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“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”― Dale Carnegie
SOUTH CAROLINA
The video of South Carolina senior deputy Ben Fields which shows him dragging a teen student. Now the department’s Sheriff Leon Lotts says theres a third video that shows the student punching the deputy but unclear if this was prior to being violently flipped from her seat and dragged in the classroom. Fields, whom students referred to as “Officer slam” has been suspended without pay and the school district called the incident “shamefully shocking.” [NBC]
IRAQ
Iraq says thanks but no thanks when it comes to ground troops support from the US. Iraq’s PM Haidet al-Abadi says that contrary to Defense Secretary ashton Carter’s revelation the US may carry more ground raids, they will need clearance through the Iraqi government though the importance of US assistance in iraq was recognized.
BULLS
With a starting lineup of Derek Rose, Jimmy Butler, Pau Gasol, Tony Snell and Nikola Mitotic beat the Cavs in the season opener 97-95. President Obama who was in town also took in the game sitting curtsied with Marty Nesbitt.
SNIPS
Walgreens is buying Rite-Aid for $9.41 billion and moved to a profit in its fiscal fourth-quarter…Dennis Hastert, the former US Housr speaker has arrived at the Dirksen federal courthouse where he is expected to plead guilty to paying $1.7mil in hush money to cover up alleged sexual misconduct accusation from a former student…Is Hyatt Hotels Corp. looking to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts Inc? Starwood is selling its Resorts’ Vacation Ownership business to Interval Leisure Group for about $1.5 billion.
ENTERTAINMENT
Derek Jeter is engaged to girlfriend Hannah Davis, a model and Sports Illustrated cover girl…Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez announce they are divorcing after 2 years of marriage, they have a son Maceo together…Leonardo diCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Brett Ratner were all on hand to help Mariah Carey’s rumored boyfriend billionaire James Packer and his business partner Lawrence Ho launch his new over $3 billion Macau casino-Studio City. Its reported they were each paid $17 million for their appearance in a 15 min movie/ad directed by Scorsese.
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Eva Longoria
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