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CHICAGO NEWS
• Chicago artist Hebru Brantley is having a great year and perhaps ending it with a bang. It was revealed that George Lucas and Mellody Hobson recently stopped by his studio and purchased five pieces (two paintings and three sculptures) to add to the collection of the yet to open Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts. [PAGE SIX]
NATIONAL NEWS
• An Iraqi war veteran suspected of killing six people is still on the run and the manhunt has intensified in suburban Philadelphia. Former Marine Bradley William Stone, 35, of Pennsburg is suspected of killing ex-wife, Nicole Hill Stone, Hill’s grandmother, her sister, Patricia Flick, her husband and their 14-year-old daughter. The couple’s 17-year-old son was seriously wounded. [USA TODAY]
• Red flags should have gone up when a teenager claims to have made $72mil trading penny stocks and it seems it was all made up. Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Islam is now retracting his story and now says he never made a dime on the stock market. New York magazine staff writer Jessica Pressler stands by her story claiming she saw bank statements with eight figures on it. Fact checking, the lost art of a connected age, pity. [WASHINGTON POST]
WORLD NEWS
• Taliban fighters have killed at least 126 people, mostly kids during an attack of a military-run high school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar reports Reuters. Following three explosions and heavy gunfire, an unspecified number of children were still being held hostage in the school. [REUTERS]
SPORTS
• Let’s not even get into how terrible, awful, the Chicago Bears played last night. They lost, at home. Jay Cutler got sacked, intercepted and it was embarrassing to watch.
BUSINESS
• Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York to build a case against payday loan mogul Scott Tucker that may include charges under a racketeering law (RICO Act) designed to crack down on the Mafia. He pioneered the use of Native American sovereign tribal immunity to avoid state regulation. [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• Jennifer Lopez is on the January cover of SELF Magazine flaunting her toned body. [DAILY MAIL]
FASHION
• Ports 1961 has appointed Natasa Cagalj as its new creative director. Prior to this she has worked closely with Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz, Stella McCartney and consulted for brands. She will replace Fiona Cibani. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• OLIVIA PALERMO & JOHANNES HUEBL
*images via: instagram, Getty
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