Juice Wrld Dead at 21

21 year old rapper, Juice Wrld, died Sunday morning after suffering a heart attack while boarding a private jet at Midway Airport in Chicago. The up and coming artist,  whose real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins, had recently been signed to Interscope Records In March of last year after his EP “Juice Wrld 999” racked up millions of streams on SoundCloud. His second album, “Death Race for Love” released last year, hit No. 1 on the album chart.

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Iran Releases Student

Princeton University PhD student,  Xiyue Wang , who had been held for three years in Iran on suspicion of being a spy, is in "good spirits" after being freed from an Iranian prison. Chinese born Wang was conducting research in Tehran when he was arrested there on espionage charges in August 2016.

Big Birds Inside Man Dies

Caroll Spinney, the whole-body puppeteer who  portrayed Big Bird on the PBS show Sesame Street since the programs beginnings in 1969, died at his home in Woodstock, Connecticut.  He was 85. 

Mr. Spinney, whose portrayal of the character has nurtured multiple generations of children, performed in live concerts around the world and was featured in films, documentaries and record albums as the gentle-natured yellow bird. 

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