daily links: march 2023

3.1.23
BBC News—Two trains crash head-on in Greece, killing 43
USA Today—Drug giant Eli Lilly will reduce insulin prices by 70% after federal pressure to cut prices on vital medications
CNN.com—Girls high school basketball team forfeits tournament because they refused to play against a team that featured a transgender player
ABCnews.com—Baltimore to pay $6 million in police misconduct settlement
NBC News—Top NFL prospect Jalen Carter, who was on UGA's back-to-back national championship teams, faces arrest for crash that killed two people, including one of his teammates
CBS News—Kiss annouonce their final, final, final farewell tour. For real this time.


3.2.23
CBS News—DOJ says that Trump can be sued for his role in inciting the Jan 6 insurrection
NBC News—House Ethics Committee officially opens investigation into George Santos
BBC News—Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan is denied parole for the 16th time
ABCnews.com—California declares state of emergency for counties affected by rare heavy snows
CNN.com—Mayor of College Park, MD, resigns after being arrested on more than 50 charges of child pornography
USA Today—Baskin-Robbins introduces chicken and waffles flavored ice cream


3.6.23
BBC News—China releases new rules governing gene editing, but critics say they don't go far enough
CBS News—35 people detained after coordinated attack on police training site that is under development in Atlanta
CNN.com—Twitter hit with major outage today, one of a series of escalating issues affecting the platform since Elon Musk took over and fired more than half the workforce
ABCnews.com—GOP lawmaker in Florida wants to require that anyone who writes about elected officials be registered with the state
NBC News—Amazon pauses construction of second headquarters in Virginia
USA Today—Toblerone will remove the Matterhorn from its packaging amid a move of its production facilities to Slovakia


3.7.23
NBC News—GOP senators rebuke Fox News personality Tucker Carlson for characterizing the Jan 6 insurrection as "mostly peaceful"
CBS News—Baltimore Ravens apply non-exclusive franchise tag to star quarterback Lamar Jackson after failing to reach a long-term deal
ABCnews.com—DOJ files suit to prevent merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines
CNN.com—Spanish couple sentenced to four years in jail after stealing $1.7 million in wine from a fine dining restaurant
BBC News—Federal Reserve chairman says interest rates increases could be higher and more frequent to keep inflation under control
USA Today—Hershey's unveils vegan version of its iconic peanut butter cups


3.8.23
BBC News—Scientists create viable eggs using only cells taken from male mice
CNN.com—Arkanasas governor and former Trump spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs bill that rolls back child labor protections
ABCnews.com—Two basketball players at Brown sue the Ivy League schools for their joint agreement to not offer athletic scholarships
USA Today—Utah man robs a bank for $1 and then sits down to wait for police because he wanted to be put in federal prison
NBC News—WeightWatchers buys telehealth platform Sequence in order to facilitate members' access to weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy
CBS News—Juice drink Sunny D introducing an alcoholic seltzer


3.9.23
BBC News—Google reveals plans to establish drone delivery network that could handle millions of deliveries in the next 12 months
CNN.com—Mitch McConnell treated for a concussion after falling at a DC hotel
NBC News—GOP lt. governor of Tennessee, which has passed multiple bills targeting LGBTQ rights, has left multiple appreciate comments on the Instagram feed of a gay man who poses almost-nude
ABCnews.com—Australia to purchase nuclear-powered attack submarines from the US
USA Today—A newly discovered asteroid has a small chance to hit Earth in 2046
CBS News—Slack is adding ChatGPT


3.13.23
USA Today—Biden moves forward with approval massive new oil and gas leases in Alaska
CBS News—Private autopsy commissioned by family concludes that the protester who was killed at a proposed police training site in Atlanta was likely seated with his arms raised when he was shot more than a dozen times by multiple officers
ABCnews.com—FBI says Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scams in 2022 alone
CNN.com—Facebook reportedly preparing to launch Twitter rival
NBC News—Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank in largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis
BBC News—Everything Everywhere All at Once dominates the Oscars, winning seven awards including best picture, best director, and three of the four acting categories


3.14.23
CBS News—Biden issues executive order aimed at curbing gun violence
NBC News—Democrats introduce bill to repeal Trump-era banking law that many blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
CNN.com—OpenAI announces version 4 of its GPT AI
ABCnews.com—Jimmy Carter, who has recently entered hospice care, has reportedly asked Biden to deliver his eulogy
USA Today—Google to introduce AI features into many of its products, including Gmail and Google Docs
BBC News—Facebook cuts another 10,000 jobs, and another 5,000 open positions will be left unfilled


3.15.23
ABCnews.com—9th grader in South Carolina suing her school district after she says she was assaulted by a staff member when she refused to participate in the reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
USA Today—T-Mobile buying Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile for $1.35 billion
NBC News—Utah governor signs bill that will prevent clinics from being able to provide abortions
CNN.com—South Korea will build world's largest computer chip development and manufacturing center after $230 billion investment from Samsung
CBS News—Surge pricing creeping into restaurants, bowling alleys, and movie theaters
BBC News—Excess heat from small data center being used to heat a public pool


