daily links: july 2023

7.5.23
USA Today—July 4, 2023, was the hottest day globally in recorded history
ABCnews.com—Attorney Lin Wood, who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, chooses to give up his law license voluntarily rather than face disbarment in several states
BBC News—Researchers have seen a significant rise in type 1 diabetes in children in the wake of the Covid pandemic
NBC News—Facebook launching Twitter competitor this week
CBS News—Yankees pitcher suspended for the rest of the season over domestic violence charges
CNN.com—After major outage over the weekend that caused Twitter to restrict the number of tweets users could view per day, the company will now only allow verified paying users to access the popular TweetDeck tool


7.6.23
BBC News—Trump aide pleads not guilty in Mar-a-Lago documents case
CNN.com—Twitter threatens to sue Facebook over its just-released Twitter competitor Threads. Musk is quickly rivaling Trump with his bluster and baseless litigiousness.
ABCnews.com—Armed man who participated in the Jan 6 insurrection is arrested in DC neighborhood after Trump posts Obama's purported address
NBC News—7 year old shot and killed on Florida beach after unrelated men start fighting over jet skis
CBS News—FTC and FDA cracking down on cannabis companies marketing edibles in kid-friendly packaging
USA Today—The Eagles announce farewell tour


7.11.23
ABCnews.com—Sweden set to become next member of NATO
USA Today—Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is stabbed multiple times in prison
NBC News—Twitter traffic is tanking after Threads reaches 100 million users
CNN.com—Federal judge signs off on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
BBC News—Inflation slows to its lowest level in two years
CBS News—Former Top Chef winner Kristen Kish to replace Padma Lakshmi as host of the reality cooking show


7.12.23
USA Today—In the wake of the recent sham Supreme Court ruling, Michigan hair salon announces that it will refuse to serve trans customers
CBS News—Jan 6 insurrectionist who was at the center of a speculative conspiracy theory promoted by Fox News sues the network for defamation
NBC News—Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked out of the Freedom Caucus. But not because she's a virulent fascist who spouts racist and homophobic lies, but because she was seen as too friendly to GOP majority leader Kevin McCarthy.
ABCnews.com—Bank of America to pay $100 million fee for double-charging fees and withholding rewards
BBC News—Georgia seats grand jury to consider indictments related to Trump's attempted interference in Georgia elections in 2020
CNN.com—Anchor Steam, the oldest craft brewery in the US, is shutting down after 127 years


7.13.23
ABCnews.com—Screen Actors Guild goes on strike
CBS News—FDA approves first over the counter birth control pill
BBC News—Elon Musk owes $500 million in severance to fired Twitter staffers
NBC News—Iconic basketball announcer Dick Vitale announces that he has vocal cord cancer
USA Today—Domino's announces delivery partnership with Uber Eats and Postmates that will begin by 2024
CNN.com—Chipotle testing guacamole-making robot that can cut, core, and peel avocados twice as fast as humans


7.18.23
ABCnews.com—16 fake electors who worked on behalf of Trump to overturn Michigan's election results are charged with multiple felonies
BBC News—US soldier detained by North Korea after riding a tour bus over the border
CBS News—Illinois to become the first state to end the use of cash bail
CNN.com—Tace chain Taco John's gives up fight to claim the trademark for the phrase "Taco Tuesday"
NBC News—In-N-Out Burger bars employees in several states from wearing masks at work unless they have a doctor's note
USA Today—Pepsi is selling pineapple-flavored soda exclusively at Little Caesar's


7.19.23
CNN.com—President of Stanford University to resign after review finds that some of his published researched contained manipulated data
CBS News—16 year old dies while working in a Mississippi poultry plant
BBC News—Netflix crackdown on password sharing leads to surge in subscriptions
NBC News—Convicted con man who was pardoned by Trump is once again charged with fraud in a Ponzi scheme
USA Today—FTC investigating ChatGPT maker OpenAI
ABCnews.com—Sealed first gen iPhone sells for $190,000 at auction


7.20.23
BBC News—Revised African American history curriculum in Florida will teach students that slavery was good for Black people because it taught them useful skills
CBS News—Senate committee advances new Supreme Court ethics bill
CNN.com—NFL approves sale of the Washington Commanders to new ownership group and fines current owner Dan Snyder $60 million for misconduct
NBC News—NYC subway stations employing AI to track fare evasion
USA Today—A single ticket matched on the $1 billion Powerball drawing
ABCnews.com—18 year old mother arrested for trying to hire a hitman to kill her 3 year old son


7.25.23
CBS News—UPS and the Teamsters reach tentative deal to avoid strike
BBC News—Spotify rasises subscription prices for the first time since 2011
NBC News—Elon Musk drops the Twitter name and rebrands the social media site to the letter X
ABCnews.com—LeBron James' oldest son Bronny suffers cardiac arrest during basketball practice at USC
USA Today—Chevy plans to revive the Bolt EV with a completely redesigned model
CNN.com—Skittles introduces limited edition mustard flavor


7.26.23
CNN.com—Sinead O'Connor passes away at 56
CBS News—The Fed raises interest rates to their highest levels in 22 years and says more hikes could be coming this year
ABCnews.com—Mitch McConnell freezes midsentence during a press conference and has to be led away by staff
USA Today—Water temperatures off the Florida Keys are over 100 degrees, breaking world records
BBC News—Giuliani admits to making false claims of voter fraud in Georgia
NBC News—After renaming Twitter to X, Elon Musk takes the @X Twitter handle from a user who had held it since 2007

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