daily links: july 2015

7.1.15
USA Today—Episcopalian church votes to allow same-sex marriages in all of its churches
NBC News—Department of Justice investigating airlines for price fixing
Fox News—TV Land stops airing reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard because of the prominent use of the Confederate flag in the show
ABCnews.com—Worker in Volkswagen plant killed after robot grabs and crushes him
CBS News—Nike's Phil Knight to step down from chairman role in 2016
BBC News—Donald Trump sues spanish language channel Univision after they pull out of broadcasting the Miss Universe pageant in the wake of Trump's negative remarks about Latinos


7.2.15
CNN.com—US Navy triples paid maternity leave to 18 weeks
ABCnews.com—Scientists find potential link between eye color and alcoholism
Fox News—Physical infrastructure of the internet under attack in California
CBS News—Sunburn art is dangerous social media fad
USA Today—Shares of Yelp fall dramatically after they announce that they are no longer interested in being acquired
BBC News—BP to pay the US nearly $19 billion for Gulf oil spill


7.6.15
NBC News—US women's soccer team wins World Cup
CBS News—South Carolina senate votes to remove Confederate flag from capitol grounds
CNN.com—Founder of Burt's Bees dies at 80
ABCnews.com—Man sentenced to two and a half years in jail for having sex on a public beach in the midst of families and children
Fox News—Google testing ridesharing app
USA Today—Chicago to close its trading pits after 170 years


7.7.15
CBS News—Subway spokesman Jared Fogle's home raided by FBI as part of child porn investigation
USA Today—Han Solo to get his own movie chronicling his life before Star Wars Episode IV
Fox News—Harry Shearer resolves contract dispute with Fox and will return to the Simpsons for at least two more seasons
CNN.com—Newly unearthed deposition from 10 years ago finds Cosby admitting to giving women Quaaludes
BBC News—Gamer who uploads his gaming sessions to YouTube has 37 million followers and made over $7 million last year
NBC News—Carnival gets okay from US to start operating cruises to Cuba


7.8.15
ABCnews.com—Jeb Bush says making people work longer hours is the way to grow the economy
USA Today—Baltimore mayor fires the police commissioner
CNN.com—Amazon introducing its own version of Black Friday on July 15: Prime Day
CBS News—Gates Foundation wants to make it easier for students to apply for financial aid
Fox News—Comet may be home to alien life
BBC News—Microsoft to cut nearly 8,000 jobs, mostly in its phone division


7.9.15
Fox News—Judge sends kids to juvenile detention for refusing to have lunch with their father, who they allege is abusive
ABCnews.com—Students protests parking tickets by paying fines with 11,000 pennies
NBC News—Tech startup wants to start selling 3D printed cars next year
CNN.com—Broadway star confiscates phone from audience member who was constantly texting during a performance
USA Today—Tech company moves to 32 hour workweek while keeping pay and benefits the same
CBS News—Pop singer caught on video licking donuts in shop that later went on sale to the public


7.10.15
USA Today—Ford planning to shift more manufacturing jobs to Mexico
NBC News—Harper Lee shares first chapter of her sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird
CNN.com—Omar Sharif dies at 83
BBC News—Reddit CEO resigns after backlash from the user community
Fox News—William Shatner could make an appearance in the next Star Trek movie
CBS News—Some McDonald's customers claim that a Minions Happy Meal toy says curse words


7.13.15
CNN.com—Military considering lifting the ban on transgender troops
Fox News—Nintendo chief dies at 55
USA Today—Boy Scouts close to ending ban on gay troop leaders
BBC News—Pluto flyby reveals that the planet is bigger than we thought
CBS News—Comcast launching $15 per month streaming service
NBC News—Rapper 50 Cent files for bankruptcy


7.14.15
ABCnews.com—Large Hadron Collider confirms existence of pentaquark particle
USA Today—MLB considering a return to a 154 game schedule
CNN.com—Firefox blocks all versions of Flash
NBC News—Apple reaps 92% of all smartphone profits
Fox News—Atlanta NAACP calls for removal of sculpture of Confederate generals on Stone Mountain
BBC News—Pandas' laziness key to their ability to survive solely on bamboo


7.15.15
ABCnews.com—Dan Aykroyd confirms that he will appear in the new Ghostbusters movie
CBS News—Lawsuit claims that DirecTV's exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket deal is illegal
USA Today—Uber fined $7.3 million in California for not sharing data with regulators
NBC News—Obama wants to bring broadband internet to poor areas
CNN.com—Pabst returning production of its Blue Ribbon beer to Milwaukee
Fox News—Heroin use often begins with prescription painkiller addiction


7.16.15
Fox News—Gunman kills four marines in Tennessee
ABCnews.com—Man can only remember his last 90 minutes after receiving routine dental anesthetic
USA Today—Angry Birds 2 coming by the end of the month
CBS News—Researcher says he has discovered a type of seaweed that tastes like bacon
CNN.com—Lays four new consumer-created flavors include New York Reuben and Biscuits and Gravy
NBC News—Amp maker Marshall releases its own Android smartphone


