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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
CHICAGO NEWS
• When walking to get a pack of smokes isn’t an option, you drive…an Ambulance of course. William Quackenbush who was leaving Stroger Hospital stole an ambulance that was parked outside the hospital so he could go buy a pack of cigarettes. He is being held and charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle. [DNAINFO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Following the massacre that claimed the lives of nine people at a Charleston church in the hate crime committed by Dylan Roof, the state’s Governor Nikki Haley and others are calling for the removal of the confederate from South Carolina’s Capitol. ” Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said on Monday that it was time to retire a symbol that pains so many Americans.” [NY TIMES]
WORLD NEWS
• Pakistan’s former capital Karachi, its largest and most populous metropolitan city, is currently experiencing rare heat waves with temperature reaching 113 degrees that’s caused at least 413 deaths so far but rain is expectd in the coming days. [CBS NEWS]
SPORTS
• The USA Women’s soccer squad advanced to the quarterfinals against China in Ottawa, after a 2-0 victory over rival Colombia. After an underwhelming first half, where Megan Rapinoe was handed her second yellow card which will see her miss the quarterfinal, the USA dominated the second half. [USA TODAY]
• Tom Brady’s appeal of the four-game suspension the NFL handed down after the deflategate suspension will be presented starting today in New York to Commissioner Roger Goodell. [NFL]
BUSINESS
• Several retailers are recalling bottled water by Niagara Bottling LLC over E coli concerns. The family-owned company in a statement, disclosed that the operator of a spring that supplies two of its plants failed to report evidence of E. coli at the source. The recall affects water bottled from June 10-18 in two Pennsylvania plants only. [CNN]
• The Economist Intelligence Unit’s recent forecasts shows that Mexico and Indonesia will displace Russia and Italy among the top 10 economies in 35 years while China is projected to almost catch Japan by 2050, and be just under half the U.S. level from 14 percent in 2014. India’s spending power will surge to about 24 percent of the U.S. consumer from just 3 percent. [BLOOMBERG]
ENTERTAINMENT
• Sean “Diddy” Combs took the term papa bear quite literally, after confronting his son’s strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi at UCLA yesterday and allegedly assaulting him with weight-room kettle bell. He has since posted $50,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court July 13. UCLA campus police updated the charges late Monday night, adding two more counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats and one count of battery. [ESPN]
• Britney Spears and her boyfriend Charlie Ebersol broke up and she has since deleted all pictures of him from her instagram, the joys of dating in the social media age. They started dating two months after her split from her last boyfriend David Lucado; Ebersol is the son of Dick Ebersol, the co-creator of “Saturday Night Live.” [PAGE SIX]
FASHION
• Tom Ford has partnered with Net-A-Porter as the first online retailer (outside of his website) of his men’s and women’s ready-to-wear collections. Ford’s women rtw line will launch in July on Net-a-porter and in September on Mr Porter. Net-a-porter will carry an edited buy of fall rtw for women, including leather military jackets, patchwork maxiskirts, evening column gowns, embroidered dresses, denim and suede pieces, as well as women’s shoes, accessories, cosmetics and fragrance collections. Mr Porter will carry fall rtw including tailoring, formalwear, luxury casualwear, shoes, accessories and grooming collections. [WWD]
• Fordham University’s Law School starting this Fall, will offer the world’s first degree in fashion law and the director of the school’s Fashion Law Institute, Susan Scafidi made the announcement align with CFDA president Diane Von Furstenberg. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• LILY JAMES & JESSICA CHASTAIN @ Ralph Lauren & Vogue Wimbledon Summer Cocktail Party
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