THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Anthony Bourdain was found hanged in his hotel room in France on Friday. He was 61. 
  • The sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands committed suicide. She was 33. 
  • Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. 
  • Rex Reed has called Jodie Foster's new movie, "Hotel Artemis," "the worst movie of the year." One quote from his review: "Moronic drivel that truly qualifies as the worst movie of the year, it sinks amateurish moviemaking aimed at audiences with no taste to an alarming new low." 
  • The Justice Department said that its report on ex-FBI director James Comey and the bureau's probe into Hillary Clinton will be released this Thursday, June 14 -- the president's 72nd birthday. 
  • American wealth has passed the $100-trillion mark. 
  • Duchess Kate's little sister, Pippa Middleton, is expecting her first child. 
  • Alan O'Neill, known for playing Irish gunrunner Hugh on FX's Sons of Anarchy, died last week in Los Angeles. He was 47. He was a heavy smoker with a history of heart problems, and foul play is not suspected. 
  • Henry Winkler, "the Fonz", was among the 118,000 eligible voters left off the election rolls in L.A. last week. 
  • The hottest new flavor this summer: the brasperry. It's what you get when you stuff a blueberry inside a raspberry. (Or combine the flavors for a drink.) 
  • A woman was gored by a Buffalo at Yellowstone last week, as a group of people just got too close to it and it ticked him off. 
  • A South Dakota sheriff who lost his re-election bid to his own deputy in a landslide wasted no time getting back. One minute after polls closed, he fired the deputy. 
  • Mandy Moore said in an interview that years ago, she met Justin Timberlake backstage and he joked that she had big feet. A passing comment that Justin doesn't even remember making, but he had no idea it had such an impact on Mandy. He has apologized for it. 
  • A new restaurant has opened in Boston where all the food is cooked by robots. 
  • A Kim Jong un impersonator was detained at Changi Airport after returning to Singapore ahead of the historic summit planned for later today. 
  • Mitt Romney is predicting President Trump will be re-elected in 2020.

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