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HEADLINER
A flyover collapse in Kolkata, India has caused the death of at least 10 people and many are feared trapped under the wreckage of the metal-and-cement structure. A flyover overpass under construction collapsed onto traffic moving along the street below. Developing Read more
MORE NEWS
• The rain in the Chicagoland area last night was nothing compared to what happened in northeastern Oklahoma that left at least seven people injured when multiple tornadoes touched down leaving nearly 5,000 customers without power in the area. As the storms moves, the area of highest risk is the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
• South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has been ordered by its constitutional court to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.
• What is going on with the presidential candidates? Trump has backtracked after insisting that women who receive abortions be punished. Hillary Clinton may or may not have stopped by Beyonce’s music video set in LA and she got her $600 John Barrett salon haircut. Ted Cruz went on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. John Kasich thought twice about eating pizza with a fork and Bernie Sanders, who still hates big banks, will not be listed on the DC primary ballot June 14 due to a clerical error, your Facebook feed is about to #FeeltheBern.
• Jason Van Dyke, the CPD officer that’s charged with the murder of Laquan McDonald, shot 16 times, has been hired by the Fraternal Order of Police. He is currently suspended without pay.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Instagram king Dan Bilzerian, the one with all the gratuitous scantily clad women and their butts, guns and PJs shots in his feed is on a 300 mile bike ride through the Mojave desert. He made a $600,000 with venture capitalist Bill Perkins that he can ride a bicycle from his Hollywood Hills home to Las Vegas in 48 hours. Guess who helped him train? Lance Armstrong, of course!
FASHION
• Former YSL co-founder Pierre Bergé is speaking out about designers like Dolce and Gabbana and Marks & Spencer creating Islamic clothing. The 85-year-old told French radio station Europe 1 “Designers are there to make women more beautiful, to give them their freedom, not to collaborate with this dictatorship which imposes this abominable thing by which we hide women and make them live a hidden life. These creators who are taking part in the enslavement of women should ask themselves some questions.”
• Revolve, the fashion e-commerce brand, debuted an invite only concept Social Club that’s part clubhouse, part event venue and a place to buy clothes and shoes in Los Angeles. Using the ubiquitous millennial marketing lingo, co-founder Michael Mente said “It’s about experiences over things.” Revolve’s portfolio sales were more than $400 million last year.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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LOOK OF THE DAY
Riley Keough @ premiere of Starz “The Girlfriend Experience”
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