StupidiNews!

• The US Secret Service is investigating suspicious letters sent to the White House and Pentagon containing what appears to be ricin. 
• The former Chicago police officer who shot unarmed black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014 took the stand at his murder trial Tuesday, saying he had no choice but to open fire.
• Donald Trump claimed at a campaign rally in Mississippi last night that he told Saudi King Salman that "he wouldn't last two weeks" without support of the US military. 
• New York state tax authorities are opening an investigation into Donald Trump's finances based on yesterday's NY Times investigation into Trump's alleged history of tax fraud.
• The 2018 Nobel prize in physics has gone to an international team that researched laser beam "optical tweezers" technology, Canada's Donna Strickland is the first woman to share the prize in 55 years.