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“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
CHICAGO NEWS
• 10 people were killed and more than 50 injured in gun violence over the Independence Day weekend including 7-year-old Amari Brown in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, where police state the shots were meant for Amari’s father, Antonio Brown, who they said is a ranking member of the Four Corner Hustlers gang. Englewood Police District experienced no shootings from Thursday afternoon through early Monday [REUTERS]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Today, the third and final vote in South Carolina’s Senate to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state house, is poised to pass legislation and could become law as early as Thursday after going to the House of Representatives. Several politicians say the shootings that took place opened their eyes to the divisive nature of the flag and what it means to South Carolina’s black population. [REUTERS]
WORLD NEWS
• In 2005, 52 people were killed by suicide bombers in London making it the worst single terrorist act n British soil, and today on the 10 year anniversary, they were remembered with moments of silence and services in Hyde Park. The names of the 52 victims were read out during the national service of commemoration at St Paul’s. [BBC]
SPORTS
• DeAndre Johnson, an FSU quarterback must have recalled the saying “an eye for an eye” and not the saying that “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.” He has now been dismissed from the team for punching a woman in the face during an altercation at a bar and charged with battery after surveillance video emerged which appeared to show the freshman quarterback taking a swing at the unidentified woman. [NBC NEWS]
BUSINESS
• You know what’s a bad idea? Getting together with colleagues from your company’s legal team pretending to be Islamic State militants carrying out a beheading, fake knife and all, record and post it online. Now you’re out of a job. One of the top banking firms, HSBC fired six employees from its legal division who were on a team building exercise while on a visit to Teamworks Karting in Birmingham after video was published on UK’s The Sun of them pretending to be Islamic State militants carrying out a beheading. [BBC]
ENTERTAINMENT
• This changes A LOT of things for Bill Cosby and his ongoing sexual assault cases. After The AP got hold of previously sealed document, it revealed Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them. Though that case was settled and Cosby’s lawyers didn’t want this to get out due to severe embarrassment to the comedian-actor, many of the sexual assaults allegations he is currently facing by more than 40 women may now have some truth to them. [REUTERS]
FASHION
• Uniqlo (which is coming to Chicago really soon), the affordable line which creates pieces that can be worn by anyone with anything, has teamed up with former creative director of Hermès Christophe Lemaire. The collection will land at Uniqlo stores in early October. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• From Fall 2015 Couture Giambattista Valli
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