8.1.24
BBC News—Human trafficking sting at San Diego Comic-Con results in the arrests of 14 people and the freeing of 10 of their victims
ABCnews.com—Katie Ledecky wins her record 13th Olympic medal
NBC News—Federal judge overturns NFL Sunday Ticket jury verdict that would have cost the NFL $4.7 billion
CNN.com—Trump's net worth has plummeted by $900 million since Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee
CBS News—Don Lemon sues Elon Musk and Twitter for $35 millin for fraud after they canceled his show on the social media platform
USA Today—CrowdStrike shareholders sue the company in the wake of a global tech outage caused by a faulty patch to their software

8.6.24
CNN.com—Harris chooses Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate
ABCnews.com—Elon Musk sues former Twitter advertisers, saying their boycott of the site after he allowed it to become a cesspool of misinformation and objectionable content cost the company billions of dollars in revenue
CBS News—Democratic senator reveals more undisclosed perks received by Clarence Thomas from his billionaire friends
BBC News—Federal judge rules that Google has an illegal monopoly over online search
NBC News—Disney is increasing prices again for its Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+ streaming services
USA Today—Recreational cannabis is now legal in Ohio

8.7.24
BBC News—New gene editing therapy could cure blood disorder
NBC News—NCAA sanctions coach of national champion Michigan football team for recruiting violations, but it's largely meaningless because he's now a head coach in the NFL
CNN.com—Taylor Swift cancels three concerts in Vienna after authorities uncover terrorist plot
CBS News—NASA preparing rescue plan in case astronauts stranded on the ISS cannot be safely brought home using the Starliner capsule they arrived in
ABCnews.com—Nissan developing new paint that will keep car passengers cooler
USA Today—Star Wars star Daisy Ridley diagnosed with Graves' disease

8.8.24
CNN.com—Trump changes his mind and says he will attend the Sep 10 debate hosted by ABC that he and his team agreed to months ago after first trying to back out once Harris became the presumptive nominee
BBC News—Texas school wants to ban all-black outfits
NBC News—Three Disney films could each top $1 billion in global box office this year
ABCnews.com—As Covid moves to endemic status, it fell to the tenth leading cause of death in the US, compared to fourth and third in the two years prior
CBS News—Noah Lyles wins bronze in the 200 meter race after testing positive for Covid
USA Today—McDonald's releasing collectible cups in a callback to earlier eras

8.13.24
CBS News—Biden announces $150 million in funding for cancer research
CNN.com—UAW files federal labor charges against Elon Musk and Donald Trump for their union-busting comments
USA Today—US approves deal to sell dozens of fighter jets and other military equipment to Israel for $20 billion
NBC News—Starbucks CEO out after less than a year on the job and will be replaced by the current Chipotle CEO
ABCnews.com—Convicted murderer escapes from police in North Carolina while being transported to a medical appointment
BBC News—Early issues of banknotes with King Charles' face on them sell for many times their face value at charity auction

8.14.24
BBC News—Arizona and Missouri will vote on whether to add abortion rights amendments to their state constitutions
CNN.com—Hurricane Ernesto knocks out power to half of Puerto Rico
ABCnews.com—Candy giant Mars merging with snack and cereal maker Kellog in $36 billion deal
CBS News—Texas AG is suing GM for allegedly selling driver data to insurance companies without the drivers' knowledge or permission
NBC News—Disney argues that man can't sue over wrongful death of his wife that occured at a Disney park because he had a one-month trial subscription to Disney+
USA Today—First round rookie QB for Minnesota Vikings out for the season after knee injury

8.15.24
CBS News—Trump seeks to delay his sentencing for his 34 felony convictions until after the election
CNN.com—President of Columbia University resigns in the wake of her aggressive handling of the Gaza protests earlier this year
ABCnews.com—New York Mayor Eric Adams subpoenaed in federal corruption probe
USA Today—WHO issues warning about new strain of mpox
NBC News—Several people arrested in conjunction with the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry
BBC News—Internet scumbag Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US to face charges of money laundering and racketeering

8.20.24
BBC News—Kamala Harris officially accepts Democratic nomination for president while at a rally in Wisconsin
USA Today—OpenAI bans several Iranian accounts that the company said used its LLM to fuel a social media disinformation campaign
NBC News—SEC charges legendary billionaire investor Carl Icahn with hiding billions of dollars worth of stock pledges
CBS News—Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck
CNN.com—New study finds that humans age dramatically at ages 44 and 60
ABCnews.com—Oklahoma State football team wearing QR codes on their helmets to boost NIL fundraising

8.21.24
CBS News—Hundreds of proposals in the 2025 documents match Trump's own stated goals, although he continues to deny that they are related
ABCnews.com—Ukraine sends fleet of attack drones to Moscow
NBC News—MIT's enrollment of Black students drops significantly in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that banned the use of race in admission decisions
CNN.com—RFK Jr. expected to end his presidential campaign this week and will likely endorse Trump, especially if he is promised a position on Trump's potential second administration
BBC News—Senator Bob Menendez resigns after being convicted on multiple counts of bribery
USA Today—Chick-fil-A to open first elevated drive-thru concept restaurant in Georgia

8.22.24
USA Today—Data brokerage firm that is used for background checks reveals breach that exposed the personal data, including SSNs, of 2.9 billion people
ABCnews.com—Two freight rail companies in Canada lock out their workers to force negotiations in advance of a possible worker strike during the busiest part of the year
NBC News—Some types of HPV may impact men's fertility
BBC News—Kentucky man hacks into state database to change his status to Deceased in order to avoid child support payments
CNN.com—With gold prices surging, a standard 400 ounce gold bar is now worth $1 million
CBS News—FDA approves new Covid shots for fall 2024 that will target the variants behind the latest surge

8.27.24
CNN.com—Special counsel Jack Smith refiles classified documents case against Trump after a VERY Trump-friendly judge dismissed the original indictment
BBC News—First Jan 6 insurrectionist to breach the inside of the Capitol sentenced to four years in prison
NBC News—New Hampshire resident dies from rare mosquito-borne virus
ABCnews.com—Two Delta workers killed and another injured at a repair facility in Atlanta
USA Today—Bud Light introduces college football cans for a limited time
CBS News—Oasis announce reunion tour of the UK for 2025 after a 15 year hiatus

8.28.24
BBC News—Travis and Jason Kelce sign $100 million podcast deal with Amazon
NBC News—Listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head deli meat has sickened dozens and killed nine so far
ABCnews.com—Brazil's Supreme Court threatens to shut down Twitter in the country
CNN.com—Yelp sues Google, claiming that the search engine giant prioritizes its own Yelp-like business reviews in its results
USA Today—Trump's Truth Social stock hits new low
CBS News—Man participating in office team building mountain climbing exercised has to be rescued after being left behind by his coworkers

8.29.24
CNN.com—US Army rebukes Trump for an incident at Arlington National Cemetery where a Trump campaign staffer pushed past a cemetery worker to stage a photo op in a restricted area
CBS News—Supreme Court effectively blocks Biden's latest student loan forgiveness program
NBC News—Harris wants to tax unrealized stock gains, but only for people worth more than $100 million
BBC News—Millions told to evactuate as typhoon hits Japan
USA Today—Nvidia's stock drops despite record quarterly earnings
ABCnews.com—Canada imposes a 100% tarriff on Chinese-made electric vehicles