THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Megyn Kelly's audience for her Sunday night show dropped 42% from her debut show the week before. 
  • California is in the midst of a heat wave, with temps most places in the 90s and 100s. 
  • London's Borough Market, closed since the terror attack that rocked the British capitol, reopened to the public Wednesday. 
  • Leo Varadkar became Ireland's first openly-gay prime minister on Wednesday. 
  • Caitlyn Jenner says she would really like to play a round of golf with Donald Trump. 
  • Jessica Chastain has married her longtime Italian love, fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo. The two were married in Northern Italy last Saturday. 
  • WWE says Virgil Runnels, a former professional wrestler known by his fans as Dusty Rhodes, has died. He was 69. 
  • Keith Richards has been left "devastated" by the death of his former partner Anita Pallenberg, who died Tuesday at the age of 73. They had three children together. 
  • Verizon has officially taken over Yahoo! For all purposes, it no longer exists. 
  • Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder tells the story of when he and Paul McCartney were together in a Seattle bar and while Paul was telling a story, accidentally punched Eddie in the jaw. Hard enough to draw blood. 
  • Stephen King says that President Trump has blocked him on Twitter. 
  • An America's Got Talent contestant has passed away, mere weeks before his audition was scheduled to air on TV. 29-year-old Dr. Brandon Rogers from Maryland passed away over the weekend after getting into a car accident. 
  • Phil Collins resumed his Not Dead Yet tour Sunday night in Cologne, Germany following a nasty spill in his London hotel room last week that forced him to postpone two sold-out shows to November. 
  • Fleetwood Mac says they have one tour left in them and the band -- including Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie -- are touring in 2018. 
  • Golf's 117th U.S. Open begins today at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin, northwest of Milwaukee. 
  • 20 transgender candidates are running for political office in the U.S. 
  • McDonald's says it will be hiring 250,000 workers this summer, some to wait on tables. 
  • Ice Cube now has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
  • The Golden State Warriors voted unanimously to not accept an invitation to the White House following their NBA Championship victory. 
  • Oprah Winfrey says she is not running for President. 
  • Lindsay Lohan is joining the cast of a British comedy. One of her co-stars is Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films. 

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