5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Friday June 15th

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Report on FBI brings the 2016 campaign roaring back:

This long national nightmare may never be over.

The sour legacy of the 2016 election is further tightening its grip on Washington after the release of a critical report on the FBI’s conduct while investigating scandals linked to the vote. And a new legal front is opening with stunning allegations about the Trump family’s behavior during the campaign.

It all made for another surreal day in the nation’s capital Thursday that deepened cavernous divides, dealt a fresh battering to the nation’s bedrock legal institutions and further undermined the notion that a shared objective truth underwrites American political life.

The publication of the Justice Department’s inspector general’s report also offered an unsettling preview of how the political power centers are likely to splinter along partisan lines when Robert Mueller eventually reveals the results of the Russia investigation.

Bill Cosby replaces his defense team:

Bill Cosby has replaced his entire defense team ahead of his sentencing hearing in September.

Cosby’s attorney, Tom Mesereau, and the rest of his defense team were replaced by attorney Joseph P. Green, the comedian’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said.

Wyatt did not elaborate on the reason for the change.

CNN reached out to Green for comment but has not yet received a response.

Cosby was found guilty in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004.

The 80-year-old comedian is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on September 24.

He faces up to 10 years in prison on each count, although the actual sentence is likely to be much shorter.

Stephen Hawking’s voice will be beamed 3,500 light years into space:

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking spent his life teaching the world about space, so it is only fitting that part of him will end up among the stars.

As Hawking’s ashes are being interred between the graves of Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton at a memorial service Friday at Westminster Abbey, an antenna in Spain will beam his voice out into space, toward a black hole.

Hawking, who spent much of his life researching black holes, died in March at age 76 after battling motor neurone disease.

Will ‘The Incredibles 2’ bring more power to animated sequels?:

If “The Incredibles 2” has an incredible opening weekend, Disney can give thanks, in part, to the ageless aspect of animation — a medium tailor-made for sequels, which allows this movie to pick up where the original left off, 14 years later. While that might be advantageous for studios, the allure of sequels could also lead to diminished creativity in what was once one of movie-going’s most unexpectedly ambitious genres.

There’s no denying that the entertainment business has become increasingly wedded to the comfort and familiarity of sequels and spinoffs. Pixar, however, the Disney-owned unit behind “Incredibles,” has historically prided itself on its creativity and originality, resisting the siren song of sequels through much of the company’s early years.

The animation powerhouse fulfilled that promise with a virtually uninterrupted string of widely admired hits that appealed to adults and children alike — titles like “Up,” “WALL-E” and “Ratatouille.”

Forget Friday Night Lights, Esports Is Becoming the Next Varsity Obsession:

In the early 2000s, Mason Mullenioux was trying to find where he fit in at Blue Springs High School. Located in a suburb outside Kansas City, Missouri, Blue Springs has a student body of more than 2,500 and an athletic pedigree to match. Mullenioux tried out for basketball and tennis but didn’t make either roster. “I was athletic,” he says, “but I couldn’t make the teams. I was upset they didn’t have anything for me.”

What he wanted was a school-sponsored outlet for a competition that spoke to him: World of Warcraft. But back then, the idea of a varsity gaming team would have seemed as far-fetched as affordable virtual reality headsets. Now, Mullenioux and the company he co-founded, HSEL—the High School Esports League—are at the forefront of a growing movement to bring esports teams into the high school sports arena

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