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HEADLINER – Tuesday Feb 13
Trump Budget. President Trump’s $4.4 trillion budget was unveiled Monday and its generating concerns. According to reports, the president’s spending outline for the first time acknowledges that the Republican tax overhaul passed last year would add billions to the deficit and not “pay for itself” as Trump and his Republican allies asserted back then. President Trump noted, “In this budget we took care of the military like it’s never been taken care of before.” The White House used Monday’s event to promote its long-awaited plan to increase funding for infrastructure. The plan would put up $200 billion in federal money over the next 10 years in hopes of leveraging a total of $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending….Read more
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• Two Baltimore detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, were convicted of robbery, racketeering, and conspiracy on Monday evening, and they face up to 20 years on each count. The conviction comes months after members of an elite task force praised for taking guns off the streets, revealed the dirty deeds that were being done including robbing big time drug dealers. Most of the behavior charged in the case took place even as the department was already under federal investigation by the Justice Department for routinely violating residents’ constitutional rights, particularly in dealings with African Americans.
• In Chicago news: A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for Attila Gyulai, the former owner of Embeya who swindled his business partners and is now AWOL with his wife. He is alleged to have committed more than $300,000 in wire fraud and made other illegal financial transactions. Here is a copy of the complaint. Good bye John Hancock, hello new name. The iconic Chicago building which sits at 100 story, will undergo a name change to 875 N. Michigan Ave, temporarily until a new name is picked. The insurance company that built the tower, requested that its name and logos be taken down from inside the building “immediately.” Smashing Pumpkins will be announcing a long awaited reunion but not all the original band members will be back. D’arcy Wretzky is out because James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, and William Corgan haven’t played a show with him in 18 years. Have you seen the photo of former Chicago Cubs sensation Sammy Sosa going around?
• Oxfam, before this past week was most notable for its charitable endeavors and now a few staff members have too much of a jolly good time has cast some unwanted spotlight. The British charity’s country director for Haiti, Roland van Hauwermeiren is accused of using prostitutes at a villa rented for him by Oxfam in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. and the organication allegedly concealed the findings of an inquiry into the claims. Oxfam’s deputy chief executive, Penny Lawrence has resigned amidst continued investigations.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The girl that was thought to be missing who ended up actually filming The Bachelor Becca K has been sent home and she cried. Recap of the episode in Tuscany here.
• Omarosa is still in the Celebrity Big Brother house and this time she’s spilling the tea on Mike Pence. She says Pence is “scary” and should he become President, “we would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president.”
FASHION
• NYFW F/W ’18 highlights for Monday, shows included The Row presentation, Oscar De la Renta, Anna Sui, Carolina Herrera, Veronica Beard, Ralph Lauren RTW. Kering the parent brand of Gucci, YSL got a profit boost with Q4 revenue up 27.4%, better-than-expected sales growth. Balenciaga, another Kering owned brand, posted higher growth than Gucci in the second half of 2017.
“ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.”― Mark Twain
Jennifer Lawrence puts on a leggy display in thigh-split gown at Ellen DeGeneres’ 60th birthday bash
Facebook lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year. 2018 won’t be much better
Scandal-plagued Travis Kalanick, Uber founder, back to his partying ways
Worm in woman’s eye leads to unique discovery
Were clogged printers to blame for Chicago’s high crime rate in the early 1990s?
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2018 Cover Model Danielle Herrington
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