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― Thomas A. Edison
CHICAGO NEWS
• A Chicago Cubs fan was the talk last night as he made a one-handed catch while holding and feeding his baby at the Dodgers-Cubs game in Wrigley Field. [ESPN]
NATIONAL NEWS
• A mistrial has been granted in the case of two former Vanderbilt University football players found guilty by a jury, Jan. 27 of raping an unconscious student and they could get a new trial because one of the jurors did not disclose that he was a past victim of a sexual assault. Defense attorneys will ask that Brandon Vandenburg, 22, and Cory Batey, 21 be released from jail pending a new trial date. [THE TENNESSEAN]
WORLD NEWS
• The US envoy in Paris has been summoned by France after a Wikileaks reports that the NSA spied on current President Francois Hollande and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac and dozens of senior government officials between 2006-2012. This is the second US ally to be revealed in the NSA’s spying program from documents released by Edward Snowden. [BBC]
• Queen Elizabeth is visiting Germany for a four-day state visit which includes meeting with Chancellor Merkel at the Chancellery and President Joachim Gauck and his girlfriend, Daniela Schadt (Gauck is still technically married to his wife of 56 years but separated since ’91). Speaking of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, urgently-needed repair at their residence in Buckingham Palace may have them living at Windsor Castle, their weekend home, for up to a year; the Palace has not been refurbished or redecorated since the 1950s. Queen Victoria designated it as an official residence in 1837. [TELEGRAPH]
SPORTS
• The 2015 NBA Draft will take place tomorrow with some of the top draft, first round picks include Jahlil Okafor(Duke), D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State), Willie Cauley-Stein(Kentucky), Karl-Anthony Towns(Kentucky) Frank Kaminsky(Wisconsin).
Timberwolves have options at No. 1, Lakers at No. 2 with Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks, the having the No. 3 and No. 4 picks. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• Chicago headquarted Boeing named Dennis Muilenburg as its new CEO as Jim McNerney will retire July 1 after a decade as CEO. Bloomberg reports “Muilenburg will inherit challenges such as whether to pare output for the 777, one of Boeing’s most-profitable models, as well as reshaping Boeing Defense Systems, the $30.9 billion division that Muilenburg used to run.” [BLOOMBERG]
ENTERTAINMENT
• Taraji P. Henson, who plays Cookie on the hit show Empire, is on the cover of W Magazine and she talks about her first meeting with Empire director Lee Daniels, how she insisted Terrence Howard play Lucious Lyon and her path to hollywood. “As Cookie grows, you’ll see her fashion grow. And people love that—she’s a work in progress. The only thing that never changes is her spirit: To me, Cookie is living, breathing, walking truth.” [W MAGAZINE]
FASHION
• Victoria Beckham debuted denim for her resort collection presentation which is the first Victoria Victoria Beckham collection to encompass the designer’s denim line. Prices for the collection run from $215 for a jersey kick-sleeve T-shirt through to $1,895 for a leather jacket. [WWD]
•Paddle8 is partnering with fashion blog Advanced Style and it’s founder founder Ari Seth Cohen on an upcoming online auction of women’s jewelry, handbags and decorative furnishings from Céline, Hermès, Cartier and Fred Leighton and is estimated to fetch between $300 and $18,000. [WWD]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Amal Clooney in Stella McCartney
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photo credit: W Magazine, Daily Mail
