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“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
― John D. Rockefeller
CHICAGO NEWS
A United Express SkyWest flight from Chicago to Hartford, CT made an emergency landing in Buffalo after it went into a sudden nose dive dropping 20,000 feet in minutes and three passengers lost consciousness. It’s not clear what caused the passengers to fall ill. [NBC]
NATIONAL NEWS
David Petraeus, the former CIA Director and decorated military man whose affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell basically ruined his career, will be sentenced Thursday in a Charlotte federal court for leaking classified material while she was working on a book. The biography came out before their affair was exposed. The plea agreement carries a possible sentence of up to a year in prison but prosecutors are recommending two years probation. [NY TIMES]
Loretta Lynch is expected to be confirmed by the Senate more than five months after she was nominated to replace Eric Holder. Republicans have praised Ms. Lynch’s work as the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y, but criticized her defense of Mr. Obama’s plan to bypass Congress and shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. [WSJ]
WORLD NEWS
Pope Francis, who played a peacemaking role in building the US-Cuba divide, will be making a stop in Cuba ahead of his planned visit to the US in September. Francis’s stop in Cuba would be the third Vatican trip to the country since the Castro government ceased in 1992 to be officially atheist. [WASHINGTON POST]
SPORTS
Former San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds had his felony conviction for obstructing justice, overturned by 10-1 decision in a a federal appeals court overturning a unanimous 2013 decision by a three-judge panel that upheld the conviction. Bonds, the only 7 time MLB MVP of only one count of obstruction for giving an evasive answer to a federal grand jury investigating illegal steroid distribution. [LA TIMES]
BUSINESS
Navinder Singh Sarao, the 36-year-old British man accused of manipulating the market causing 2010’s Wall Street “flash crash” is currently jailed in London with a bond set at $7.5 million( 5 million). The U.S. Justice Department has charged the CME Group seated trader with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation over a period of several years. Sarao had been a member of the CME Group, where he traded stock futures, since buying his $435,000 seat in May 2008. [REUTERS]
CELEBRITIES
“Real beauty is quiet. No, be a good person, be a good mom, do a good job with the lunch, let someone cut in front of you who looks like they’re in a bigger hurry. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren’t trying.” Sandra Bullock People Magazine’s 2015 “Most World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” [PEOPLE]
FASHION
Iris, a documentary about the style icon Iris Apfel premiered last night in New York City at the Paris Theater. The film, directed by Albert Maysles, will be released in select theaters starting April 29, Chicago’s Music Box will show it May 15.
• TOPSHOP and Adidas Originals have debut an exclusive seven-piece capsule collection that will be available globally on April 30, online and in stores. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell @ Dinner Honoring Jim Gianopulos
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