daily links: january 2023

1.3.23
NBC News—Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green dies from cancer at age 45
CBS News—House adjourns without electing a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy fails to win the position after three rounds of voting, the first time this has happened in a century
CNN.com—NFL player collapses on field after suffering cardiac arrest during play
BBC News—Canada bans foreign citizens from buying homes in the country as a way to combat rising unaffordability in the housing market
ABCnews.com—Missouri is first state in US to execute openly transgender inmate
USA Today—Actor Jeremy Renner seriously injured in snowplow accident


1.4.23
BBC News—Abortion pills can now be delivered via the mail or picked up at retail pharmacies, but still require a prescription from a healthcare provider
CBS News—House GOP still has not elected a new speaker after six rounds of voting
ABCnews.com—Tesla's stock price continues its freefall
CNN.com—Salesforce to lay off 10% of its workforce
USA Today—Lawsuit claims that the blood oxygen sensor on the Apple Watch is less accurate for people with darker skin
NBC News—Mastermind behind the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal sentenced to three and a half years in prison


1.5.23
ABCnews.com—The vote to elect a new House Speaker has now gone on longer than for any election since before the Civil War
BBC News—US approves world's first vaccine for honeybees
CNN.com—The FTC is proposing a ban on noncompete employment agreements
CBS News—South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the state's six week abortion ban is unconstitutional
USA Today—Funeral home operators who illegally sold body parts are sentenced to 15 and 20 years on prison each
NBC News—NYC public school system bans ChatGPT from its networks and devices


1.9.23
USA Today—Hundreds arrested in Brazil after supporters of right wing politician Bolsonaro storm government buildings after refusing to accept his election loss
CBS News—DOJ investigating small parcel of classified documents discovered during clean out of private office used by Biden from 2017-2019
NBC News—Kevin McCarthy finally wins the Speaker vote by the thinnest of margins after 15 attempts
CNN.com—Federal agency considering a ban or emissions standards for gas stoves
ABCnews.com—Mega Millions jackpot tops $1 billion again
BBC News—England to ban single-use plastic plates and cutlery


1.10.23
CNN.com—Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months in jail, which he will serve at Riker's Island
ABCnews.com—UGA becomes the only team to repeat as national champions in the modern playoff era with a 65-7 walloping of TCU
NBC News—Ozone layer is slowly healing and could be fully restored by 2066
CBS News—Seattle school district sues social media companies for contributing to increase in mental health issues among students
USA Today—Illinois becomes ninth state to ban assault weapons
BBC News—UK considering creating a digital pound cryptocurrency


1.11.23
CNN.com—FAA systems failure causes thousands of flight cancelations and delays across the US
CBS News—Pentagon officially rescinds Covid vaccine mandate for troops
USA Today—Unused money from a 529 college savings plan can now be rolled into a Roth IRA
NBC News—New Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans state government agencies from using the term Latinx
BBC News—Promotional poster for Demi Lovato's new album banned in the UK for being offensive to Christians
ABCnews.com—Bankruptcy court gives permission to Miami-Dade County to remove the FTX name from teh stadium where the Miami Heat play


1.12.23
USA Today—Vaccination rates for polio and measles among kindergartners drop again
CBS News—Attorney General announces special counsel to oversee Biden documents probe
ABCnews.com—Extreme drought nearly eliminated in California after weeks of severe weather
CNN.com—Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley, dies at 54
NBC News—Defense Department release report on 350 of new UFO sightings, about half of which remain unexplained
BBC News—UK's Royal Mail hit by Russian ransomware attack


1.17.23
NBC News—GOP candidate who lost his election to the New Mexico statehouse by a significant margin is arrested for orchestrating drive-by shootings at the homes of four Democratic office holders
USA Today—Wyoming lawmakers want to ban the sale of electric vehicles in the state
CNN.com—World's oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118
ABCnews.com—Father arrested after his four year old son is seen playing with a loaded gun in apartment complex hallway
BBC News—Elon Musk sued by Tesla shareholders over a tweet claiming he had the financial backing to take the electric carmaker private
CBS News—General Motors introduces a hybrid Corvette named the E-Ray


