THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Over 2,000 Americans surveyed -- 20% of consumers suspect that their delivery driver has eaten some of their food, while 28% of delivery drivers confessed to nibbling on an order here and there.
  • Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and mother of just-married Princess Eugenie, dashed rumors that Eugenie is pregnant during a party in Massachusetts over the weekend.
  • American rapper A$AP Rocky's trial on assault charges began Tuesday in Sweden.
  • The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point by Wednesday afternoon.
  • Lady Gaga appears to be moving on after splitting from ex-fiance Christian Carino earlier this year. She was seen in L.A. kissing audio engineer Dan Horton during a brunch date.
  • More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to change the date of Halloween, making it the last Saturday of October.
  • Uber has laid off 400 employees.
  • InterContinental Group -- who own Holiday Inns and the Crowne Plaza hotels -- is eliminating the travel-sized tubes of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its 843,000 rooms across its global chain of hotels. Guests will find bulk-sized toiletries beginning in 2021.
  • Capital One says that personal information, including the Social Security and bank account numbers of more than 100 million individuals, were compromised in a massive data theft that led to the arrest of a Seattle woman.
  • A New Jersey man has become the world's most frequent flier, accumulating 21 million miles.
  • The new Netflix show "Typewriter" is said to be so scary some people can't sleep after watching it.
  • Casey Kasem's wife and children are accusing each other of his wrongful death, again.
  • New York Giants wide receiver Golden Tate has been suspended four games for taking a fertility drug.
  • A study says nearly half of all Millennials get money from their parents every month.
  • Colin Jost said he's always been afraid of marriage, until he me Scarlett Johansson.
  • The Muncie, Indiana, police department is helping out the local animal shelters by allowing people to pay their parking tickets... in cat food!
  • A Nebraska teacher visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, found a 2.12-carat diamond while exploring the park.
  • 'Tickling' the ear with a small electrical current appears to re-balance the autonomic nervous system for over-55s, potentially slowing down one of the effects of ageing, according to new research.
  • Beginning next week, McDonald's is going to offer spicy chicken nuggets in the U.K., but only for 7 weeks.
  • Hurricane Erick could hit Hawaii by the end of the week.

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