StupidiNews!

• One-time Rhode Island GOP Senator and Independent Gov. Linc Chafee is running as a Democrat in a long shot bid for the White House in 2016.
• Hurricane Blanca has grown to a Category 4 storm in the Pacific, threatening the Baja California coast of Mexico, but is expected to weaken before landfall sometime this weekend.
• The FBI bribery and corruption investigation into soccer's world governing organization FIFA has now grown to include the winning 2018 Russian World Cup bid and that of Qatar in 2022.
• Another big telecom merger finds carrier T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, in talks to buy US satellite provider Dish Network.
• An investigation by USA Today finds DEA wiretap orders have tripled from 2005 to 2014, with agents going to less stringent state courts to authorize them in order to bypass federal regulations.