News You Should Know

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published 16 July 2015

—Last night may have been Caitlyn Jenner's show (opens in new tab), but 14-year-old baseball and basketball phenom Mo'ne Davis gave her a run for her money with her Best Breakout Athlete win. (MLB (opens in new tab))

—After a leaked video revealed a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing how the organization provides fetal tissue to researchers, House Republicans are investigating the practice's legality. (New York Times (opens in new tab))

—Amy Schumer's getting a lot of buzz today for her new GQ cover, on which she gets kinky with a certain famous robot.

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—NFL cheerleaders in California won job protections from Governor Jerry Brown yesterday. (BuzzFeed (opens in new tab))

—Despite the fact that it's illegal, Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker wants to drug-test food-stamp recipients. (Huffington Post (opens in new tab))

—A video surfaced online this week of a couple having sex at a Uniqlo in Beijing, which has Uniqlo (and the Chinese government) clutching their proverbial pearls. (Guardian (opens in new tab))

—Emmy noms are being announced at 11:30 a.m. EST today. Diehard fans of ______, prepare to be outraged/justified. (New York Times (opens in new tab))

As the editor of Cosmopolitan, Jess oversees the editorial for all of Cosmo's efforts across print, digital, video, and emerging platforms. Previously she served as the digital director of Marie Claire, where she tripled the readership, and she's held print and hybrid posts at Glamour and Teen Vogue. In 2013 she launched an interactive e-commerce platform for a fashion-tech startup, and in a former life she was a ballet dancer and NYU film student. She lives in Manhattan with her scruffy dog George.