Tornadoes, mass sentencing, 2 new Cathlic church saints, George Clooney, SpaceX. Grab your morning tea and chew on this news you can use.
♦ Deadly tornadoes that descended upon some midwest and southern states has claimed the lives of some in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and left lots of debris and tens of thousands of its residents without power and injured residents Sunday night. At least 10 people have been reported dead in Faulkner county Arkansas
♦ In a new article published by New Republic, study shows almost half of all men finish sex within two minutes and men, not women, are probably more likely to be most bothered by the figure.
♦ After a trial lasting only a few minutes, New York Times reports an Egyptian court, on Monday, sentenced to death the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and more than 680 other people on charges of inciting or committing acts of violence that led to the destruction of a police station and the killing of an officer.
♦ Amal Alamuddin has gone and done what many before her couldn’t do, get George Clooney to propose.
Over the weekend People magazine confirmed the engagement reports. He liked it and he put a ring on it! Ms. Alamuddin is a well accomplished lawyer with an illustrious background which includes representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and who like George Clooney shares his humanitarian interests. What Sarah Larson, Stacy Keibler, Lisa Snowden, Elisabeta Cannlis couldn’t do.
SPORTS: Blackhawks are won, bulls lost and face possibility of playoff elimination.
♦ Chicago based Boeing and Lockheed Martin, two aviation giants that have in past secured most of the US Governement’s contracts may have to make room for another. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is suing the US government for the right to to compete for contracts to launch spy satellites, which is reportedly worth up to $70 billion.
♦ Will it or won’t it? DNAInfo reports that Wavefront Festival may or may not be returning this year.
♦ Chernobyl, Ukraine, is building a $1.5 billion arch to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion
Beyonce and JayZ are going on the run. The newly announced 13 stop tour will kick off in Miami, Chicago stop is scheduled for July 24.
*images: AP, Daily Mail
