daily links: september 2024

9.10.24
BBC News—EU's top court orders Apple to pay $14 billion in back taxes after years-long lawsuit over tax advantages granted to the tech company by Ireland
CBS News—Francine strengthens into a hurricane ahead of its probably landfall in Louisiana
CNN.com—James Earl Jones dies at 93
ABCnews.com—Two Delta jets collide on the tarmac in Atlanta
USA Today—Australian man forced to pay thousands in fuel costs and fines after his unruly behavior forced a plane to return to the airport
NBC News—US Men's Soccer Team names new head coach


9.11.24
BBC News—US inflation falls to lowest rate in over three years
NBC News—Americans lost $5.6 billion to crypto scams last year
ABCnews.com—Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president after Harris' command performance in the debate against Trump
CNN.com—Jon Bon Jovi helps save a suicidal bridge jumper in Nashville
CBS News—Trump Media stock slides to a new low after his disastrous debate performance
USA Today—Apple reveals new iPhones and AirPods


9.12.24
ABCnews.com—Trump says he won't participate in any more debates. Gee, I wonder why, after getting trounced by Harris on Tuesday night.
BBC News—Billionaire becomes the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk
CNN.com—Federal regulators ban Navient from servicing federal student loans and fines the company $120 million
NBC News—Amazon raises wages for delivery drivers in an effort to prevent them from unionizing
USA Today—Browns QB and all-pro scumbag Deshaun Watson accused of yet another sexual assault
CBS News—Dave Grohl reveals that he has a new baby that was conceived outside of his marriage


9.17.24
CNN.com—Israel says it is behind the attack on Hezbollah that simultaneously detonated thousands of sabotaged pagers in Lebanon, killing 9 so far and injuring thousands more
ABCnews.com—Sean Diddy Combs arrested and charged with racketeering and sex trafficking
CBS News—Senate Republicans block bill that would guarantee access to IVF nationwide
USA Today—23andMe agrees to $30 million settlement with users after data breach
NBC News—A Trump voter attempts to assassinate the former president while he was playing golf
BBC News—Amazon ends all remote work and tells employees to plan to be back in the office five days a week


9.18.24
CNN.com—The Fed cuts interest rates by 0.5%, the first rate cut since March 2020
CBS News—House GOP rejects spending bill proposed by their own Speaker as government shutdown looms
BBC News—Boeing furloughs thousands of workers as machinists go on strike
ABCnews.com—Former contestants sue Mr. Beast and Amazon over conditions on the Beast Games reality show
NBC News—Microsoft partners with BlackRock to raise $100 million to build AI data centers
USA Today—Tupperware files for bankruptcy


9.19.24
BBC News—Lionsgate announces that it has licensed its extensive television and film library for AI training
ABCnews.com—Dow closes at its highest level ever after yesterday's rate cut
CNN.com—Alaska man accused of making violent threats against members of the Supreme Court
CBS News—The GOP gubernatorial candidate for NC made racist and sexually graphic comments on a porn website
USA Today—Airline bans walkie-talkies and pagers in the wake of the exploding devices attack on Hezbollah
NBC News—Cat lost in Yellowstone travels 900 miles over two months to be reunited with his owners


9.24.24
ABCnews.com—Judge approves sell-off of Alex Jones' Infowars assets to help pay his judgment for the families of Sandy Hook victims
CNN.com—DOJ accuses Visa of illegal monopoly in the debit card market that increases prices on almost everything
CBS News—Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for fraud and is also ordered to forfeit $11 billion in illegally-gotten gains
BBC News—Missouri executes man who spent two decades on death row despite serious doubts about his guilt
NBC News—Brett Favre reveals that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's during Congressional testimony
USA Today—Petco to stop selling rabbits after promising to do so previously in 1994 and 2008


9.25.24
CNN.com—Hurricane Helene forecast to be a Category 4 storm when it makes landfall in Florida
ABCnews.com—Harris' Arizona office damaged by gunfire for the second time in the last week
CBS News—House approves 3 month funding bill to avoid a government shutdown
NBC News—The A's to play their final game in Oakland this week
BBC News—Ohtani's historic 50th home run ball (which made him the first player ever to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single regular season) expected to sell for millions at auction
USA Today—Southwest cutting flights in and out of Atlanta

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