daily links: january 2024

1.2.24
USA Today—Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns after criticism that the didn't do enough to condemn antisemitism on campus
NBC News—Earliest version of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain
BBC News—Trump challenging his removal from the Maine primary ballot
CNN.com—Woman sues Hershey's for false advertising because the candies she bought did not have smiley faces like the ones on the packaging
CBS News—Man dies after crawling into jet engine at Salt Lake City Airport
ABCnews.com—NFL fines Panthers owner David Tepper $300,000 for throwing his drink at fans of opposing team


1.3.24
CNN.com—Multiple states evacuate their state capitol buildings after mass emailed bomb threats
CBS News—DOJ sues Texas over that state's new border security law
NBC News—Danish shipping giant Maersk pauses transits in the Red Sea after one of its ships is attacked by Houthi militants
BBC News—13 year old from Oklahoma becomes the first to defeat the original version of Tetris more than 30 years after the game was originally released
ABCnews.com—Minnesota unveils its new state flag
USA Today—Mansion of Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill catches fire


1.4.24
BBC News—Suicide prevention netting installed on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge after decades of calls for the safety measure
CBS News—Foreign governments funneled millions of dollars to Trump businesses while he was president
ABCnews.com—SpaceX accused of illegally firing employees who criticized Elon Musk, the company's CEO
USA Today—Memphis toddler killed on New Year's Eve by celebratory gunfire
CNN.com—France's biggest supermarket chain pulling Pepsi and Lay's products off shelves over price increases
NBC News—Microsoft adding new key to Windows keyboards that will summon a voice-based AI assistant


1.9.24
NBC News—Pentagon under scrutiny after decision to wait three days to tell the White House about Secretary of Defense's hospitalization due to complications from prostate cancer
USA Today—Man apprehended by Secret Service after crashing his car into a White House gate
BBC News—Tiger Woods and Nike end their 27 year partnership
CBS News—NASA delays Artemis moon missions
CNN.com—Gabriel Attal becomes France's youngest and first openly gay prime minister
ABCnews.com—Coroner announces that Sinead O'Connor died of natural causes


1.10.24
CBS News—A record 20 million Americans have signed up for health care coverage under the ACA for 2024
CNN.com—Legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban announces his retirement
USA Today—Alabama set to become the first state to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen
ABCnews.com—SEC approves cryptocurrency investment funds
BBC News—Aaron Rodgers will no longer appear on the Pat McAffee show after the quarterback made a series of defamatory statements
NBC News—Nintendo expected to launch Switch 2 console later this year


1.11.24
BBC News—eBay to pay $3 million fine after employees harassed couple who wrote negative articles about the company
NBC News—Fruit Stripe gum being discontinued after 54 years
USA Today—Elderly couple in South Carolina found dead after heater malfunctions and raises the temperature in the house to over 120 degrees
CBS News—Microsoft briefly tops Apple as world's most valuable company
CNN.com—YouTube will promote first aid videos when people search for heart attacks or seizures
ABCnews.com—Audible is laying off 5% of its workforce


1.16.24
USA Today—Judge blocks JetBlue's acquisition of Spirit Airlines
BBC News—E. Jean Carroll's second defamation suit against Trump begins
ABCnews.com—Elon Musk wants Tesla's board to double his current stake in the company
CBS News—Woman dies after falling 100 feet in a cave in Virginia
CNN.com—Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquiring it for $1 billion
NBC News—Steelers coach Mike Tomlin storms out of press conference after a reporter asks a question about his contract status


1.17.24
BBC News—Apple overtakes Samsung for global smartphone shipments, claiming the top spot for the first time in 12 years
NBC News—Princess Kate hospitalized after abdominal surgery
ABCnews.com—Judge threatens to have Trump thrown out of the courtroom after the former president repeatedly disrupted the testimony of a witness by talking loudly to his lawyer
CNN.com—Biden administration proposes rule that would limit bank overdraft fees to no more than $3
USA Today—Hidden Valley partnering with Burt's Bees to launch ranch-flavored lip balm
CBS News—Costco testing new scanners to crack down on membership sharing


1.18.24
BBC News—Netanyahu opposes the creation of an independent Palestenian state as part of the solution to the current conflict in Gaza
ABCnews.com—House and Senate pass funding bill that will keep the government functioning until March
USA Today—Spelman College, the country's oldest HBCU for women, receives $100 million donation from an alum
NBC News—Midwife fined $300,000 for falsifying over 10,000 vaccination records
CBS News—Arnold Schwarzenegger detained by customs for not declaring a luxury watch he was wearing
CNN.com—Concergoers sue Madonna for starting her shows more than two hours after the stated start time


1.23.24
USA Today—Fake robocall used AI to mimic Biden's voice in message that told Democratic voters not to vote in New Hampshire's primary
CBS News—Colorado pastor accused of selling millions in worthless crypto to his followers
ABCnews.com—Dow closes above 38,000 for the first time
NBC News—Waymo planning to expand autonomous taxi service to LA
CNN.com—eBay laying off 1000 full-time employees, just under 10% of its workforce
BBC News—France fines Amazon $35 million for excessive surveillance of warehouse workers


1.24.24
USA Today—Fake robocall used AI to mimic Biden's voice in message that told Democratic voters not to vote in New Hampshire's primary
ABCnews.com—Gene therapy restores the hearing of deaf children in small clinical trial
NBC News—Survey finds that nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+
CNN.com—Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, who just won a college football national championship, is returning to the NFL to coach the LA Chargers
CBS News—Man sues after being arrested when he was mistakenly identified as a criminal by facial recognition software
USA Today—Apple's Macintosh turns 40


1.25.24
NBC News—Amazon will no longer allow police to directly contact Ring users via its neighborhood watch app
CBS News—Biden announces $5 billion in new infrastructure projects
BBC News—Hermit crabs increasingly using human trash for their shells
USA Today—Country stars Morgan Wallen and Eric Church buy out the Field & Stream brand and plan to restart the print magazine
CNN.com—Apple will allow third-party app stores on the iPhone in the EU in response to new regulations that go into effect in March
ABCnews.com—Microsoft lays off 1900 workers in its gaming division after its acquisition of Activision Blizzard is completed


1.30.24
BBC News—Biden announces that he has decided on a response to the drone attack in Jordan that killed three US soldiers
CNN.com—Judge rules that Elon Musk's pay package worth tens of billions of dollars was excessive and voids it for being unfair to shareholders
CBS News—UPS to cut 12,000 jobs only five months after agreeing to a new labor deal
NBC News—CDC says that syphilis rates in the US haven't been this high since 1950
USA Today—Amazon terminates acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot
ABCnews.com—Las Vegas landmark Tropicana to be demolished


1.31.24
NBC News—Judge dismisses Disney's federal lawsuit against Florida governor Ron DeSantis
CNN.com—The Angelos family will sell the Baltimore Orioles for $1.7 billion, 10 times what Peter Angelos paid for the team 30 years ago
ABCnews.com—Fed leaves interest rates unchanged despite positive economic indicators that had some hoping for rate cuts
CBS News—Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of POWs
USA Today—Ravens defensive coordinator Mike McDonald to be hired as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and will be the NFL's youngest head coach
BBC News—eBay to pay $59 million fine for allowing equipment to be sold on the site that was used to manufacture illegal drugs

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