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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust
CHICAGO NEWS
• The Special Olympics Summer Games which had its roots from Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s day camp for children with intellectual disabilities (Camp Shriver) kicked off Sunday in Los Angeles to officially start the games. First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of athletes. The very first special olympics game was held in 1968 at Soldier Field in Chicago.
NATIONAL NEWS
• The Coast Guard are still searching for two Florida teens (Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen), who have been missing since Friday though their boat was found 67 miles off Ponce de Leon Inlet in Volusia County. [WASHINGTON POST]
WORLD NEWS
• Is that you my lord? It seems Britain’s Lord Sewel, a deputy speaker in the upper house of the UK Parliament definitely likes to party, as video of him snorting cocaine and chatting up females that were not his wife and published by British tabloid The Sun has emerged causing his resignation. [CNN]
• A suicide truck bomb attack of the Jazeera Hotel in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Sunday has killed 15 among them, a Kenya diplomat, Chinese embassy guard and three journalists. al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab retaliated for being pushed out of the capital by Somali forces.
SPORTS
• Mexico won it’s 7th Gold Cup Sunday night as they soundly beat first-time finalists Jamaica, 3-1. Elsewhere that day in Cooperstown, New York the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson, Craig Biggio, John Smoltz Pedro Martinez into their 2015 class. [YAHOO SPORTS]
BUSINESS
• It’s going down! I’m yelling_____” China, the world’s second biggest economy, saw shares plunge 8.5%, the highest since February 2007. As the economy slows, investors are worried over the viability of government efforts to prop up share prices and are blaming government-induced recovery in share prices in recent weeks as itself provoking the crash. More than 1,700 stocks fell by the daily 10 percent limit on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. [BLOOOMBERG]
• A record $105 million in fines is what Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was hit with by U.S. auto safety regulators-NHTSA which surpassed the fine of $70 million against Honda Motor Co. in January. Terms include include a $70 million cash payment, an agreement that Fiat Chrysler will spend $20 million improving its recall process, buy back of 500,000 faulty Ram pick-up trucks and an additional $15 million payable if the automaker is found to have committed any further violations. The recalled vehicles covered by the agreement include Dodge Ram, Dakota and Chrysler Aspen trucks from model years as early as 2008. [REUTERS]
ENTERTAINMENT
• The daughter of the late Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina, 22, has died, six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub of her home and later placed in hospice care. A statement from the family “She is finally at peace in the arms of God.”
FASHION
• You can now carry Manolo’s around and not just on your feet. The shoe maestro has launched his first full handbag collection that will be available at the end of July in stores. [VOGUE UK]
• CFDA named 40 new members bringing it to a total of bringing total membership to 508 and its fastest growth rate in it’s history. New members include: Ana Khouri, Louise Camuto of the Camuto Group, Shayne Oliver of Hood by Air, Misha Nonoo, Nellie Partow, Rosie Assoulin, Gigi Burris of Gigi Burris Millinery, Sally LaPointe, Paul Andrew, Tanya Taylor, Siki Im, Francesca Amfitheatrof of Tiffany & Co., and Tome’s Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin. [BURO]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Jennifer Lopez @ 46
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