THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Three Mile Island, the site of a nuclear meltdown in 1979 that forever changed America's view on nuclear energy, officially shut down at noon on Friday.
  • Carson Daly announced Friday that his wife, Siri, was pregnant with their fourth child.
  • A lawsuit claims that both Lowe's and Home Depot have been secretly using facial recognition software on everyone that enters their stores.
  • Walgreens is working with Google and testing drone delivery.
  • First, he threw in his hat, now New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is throwing in the towel in his bid to become president. Game over.
  • Music producer Mark Ronson says he identifies as a sapiosexual. By definition: "Someone who finds intelligence and the human mind to be the most sexually attractive feature for a potential sexual relationship."
  • A tour bus carrying members of the road crew for country singer Josh Turner plunged off a cliff in central California, killing one person and injuring seven others. Josh was not on board.
  • A Nebraska woman set her apartment on fire while burning love letters from her ex-boyfriend.
  • A survey says two of three Millennials believe they will eventually be rich.
  • There had rumors he was quitting, but Ryan Seacrest said he will be back to host "American Idol" one more season.
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook greeted the first eager buyers of the new iPhone 11s on Friday at the grand reopening of the company's flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue.
  • A "Hogan's Heroes" reboot is said to be in the works featuring the descendants of the original characters.
  • So far, Antonio Brown has lost sponsorships from Nike, Pepsi, Pizza Hut, and Campbell's Soup, for those of you keeping score at home.
  • Lime is shutting down its car rental service.
  • Demi Moore has revealed in her new book that she and ex-husband Ashton Kutcher had two threesomes during their marriage - and that he then used the encounters to explain away his later cheating on her.
  • By the way, 56-year-old Demi Moore has posed nude for the cover of the new Harper's Bazaar.
  • Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green have three kids together. The middle one, 6-year-old Noah, has taken to wearing dresses to school.
  • Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman had to be hospitalized for a heart condition. He blames the loss of his wife for his broken heart, who died in June at the age of 51.
  • A very rare occurrence on Thursday's Live with Kelly and Ryan-Kelly Ripa actually missed the show because "she was really sick."
  • Suzanne Whang, who viewers came to love as the voice and face of "House Hunters" for nearly a decade, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, according to her agent. She was 56.
  • The "Bachelor" franchise ended its sixth season of "Bachelor in Paradise" last week with a first -- a proposal between a same-sex couple. Demi Burnett and Kristian Haggerty got engaged on the season finale Tuesday night. Burnett popped the question to Haggerty in Mexico, where the show was being filmed.

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