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Officials have now confirmed that yesterday’s St. Denis police raid also killed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris though officials are trying to determine if he blew himself up. Chinese prisoner Fan Jinghui and Norweigan prisoner Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad have been reportedly executed by ISIS and with that Beijing has vowed to bring ISIS to justice. New York City mayor Bill De Blasio addressed reporters after an ISIS video surfaced threatening New York City with an impending attack mentioning Times Square and showing an explosive device being put together and a bomber zipping his jacket over a suicide belt. Though these are serious matters being handled by our heads of state but you feel it’s a bit like The Avengers assembling together to fight?
CUBS
Jake Arrieta made it 3-3 for the Cubs in post season awards recognition as he was named the 2015 National League Cy Young award winner yesterday afternoon beating out Dodgers aces Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, receiving 17 of 30 first-place votes with 169 points overall. Kris Bryant was named rookie of the year and Joe Maddon manager of the year.
BOTSWANA
The biggest diamond unearthed in over a century by Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp at their Karowe mine in Botswana comes in at 1,111 carat gem-quality just smaller than a tennis ball.
SNIPPETS
Match and Square’s stocks will begin trading today amidst woes of sputter IPOs…More media shuttering and layoffs as Condé Nast CEO Bob Sauerberg announced DETAILS magazine will be shuttered, laying off its staff of 40 full-and part-time editorial jobs and 27 advertising jobs, including its longtime editor in chief Dan Peres(dang right before the holidays though?!). Also within Condé, Self magazine’s business side is being folded into Glamour. Details whose last print issue will be its December/January 2016 issue, saw newsstand sales decline 30.1% to 27,946 from last year…Ta-Nehisi Coates was awarded the prestigious National Book Award for non-fiction for “Between the World and Me.” Adam Johnson, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, won the fiction award for his short story collection “Fortune Smiles.” Yesterday former football Doug Flutie announced that his parents, Dick and Joan, both died from heart attacks within an hour of each other; they were married for 56 years.
LOOK OF THE DAY
Solange in Milly @ Louis XIII screening of ‘100 Years’ The Movie You Will Never See
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