THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Carrie Underwood suffered a broken wrist and other injuries after a a "hard fall" outside her house on Friday.
- Actor John Hillerman, who appeared in "Blazing Saddles" and "Magnum, P.I." died last Thursday. He was 84.
- The Department of Justice is demanding that CNN be sold as a condition of the AT&T Time Warner merger.
- The NAACP in California is pushing to get rid of the National Anthem.
- Caitlyn Jenner says she hasn't spoken to Kim Kardashian in over a year.
- Britney Spears is painting again. You laugh, but she sold her last work for $10,000.
- Lucasfilms has announced there will be a new Star Wars trilogy... AND a Star Wars TV show, which will air exclusively on Disney streaming. You knew they were going there.
- O.J. Simpson has been banned from The Cosmopolitan hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
- The college basketball season officially tipped off over the weekend.
- A new report says that voice-enabled speakers will be in 55% of American households by 2020.
- Some of those just-released government documents show that on November 22nd, 1963, CIA agents met in Paris with a Cuban operative in hopes of assassinating Cuba's Communist leader Fidel Castro using -- out of all things -- a ballpoint pen rigged with poison. They had no idea that 5,000 miles away -- at that very minute -- their president, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in broad daylight while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas.
- The older brother of Nicki Minaj was found guilty of sexually assaulting an underage girl.
- After parting ways with her manager, we hear that Carey is now being managed fulltime by her much-younger backup-dancer boyfriend, Bryan Tanaka.
- 23-year-old Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman tells 60-Minutes that she was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
- And now HBO has severed ties with Louis C.K. following those sexual misconduct allegations, which he's now admitted are true.
- Venezuela is getting closer and closer to a financial cliff.
- The term "Polar Vortex" is making a comeback.
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