Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Sep 16, 2019

Congrats to NORMAN LEAR, who's now the oldest person ever to win an Emmy Award at 97 years and 49 days. He's one of the producers of "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'" and won the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) Emmy Saturday night at the Creative Arts Emmys.

The Nazi satire movie, "Jojo Rabbit," picked up the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. The plot is about a young boy in 1940s Germany who discovers his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their house. The film was directed by TAIKA WAITITI, who also directed the Marvel hit, "Thor: Ragnarok."

Sign of the times: also up in the great unwashed North, the Toronto Raptors have introduced a new line of team-branded hijabs --the head coverings worn by Muslim women-- in an effort to be more inclusive to fans of all cultures.
The Raptors head office says they are the first team in the NBA to offer an athletic hijab.

The NYC schools want to ban chocolate milk in their cafeterias. The NY Post reports Schools Chancellor RICHARD CARRANZA is behind the move, citing concerns about children getting too much sugar in their diet.
One small problem: when Los Angeles eliminated chocolate milk in 2011, the district brought it back in 2017 after finding out that kids were rejecting milk altogether.
FYI: According to the city Health Department, 8 ounces of local public schools' chocolate skim milk has 120 calories and 20 grams of sugar, while the same amount of skim white milk has 90 calories and 12 grams of sugar.

You've heard of emotional support dogs, but how about emotional support monkeys?
In Missouri, TEXANNE MCBRIDE-TEAHAN is fighting City Hall in a St. Louis suburb so she can keep three small monkeys, each less than nine pounds --which she claims have given her emotional support for years.
She has a capuchin named Paula, a patas named Zoey and a bonnet macaque named Kalie Anna, and told the city council they help her cope with post-traumatic stress disorder related to an incident when she was a teenager.
Texanne will be headed to court in November to defend the monkeys, which --according to the city by-laws, are considered an "inherently dangerous animal" along with alligators, lions and pythons.