THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation of character. 
• Seattle remains the hottest real estate market in the country. House prices have gone up 12.9% over the past year. 
• Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr has turned over jewelry worth $8.1 million to the U.S. Department of Justice that she received from an ex-boyfriend, Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho, in 2014. 
• President Trump held his first re-election campaign fundraiser last night in Washington, DC, at one of his hotels. 
• The San Luis Obispo home of Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki has been destroyed by a wildfire. 
• A new strain of ransomware named Petya has begun attacking companies in Europe and North America. 
• Facebook has hit 2 billion users. 
• Homeless shelters in Chicago will start serving Starbucks coffee with meals. 
• J-Lo and Alex Rodriguez continue to be inseparable. They spent last weekend in the Hamptons with her kids. 
• Pandora is shutting down in Australia and New Zealand. 
• Shakira has announced dates for her first world tour in six years. 
• Michael Nyqvist, the Swedish actor known to American audiences for his roles in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and John Wick, has died at 56. Lung cancer. 
• The New York Knicks and Phil Jackson parted ways yesterday. 
• So, if everything goes as hoped, "American Idol" will return to ABC with Ryan Seacrest as host and Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie and Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue as judges. 
• Donal Logue -- who you may know as Detective Harvey Bullock on "Gotham" -- has put out an all-call for his 16-year-old son, who went missing in New York on Monday. 
• A Czech nuclear power station is in hot water after it used a bikini contest to hire potential interns. 
• Michael Bond, the author of the books about much-adored children's character Paddington Bear, has died. He was 91. 
• In South Carolina, a new mom is really glad her labor is over. Her new baby boy weighed in at 14-pounds 4-ounces. 
• The body of a woman was found in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart. The door had been locked for days and everyone just assumed it was out of order. 
• Jim Carrey is facing a wrongful death lawsuit, as the family of his ex- girlfriend blame him for the prescription pill overdose that killed her.