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HEADLINER – Friday March 2
Tarrifs-Trade Wars. President Trump’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. plans to impose 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% on aluminum has sent shockwaves through the markets with the DOW down 400 points Thursday. The European Union — the world’s largest trade bloc — signaled its response to Trump will involve a combination of tit-for-tat retaliation, “safeguard” measures to prevent a flooding of the EU market with steel diverted from the U.S. and a complaint to the World Trade Organization. Trump tweeted that trade wars are good and easy to win when a country is getting cute….Read more
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• They say National Security Adviser H.R McMaster’s days in the White House are numbered but are Jared and Ivanka Trump also looking at the exit? Ivanka Trump’s involvement with Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver is being scrutinize by FBI counterintelligence officers due to the fact that Ivanka had an important role in securing funding for the project that opened early 2017. Her husband Jared Kushner is not faring better with reports noting the millions his family business has received in loans and potential conflict of interest flags are raised after finding that SEC dropped an inquiry into a financial company that gave the Kushner Cos. a $180 million loan.
• In Chicago news: The body of 28-year-old missing Chicago area nurse Kelly Mrowinski was found in the Wailuku River in Hawaii on Feb. 25, it was recently confirmed. Mrowinski was hiking with a friend near Hilo on Hawaii’s big island on Jan. 26 when she and her friend were swept into the Wailuku River by an apparent flash flood. Another Chicago restaurant closing- It opened as C Chicago back in 2015 but renamed to Ocean Cut and its now closed, what will happen to those weekly Louboutin giveaways?!.
• Republican lawmakers in Georgia voted 135-24 on Thursday for a new version of a bill that stripped of the provision giving Delta and other airlines an estimated $38 million jet fuel tax exemption. Delta is the largest private employer in the state of Georgia with its hub in Atlanta and since the controversy over them rescinding discounts for NRA members, other state officials have been trying to court them. REI has now joined with the likes of Dicks sporting groups and they announced they will stop selling products from Vista Outdoors, a company that produces firearms among many of its portfolio of products and a company that did not release a statement following the Parkland, FL mass shooting.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Former Arkansas Governor and one time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has resigned just as quickly as he was announced as a new board member for the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation board of directors. Citing that he did not want to be a distraction, due to the severity of backlash received. According to Billboard, Huckabee’s appointment sent instant shockwaves throughout Nashville, one of the few left-leaning cities in a deeply red state, that some in Music City felt showed the country music industry’s reticence to embrace the social movements gaining steam in other parts of the country.
• Essence Magazine’s annual ‘Women in Hollywood’ Awards luncheon took place in Los Angeles Thursday the height of hippy Hollywood. Tiffany Haddish, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Gabourey Sidibe, Ms. Tina Lawson, Mike Colter(Luke Cage) were in attendance. Vanity Fair, Belvedere Vodka and Lancome also hosted an event celebrating ‘Women in Hollywood’ at the Soho House WeHo. Janelle Monae, Zendaya, Alia Shawkat, Aubrey Plaza, Rita Wilson, Zoe Kravitz, Heather Graham, Tracee Ellis Ross, Broderick Hunter were all in attendance.
FASHION
• FashionNova became one of the most googled fashion brands and the reluctant CEO sat down for an interview with WWD, read it here. Virgil Abloh’s OFF WHITE, Balmain, Isabel Marant presented their PFW collections. Instagram model Shudu Gram is not a real model but a CGI generated beauty, a creation of British photographer Cameron-James Wilson, 28.
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ”― Oprah Winfrey
College dropout refuses to leave her dorm room
Joshua Tree couple arrested after their 3 children found living in a wooden box
Instagram star Girl With No Job loses Oath gig following Daily Beast Story
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas caught canoodling off-stage
FOX is belatedly airing an O.J. Simpson interview “If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer.”
LOOK OF THE DAY
Zendaya in Marc Jacobs (its a lewk)
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