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HEADLINER
New York New York! Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won big at yesterday’s primary election meaning that Trump, who received 60% and 89 delegates, is dangerously close to being the Republican nominee as John Kasich bested Ted Cruz coming in 2nd with 25%. Voters that were berning for Bernie didn’t show up for him in his home state with Hillary beating him with a comfortable 57.9% of voters and easily winning black and Hispanic voters. What’s next? more campaigning and kissing babies Read more
MORE NEWS
• Yahoo announced it had a quarterly net loss of $99 million compared with a profit of $21 million a year ago. Plans to auction/sell its core business is still on track with varying first round bids submitted by Verizon Communications, Apax Partners LLP, TPG Capital LP, Bain Capital LLC, Apollo Global Management LLC and Warburg Pincus LLC.
• Eddie Bolden, 46, walked out of the Cook County Jail as a free man for the first time in more than 22 years. Three months after a Cook County judge had thrown out Bolden’s murder convictions for the fatal shooting of two men in a 1994 drug deal gone bad, county prosecutors decided not to retry him. Bolden was released in time to attend his 21-year-old son’s graduation Sunday from Goshen College.
• United Continental Holdings announced three of its independent directors, non-executive chairman Henry L. Meyer III, directors John Walker and Charles Yamarone would retire from the board and not stand for reelection at the company’s annual meeting. Robert Milton, former chairman and CEO of ACE Aviation Holdings, will succeed Meyer as non-executive chairman at the annual meeting. United CEO Oscar Munoz is not expected to step into the chairman role until 2018. Seriously activist investors are having quite the year.
ENTERTAINMENT
• DJ Khaled is going on tour with Beyonce for her upcoming ‘Formation’ world tour. The “All I do is win” hit maker who was recently featured on Bloomberg business, and has been offering his “keys” to his fans on social media especially snapchat credited the “major achievement alert!!!!” to powerful prayer. #majorkeys
FASHION
• Hublot ambassadors Pele and Usain Bolt were on hand to help open their new store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan, designed by architect Peter Marino.
• Shakeup over at Calvin Klein as it was announced yesterday that women’s creative director Francisco Costa and men’s creative director Italo Zucchelli will be departing the brand as part of a “global evolution.” Rumors are already flying that former Dior creative director Raf Simons might fill the post, begin the fashion musical chairs.
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote
Johnny Football to Johnny Wasted to Johnny No Agent
Jennifer Aniston is named People’s 2016 World’s Most Beautiful Woman ummmm
400,000 borrowers with disabilities eligible to have their loans paid off
Freddie Mercury’s voice analyzed
LOOK OF THE DAY
Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince George, Prince William
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