Hotness in the News by SociaLifeChicago is your daily intel for the morning’s hot news topics to get your day started and get you up to date on what’s going on in Chicago and the world. Make small talk, better.
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ― Norman Vincent Peale
CHICAGO NEWS
• Mark Kirk’s got a hot mic. Though he has since expressed regrets referring to Sen. Lindsey Graham as a “bro with no ho” he still said it during a Senate Appropriations Committee markup session on Thursday. [HUFFINGTON POST]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane, WA chapter leader of the NAACP(an African-American civil rights organization) has been misrepresenting herself as black and it all came into light after her complaints into racially charged threats against her. Dolezal’s parents, Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal claimed she is deceiving people and she indeed is Caucasian, who married and later divorced a black man. The twitter population known as “black twitter” was on fire last night at this news. [USA TODAY]
• Stanford University President John L. Hennessy, who joined in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering, will step down in 2016 after more than 15 years. [BLOOMBERG]
WORLD NEWS
• A Malaysian Airlines jet with 300 passengers onboard made an emergency landing in Melbourne on Friday afternoon after reports of an engine fire. the plane first dumped its fuel, then made an emergency landing at Melbourne Airport around 3:00pm. You will remember Malasian Airlines lost two aircraft five months apart back in 2014. [TIME]
• A year long investigation into the tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone by the U.S. has been dropped due to a lack of evidence that would stand up in court. The two countries have been at odds over the NSA spying habits since Snowden’s revelations last year showed the United States had listened in on many of its allies, including Merkel. Maybe that’s what they were discussing in this picture. Speaking of, citing no progress and that major differences remained in key issues, IMF has pulled out of bailout talks with Greece, sending Greeces’ shares to plummet. [TELEGRAPH]
SPORTS
• Golden State Warriors beat the Cavs 103-82 to tie up the series. Many allude the loss to the fact that Lebron James didn’t play the entire game due to a gash on his head, that required few stitches, when he collided with a camera. Andre Iguodala though, played like hot fire (word to Dylan) in that game. [ESPN]
BUSINESS
• Following news that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is set to step down July 1 and co-founder Jack Dorsey is stepping back in as CEO on an interim basis a la Steve Jobs, shares for the new media company rose up 3.6% to $37.17. The “company’s slow user growth and inability to attract advertisers at the same rate as its competitors” has been a struggle for twitter and its investors. It was also announced that it’s increasing the 140 character limit from its “Direct Messages” feature to 10,000 characters. Feel free to slide into those DMs with more than a pic. [REUTERS]
ENTERTAINMENT
• Netflix’s original series “Orange is The New Black” was supposed to drop June 12 but got an early release yesterday has many OITNBers began bingeing before the weekend. Do NOT click on this link if you don’t want to read some spoilers. [USA TODAY]
FASHION
• The London Collections Men kicks off today running for the next four days. Designer scheduled to show their menswear line included newcomers to th show Tommy Hilfiger and House of Holland alongside Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Belstaff, Jimmy Choo, Christopher Kane, Craig Green, JW Anderson, Maharishi and Tom Ford. Actor Idris Elba launched his first collection for Superdry. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Julianna Margulies in The Edit
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