daily links: september 2023

9.5.23
CNN.com—Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan 6 insurrection
ABCnews.com—Autoworkers union votes to approve a strike if they cannot reach a new deal with the Big Three automakers
BBC News—United Airlines briefly grounds all flights due to systemwide technology issue
NBC News—Popular YouTube family-focused influencer arrested on six counts of felony child abuse
CBS News—Trump's Georgia trial will be televised and live streamed
USA Today—Jimmy Buffett dies at 76


9.6.23
BBC News—Federal prosecutors plan to indict Hunter Biden later this month
ABCnews.com—Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion
CBS News—Colorado watchdog group sues to keep Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment
NBC News—Carl Nassib, the first openly gay NFL player, announces his retirement
USA Today—Gary Busey involved in hit and run in Malibu
CNN.com—Freddy Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody" piano sells for $2.2 million at auction


9.7.23
BBC News—Google says that political advertisments must disclose whether they used AI to create fake audio or video
CNN.com—Actor Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life in prison in rape case
CBS News—Texas paid Bitcoin mining company $31 million to cut their power consumption during heatwave that strained the state's electric grid
USA Today—Former Trump aide found guilty of contempt of Congress after refusing to obey subpoena to testify in front of Jan 6 committee
ABCnews.com—Tom Brady working as a strategic advisor for Delta Air Lines
NBC News—One Chip Challenge pulled from store shelves after mother claims the spicy chip contributed to her son's death


9.12.23
CBS News—House Speaker McCarthy gives in to the Freedom Caucus loons and announces his support for an impeachment inquiry into Biden
ABCnews.com—Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp declares an official state of emergency over inflation, in a pointless political stunt that is especially pointless given that he's not running for any offices in the next two years
USA Today—New Covid boosters will be available for everyone in the next few weeks after FDA approval
NBC News—Minnesota group challenges Trump's eligibility to appear on the ballot in that state under the 14th amendment
CNN.com—QB Aaron Rodgers to miss the rest of the season after tearing his Achilles on his first series with his new team, the NY Jets
BBC News—Apple announces updates to its iPhone and Watch products


9.19.23
ABCnews.com—Pennsylvania governor announces that the state will automatically register people to vote when they apply for a driver's license or state ID
CNN.com—Patriots fan killed in the stands during Sunday night's game against the Dolphins
CBS News—Musk floats the idea of charging all Twitter users a monthly fee, not just the blue checkmark acolytes
NBC News—Star running back Nick Chubb out for at least the season after suffering a gruesome knee injury
BBC News—Katy Perry sells the rights to her music catalogue for $225 million
USA Today—High school band director tasered and arrested after he refused to tell his band to stop playing after a football game


9.20.23
BBC News—Newly unearthed artifacts from Zambia suggest that humans were building wooden structures at least 500,000 years ago
CBS News—Musician Sufjan Stevens says he nearly died and is now relearning to walk after suffering from Guillan-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disease
CNN.com—Former Trump aide says she was groped by Giuliani backstage at the rally that precipitated the Jan 6 insurrection
USA Today—The Fed leaves interest rates unchanged, but signals that it could still raise them later this year
ABCnews.com—Family of a man who died after driving off a collapsed bridge is suing Google after they say his accident happened while following Google Maps directions
NBC News—Kraft recalls tens of thousands of cases of individually wrapped American cheese slices


9.21.23
CNN.com—Rupert Murdoch steps down as head of Fox News, turning the reins over to his son Lachlan
USA Today—The House adjourns for a long weekend despite a looming government shutdown that lawmakers have been unable to reach a compromise to avert
NBC News—Former Trump lawyer listed as a state witness in Trump's Georgia trial
ABCnews.com—Biden administration wants to scrub medical debt from credit scores, which would raise the scores of millions of Americans
CBS News—More than 35,000 people registered to vote immediately after Taylor Swift encouraged it in a social media post
BBC News—A group of prominent authors is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying their works were illegally used to train their AI products


9.26.23
CNN.com—New York judge issues summary judgment finding Donald Trump and his sons guilty of fraud for consistently overvaluing assets over a period of many years
USA Today—Joe Biden joins striking UAW workers on the picket line
ABCnews.com—Federal judge finds Texas restrictions on drag performances unconstitutional
CBS News—Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani
NBC News—Supreme Court denies Alabama legislature's request to use congressional map that has only one majority-black district despite black people making up over a quarter of the state's population
BBC News—FTC accuses Amazon of holding an illegal monopoly


9.27.23
NBC News—JPMorgan to pay $75 million settlement to victims of Jeffrey Epstein over the bank's ties to the billionaire child rapist
USA Today—Volcanic supercontinent could destroy all mammalian life in 250 million years. The article specifically mentions humans, but there's pretty low odds we'll be around at that point no matter what.
ABCnews.com—Philadelphia police arrest over 50 people related to organized mass looting incidents in downtown stores
CNN.com—Winner of $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot claims their prize
CBS News—FDA panel votes against the use of an experimental stem cell treatment for ALS
BBC News—Lego cancels plans to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles


9.28.23
USA Today—Tesla sued by EEOC after Black workders claim they were racially harrassed on the job
CNN.com—Mortgage rates hit their highest levels since 2000
NBC News—Global pop star Shakira charged with tax evasion in Spain
CBS News—Trump says Mar-a-Lago is worth $1.8 billion, but real estate appraisers say the value is closer to $27 million
BBC News—US Senate unanimously votes to reinstate more formal dress code
ABCnews.com—Michael Gambon, who portrayed Dumbledore in six Harry Potter movies, dies at 82

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