daily links: november 2015

11.9.15
CNN.com—Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after state-sponsored doping program is uncovered
ABCnews.com—University of Missouri president and chancellor resign after students protest inaction on racist incidents on campus and football team threatens not to play
USA Today—Mysterious new electric car startup with major funding could be front for Apple's electric car efforts
CBS News—Senator calls for FDA investigation of caffeinated peanut butter
NBC News—UVA fraternity suing Rolling Stone for $25 million after the magazine published a false story about a gang rape that supposedly occurred at one of their parties
Fox News—Judge throws out class action lawsuit brought by Apple retail employees who say they were forced to spend extra upaid time on the job going through security checks at the end of every shift


11.10.15
Fox News—Reggie Bush to sue city of St. Louis after slipping on concrete on sidelines and suffering season-ending injury
USA Today—NY AG declares DraftKings and FanDuel fantasy sports sites to be illegal gambling
NBC News—Sony officially killing off Betamax in March 2016
CNN.com—Former Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson dies at 29
ABCnews.com—Man arrested by Secret Service after firing a slingshot at the White House
CBS News—Update to Google Maps app will allow you to get directions even if you have no data connection


11.11.15
NBC News—Jimmy Carter shares update on his cancer treatment
Fox News—Woman finds kidney donor on Tinder
CBS News—Apple may be working on person to person mobile payment system
CNN.com—National restaurant chain Joe's Crab Shack experiments with no-tipping policy
BBC News—Apple Music app now available on Android
ABCnews.com—Rare blue diamond sells for nearly $50 million at auction


11.12.15
ABCnews.com—Six California girls fighting to join the Boy Scouts
CNN.com—Utah judge orders foster child removed from custody of married lesbian couple, saying the child would be better off in a home with heterosexual parents
Fox News—HUD wants to ban smoking in public housing
USA Today—Amazon becomes world's most expensive stock
NBC News—Hundreds of Mormons leaving the church over a new policy that condemns same-sex relationships
BBC News—Motorhead drummer dies at 61


11.13.15
BBC News—Google self-driving car pulled over by police after driving too slowly and causing a traffic jam
CBS News—Next version of Bluetooth will increase both the range and the transmission speed of the connection technology
NBC News—7-Eleven adding secure lockers for package pickup
ABCnews.com—David Hasselhoff legally changes him last name to simply Hoff
USA Today—YouTube launches music app
CNN.com—Google ending Chrome support on older versions of Windows and Mac OS


11.16.15
CNN.com—Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris kill over 100 and wound hundreds more
USA Today—Peyton Manning benched after breaking NFL's all-time passing record
ABCnews.com—Democratic presidential candidates participate in second debate
NBC News—U2 cancels Paris show that was to air live on HBO in wake of terror attacks
CBS News—Zebras escape from circus and run wild in Philadelphia
BBC News—Archaeologists uncover evidence that humans have been keeping bees for 9,000 years


11.17.15
CBS News—New Jersey mall to charge $35-$50 for kids to visit Santa this holiday season
CNN.com—Charlie Sheen to reveal that he has HIV
USA Today—Marriott to buy Starwood for $12 billion
NBC News—McDonald's reveals a new twist on the Dollar Menu
Fox News—Jackass star dead at 59
ABCnews.com—New James Bond film wins box office for second week in a row


11.18.15
CNN.com—New Muppets museum opening at Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts
BBC News—Mini drone project that received massive Kickstarter funding shut down by company that started it
Fox News—Maryland college closes for a week amid gun attack fears
CBS News—ISIS claims it brought down Russian plane using soda can bomb
NBC News—Georgia death row inmate asks for six pack of beer for his last meal, but is denied by prison officials
USA Today—Josh Duggar sued by porn star for sexual assault


11.19.15
USA Today—Hundreds of arrests may be tainted by the use of illegal wiretaps in a California county
CNN.com—Former Subway pitchman Jared sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges
BBC News—US approves genetically modified salmon for human consumption, the first time a GM animal has been approved to be eaten by people
CBS News—Ford plans to start selling self-driving cars by 2020
Fox News—Glock unveils new pistol that is small and easily concealed
NBC News—Mark Zuckerberg donates $20 million to bring faster internet to public schools


11.20.15
CBS News—Sal Khan continues to push for new ways to reinvent education
Fox News—E! canceling The Soup after 22 years
BBC News—Google offering to pay legal fees for some fair use copyright cases involving content posted on YouTube
CNN.com—Special tech buses used for employees of companies like Google and Facebook get official approval in San Francisco
ABCnews.com—UN agency decides to wait until 2023 to rule on proposal to eliminate the leap second from international timekeeping
NBC News—Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz dress sells for $1.5 million at auction


11.23.15
ABCnews.com—NASA moving ahead with plan to use commercial spaceflight operations to move its crew to and from the ISS
USA Today—Ravens beat Rams but lose their starting quarterback and their starting running back for the rest of the season
Fox News—University suspends yoga class after some students cite cultural insensitivity
NBC News—To celebrate new Star Wars movie, Google lets you choose light or dark side skins that are then applied to all of your Google apps
CNN.com—Adele's new record sells over 2 million copies in its first three days of release
BBC News—Final Hunger Games movie wins box office but has smallest opening so far for the movie franchise


11.24.15
CNN.com—Turkey shoots down Russian jet that it says was in its airspace
ABCnews.com—NIH says it will no longer conduct research on chimpanzees
CBS News—Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin commercial space firm successfully launches and lands its suborbital rocket
USA Today—HBO to premiere Sesame Street in January before re-airing on public television in the fall
NBC News—Amazon pulls Nazi-themed ads for its new original series from NYC subway cars after protests from riders
BBC News—Apple buys motion capture firm whose software was used to make the new Star Wars movie


11.25.15
NBC News—Lone copy of new Wu-Tang Clan album sells for millions at auction
CNN.com—Google getting into the mortgage business
CBS News—Defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors set record for best start with 16-0 record
Fox News—ISIS using Bitcoin to store and move around its cash
USA Today—More airlines adding rear-facing seats to business class
BBC News—Europe's Mars missions finally getting under way


11.30.15
ABCnews.com—New analysis of King Tut's tomb reveals high probability of previously undiscovered hidden chambers
Fox News—Burglar stuck in chimney dies after homeowner lights fire in fireplace
CNN.com—Adele's 25 blows away single week album sales record
USA Today—Christmas tree in Australia sets record with over half a million lights
CBS News—Disney shares drop after it is revealed that ESPN lost 3 million subscribers last year
NBC News—Bill Gates launching multi-billion dollar clean energy initiative

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