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Transgender bathrooms & The White House. The Obama administration announced they are issuing guidance on Friday to schools throughout the country, saying they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. This after DOJ sued North Carolina for its House Bill 2. In other administration news, they are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children. Read more
MORE NEWS
• Apple has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, to help the company better understand the critical Chinese market. Didi is a competitor of Uber in China. The tech company’s shares slipped to below $90 on Thursday making Google (Alphabet), the largest company by market valuation.
• Election updates and gossip: Trump met with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan yesterday as he tries to mend fences with key republicans ahead of July’s convention in Cleveland. Former butler at Trump’s Mar-a-lago, Anthony Senecal, who recently got a glowing profile in the New York Times, has called for President Obama to be lynched for treason and many other racist comments on Facebook. Trump is attacking Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stating Amazon is getting away with murder tax wise. He’s using The Washington Post for power. Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky and his business partners are shutting down a Greece-focused hedge fund that raised $25 million but lost 90 percent of its value.
• Lee McCullum, who appeared in a 2014 episode of the CNN documentary “Chicagoland” was shot dead at the age of 22, in the 500 block of West 126th Street.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Cannes report: “Money Monster” directed by Jodie Foster, starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, held its grand red carpet premiere last night. | Former Destiny’s Child member LeToya Luckett will play Dionne Warwick and Lady Gaga will play Cilla Black, her British singing nemesis in upcoming biopic currently titled Dionne. Olympia Dukakis will play Marlene Dietrich, who was Warwick’s mentor at the start of her career; it is based on based on Warwick’s 2010 autobiography My Life as I See It. | Speaking of upcoming films, Lupita Nyong’o is in talks to play the love interest of Chadwick Boseman’s superhero in Marvel’s “The Black Panther” to be directed by Ryan Coogler.
FASHION
• Anastasia Soare has gone from eyebrow queen to makeup queen who’s tapped the formula on how to use social media to drive sales, now the beauty brand is partnering with Kim Kardashian’s makeup artist, Mario Dedivanovic, on a palette that Soare predicts will sell out fast when released. According to WWD, Soare said of Dedivanovic and the collaboration “He is very talented. He understands makeup. He understands blending. He is a real artist, in my opinion, he does the most beautiful makeup on Kim. When she looks the best, you know that the makeup is done by Mario.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” ― Aristotle
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person at 116 has died
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Zuo An Xiao @ Cannes
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