end of the year
CBS News—Airbnb to start listing rentals in Cuba
USA Today—Creator of Pillsbury Doughboy dies at 89
CNN.com—Man unwittingly sells Banksy work for less than $200
NBC News—Driverless car completes cross country trip in 9 days
BBC News—Obama engineers new nuclear deal with Iran


4.6.15
USA Today—Braves trade closer Craig Kimbrel the day before the start of the season
CNN.com—Muppets may be returning to television
ABCnews.com—High school senior accepted by every Ivy League college
CBS News—Musical based on Groundhog Day coming to Broadway
Fox News—Mans blames shoplifting spree on temporary amnesia
NBC News—Founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in car crash


4.7.15
CBS News—Wrigley Field renovations reduce the number of restrooms and leave patrons frustrated on opening day
BBC News—UVA fraternity to sue Rolling Stone after a story about a graphic rape at a party is discredited
ABCnews.com—David Lynch drops out of Twin Peaks revival in dispute over money
CNN.com—Starbucks offering free tuition to ASU's online degrees to all employees
USA Today—Driver falls asleep at the wheel and drives into tree, killing three members of heavy metal band
Fox News—Secondhand smoke linked to childhood ADHD


4.8.15
NBC News—White SC police officer charged with murder of black man who he fired eight shots at as the man was running away from him after a traffic stop
USA Today—Scientists recommend that brontosaurus be restored as a distinct dinosaur species
ABCnews.com—Disney to make all six Star Wars movies available digitally for the first time ever
CNN.com—James Best, who portrayed the sheriff on Dukes of Hazzard, dies at 88
CBS News—Arrested Development returning with 17 more new episodes
BBC News—Owner of revenge porn web site sentenced to 18 years in prison


4.9.15
CNN.com—Boston Marathon bomber found guilty on all 30 counts
CBS News—12 year old boy who picked best bracket in ESPN contest will not receive main prize because he is too young to have entered the contest
USA Today—Ikea will offer vegan meatballs at most US locations
NBC News—Mischa Barton suing her mother, accusing her of theft of her earnings
Fox News—17 year old girl is allergic to water
ABCnews.com—University accidentally sends acceptance materials to applicants who have not been admitted yet


4.10.15
USA Today—Apple starts preorders for its Watch and sells out of initial stock almost immediately
CNN.com—Judge rules that woman can use Facebook to serve her husband with divorce papers
BBC News—World of Warcraft introduces tokens that allow players to turn real-world cash into game currency for the first time
CBS News—Barry Manilow reveals that he is gay by marrying his male manager
NBC News—Walgreens to close 200 stores
Fox News—Scientists trying to determine source of giant methane cloud hovering over the southwest


4.13.15
CNN.com—21 year old Jordan Spieth wins the Masters and ties a course record set by Tiger Woods when he won his first masters at 21
CBS News—Hillary Clinton officially announces her presidential candidacy
BBC News—Amazon suing four web sites that receive money for writing good reviews about products
ABCnews.com—Maine policepay ransom to hackers to get their files back
NBC News—Text analysis software may have discovered a lost play by Shakespeare
Fox News—NASA chief predicts we will have proof of extraterrestrial life by 2025


4.14.15
BBC News—New Australian law halts government assistance to families that do not vaccinate their children
CBS News—CEO cuts his own salary dramatically so that he can pay all of his employees at least $70,000 per year
CNN.com—New type of beehive that gives you honey on tap raises over $10 million on Kickstarter
NBC News—65 year old German woman expecting quadruplets
USA Today—New Guitar Hero game unveiled
Fox News—Man ruptures tendon in his thumb after playing Candy Crush for weeks


4.15.15
CNN.com—Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez convicted of murder
CBS News—Man arrested after intentionally landing his gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn
USA Today—Dean Kamen sells Segway to Chinese company
Fox News—iPad once owned by Pope Francis sells for over $30,000 at auction
NBC News—TSA agents fired after being caught in scheme to grope attractive passengers
BBC News—Security chief accused of hacking lottery draw


