daily links: december 2015

12.1.15
CBS News—Check for half a million dollars dropped into Salvation Army kettle in Minnesota
USA Today—Miami Marlins hire Barry Bonds as hitting coach
Fox News—Upon birth of his daughter, Facebook's Zuckerberg announces that he will eventually give 99% of his wealth to fight disease and improve communities
BBC News—Christmas tree lights could interfere with your WiFi signals
CNN.com—A Charlie Brown Christmas turns 50
NBC News—Men more likely to take paternity leave for a son


12.2.15
Fox News—Red Sox give pitcher David Price a $217 million, seven year deal, averaging over $30 million per year
CNN.com—Mein Kampf to be published in Germany for the first time since Hitler's death
USA Today—Yahoo considering selling its core internet businesses
NBC News—New diabetes diagnoses in the US fall for the first time in years
BBC News—Japanese whaling ships depart for the Southern Ocean with a goal of killing over 300 whales
CBS News—More than half of US households no longer have a telephone landline


12.14.15
CNN.com—Bill Cosby suing seven women who accused him of sexual assault for defamation
CBS News—Seattle to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize
Fox News—Baseball commissioner rejects Pete Rose's latest plea to overturn his lifetime ban from the sport
BBC News—Amazon stops selling hoverboards
USA Today—FAA to require drone owners to register the devices starting December 21
NBC News—Samsung appealing to the Supreme Court to try to get its $400 million judgment for copying Apple reduced


12.15.15
NBC News—Facebook testing Yelp competitor
CBS News—The melting of the glaciers may cause the Earth to spin faster
Fox News—A single dose of the active ingredient in magic mushrooms could help fight depression and anxiety for weeks after the treatment
USA Today—Purdue considering new financial aid plan that would allow students to take loans from investors that would be paid by returning a percentage of their post-college income for a certain number of years
CNN.com—Google giving researchers access to its data to help track the spread of STDs and other infectious diseases
BBC News—Doctor and nurse convicted of manslaughter in death of six year old boy whose condition they failed to monitor and treat appropriately


12.16.15
Fox News—Female lawmaker introduces bill that would make men wait 24 hours for Viagra to make a point about legisltator's attempts to interfere with women's reproductive choices
CNN.com—Study finds that today's teens are smoking, drinking, and using drugs less—except for marijuana
CBS News—New Star Wars movie to be screened for the astronauts aboard the ISS
USA Today—Evangelical college suspends professor after she makes a positive comparison between Christianity and Islam
BBC News—California says that self-driving cars must have a human in the driver's seat
NBC News—Lamar Odom was the most searched term on Google in 2015


12.21.15
CNN.com—The Force Awakens has the biggest opening weekend in history
ABCnews.com—Miss Universe host Steve Harvey mistakenly crowns the wrong contestant
NBC News—FDA to ban anyone under the age of 18 from using indoor tanning devices
CBS News—Gas falls below $2 per gallon
Fox News—Nevada allowing citizens to vote on four different license plate designs that promote gun rights
USA Today—Apple and Ericsson settle patent dispute


12.22.15
USA Today—IRS granted power to revoke the passports of US citizens who owe taxes
Fox News—US Air Force to allow non-officers to become drone pilots
CBS News—Far right German politician on trial for publicly displyaing a tattoo of the Auschwitz death camp
ABCnews.com—SpaceX successfully launches and lands a rocket
CNN.com—Percentage of Americans with high speed interent at home has dropped in the past year
NBC News—Hello Kitty data breach exposes the data of over 3 million users

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