2.4.25
CNN.com—Due to the soaring price of eggs, Waffle House is placing a 50 cent surcharge on every single egg it sells
ABCnews.com—China imposes its own tariffs on the US after Trump's tariffs on that nation take effect
CBS News—New design for Maryland's Key Bridge unveiled 10 months after the original was destroyed when it was hit by a ship
BBC News—Former nanny files civil suit against author Neil Gaiman and his ex-wife, musician Amanda Palmer, accusing the writer of sexual assault
NBC News—GM cuts 50% of Cruise staff after ending its attempts to create a robotaxi service
USA Today—McDonald's Shamrock Shake will return on Feb 10 this year

2.5.25
CBS News—Trump's executive order attempting to eliminate the constitionally guaranteed birthright citizenship is blocked by a second federal judge
CNN.com—Australia bans China's free AI tool DeepSeek on government devices over security concerns
ABCnews.com—West Point disbands all student clubs related to race or gender as a result of Trump's anti-diversity initiatives
BBC News—Diddy's trial to begin in May 2025
NBC News—Fox News plans to launch streaming subscription service later this year
USA Today—Crayola is temporarily bringing back 8 retired crayon colors

2.6.25
CNN.com—Judge pauses Musk's and Trump's buyout offer to federal employees
ABCnews.com—Judge rules that Georgia railroad can buyout landowners against their wishes in order to build a new track
BBC News—Greek island of Santorini evacuated after being hit with a series of thousands of small earthquakes
NBC News—Chicago Bears owner Virginia McCaskey dies at 102
USA Today—Military helicopter in deadly DC collision had its safety system turned off
CBS News—Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, who embezzled millions of dollars from the baseball superstar, is sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison and must pay $18 million in restitution

2.11.25
CNN.com—Senate Dems say Trump's unconfirmed nominee to lead the FBI is already trying to purge agents from the bureau despite having no legal authority to do so at this time
CBS News—Judge orders restoration of health information on CDC, FDA, and HHS websites that were deleted after one of Trump's executive orders
ABCnews.com—DOJ drops bribery charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams
NBC News—Teen who called in hundreds of fake threats in an attempt to have people swatted is sentenced to four years in prison
USA Today—Republican Congerssman introduces bill to rename Greenland to Red, White, and Blueland. This is not a joke. This is how stupid this timeline has gotten.
BBC News—Trump's defense secretary orders Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, to be renamed Fort Bragg

2.12.25
CNN.com—Eight inspectors general fired by Trump sue to get their jobs back because the new administration did not follow legal protocols to remove them
ABCnews.com—Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says Trump's comments about wanting lower interest rates will have no effect on the Fed's decisions
CBS News—Texas county with low vaccination rates experiencing a measles outbreak that has hospitalized 9 people so far. All of the infected people were unvaccinated, so this was entirely preventable.
BBC News—Diddy sues NBC for $100 million over recent documentary that detailed incidents of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse alledgedly commited by the music mogul
NBC News—New Jersey man suing safari tour operator after his wife was killed by a rampaging hippo
USA Today—Joann craft stores closing 500 of its 850 locations all across the US

2.13.25
ABCnews.com—14 states sue President Elon's DOGE as an unconstitutional power grab
CBS News—Actress Issa Rae cancels sold out show at the Kennedy Center after Trump's weird takeover of the art center's board
CNN.com—Trump continues to promise more tariffs, even as his first ones are driving up the inflation that he promised to reduce when he was campaigning
USA Today—Father of three year old killed by family dog is charged with involunary manslaughter and reckless homicide. The article calls the dogs terriers, but we all know that 100% these dogs were pit bulls.
NBC News—Apple and Google restore TikTok to their app stores over uncertainty whether a law banning it will go into effect or be enforced
BBC News—Jeff Bezos' space exploration company, Blue Origin, to cut 10% of its workforce

2.19.25
CNN.com—Trump issues executive order that attempts to greatly expand the powers of the executive branch
BBC News—New royal pharoah tomb found in Egypt, the first such discovery in over a century
ABCnews.com—Tesla shares plunge as Musk focuses on politics, but what does he care? He's just going to loot it all back tenfold from the US government
USA Today—Wendy's expands use of AI to take drive-thru orders
NBC News—KFC is moving its headquarters from Kentucky to Texas. I guess that's fair—hot sauce maker Texas Pete is actually made in North Carolina.
CBS News—EV maker Nikola files for bankruptcy

2.20.25
USA Today—The IRS becomes the latest federal agency to experience mass firings under Trump, losing 6000 workers to layoffs today
CBS News—Study shows that Mackenzie Scott's $19 billion in condition-free giving has had a major impact already. If only all the other billionaires would act more like her and spend less time propping up fascism and oligarchy, they might actually deserve to be billionaires.
NBC News—Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time ever
CNN.com—Thieves who targeted the homes of professional athletes caught by authorities after taking a selfie during one of their burglaries
BBC News—Amazon now has 100% creative control of the James Bond franchise
ABCnews.com—Mitch McConnell says he will not seek reelection in 2026

2.25.25
CBS News—Trump tries to feed us a bunch of bullshit that claims that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE and has no authority over the agency. Not unrelated, but Musk will also attend the first official cabinet meeting even though he's not a member of the cabinet.
NBC News—21 DOGE staffers (who were longtime staff members of the agency that DOGE took over) resign in protest after being given unlawful orders to violated the privacy rights of Americans
BBC News—Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes loses appeal and will remain in prison
CNN.com—Southwest jet forced to abort landing in Chicago as unauthorized private plane crosses the runway
ABCnews.com—Measles outbreak in Texas county grows to 124 known infections, mostly among the unvaccinated
USA Today—Joann set to close all 800 of its locations after its assets were auctioned off over the weekend

2.26.25
ABCnews.com—Greenpeace being sued for $300 million by oil company for the activist group's protest against the building of a controversial pipeline
CNN.com—Elon Musk has seen his net worth drop by $52 billion this year, but he remains the world's richest person
CBS News—Trump plans to sell $5 million "gold card" to wealthy foreigners that would give them immediate green card status
BBC News—North Korea believed to be behind $1.5 billion Bitcoin heist
NBC News—Actress Michelle Tractenberg dies at 39
USA Today—Couple says they were forced to sit next to a dead body on a long haul Qatar Airways flight from Australia

2.27.25
NBC News—Federal judge says that the OPM has no authority to hire or fire workers who are employed by other federal agencies
CBS News—Hundreds of NOAA employees laid off
CNN.com—Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog found dead in their home in Santa Fe, NM
BBC News—Trump praises Zelensky after calling him a dictator last week, and also claims that he doesn't remember calling the Ukraine leader a dictator
ABCnews.com—Rapist Donald Trump pressures Romania to release rapist Andrew Tate from prison and allow him to come to the US while awaiting trial
USA Today—Archaeologists finds remains of man whose brain was turned into glass when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 CE