daily links: may 2022

5.4.22
CBS News—Unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggests the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade
CNN.com—Fed issues biggest rate hike in 22 years in response to rising inflation
BBC News—Popular gaming site Roblox hit with lengthy outage
NBC News—Thousand year old paintings discovered in Alabama cave
USA Today—Elon Musk suggests that commercial and government users may need to pay a fee to use Twitter
ABCnews.com—Comedian Dave Chappell attacked on stage during a performance


5.5.22
BBC News—Huge volume of liquid water detected underneath Antarctic ice
USA Today—New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will be the first Black woman AND the first openly LGBTQ community member to hold the position
NBC News—Man arrested after opening emergency exit door of moving plane and climbing out onto the wing
CNN.com—Biden administration launches plan to refill the strategic oil reserve
ABCnews.com—California starts to explore how cryptocurrency could be regulated and integrated into its economy
CBS News—Man who spent 24 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder will receive $10.5 million settlement from NYC


5.9.22
BBC News—WHO estimates that excess deaths caused directly and indirectly by Covid top 15 million globally
USA Today—University of Texas researchers use machine learning to create new enzyme that can break down some types of plastics
NBC News—150 year old predominantly black college in Illinois forced to close its doors, due in part to a ransomware attack
CNN.com—Alabama prison escapee and corrections officer who helped him escape apprehended in Indiana
ABCnews.com—Meta opens its first physical store
CBS News—U2's Bono and Edge play concert in Ukraine subway station


5.10.22
BBC News—Amazon is taking legal action against firms it says are flooding its site with false product reviews
USA Today—Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe sells for $195 million at auction
CNN.com—Apple is discontinuing the iPod
CBS News—Celebrity chef Mario Batali acquitted of sexual misconduct charges at trial
ABCnews.com—Grammy-winning Atlanta rapper Young Thug caught up in gang indictment that included 27 other people
NBC News—22 year old Kentucky man shoots his mom on Mother's Day after a dispute over an Xbox controller


5.11.22
BBC News—Federal appeals court strikes down California's law banning people under 21 from buying semiautomatic guns
ABCnews.com—Senate Republicans block bill that would codify a women's right to an abortion
USA Today—Texas law would allow people to sue social media companies if they are banned from their platforms
CNN.com—Passenger with no flight experience lands plane after pilot becomes incapacitated
NBC News—Actor James Cromwell superglues his hand to a Starbucks counter to protest higher prices for plant-based milk substitutes
CBS News—66 year old man dies of a heart attack while digging a grave to conceal the body of his girlfriend after he strangled her to death


5.17.22
CNN.com—White teen travels 200 miles to commit mass murder at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood and livestreams the massacre on Twitch
ABCnews.com—Finland and Sweden start formal process to join NATO after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
CBS News—Wisconsin GOP sued for submitting false electors in the 2020 presidential election
BBC News—Scientists produce first image of the massive black hole at the center of our galaxy
NBC News—600 yard long tunnel that included rail and ventilation systems found running under the border between Tijuana and San Diego
USA Today—McDonald's to cease all operations in Russia


5.18.22
NBC News—After an up and down week, the Dow drops 1100 points for its biggest single day loss since 2020
CBS News—First Russian solider to be tried for war crimes in the Ukraine invasion pleads guilty
CNN.com—Biden invokes the Defense Production Act to address the infant formula shortage
USA Today—Russian gymnist banned from competition for one year after wearing a pro-war Z symbol at a March meet
ABCnews.com—JetBlue's merger bid for Spirit Airlines has turned into a hostile takeover
BBC News—McDonald's sued for ads that falsely portray the size of their burgers


5.24.22
USA Today—18 year old gunman kills at least 19 children and 2 adults at elementary school in Texas
BBC News—Colin Cantwell, the artist who designed many of the iconic spacecraft in Star Wars, dies at 90
CNN.com—Congressional naming commission releases list of military bases named after Confederate leaders along with their proposed new names
ABCnews.com—Ohio man charged with plotting to kill former president George W. Bush
NBC News—Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki to join MSNBC
CBS News—Aerosmith cancel Las Vegas residency after frontman Steven Tyler enters rehab


5.25.22
CNN.com—Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas governor's news conference on the elementary school shooting to demand action on gun control
CBS News—Biden signs executive order on police reform on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death
BBC News—Pfizer says it will sell its patented drugs at cost in 45 low income countries
ABCnews.com—Arizona police find 500,000 fentanyl pills in SUV during traffic stop
NBC News—Twitter fined $150 million by FTC for deceptive practices related to illegally sharing user data with advertisers
USA Today—Former reality tv star Josh Duggar sentenced to 12 years in prison in child pornography case


5.31.22
CNN.com—Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas' completely unconstitutional social media moderation law
ABCnews.com—EU bans most Russian oil imports
BBC News—Man disguised as old woman in a wheelchair throws a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa
NBC News—Nancy Pelosi's husband arrested for DUI
CBS News—Teachers put on leave after racist and demeaning texts about their students come to light
USA Today—$2 million gold relic stolen from Catholic church in NYC that was closed for construction

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