3.16.23
NBC News—Grand jury members empaneled as part of the investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the election results in Georgia say they heard a tape of a previously unreported call between Trump and state GOP lawmaker
CNN.com—Poland breaks with its NATO allies and says it will provide fighter jets to Ukraine
CBS News—Video shows Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on US drone and hitting it, causing it to crash
BBC News—Credit Suisse to borrow $54 billion from Swiss central bank to shore up its finances in the wake of the global bank panic
ABCnews.com—UK bans TikTok from government devices
USA Today—YouTube TV raising its price to $73 per month. What was all that about cutting cable to save money again?


3.20.23
NBC News—Biden signs bipartisan bill to declassify information about the origins of Covid
CNN.com—Google lays off over 10,000 people via email, including some people who were on pre-approved medical leave
ABCnews.com—Biden uses his veto power for the first time in his presidency
CBS News—UBS buys rival Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion
USA Today—St. Francis College, a Division I NCAA school, announces that it is entirely eliminating all of its athletic programs
BBC News—YouTube joins other social media site and reinstates Trump's account


3.21.23
NBC News—Los Angeles schools closed due to strike by service workers
USA Today—Oklahoma Supreme Court rules that the state constitution protects the right to abortion where the mother's life is danger
ABCnews.com—Biden creates new national monuments in Texas and Nevada that will preserve more than half a million acres of land
CNN.com—Google officially releases Bard, its AI chatbot
BBC News—Wyoming becomes first state to ban abortion pills
CBS News—Tom Hanks to deliver this year's commencement speech at Harvard


3.22.23
CNN.com—The Fed raises interest rates for the ninth time in the past year
BBC News—Multiple celebrities charged by the SEC for not disclosing that they were being compensated for promoting cryptocurrencies
CBS News—DNA study of Beethoven's hair give clues about his health and family history
NBC News—Orange County DA dismisses domestic violence charges levied against Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland
ABCnews.com—GM says it will stop making the Camaro in 2024
USA Today—Two inmates who escaped from Virginia jail using tools made from toothbrushes are re-arrested while eating at IHOP


3.23.23
NBC News—TikTok CEO testifies before Congress
CBS News—Senate votes overwhelmingly in favor of continuing the 2001 authorization for the war on terror
BBC News—Parents of teenager who shot and killed four of his high school classmates to face trial for manslaughter for giving their son access to a gun despite mental health warning signs
CNN.com—China approves its first mRNA-based Covid vaccine
ABCnews.com—South Carolina state comptroller to resign after $3.5 billion accounting error
USA Today—Five kids call 911 after getting lost in NYC sewers


3.27.23
ABCnews.com—Three staff members and three children killed in mass shooting at Nashville school
USA Today—Intel co-founder and author of Moore's law Gordon Moore dies at 94
NBC News—Seven people killed in chocolate factory explosion in Pennysylvania
CNN.com—Portions of Twitter's source code leaked to GitHub
CBS News—Member of Rand Paul's staff stabbed on the street in DC
BBC News—Florida principal forced to resign after three parents complained about their children being shown an image of Michelango's famous David statue


3.28.23
CBS News—Judge rules that Pence must testify before Jan 6 grand jury
NBC News—Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional Twitter account temporarily restricted after she repeatedly posts anti-Trans memes
ABCnews.com—Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba splitting into six different business groups
CNN.com—Pepsi unveils new logo
BBC News—Scientists detect brightest gamma ray blast yet seen
USA Today—Oreo releases new Blackout Cake flavor


3.29.23
NBC News—Leading technologists call for pause on training AIs
ABCnews.com—FDA approves anti-overdose drug Narcan for OTC sales
BBC News—Utah passes law limiting teens' use of social media
USA Today—Amazon to start flagging frequently returned items
CBS News—Fiona and Ian being retired as hurrican names
CNN.com—Cup Noodles introduces new breakfast-themed ramen flavor


3.30.23
CNN.com—Tump indicted by grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud. About fucking time. I still have my doubts that our justice system is capable of convicting him, much less putting him in jail, despite his numerous and obvious criminal acts. But this is a start at least.
NBC News—Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges
ABCnews.com—New FBI documents reveal that the Las Vegas mass murderer was angry at casinos because they didn't give him enough perks as a winning high roller
BBC News—New blood test that can detect traces of cancer cells could spare thousands from unnecessary chemotherapy every year
CBS News—Jury finds that Gweneth Paltrow is not responsible for the injuries suffered by another skier after he crashed into her on the slopes
USA Today—Rare 10.5 carat pink diamond could sell for $35 million at auction

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