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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ― Mark Twain
OVER THE WEEKEND
•Nepal suffered its deadliest earthquake since 2000 with over 3,000 death so far and the death toll is expected to rise. The earthquakes aftershock also hit Mt. Everest
• Bruce Jenner’s interview Friday night with Diane Sawyer on ABC was his first time going on public record that he identifies as a woman. After 67 years, he can finally openly live in his truth and he hopes to help raise awareness for transgender community.
• In their crosstown rivalry series, the New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 6-4 with Alex Rodriguez, hitting his 659th home run, catching up to Willie Mays’ fourth on baseball’s career home-run list record.
•The White House Correspondents Dinner aka nerd prom drew journalists, politicians and celebrities with SNL’s Cecily Strong emceeing. President Obama’s angry translator “Luther” made an appearance.
• The new Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano, was feted by Max Mara Friday night with guests including Donna Karan, Dakota Fanning, Julian Schnabel.
CHICAGO NEWS
• The Sidewalk and all southbound lanes on State Street remained closed between Jackson Boulevard and Adams Street after bricks fell from a high-rise building in the Loop. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE]
NATIONAL NEWS
The fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may hang on evidence presented as his defense attorneys begin to argue that he should not be sent to death row for the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured 260 others. [LA TIMES]
WORLD NEWS
The US has sent disaster teams to help with aid mission in Nepal. The death toll is quickly rising and could rise as high as 5,000. The United Nations Children’s Fund said nearly one million children in Nepal were severely affected by the quake, and warned of waterborne and infectious diseases. Another 66 were killed across the border in India and at least another 20 in Tibet. [REUTERS]
SPORTS
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones is wanted for questioning by Alberqueque police for his suspected connection to a hit and run accident Sunday morning that landed a pregnant woman in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Jones faces misdemeanor hit-and-run charge. In May 2012, Jones was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence after he crashed his Bentley into a telephone pole in Binghamton, New York. [ESPN]
BUSINESS
Guess you won’t have to get off your couch and call Everest to get that education help you need. The for profit higher education company Corinthian College, which owns Everest, announced they are shutting down effective Monday, closing their remaining 28 campuses and ending classes for about 16,000 students nationwide. On April 14 they received a $30million fine from U.S. Department of Education for “serious” misrepresentation of job placement success rates for students in the company’s Heald campuses. [NY DAILY NEWS]
• The DOJ is really honing in on their antitrust stance. Another mega merger has crumbled as two of the world’s largest manufacturers of machinery used to produce semiconductors dropped plans to merge. The merger between US Applied Materials Inc and Tokyo Electron of Japan, was announced in 2013 for a proposed $10 billion and creating a company that would have been worth an estimated market value of $29 billion. [NY TIMES]
CELEBRITIES/ENTERTAIMENT
• The 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy took place last night hosted by Tyra Banks and Ellen Degeneres and Matt Lauer ended their prank war. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” won for talkshow/entertainment; Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan for best talkshow hosts/entertainment. [VARIETY]
Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder and Twilight actress Nikki Reed got married Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif almost four months after they got engaged. [E! NEWS]
FASHION
• London Fashion Week is getting a new home for its September showcase, as the British Fashion Council announced Brewer Street car park in Soho will replace the Somerset House “tents” in “hopes that the move will “increase its footprint across the capital.” [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Jane Fonda is 77!
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