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ELECTION RESULTS
Oh what a night! The results are in and depending on where you stand it was either a good one or pretty bad. Marco Rubio, failing to win his homestate of Florida suspended his campaign (why do they say suspend when essentially its deaded?); Kasich won his homestate Ohio and came third in few others so his is still breathing. On the Democratic side Hillary won all 5 states which is huge for her campaign momentum but Sanders is not really #FeelingTheBern though he was close in OH. Closer to home, in Chicago Kim Foxx clobbered Anita Alvarez and will be the new Cook County State’s Atty. Andrea Zopp, former CEO of the Chicago Urban League didn’t have a chance against Duckworth who won by 64%. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, whose office is facing a federal probe, won the Democratic nomination.
SNIPPETS
• President Obama is set to announce his supreme court nominee today at 11am EST. Word on the street is it might be between three federal appeals judges: Sri Srinivasan, Merrick Garland and Paul Watford. Senate Republicans have said they have no intention of holding a hearing and a vote on the president’s pick.
•Federal Reserve policymakers are set to meet today and Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen will hold a news conference, an interest rate hike may be announced. At the time of the December 2015 .25% interest hike, the 17 policymakers projected there would be four more 0.25% point hikes in 2016. We are reaching end of Q1 so it’s a possibility.
• The Instagram shuffle, the Facebook owned photosharing app announced they are reshuffling their photo feeds to display curated content that users would ‘care’ about first, based on the likelihood of interest in the content. Um why tho?! Seems the only real-time social content channel is twitter and snapchat, follow us @socialifechi
•In Peshawar, Pakistan, a bus carrying Pakistani government employees was ripped by a bomb killing 15 people, and injuring at least 54 according to reports. Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is still reeling from a December 2014 massacre at an army public school in the city that killed 150, mostly children.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Who runs the world?! Girls! and First Lady Michelle Obama has recruited Zendaya, Kelly Clarkson and Janelle Monae to record a single anthem for the Let Girls Learn initiative. The song called “This is For My Girls” is written by Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren with Kelly Rowland, Lea Michelle, Missy Elliott also featured on track.???
FASHION
• The Hollywood Reporter has named their Top 25 power stylists of 2016 and to celebrate they held a dinner at The Tower Bar at Sunset Tower hotel in West Hollywood in partnership with Jimmy Choo. The four covers feature Amy Schumer with her stylist Leesa Evans; Michael B. Jordan with his stylist Jeff K. Kim; Brie Larson and Cristina Ehrlich, and “Mr. Robot” star Rami Malek and Ilaria Urbinati.
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” ― Coco Chanel
LOOK OF THE DAY
Tessa Thompson @ Hollywood Reporter Stylist Dinner
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