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HEADLINER – Monday Feb 26
DACA STAYS, FOR NOW. President Trump’s administrations bid to speed up ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on March 5 has hit a snag as the Supreme Court said on Monday that it will stay out of the dispute. Originally, the Trump administration had terminated DACA but allowed a six-month grace period for anyone with status expiring in that window to renew. Speaking of the president, Ivanka Trump speaking with NBC said having a teacher who is armed in he classroom is not a bad idea plus pics from Governor’s ball….Read more
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• Florida Sheriff Scott Isreal of Broward county is under pressure to resign after revelations that not one but at least three more armed Broward County sheriff’s deputies were present on the scene of the mass high school shooting, but they took cover behind their vehicles instead of immediately going into the school.
• In Chicago news: Former Chicago Public Schools CEO, rumored to be challenging Mayor Emanuel, Paul Vallas, has lost one of his sons. Mark Vallas, 24 died in California Saturday evening though no cause of death has been revealed at this time. William Blair, a global investment banking & wealth management firm, is suing one of its former top financial advisers Jim Mabie and a team of other employees who quit with him this month to form a new firm, Crains reports. An $8.5B deal to expand O’Hare airport is in the final stages of negotiations according to reports.
• Over The Weekend: 100 Nigerian girls are have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the country’s northeastern region following a recent Boko Haram attack. Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffet’s annual report to shareholders on Saturday revealed the company’s net worth increased to $65.3 billion for the 2017 tax year, including $29 billion because of tax reform. Ex Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin who made headlines a few years back for being bullied in the NFL, was detained by police on Friday after he posted a photo on IG showing a shotgun and ammo along with a threatening message and the names of former teammates and high school acquaintances. Actress and model Emily Ratajkowski took a break from filling our feed with nude shots to share that she got married to Sebastian Bear-McClard in a courthouse ceremony. She broke up with long time BF Jeff Magid a few months ago.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The 2018 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors took place Sunday in Los Angeles. Black-ish and Insecure tied for ‘Comedy of the Year.’ Ava DuVernay was presented the ‘Industry Visionary’ Award also acceptin on behalf of the OWN network show Queen Sugar which won for Drama of the Year. Tiffany Haddish was the Rising Star award recipient. Billy Dee Williams received the ‘Hollywood Legacy Award’.
• Black Panther continues to set records in theaters. The Marvel/Disney film grossed an estimated $108 million from 4,040 theaters in its second week out, to score the top second weekend of all time behind Star Wars: Force Awakens. Its also crossed the $700M mark globally on track to possibly make $1B after it opens in Russia on Monday, followed by Japan next weekend and China on March 9. Check out this episode of Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Lie Witness News’ where a Kimmel correspondent talked to passerbys about the crisis in Wakanda.
FASHION
• The nine designers who will be showing at the Americans in Paris event to be held from March 3-5 presented by CFDA and Vogue are: Ahlem Manai-Platt of Ahlem, Becca McCharen-Tran of Chromat, Victor Glemaud of Victor Glemaud, Jordan Askill of Jordan Askill, Matthew Harris of Mateo New York, Eli Azran of RtA, Sandy Liang of Sandy Liang, Telfar Clemens of Telfar, and Patric DiCaprio, Bryn Taubensee, David Moses and Claire Sully of Vaquera. Sapinda Holdings, co-founded by German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst, has taken control of La Perla after talks with Chinese conglomerate Fosun broke down over moving production of La Perla’s lacy underwear to China. Financial details of the acquisition was not revealed. MFW highlights from the weekend: Dolce and Gabbana presenting their purses with drones overhead, Tommy Hilfiger showcased a race car themed fashion show taking a final bow with Gigi Hadid.
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. ”― Benjamin Franklin
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