Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 28, 2022

Pamela Anderson will debut on Broadway in just two weeks, playing Roxie Hart in “Chicago” starting April 12. And the NY Post reports she's already taking daily jogs in Central Park, incognito, as part of her prep.

On Friday, the FCC added Russia’s Kaspersky Lab to its “Covered List,” claiming the cybersecurity firm was an “unacceptable” national security risk to the US. It's the first time the FCC has blacklisted a Russian company. The company says it's not because of technical problems with the software but "on political grounds" Kaspersky said following the announcement. It's not the first time --back in 2017 former President Trump had already banned the federal government from using Kaspersky software. The FCC did not cite Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine for this most recent move.

Whoops! Middle-school teacher Lon Enwright has picked up $8 million bucks from Barley’s Casino & Brewing Company in Las Vegas after he was served a glass of cleaning agent rather than the Honey Blonde ale he’d asked for. The jury in the case was told that Enwright --who previously worked as a wine steward-- to go into convulsions and lose his sense of taste afterward. He also has stomach and esophageal ulcers as well.

Sorry to hear about Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ untimely death at 50 on Friday in Bogotá, Colombia. The preliminary toxicology results were released Saturday, and showed he had at least 10 different psychoactive substances in his body including "Marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids, among others." However, they say he died of a cardiovascular collapse and the London Daily Mail reported "Forensic experts during an examination found Hawkins heart weighed 'at least 600 grams,' double the average of 300 to 350 grams." Taylor was the drummer for the Foo Fighters for 25 years.

You may have seen the headline: "Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker "want to have a baby" in 'The Kardashians' trailer." If you didn't realize the Kardashians owned a trailer and live in a trailer park --you'd be right. The trailer, in this case, is a promotional video for their latest episode of their reality series, "The Kardashians," coming up on Hulu. You're welcome.