By Lauren Weber
Thursday August 27th, 2015
TOP STORIES
TWO VIRGINIA JOURNALISTS KILLED ON AIR In an execution shockingly recorded and disseminated on social media, former WDBJ7 reporter Vester Lee Flanagan shot and killed reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on air yesterday. Tributes have poured in for the young journalists, led by the station they worked for. The gunman, who was a disgruntled former employee, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [Hilary Hanson, HuffPost]
MARKETS ON THE UPSWING AFTER SHARP FALL Chinese shares even got in on the Wall Street rebound as the markets recovered. And check out who the winners and losers of the stock market unrest have been, as well as a refresher on why "China is rattling the world." [NYT]
'JIHADI TRAILS:' FOLLOWING THE ROUTES TO SYRIA AND IRAQ [The Wall Street Journal chronicles] the global scope of their recruitment efforts via the lives and journeys of 10 men and women who traveled to the war zone. Each had his or her own reason for trading the comforts of home for a rough, austere new world. They leave behind bewildered families and communities struggling for answers." [WSJ]
BIDEN RUN COULD ATTRACT FLOOD OF OBAMA DONORS Stat of the day: Only 52 of the 770 people that were Obama's bundlers have fundraised or signed on to be bundlers for Hillary Clinton. [WaPo]
WALMART TO STOP SELLING MILITARY-STYLE RIFLES The company, which will stop selling AR-15s and other military-style rifles, said the move was motivated by "simply a reflection of changing customer tastes." [Emily Peck, HuffPost]
FOLLOWING THE SEA OF EUROPEAN MIGRANTS Documenting the mass exodus from the Middle East and Afghanistan. [NYT]
KRAFT RECALLED 2 MILLION POUNDS OF TURKEY BACON Turns out it was making quite a few people sick. [Leigh Weingus, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
AMY SCHUMER AND J-LAW ARE CO-STARRING IN A COMEDY That they're writing themselves. It doesn't get much better than this. [HuffPost]
OUR MINDS ARE BLOWN BY THIS JON SNOW THEORY Can't. Focus. On. Anything. Else. [HuffPost]
MEET FACEBOOK'S VERSION OF SIRI “M” is modeled after a high-powered personal assistant and made possible by a team of Facebook staff on the backend. [Wired]
HOW TAYLOR SWIFT MONETIZED FRIENDSHIP Lauren Duca breaks down the superstar’s celebrity "friends." [HuffPost]
JOSH DUGGAR CHECKS INTO REHAB What a sad, sad, sad story. [HuffPost]
HOW TO EAT AT DISNEY WORLD Including the massive turkey legs. [Eater]
THERE IS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF A KANYE SMILE He's straight up GRINNING. [HuffPost]
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WHAT'S WORKING
INSIDE A SYRIAN REFUGEE CIRCUS SCHOOL "When Mohammad 'Abu Qasem' Qusam Ghouzlan arrived with his family at the Za’atari refugee camp in northern Jordan from his home of Syria, he thought he would be staying just a few days. Two and a half years later, it turned out that was not the case, but Ghouzlan has found a creative outlet to help him and others keep busy and stay positive as they look ahead to their futures beyond their time living in what has been called the Middle East’s largest refugee camp." [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
PUTTING A WOMAN ON THE $10 BILL "2020 is also the year that the United States Department of the Treasury will unveil the redesigned $10 bill, and it will be the first time in over a century that a woman will be featured on U.S. currency." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ A man who spent $100,000 to look like Justin Bieber has been found dead in his motel room. Toby Sheldon was 35.
~ Yes, Megan Fox will most likely need to pay Brian Austin Green spousal support.
~ Bad news bears: One of the baby panda twins has died at the National Zoo.
~ This long-form piece on a high school football team's heartbreaking shot at perfection will take you back to the bleachers. You can smell the grass, hear the cheers and wish you could do it all over again.
~ When your retirement plan involves going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
~ While McDonald's may have said no to Burger King's McWhopper proposal, here's what it would have tasted like.
~ Yes, you will click on this link to which schools top Tinder's "Most Swiped Right" rankings, because sadly, we haven’t all moved on from "hot or not."
~ What happens in one hundred years of arm bars.
~ How to clean the dirtiest thing in your house.
~ And all the queen's hats.
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