THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW


  • Rob Reiner's latest movie, "Shock and Awe", earned only $41,000 over the weekend.
  • Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced he'll cut his presidential salary in half when he takes office in December.
  • NBA player Sam Dekker and ESPN reporter Olivia Harlan are now husband and wife.
  • Choreographer Alan Johnson has died at the age of 81. He arranged the dance scenes in the Mel Brooks movies "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein."
  • Lauren Ridloff, who is deaf and was nominated for a 2018 Tony in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for her role in Children of a Lesser God, will be joining "The Walking Dead" for season nine.
  • 10% of U.S. broadband households watch esports, and 62% play video games at least one hour per week according to Parks Associates.
  • The Sunday Times of London says that both Prince Charles and Prince William refused to meet with President Trump during his London visit.
  • Hudson's Bay Company, the oldest department store chain in Canada, announced on Saturday that everything in Ivanka Trump's product line will be phased out of the chain's 90 stores across Canada by this fall. Over 150 items have already been removed from its website.
  • Matt Lauer's divorce is said to be almost final.
  • A Saudi Arabian woman was arrested for hugging a male singer at a concert.
  • A couple of Taylor Swift fans attending her meet-and-greet Friday night in Philadelphia got engaged while they were hanging with their favorite singer. They actually met at one of her concerts five years ago.
  • Two men claiming to be the sons of Charles Manson have joined in a fight over his estate.
  • Niecy Nash now has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  • Lady Gaga is starting her own cosmetics company.
  • New Zealand scientists have produced the first ever color X-Ray used on a human.
  • Apple is ending its photo printing service. Probably the biggest problem with it was that nobody knew it existed.
  • Miranda Lambert is caught in the middle of her boyfriend Evan Felker's divorce - and now his estranged wife is accusing him of ghosting her while she was hospitalized.
  • A woman in Half Moon Bay, California, says she set those bales of hay on fire to help fight off the zombies.
  • Kate Upton and husband Justin Verlander are expecting their first baby together. They were married last year, even though they missed their original wedding date because it coincided with Verlander's team, the Houston Astros, playing -- and winning -- game 7 of the World series.

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