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HEADLINER–Aug. 22

Afghanistan. Monday evening, President Trump in a teleprompter read speech to the country stated the US is not actually pulling out but committing to send more troops to the region though we are no longer “nation-building. The president also asked for help from South Asia allies including India and Pakistan, a country that’s noted for harboring terrorists. This is a reversal from Trump’s campaign promises and some say a departure from Bannon pushed motives. Following his speech, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan appeared in a CNN townhall and got to address the issue surrounding Trump’s Charlottesville comments. Trump will be in Arizona for a rally today and might draw large protests…Read more

MORE NEWS

• Is Justin Beiber’s manager Scooter Braun being groomed to run for public office? According to TMZ and some reports, a number of Democratic fundraisers and political operatives in the state have approached Braun. The 36 year-old who also manages Ariana Grande, Kanye West, hosted a fundraising event for Hillary Clinton in 2015.
• Bodies believed to be of the 10 missing sailors from the USS John McCain which collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, are being found. The Royal Malaysian Navy has located one body at sea, and Navy and Marine Corps divers found remains in the sealed compartments aboard the ship. An operational pause was ordered as this was the second incident involving a US ship in 2 months.

• About 38 people are injured in Upper Darby near Philadelphia after a transit train rear-ended a parked train at a station overnight. None of the injuries appear to be life threatening and investigators are already on the scene trying to determine the cause.

ENTERTAINMENT

•  Paper magazine released a Vegas themed issue with Ricky Martin, Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez on different covers. It wouldn’t be such a big deal unless you realize the fact that in past interviews, Mariah Carey has said numerous times she didn’t know Jennifer Lopez. Perhaps Paper was trying to be inadvertently shady? Carey talks about her diva moments, comes from being raised by a Julliard diva.
• Chrissy Teigen loves to have a good time and is not stranger to self deprecating jokes and memes but she has recently announced she still wants to do those things but without alcohol. Luna’s mom, spoke with Cosmopolitan about her drinking and wanting to fix herself.

FASHION

• Nike has announced its collaboration with Chicago native and OFF White designer Virgil Abloh. A new design project  “The Ten” Abloh has reconstructed 10 Nike footwear icons with the 10 shoes divided into two themes: Revealing and Ghosting. Oklahoma City Thunder basketball player and fashion favorite Russell Westbrook’s upcoming book, Russell Westbrook: Style Divers, will be released Sept. 5 published by Rizzoli. Lastly in fashion news, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s new wife Louise Linton got dragged on Instagram after she had a tag fest with the luxury designers she was sporting during a business trip to Kentucky with her husband.

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”― Denis Waitley

Miles Teller is engaged to Keleigh Sperry

Headless torso found might be of missing journalist Kim Wall

Ohio Judge Returns Fire After ‘Ambush’ Outside Courthouse

Reese Witherspoon Attends Home Again Screening in East Hampton

CEOs donate $1.5 million to fight crime in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood

LOOK OF THE DAY

Jennifer Lopez; Mariah Carey

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