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I’ve done a pretty good job controlling my emotions,I try to hide them. I try to trick myself into not feeling those particular emotions. Today, I wasn’t able to do it.” -Derek Jeter
CHICAGO NEWS
• A fire at a radar facility in Aurora has grounded all flights in and out of O’Hare and Midway Airports this morning, reports Chicago Tribune breaking news. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE]
NATIONAL NEWS
• After 6 years of service to the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning. He made history as the nation’s first African American attorney general, fourth-longest-serving attorney general. He leaves a legacy of his pursuit of legal equality for gay men and lesbians and his focus on strengthening civil rights protections. [WASHINGTON POST]
• The militants in the beheading videos released by IS may have been identified according to American intelligence agencies. NY Times reports, the Islamic State militant who appeared on two videotapes in which American journalists were beheaded, has been identified but name is yet to be released. “Intelligence agencies have used voice-recognition technology, overhead imagery and records of Western fighters who are believed to have joined the group in the effort to identify the killer.” [NY TIMES]
WORLD NEWS
• Britain is mulling attack on the Islamic State(IS) but in Iraq not Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron presented on why it was right for the UK to get involved in the US-led attacks on IS positions in Iraq, with UK Parliament due to vote on it later today. “The government says it would not extend military action in Syria without a Commons vote unless there is an urgent humanitarian need to do so.” [BBC]
SPORTS
• Derek Jeter, in front of a sellout crowd of 48,613 that included past Yankees teammates and celeb friends, ended his last game as a Yankee on a high note. “The game plan was to remove Jeter from the game in the top of the ninth inning with the Yankees leading 5-2 but closer David Robertson coughed up three runs, the last on Steve Pearce’s home run, giving Jeter a chance to bat one final time, and provide a memory that will never be forgotten in this stadium.” [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• According to reports from Bloomberg, The Ray Rice video for the financial sector has arrived. “This American Life” will air a jaw-dropping story about Wall Street regulation, and the public will have no trouble at all understanding it. The 47½ hours of tape recordings, made secretly by a Federal Reserve employee, of conversations within the Fed, and between the Fed and Goldman Sachs was obtained by reporter Jake Bernstein. [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• Cleavaged couple. Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian West have been taking in Paris Fashion Week. Following a run in with celeb prankster Vitalii Sediuk, where Kim “almost” fell to the ground, they took in the Lanvin show rocking matching cleavages, planned or not, the answer we may never know. [TELEGRAPH UK]
FASHION
• There’s a big shakeup in the fashion world. Guillaume Henry, current creative director of Carven, is rumored to be headed to Nina Ricci as current Nina Ricci creative director Peter Copping is said to be headed to Oscar De La Renta, keeping up yet? “Ricci said to have met with several young talents – including, reportedly, with rising Brit star Simone Rocha – but Henry’s pedigree of transforming a sleeping French giant may prove too alluring.” [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Rosie Huntington Whiteley
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