7.17.15
NBC News—TLC cancels 19 Kids and Counting after it was revealed that one of the starts molested minor children when he was younger
Fox News—Wilco releases new album online for free
USA Today—T-Mobile fined $17 million for 911 outages
CNN.com—Hotel run by robots opens in Japan. Also, if you speak English, you have to talk to a dinosaur.
ABCnews.com—Tesla Model S owners can pay $10,000 for a speed upgrade
CBS News—Actor John Hurt receives knighthood


7.20.15
Wired—Physicist turned entreperneur announces 10 year, $100 million investment in SETI projects
CNN.com—Adultery web site Ashley Madison hacked, and hackers threaten to reveal the personal details of all 37 million members unless the site is taken down permanently
USA Today—Garrison Keillor announces his retirement
Gizmodo—China turning Beijing and six other metropolitan areas into one super megacity that will contain 1/3 the population of the entire US
CBS News—Michigan creates fake city for testing driverless cars
BBC News—Drones prevent firefighting aircraft from containing wildfire in California


7.21.15
Fox News—Teenager being investigated by the FAA after posting a video of a commercial drone rigged to fire a handgun
NBC News—AT&T/DirecTV merger won't be opposed by feds
CNN.com—Donald Trump gives out personal cell number of senator he's been feuding with
ABCnews.com—White campus police officer shoots unarmed black motorist in the head and kills him during traffic stop
USA Today—Apple reveals that it has over $200 billion in cash during earnings call
CBS News—Department of Justice drops its prosecution of Barry Bonds on obstruction of justice charges


7.22.15
USA Today—McDonald's rolling out all day breakfast nationwide this fall
CBS News—Armadillos spreading leprosy in—where else?—Florida
NBC News—Would-be burglar hides under bed for three days
BBC News—Scientists figure out that boa constrictors kill their prey by cutting off blood flow to the brain, not suffocating them as previously thought
CNN.com—Twitter changes every user's background—previously customizable—to a bright white
Fox News—Donald Trump wants to be buried on his signature golf course


7.23.15
ABCnews.com—Converse redesigning their iconic Chuck Taylor sneakers
CNN.com—Discoverer of HIV says she now believes that a cure for the virus will be impossible to find
Fox News—Donald Trump says he will consider running as an independent if he does not win the Republican nomination
CBS News—Jurassic World sequel confirmed for 2018
NBC News—E-sports league planning to institute random drug testing
USA Today—American Psycho coming to Broadway


7.24.15
ABCnews.com—Amazon's market cap now exceeds Walmart's
io9—China building world's biggest radio telescope
USA Today—Oxford English Dictionary is looking for help in finding the first use of the word "email"
BBC News—Fossil of snake species with four legs discovered in Brazil
Fox News—Hulk Hogan fired by the WWE after reportedly using the n-word to describe his daughter's boyfriend
CBS News—New carseat meant to prevent heat deaths when children are locked in cars sounds a warning if the child is still buckled in when the car is turned off


7.27.15
USA Today—Arizona Cardinals hire first female coach in NFL history
NBC News—Europe approves world's first vaccine for malaria
CBS News—Boston drops bid to host 2024 Olympics
CNN.com—China lifts ban on consumer video game console systems
Fox News—Daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown dies at 22
ABCnews.com—Apple Watch to be sold in Best Buy stores starting next month


7.28.15
CNN.com—Tom Brady's four game suspension upheld; NFL commissioner also reveals that Brady ordered an assistant to destroy his cell phone the day before the quarterback met with investigators
CBS News—Android phones can be hacked with a text message
USA Today—Volkswagen surpasses Toyota to become world's biggest automaker
BBC News—New type of computer memory is 1000 times faster than flash storage
Fox News—Montgomery, Alabama, is the most sexually diseased city in the US
NBC News—Google will no longer require a Google + account to use services like YouTube


7.29.15
BBC News—Obama wants US to build world's fastest computer by 2025
CNN.com—Amazon signs Top Gear stars for new show
USA Today—Former NBA star now works at Starbucks
NBC News—Windows 10 released for free
CBS News—8 year old boy receives double hand transplant
Fox News—Google Translate now knows 27 languages


7.30.15
USA Today—US Army in danger of falling short of its recruiting goal for 2015
CBS News—Confederate flags placed at historically black church near MLK memorial in Atlanta
CNN.com—Debris found on island in Indian Ocean may be from missing MH370 flight
ABCnews.com—Facebook building giant solar powered drone to deliver internet service to remote parts of the world
BBC News—Diabetes drug offers possible lead in fight against Parkinson's
NBC News—Lawsuit alleges that Conan O'Brien stole jokes from Twitter


7.31.15
Fox News—Wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper dies from heart attack at age 61
CNN.com—Smithsonian resorts to Kickstarter campaign to raise money to restore historic Neil Armstrong space suit
BBC News—Morrissey claims he was sexually assaulted by TSA officer in San Francisco airport
USA Today—Beijing selected to host 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city to host both the summer and winter games
NBC News—Microsoft claims that Windows 10 has been installed on more than 14 million devices in the first day of release
CBS News—Olympic torch carried by Bruce Jenner sells for more than $20,000 at auction

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