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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