TOP STORIES
NORTH KOREA CONDUCTS NUCLEAR TEST President Barack Obama warned there will be consequences for this fifth ― and largest ― test. Here’s what you need to know about the test and its timing. [Reuters]
GARY JOHNSON DIDN’T KNOW WHAT ALEPPO IS The Libertarian candidate stumbled big time when he asked, “What is Aleppo?” This isAleppo. [Willa Frej, HuffPost]
THAT TIME WELLS FARGO HAD TO FIRE 5,300 EMPLOYEES FOR RIPPING OFF ITS CUSTOMERS And pay a cool $190 million for the fraudulent accounts its employees opened for customers to drum up sales numbers. [Reuters]
‘IF YOU DIE FROM A HOSPITAL SUPERBUG, YOUR DEATH MAY GO UNCOUNTED’ “Fifteen years after the U.S. government declared antibiotic-resistant infections to be a grave threat to public health, a Reuters investigation has found that infection-related deaths are going uncounted, hindering the nation’s ability to fight a scourge that exacts a significant human and financial toll.” [Reuters]
THREE OF THE NOTRE DAME TERROR SUSPECTS HAD PLANS TO ATTACK A TRAIN STATION The three women had planned to attack Gare de Lyon in Paris. And CNN is reporting that there are still 30 to 40 terror suspects for the 2015 Paris attacks at large. [Reuters]
MURDER RATES RISE IN 25 PERCENT OF U.S. CITIES “In the Times analysis, half of the increase came from just seven cities ― Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Washington.” [NYT]
AND TIM TEBOW HAS SIGNED A CONTRACT WITH THE NEW YORK METS Their minor league, but still. Let the media circus begin. [Ron Dicker, HuffPost]
For more video news from The Huffington Post, check out this morning’s newsbrief.
WHAT’S BREWING
THE SCARY BACKSTORY ON POLICE DEPARTMENTS’ ‘UNFOUNDED’ RAPE CASES “Across the country, some police departments claim a vast number of rape reports are false. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a year of “unfounded” rapes in Baltimore County reveals that detectives often don’t investigate them at all ― even when the man had been arrested for rape before.” [BuzzFeed]
‘MY SEARCH FOR A LESBIAN DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER’ “ I could only find one article that featured an interview with lesbian Trump supporters. There were two of them. Is that it? Two?” [HuffPost]
MICHELLE OBAMA COULD NOT LOOK BETTER In InStyle andEssence (where POTUS joins her for a doozy of a photo) this month. [HuffPost]
40 AND REALLY OVER THE HILL IN SILICON VALLEY Say goodbye to your suits. [Bloomberg]
MEET THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED THE HONEY TRAP “Few people have elevated the habit of pillow talk to an art form quite like the crafty American-born intelligence officer, who ‘used the bedroom like Bond used a beretta,’ Time magazine noted in 1963.” [Atlas Obscura]
OF COURSE JUSTIN TRUDEAU MADE VANITY FAIR’S INTERNATIONAL BEST DRESSED LIST The Canadian Prime Minister can do no wrong. [Vanity Fair]
WHAT’S WORKING
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Who can resist a photo gallery of what the stars eat?
~ The drugs that might be the most overpriced of all treat arthritis.
~ Hold onto your hats ― Meryl Streep herself is coming to TV.
~ Twitter just upgraded their DMs.
~ In case you need a good cry, here are two lovebirds who have been married for 57 years and did a “Notebook”-themed photoshoot.
~ “Yes, I’m here alone” ― breaking down the double standard for women going to events by themselves.
~ We finally have a new Lady Gaga song.
~ What it takes to be bear-resistant.
~ Of course Natalie Portman would casually show up to a red carpet pregnant and slay.
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