1.18.23
NBC News—Potential HIV vaccine fails to prevent the disease in late-stage trials
CNN.com—Getty Images suing makers of AI art tool, accusing them of copyright infringement for training their AI on copyrighted images without permission
USA Today—Microsoft will lay off 10,000 workers
BBC News—Twitter bird statue sells for $100,000 at auction
ABCnews.com—Rapper Flo Rida awarded $86 million for breach of contract after energy drink company underpaid him for his brand marketing efforts
CBS News—New Zealand Prime Minister says she will resign by Feb 7


1.23.23
CBS News—Four Oath Keepers found guilty of sedetious conspiracy in Jan 6 case
CNN.com—11 people killed in mass shooting during Lunar New Year celebrations in California
ABCnews.com—Microsoft invests billions in OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT bot
NBC News—FDA proposes making Covid boosters an annual shot like the flu vaccines
BBC News—M&Ms replacing their cartoon spokescandies with comedian Maya Rudolph after backlash from the whiny little snowflakes at Fox News who thought the company's new female characters were too woke
USA Today—Amazon is discontinuing its Amazon Smile charitable donation program


1.24.23
BBC News—Small number of classified documents found in former VP Mike Pence's home, in a case that is similar to the Biden docs and not his former boss Trump's massive, intentional theft of highly sensitive material
ABCnews.com—DOJ files suit against Google for what it says is a monopoly in digital advertising
NBC News—Adult Swim/Cartoon Network cuts ties with Rick and Morty star and co-creator Justin Roiland after domestic abuse allegations
CNN.com—NASA planning to test nuclear-powered rocket engines by the end of the decade
USA Today—Walmart increases the minimum wage for its store workers to $14 per hour
CBS News—Kansas hunter killed after his dog steps on his rifle and shoots him in the back


1.25.23
CNN.com—Facebook announces that it will restore Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts
NBC News—Avatar sequel becomes James Cameron's third film to gross over $2 billion globally
CBS News—Amazon launches prescription drug service
CNN.com—NASA planning to test nuclear-powered rocket engines by the end of the decade
USA Today—Oreo launches new Oreo-Stuffed Oreo flavor
ABCnews.com—Actress Esme Blanco settles her sex abuse lawsuit with Marilyn Manson for undisclosed terms


1.26.23
CNN.com—Small asteroid discovered just days ago will pass within 2200 miles of Earth tonight
ABCnews.com—DOJ files suit against Google for what it says is a monopoly in digital advertising
ABCnews.com—New proposed federal standards for collecting race and ethnicity information would be first changes to the system since 1997
NBC News—Arizona GOP lawmakers vote to shield themselves from public records laws
USA Today—Study finds that UV lamps used at nail salons can permanently damage your DNA
CBS News—Buzzfeed to use AI to create content. Honestly, it couldn't be much worse than their current human "writers"


1.30.23
BBC News—Bombing at mosque in Pakistan kills at least 59 people
ABCnews.com—Federal appeals court rules that Johnson & Johnson cannot use bankruptcy as a way to evade lawsuits that allege its baby powder causes cancer
NBC News—Utah becomes first state to pass a ban on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors
CNN.com—NHL Hall of Famer Bobby Hull dies at 84
USA Today—Ford cuts price of Mustang EV to better compete with Tesla
CBS News—Food blogger who posted a video of herself preparing and eating great white shark meat is fined nearly $20,000


1.31.23
BBC News—Canada exploring the idea of decriminalizing hard drugs
ABCnews.com—Exxon posted record profits in 2022
CNN.com—Alec Baldwin formally charged in accidental fatal shooting on a movie set
NBC News—Hundreds of flights canceled due to massive ice storm in the south
CBS News—Trump sues Bob Woodward over the release of audio tapes of their joint interviews
USA Today—Girls basketball coach fired after pretending to be a 13 year old so she could play in an official game with her team

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