THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Bindi Irwin is caught in a tangled legal web as her "Dancing with the Stars" contract just got rejected because a judge needs proof her dad is dead. The 17-year-old's deal, once it's completed a guarantee of $125k. By making it to weeks 3 and 4 she gets an additional $10k per week. Week 5 gets her another $15,000. Weeks 6 and 7 she gets $20k a week. Weeks 8 and 9 she gets $30k a week. And if she makes it to 10 and 11 she gets $50,000 a week.
- The administration at Seattle Pacific University has told students that they can have their Veterans Day service in the chapel tomorrow morning...but the students were informed that they were NOT allowed to display an American flag or say The Pledge of Allegiance during the service because it might offend someone. Seriously. (update--after a huge public outcry, the school reversed their policy)
- 79-year-old Burt Reynolds, looking back, confessed to Vanity Fair that Sally Field was the love of his life.
- That Showtime revival of "Twin Peaks" will not make it to your TV next year. It's been bumped to 2017.
- For the next Republican debate, Christie and Huckabee failed to make it to the big stage... while Graham and Pataki both failed to even get into the next round tomorrow night.
- The number of first-time homebuyers is now at a 28-year low.
- We know that not only are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani dating, but they've even written a country song together.
- Oprah Winfrey's "2015 Favorite Things" list is out.
- Blackberry's new Priv phone came out Friday. It still has the slide-out keyboard, but it is the first Blackberry to use the Android software.
- "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" hit stores on Friday.
- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is offering voice feminization therapy to help students live their gender identities.
- "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah underwent an emergency appendectomy last week.
- J.K. Rowling says she is working on a new children's book.
- A breathalyzer company says the Bills, Lions and Eagles have the drunkest fans in the NFL.
- A report says the New England Patriots have won 19 of their last 25 coin tosses.
- A proposed new supersonic airliner would reportedly be able to fly from London to New York in 30 minutes.
- Facebook has 1.5 billion monthly users.
- George Barris, who designed the 1966 Batmobile, the 'Munsters' Koach and the truck for "The Beverly Hillbillies" has died from a brain tumor at age 90.
- The U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs in October... dropping our national unemployment rate down to 5%.
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