THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Juice World, the talented young rapper and singer whose career was just taking off, is dead after suffering a seizure in Chicago's Midway airport. He was 21.
  • Rene Auberjonois, the prolific actor best known for his roles on the television shows Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and his part in the 1970 film M*A*S*H playing Father Mulcahy, has died. He was 79.
  • Elon Musk did not defame a British cave explorer when the Tesla CEO labeled him a "pedo guy" in an infamous tweet, a California federal jury found on Friday, following less than an hour of deliberations.
  • Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993's Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died from complications of pneumonia at age 82.
  • Carroll Spinney, who provided the voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for 50 years, died over the weekend. He was 85.
  • In Japan, people are having a hard time finding that special someone. 25% of people between the ages of 20 and 49 are single.
  • Felicity Jones and her husband are expecting their first child together.
  • They can't get that Baby Yoda merchandise out fast enough. Some of the small dolls are available to buy now but won't arrive until May of next year.
  • The Las Vegas shooting victims have to split up an $800 million settlement with MGM... but how? Who gets what?
  • The jobs report came out Friday -- we added 266,000 jobs and our unemployment rate is at an all-time low of 3.5%.
  • The wife of Papa John's founder John Schnatter filed for divorce last Thursday. The couple has been married for 32 years.
  • Meanwhile, Papa John's is now offering an "American Pizza," with sliced hot dogs on every piece.
  • No need to take up a collection for the Obamas. They're doing just fine. They just bought a Martha's Vineyard estate from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck for $11.75 million.
  • NFL Network correspondent Jane Slater says she caught an ex cheating after their shared Fitbit app showed a sudden giant bump in his heart rate and physical activity at 4am. Slater says she "loved" the Fitbit the former boyfriend gave her for Christmas. She and her ex would spur on each other's workouts by mutually tracking their activity meters. Then she noticed an unusual bump in his heart rate in the middle of the night.
  • Kid Rock's Detroit restaurant is closing after a video showing Rock on a tirade against Oprah.
  • Adding insult to injury, the guy who was the receiver in Colin Kaepernick's workout Jordan Veasy was signed by an NFL team.
  • An electric eel is powering the lights on a Christmas tree at a Tennessee aquarium.
  • The sad part of celebrity. Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to obtain a restraining order against a woman who allegedly threatened to throw a "molotov cocktail" at her home.
  • Jason Momoa has apologized to Chris Pratt for criticizing him for posing in an ad with a plastic water bottle.
  • After all these years, Mickey and Minnie Mouse are finally going to get their own ride at Disney World. The new attraction, Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, will open March 4 next year.
  • They surveyed 2,000 people and according to them -- of the 365 days of the year they wake up, only 60 of them were in good moods. Really? They said they woke up in a bad mood 300 days every year. Don't live that way.

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