4.16.15
CNN.com—Second trailer for the new Star Wars movie released
USA Today—Adrian Peterson to return to the Vikings after being reinstated to the NFL and predicts that he will have a 2000 yard season
ABCnews.com—Kentucky Derby becomes latest sporting event to ban selfie sticks
CBS News—NYC bans the use of credit checks as part of the hiring process
NBC News—Los Angeles wants Apple to refund millions of dollars for failed iPad program in the public schools
Fox News—ESPN reporter suspended after video of her insulting a towing company employee goes viral


4.21.15
NBC News—Willie Nelson launches his own marijuana brand
CNN.com—Details about timeline and plot for Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars film, revealed
ABCnews.com—Norway getting rid of FM radio
USA Today—Eagles sign Tim Tebow to a one year deal
BBC News—Private investors from US and China buy majority stake in Cirque du Soleil
CBS News—Ringo Starr and Green Day inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


4.22.15
Fox News—Judge rules that two chimpanzees have the right to sue for their freedom from a college lab
NBC News—Millions of chickens to be killed after bird flu hits egg farm
CNN.com—Google announces big changes to its search algorithm that will boost the rankings of mobile-friendly web sites when a search is done from a mobile device
BBC News—Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin file for divorce
USA Today—NFL releases 2015 schedule
CBS News—Japan's maglev train sets new speed record


4.23.15
USA Today—Comcast to give up on efforts to acquire Time Warner after getting news that regulators planned to nix the deal anyway
ABCnews.com—Former CIA director David Petraeus sentenced to 2 years of probation and a $100,000 fine for classifed leaks
CBS News—Loretta Lynch confirmed as new US attorney general after months of delays by Congress in the confirmation process
CNN.com—Early draft of The Breakfast Club found in file cabinet of the high school where the movie was filmed
BBC News—Google announces its own wireless cellular network
NBC News—Pete Rose is still banned from baseball, but will be allowed to participate in All Star Game festivities in Cincinnati


4.24.15
Fox News—Enormous magma reservoir found under Yellowstone
BBC News—Native Americans walk off the set of Adam Sandler movie for negative stereotypes of Apaches
CNN.com—Pepsi changing to a different artificial sweetener for its diet products
ABCnews.com—Court rules that Iowa casino does not have to pay out a $41 million jackpot that was awarded due to a computer glitch
CBS News—Netflix picks up the second season of Daredevil
NBC News—Mattel decides not to release SeaWorld Barbie


4.27.15
Fox News—Thousands killed after massive earthquake hits Nepal
CNN.com—Crowdfunding site shuts down page for anti-gay bakery
ABCnews.com—US reduces the amount of flouride in drinking water
CBS News—Seventh film in Fast & Furious series is number one at the box office for the fourth straight week
NBC News—For-profit Corinthian Colleges abruptly closes its remaining 28 campuses, which once numbered as high as 127
USA Today—Chipotle says it has entirely removed GMOs from its ingredients


4.28.15
CBS News—Rioters burn and loot Baltimore overnight
NBC News—Tyson to stop using antibiotics on its chicken flocks over the next two years
Fox News—Teen sets new record by solving a Rubik's Cube in 5.25 seconds
CNN.com—College professor fails his entire class
BBC News—Louie Louie singer dies at 71
ABCnews.com—Tens of thousands on the hunt for treasure chest hidden by millionaire who left clues on how to find it in a book


4.29.15
NBC News—New measles vaccine does not require a needle to administer
CNN.com—After riots in Baltimore, the Orioles and White Sox play first game in Major League history at which fans are banned from attending
USA Today—Hulu pays $125 million for rights to stream all Seinfeld episodes
Fox News—DARPA shows off self-guided bullets that can change course and hit moving targets
ABCnews.com—Joni Mitchell hospitalized
CBS News—Weight Watchers founder dies at 91


4.30.15
CNN.com—Jeff Bezos' commerical space company launches its first rocket into space
CBS News—Windows 10 will be able to run iOS and Android apps
ABCnews.com—Lawmaker calls latest U2 album "gay propoganda"
NBC News—TSA agent charged with faking cancer to get time off work
USA Today—Restaurant that aims to be Hooters for women opening in Dallas
BBC News—Vermont senator Bernie Sanders to challenge Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential nomination

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