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“I dream it all the time, I just didn’t know what year it was going to happen. But it seems like this is the year right here. You never know when you’re going to get back in this position, so you have to take advantage of it.” -Royals outfielder Jarrod Dyson
CHICAGO NEWS
• Celebrated mixologist Charles Joly, who has won numerous awards, released his line of bottled cocktails and the bar program he heads up, The Aviary was recently named one of 50 World’s Best Bar is leaving. [EATER]
NATIONAL NEWS
• The second ebola infected nurse, Amber Jay Vinson, that treated Thomas Duncan, had a 99.5 fever and was allowed to fly. After calling the CDC who did not tell her not to fly, she took the flight from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola. The CDC’s temperature threshold is 100.4F (38C). She has now been transferred to the isolation unit at Emory University Hospital. Should CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden step down? [REUTERS]
WORLD NEWS
• Blizzards in Nepal’s Annapurna region killed at least 20 people on Wednesday reports Time. The disaster took place during Nepal’s peak trekking season. Nine locals, three Polish nationals, three Israelis and one Vietnamese were killed in the region’s Mustang district. [TIME]
SPORTS
• The Kansas City Royals are headed to the World Series after beating the Orioles to win the American League Championship series. This is their first WS appearance since 1985. They had a special guest watching, actor Paul Rudd, who invited fans to his moms house for a kegger after the game. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• North Chicago’s AbbVie’s board recommended that shareholders vote against $52 billion (32.5 billion) takeover of the maker of rare-disease treatments, citing a change in tax rules that would undermine the deal’s rationale. “If the board recommends that shareholders don’t vote for the deal, there’s no way it can be resurrected.” [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• Halle Berry filed legal documents asking the judge in her and Gabriel Aubry’s custody case to reduce her monthly child support obligation from $16,000 a month to just over $3,000 a month. [TMZ]
FASHION
• Alexander Wang for H&M will debut in stores November 6 and you can get a look at the entire collection. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Nicole Richie
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