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The way to make a difference is through action…Just do it, take a risk and go forward. And whoever’s trying to pull you down, f–k ’em.” -Taylor Kitsch
CHICAGO NEWS
• A child, who flew from Liberia to O’Hare, and quarantined at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital has been cleared of a possible ebola infection.[DNA INFO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• New York is the hotbed of national news today.
First, Dr. Craig Spencer a doctor who returned from Guinea 10 days ago, has tested positive for the Ebola virus. He is being treated at Bellevue Hospital. NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio & NY Governor Andrew Cuomo held a news conference to assure the public they did not believe Dr. Spencer was symptomatic while he traveled around the city on Wednesday and therefore had not posed a risk to the public.
Second, a man (Zale Thompson) wielding an ax attacked four police officers in Jamaica, Queens wounding two. [NY TIMES] [DNA INFO]
WORLD NEWS
• Kevin and Julia Dawn Garratt are the Canadian couple accused of spying near China. They have been in isolation for 80 days and are being held without charge at a remote facility in the border city of Dandong. [REUTERS]
SPORTS
• Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week’s the Paris Masters citing personal reasons. [BBC]
BUSINESS
• Amazon posted its biggest quarterly net since at least 2003; hat puts Amazon on track to lose an estimated $40.5 million for the year, which would be the company’s largest annual loss in 12 years. If it continues, the company is set for its worst annual stock decline since 2008, during the depths of the financial crisis. [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• The charitable work of Andrew Garfield, Taylor Kitsch, Joshua Jackson, and Zachary Quinto was celebrated Wednesday at GQ Magazine’s Annual Gentlemen’s Ball. Kitsch for his work with the African Children’s Choir; Jackson honored for his work with Oceana; Garfield for his work with Worldwide Orphans and the Youth Mentoring Connection. [WWD]
FASHION
• Legendary designer Oscar De La Renta who passed away earlier this week, will be buried in a private mass at Church of St Ignatius Loyola in NYC on November 3. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• MARGOT ROBBIE
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