Today's News Rundown: America Opens An Embassy In Cuba, Big Bird Joins HBO & More August 13, 2015 Buzz
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For the first time in over 50 years, an American flag is being flown in Cuba, specifically over the newly reopened American embassy. The coolest part? The Marines who removed the flag when the American embassy was closed in 1961 were on hand for the ceremony.
A man died on Thursday after he was hit by a roller coaster in an amusement park in Ohio. According to early reports, 45-year-old James Young had climbed a fence and entered a restricted area to retrieve a cellphone that he'd dropped while riding the same roller coaster when he was struck.
It's official: renting a home in America has never been more expensive than right now. Time for someone to run for president.
According to a recent survey, more than 50 percent of Americans haven't had a vacation in the last year. Bummer.
Sesame Street is moving to HBO! The iconic children's educational programming will begin airing episodes first on the premium cable show this fall, which will then be appear on PBS (Sesame Street's longtime broadcasting home) nine months later. The move allows the show to create more episodes (upping the number to 35 a year from 19) and produce a spinoff series.
As if ISIS wasn't scary enough, the Associated Press is reporting that the extremist group is being investigated for using chemical weapons!
Target (a middle version of Wal-Mart) recently angered some people (presumably of the type who usually shop at Wal-Mart) by announcing their plans to feature gender neutral labeling for children's toys. One guy has been trolling the haters by changing his profile pic and name to appear as if it was an official Target account and responding to all their ridiculous comments posted on the store's fan page.
According to officials, Royal baby Prince George has become a target of near constant harassment by paparazzi, which (especially when you remember how his grandmother died) is REALLY not cool.
Swedish authorities have dropped the their five-year-old sexual assault case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition. Although it's unlikely Assange will be leaving his diplomatic sanctuary anytime soon.
17-year-old Modern Family actress Ariel Winter had breast reduction surgery and gave an in-depth interview to Glamour about it.
And for today's award for distasteful ad campaign of the day, we nominate Australian wine company Premier Estates and their "Taste the Bush" effort, which uses a lame play-on-words that only high school boys would find clever. Watch it below.
