Eliana Dockterman

An internal review revealed the scope of the problem

More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical personal that they think they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq. However, the Pentagon did no offer sufficient tracking and treatment to those who may have been hurt by the chemical exposure, defense officials admitted Thursday.

The New York Times reported in October that troops had encountered chemical weapons from the 1980s during their tours in Iraq. An internal review of Pentagon records that was ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirms that soldiers were exposed, according to the Times. But the number is higher than any had previously imagined. (The Times originally reported 17 cases.)

The Pentagon says that it will now reach out to veterans who may have been exposed and provide them with care. It will be the first time the government has acted on the astonishing data. Why the Pentagon did not compile this data before remains unclear. According to post-deployment health assessments filled out by soldiers, 629 servicemen said they may have been exposed to chemical, biological and radiological warfare.

[NYT]

They also stole information from 56 million credit cards

The Home Depot hack was even worse than authorities originally thought, according to a new report. Along with compromising 56 million credit card accounts, the hackers also exposed 53 million customer email addresses.

Two months ago, the hackers accessed the retailer’s system through usernames and passwords they stole from a refrigeration contractor’s electronic billing account. Target and other companies have been infiltrated in a similar fashion. Authorities who investigated the Home Depot incident revealed the full scope of the hack to the Wall Street Journal Thursday.

The Home Depot hackers took aim at 7,500 of the company’s self-checkout lanes. The software hid itself for five months, collecting data and transmitting it to an outside system.

[WSJ]

To in-four-nity and beyond!

A fourth Toy Story movie is coming.

Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang are coming back to the big screen in June 2017 for yet another film in the iconic Disney/Pixar series. John Lasseter—who created Toy Story in 1996—will return for Toy Story 4, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger announced during a quarterly earnings call for investors Thursday afternoon.

“John created Toy Story and directed the first two films, and it’s great to have him back directing one of our most valuable properties,” Iger said Thursday afternoon, according to Entertainment Weekly.

[EW]

The O.C. actress gave birth on Oct. 29

Welcome to the O.C., baby!

Rachel Bilson and boyfriend Hayden Christensen welcomed a daughter on Oct. 29, the Associated Press confirms. The couple named the baby Briar Rose Christensen.

Bilson, who broke out on The O.C. and now stars in Hart of Dixie, met Christensen on the set of the 2008 film Jumper. Christensen is best know for his role as Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) in Star Wars Episodes II and III.

[AP]

The Minnesota Vikings player pled no contest to charges of reckless assault Tuesday

Nike has terminated its contract with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, the shoe and apparel company confirmed Thursday. Peterson filed a no contest plea for charges of reckless assault earlier this week.

The football star allegedly hit is four-year-old son with a switch. After the boy’s mother reported him to the authorities, Peterson said that although he felt remorse, he was just disciplining his child and didn’t believe he had committed a crime. Per the terms of Peterson’s agreement with the prosecution, the plea makes no reference to either family violence or violence against a minor. Peterson will pay a $4,000 fine, perform 80 hours of community service and be placed on probation. The Vikings deactivated Peterson for their Week 2 game against the New England Patriots, but have since reinstated him.

Nike suspended their contract with Peterson on Sept. 17, according to ESPN. Peterson also lost deals with Castrol and EpiPen earlier this year. Standard morals clauses in endorsement contracts allow for companies to drop athletes for various legal or ethical transgressions.

Nike has dropped three other athletes besides Peterson this year: Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after a video leaked of him hitting his now-wife in an elevator; Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius who was sentenced to five years in prison for the negligent killing of his girlfriend; and UFC fighter Jon Jones who brawled with another fighter in August.

[ESPN]

Middle-Earth is going to war... again

"I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame"

Keira Knightley recently posed topless in Interview Magazine as her own personal protest against photoshopping. Knightley told The Times she demanded the (not safe for work) photos be unedited so people could see what she really looked like.

“I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters,” Knightley said. “That [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”

READ: This Is What the Same Woman Looks Like Photoshopped in Different Countries

Knightley’s figure was controversially distorted on the poster for King Arthur in 2004: Her breasts were edited to look bigger than they are in real life. Though the studio bore the brunt of that scandal, the actress herself came under fire in 2006 when she and Scarlett Johansson posed nude with a fully clothed Tom Ford on the cover of Vanity Fair, in a picture that emphasized the gap the demands made of famous women and men in terms of playing up their sexuality. (Rachel McAdams reportedly skipped the shoot after realizing the women would be asked to pose in the buff.)

But Knightley is taking a stand now. The Interview shoot captures Knightley’s real figure—including her true breast size. “I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame,” the Imitation Game actress told The Times. “Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.”

READ: Not-So-Flawless: Lorde Protests Photoshopping

That’s just one of many candid truths 29-year-old Knightley has been preaching on her current press tour. This month, she also told Net-a-Porter that she’s annoyed as a feminist that most movies reflect only what middle-aged white men want and identify with. She has turned down many a role because she thought she was being asked to do things male actors are never asked to do—specifically gratuitous sex and violence. “It’s actually a difficult question: how much flesh are you meant to bare?” she said. “We’re saying that we should be sexually liberated but then again not that sexually liberated. It’s confusing.”

She added that she long ago left fairy tales behind: “Why should you wait for some f–king dude to rescue you?”

Amen.

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Chrismukkah has come early

The O.C. vet Adam Brody is heading back to TV — or, at least, to DirecTV.

The 34-year-old actor will star opposite Lisa Joyce (The Messenger) in Billy & Billie, a 10-episode DirectTV drama about step-siblings who fall in love, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Billy and Billie (obviously) face a great deal of scrutiny from their friends and family as they try to navigate their complicated relationship.

After capturing the hearts of many a teen with his sarcastic charm on The O.C., Brody struggled to find a role as iconic as Seth Cohen. He got a bit part in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but was out shined by Brangelina’s budding romance; since then, he’s jumped from cringe-worthy movies like Jennifer’s Body to guest roles on comedies like New Girl and The League. It looked like he might get another go at his own show with Amazon’s The Cosmopolitans, but that has yet to be ordered to series.

Now, Brody is getting a chance to be a TV star again. Plus, he has a movie coming out on VOD with wife (and former Gossip Girl star) Leighton Meester this weekend. Way to go, Cohen.