Hotness in the News by SociaLifeChicago is your daily intel for the morning’s hot news topics to get your day started and get you up to date on what’s going on in Chicago and the world. Make small talk, better.
“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.” ― Horace Mann
CHICAGO NEWS
• Former speaker of the House Dennis Hastert will appear for the first time since being indicted by a federal grand jury in front of U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin in a Chicago courtroom. He is charged with illegally “structuring” cash transactions in a manner to avoid federal bank reporting requirements and with lying to FBI agents about the cash payments. It was from said indictment that allegations Hastert, former wrestling coach and high school teacher at Yorkville, had sexually molested a student (or more) decades ago. Hastert has retained lawyer Thomas C. Green of Sidley Austin LLP. [WASHINGTON POST]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Albert Woodfox, the last of the prisoners known as the “Angola Three,” who sat in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for 43 years is set to be released after the ruling in the killing of prison guard Brent Miller was overturned. [REUTERS]
WORLD NEWS
• Several people have been sentenced to death in the aftermath of the 2012 violent riot following the match between Al-Masry and Cairo’s Al-Ahli in an Egyptian soccer stadium which killed more than 70 fans and injured at least 1,000. “The court sentenced one of the men to death in absentia. Ten men got 15 years in jail, 14 were sentenced to 10 years, and 15 men received a five-year sentence. Twenty-one people were found innocent. The verdicts can be appealed.” [NBC NEWS]
SPORTS
• Blackhawks lost to Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 last night. The US Women’s soccer team had a 3-1 win over Australia. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• HSBC announced they are cutting as many as 50,000 jobs globally and selling their unprofitable business units in Brazil and Turkey, in an effort to reduce cost by $5 billion a year by 2017. They are very focused on Asia including China’s Pearl River Delta and with that, set out 11 criterias for helping it decide whether to move its headquarters from London to Asia, likely Hong Kong where it was founded 150 years ago. HSBC had their North America headquarters in Mettawa few years back. [BLOOMBERG]
ENTERTAINMENT
• Kanye West turned 38 yesterday and to mark the occasion his wife, Kim Kardashian West threw him a little intimate surprise, by renting out Staples Center in LA. He hooped with friends such as Don C, Virgil Abloh, A-trak, Justin Beiber, Ibn Jasper and trainer Harley Pasternak, and was serenaded by John Legend. [PAGE SIX]
FASHION
• Stella McCartney’s resort presentation was attended by Cara Delevingne and her still on girlfriend St. Vincent , Hannah Bronfman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alexa Chung, Dree Hemmingway, Miranda Kerr. [WWD]
LOOK OF THE DAY
•Victoria Beckham
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