THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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  • Starbucks' chief Howard Schultz still insists he's not running for president. 
  • The U.S. National Soccer Team lost to Trinidad last night and with that, were eliminated from the upcoming World Cup for the first time in 28 years. Ouch! 
  • Sears/Canada is going to close all of its stores. 
  • The Canary Islands have experienced 40 quakes in 48 hours, which may indicate an upcoming volcano eruption. 
  • There was a rumor going around for a while yesterday that Google was about to buy Apple. Some people actually believed it. 
  • Apple did strike a deal with Steven Spielberg this week to have him reboot his "Amazing Stories" series. 
  • Northern Michigan University is offering a degree in the business of legalized pot. 
  • Odell Beckham, Jr. will be out the rest of the season with a broken ankle. 
  • Disney CEO Bob Iger keeps coming up as a possible candidate for 2020. He's scheduled to retire from Disney in 2019. 
  • Fashion designer Donna Karan comes to Harvey Weinstein's defense suggesting his victims may have been 'asking for it' by the way they dress. 
  • Actor Mickey Rourke says he's "pretty again" after a recent nose job. 
  • Gillian Anderson say she'll be good for one more mini-season of "The X-Files" and then she's done. 
  • A man from Italy just set a Guinness World Record by putting on 13 pairs of underwear in 30 seconds. 
  • Google just released a pair of headphones that can translate 40 languages instantly. 
  • Attendance at the Disney parks around the globe has been going down, while the crowds at the Universal theme parks have been going up. 
  • Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

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