(#1) Start of the 2016 Paralympics gets a Google doodle [Search Engine Land]
Google is marking the start of the 2016 Paralympics today with an animated image on its homepage. Hosted in Rio this year, Google says this is the first time the Paralympics has been held in a Latin American city. Among the 500 athletic events ...
(#2) iPhone 7 announced with water resistance, dual cameras, and no headphone jack [The Verge]
Apple has officially announced the iPhone 7 today. The new iPhone features a design that's very similar to last year's iPhone 6S (and the year prior's iPhone 6), with a rounded aluminum body. But what's entirely new is the phone's water resistance ...
(#3) Fox News' Brit Hume addresses Greta Van Susteren's exit on air [Entertainment Weekly]
“Finally, a word about Greta Van Susteren,” he said of the anchor who hosted the show for 14 years. “As I noted earlier, she has left Fox News, saying today the place just didn't feel like home anymore. I count Greta a friend, and I'm sorry to see her ...
(#4) PlayStation Network experiencing issues across the board (update) [Polygon]
PlayStation Network users are having trouble signing in to the service, according to Sony's PSN status page. As of 5:39 p.m. ET, account management — specifically, signing in to PSN accounts and creating them — is listed as "experiencing issues.
(#5) ITT Tech shutdown: How students can learn about their options [Los Angeles Times]
A day after ITT Technical Institute abruptly shut down all its schools, the U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring online seminars to inform students of their options. One webinar is to start at 9 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday and another will start at ...
(#6) College football rankings: How did the top 25 change after Week 1? [NCAA.com]
With Week 1 complete and college football season officially underway, The Associated Press released its latest rankings less than 24 hours after Florida State's comeback win over Ole Miss. As it was said by colleague Ryan Cooper when the preseason poll ...
(#7) Taylor Swift Steps Out with a Smile After News of Split with Tom Hiddleston [People Magazine]
"Look, the truth is that Taylor Swift and I are together, and we're very happy," Hiddleston told The Hollywood Reporter, confirming their relationship for the first time. "That's the truth. It's not a publicity stunt." Swift and Hiddleston were first ...
(#8) Timeline of events in Jacob Wetterling's abduction [Fox News]
A timeline of events related to the abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling of St. Joseph, Minnesota: Oct. 22, 1989: Jacob Wetterling is abducted from a rural road by a masked gunman as he rides bikes with his brother and a friend near his home about ...
(#9) Mexico vs. Honduras: Score, Reaction from World Cup 2018 Qualifier [Bleacher Report]
Mexico entered Tuesday night's 2018 CONCACAF World Cup qualifier against Honduras with the top spot in Group A locked up, and it played a fairly mundane game as the two sides played to a scoreless draw at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. By virtue of the ...
(#10) Donald Glover's 'Two Worlds of Earn' on New FX Comedy, 'Atlanta' [NBCNews.com]
FX is tapping into the creative mind of rapper-actor Donald Glover for its new series "Atlanta," which premiered September 6. In the comedy, which Glover executive produced and wrote, Glover plays Earnest "Earn" Marks, one of two cousins who are trying ...
(#11) Troy Aikman's Anger At Skip Bayless Over Gay Rumor Is Misplaced [Forbes]
Before Skip Bayless' combative contrarianism found a national stage, he was one of the most polarizing local sports columnists in the country. He spent 17 years muckraking in Dallas, most notably as a columnist for the Dallas Morning News. Perhaps his ...
(#12) Google celebra los Juegos Paralímpicos 2016 [LA NACION (Argentina)]
El doodle de hoy celebra la apertura de los Juegos Paralímpicos de 2016 y destaca las asombrosas hazañas que los deportistas pondrán a prueba en Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Los competidores van por el oro en una edición que hace su debut en la ciudad ...
(#13) AP Top 25 Heat Check: Badgers, 'Horns surge; Tigers tumble [USA TODAY]
The first weekend of the college football season mostly lived up to the hype, no thanks to Southern California. Seven teams ranked in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, including two in the top five, lost. The first poll of the regular season had four new ...
(#14) Real Dragons In Tibet: The Truth Behind Them [FX News Call]
Video of alleged real dragons in Tibet made rounds online on YouTube last month. The video by YouTube uploaded Radio Valley 99, a radio station in Bhutan, was viewed around 1 million times on YouTube in its first three days. Now, it already has more ...
(#15) Addicted to fidgeting? This versatile desk toy is everything you've dreamed of [Digital Trends]
That concept has been taken to its logical conclusion with a new Kickstarter project for the so-called “Fidget Cube,” an all-in-one solution that allows fidget-afflicted users to click, roll, flip, glide, spin and any number of other fiddly verbs to ...
(#16) Isabelle Dinoire, First Face Transplant Recipient, Dies At 49 [Huffington Post]
Isabelle Dinoire, the first-ever recipient of a partial face transplant, died in April after a long illness, according to a statement from the Amiens University Hospital in France. She was surrounded by family, according to the hospital's statement ...
(#17) Queen Sugar is a gorgeous and complex family drama from the director of Selma [Vox]
There isn't much TV that can compel me to sit down and embrace its world like I'm sinking into a hot bath, but that's exactly what it feels like to watch the warm and all-consuming Queen Sugar. Under creator and director Ava DuVernay's careful and ...
(#18) It's official: Eric Rowe traded to Patriots for 2018 fourth-round pick [Philly.com (blog)]
The Eagles traded Rowe to the New England Patriots for a 2018 fourth-round pick. No other players were involved in the deal despite early reports that offensive lineman Josh Kline would be coming to the Eagles. Rowe was the Eagles' second-round pick in ...
(#19) Bishop Eddie Long Says He's 'Recovering From Health Challenge' [The Root (blog)]
Bishop Eddie Long has a gaunt new look, and many people in his congregation have been questioning his health because of his recent weight loss. But let Long tell it in August, he put down the Popeyes chicken and biscuits, and picked up a plant based diet.
(#20) Anna Dewdney, children's author, illustrator of Llama Llama books, dies [Chicago Tribune]
Best-selling children's book author and illustrator Anna Dewdney, who gained fame with her series of Llama Llama stories, has died at age 50. Dewdney, who had a 15-month battle with brain cancer, died Saturday at her home in Chester, publisher Penguin ...
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