THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff (she) is facing impeachment and may be kicked out of office before the Summer Olympics being held there.
- Jeb Bush says he's going to skip this summer's Republican convention in Cleveland.
- Doris Roberts--Ray's mom in "Everybody loves Raymond" and Clark Griswald's mother-in-law in "Christmas Vacation" died Sunday night. She was 90.
- Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson married the NFL's Andrew East in a Saturday night wedding ceremony in Tennessee.
- One thing about "The Voice," it hasn't had near the success of "American Idol" when it comes to singers who hit it big. The latest Voice winner, Kevin Simm, recently released his first single and it didn't crack the top 20 before beginning its slide down the charts.
- The gossip mongers are working overtime on this one: that Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston are in the midst of a $170 million divorce.
- Amazon has launched a new Prime Video service that you can subscribe to for $8.99 a month. Netflix has a new competitor.
- In California, it turns out that thousands of voters accidentally registered as members of the American Independent Party, thinking they were independent-minded voters. It turns out that it's the name of an extremely conservative party. Of the 500 registered members contacted, 75% said they didn't know they had indicated they preferred that party.
- So, Axl Rose really is going on the road with AC/DC.
- How things could have been so different -- when Carl Reiner was putting together "The Dick Van Dyke Show," it originally was titled "Head of the Family" and there were two actors vying for the starring role: Dick Van Dyke and Johnny Carson.
- Wow, it's been three years since the Boston Marathon bombing.
- A spring snowstorm resulted in the cancelation of 700 flights out of Denver over the weekend.
- The U.S. government has banned travel by employees to Acapulco because of security reasons.
- A report says that sales of vinyl records are at a 28-year high.
- AMC Theaters thought about it, but has decided against some of their theaters allowing texting during the movie.
- The Braves and Twins both finally won their first games of the baseball season after starting the season 0-9.
- A report says that Johnny Manziel and friends trashed a $4.5 million rental house in Los Angeles after a police report was filed by neighbor Kathy Griffin.
- A UK court ruled a woman can't name her daughter "Cyanide."
- Rihanna says she's launching her own line of makeup.
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