Get ready to meet the world's next 'Most Interesting Man'

College kids don't care what their grandpas are drinking

Which means it's time to say goodbye to the world's "Most Interesting Man," a.k.a. the pitchman for Dos Equis beer. Sure, he's tan and suave and impressively bearded, but he's also 77 (well, he's played by 77-year-old Jonathan Goldsmith). The man who jaunts around the world on enviable adventures while often surrounded by beautiful women, certainly made life more interesting — and successful — for the previously under-the-radar Mexican beer brand. But times are changing. Young drinkers are changing. And Dos Equis wants "to make sure that the (Most Interesting Man) story evolves." So get ready to see a different (younger?) "Most Interesting Man" later this year. Now for the real question: Can we get an invite to the retirement party?

As if we needed another reason to think ISIL is the worst

An Islamic State operative captured in Iraq told U.S. military personnel that the terrorist group had plans to use mustard gas against American allies fighting them, a Defense Department official said Wednesday. Whoa. The weapons were going to be used against Kurdish forces and other U.S. allies, the official said; the timing of any such attack wasn't clear. The captive was a top chemical weapons official under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was ousted during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and later executed, a second official told USA TODAY.

Erin Andrews' career helped by naked videos? Jurors, amid tense debate, said nope

Erin Andrews, our hearts go out to you. The wrenching experience of secretly being filmed nude by a stalker and having those videos plastered all over the Internet, with wounds made fresh by an emotional civil trial ... just awful. It was no cakewalk for the jurors, either, we're learning. Debate in the deliberation room was intense, heated and, at times, everything but physical, reports The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK. The argument that her sports broadcasting career was helped by the peephole vids? Jurors didn't buy it. "I think she persevered despite the video," said juror Terry Applegate . "Because of her strength of character she was really able to succeed in her career." Read the full accounting here.

The world has lost the 'fifth Beatle' (not the 'GoT' author — c'mon, people!)

The legendary Sir George Martin, who produced much of the Beatles’ music — including Abbey Road, has died at the age of 90. Martin signed the Fab Four to their first record contract in 1962 and is known for defining and shaping the Beatles' sound. The remaining Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, took to Twitter to share their memories. "If anyone earned the title of the fifth Beatle it was George," McCartney wrote on his website. Note: Some fans have mistaken Sir George Martin for Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who is very much still alive.

Other things we're reading Wednesday:

• This is the best take on the Kim Kardashian nakedy-nakedness we've read so far. (Yeah, we're still talking about it.) "Kim Kardashian vs. Donald Trump: Why America can't make up its mind about nudity." 
• Lilly Wachowski, half of the notoriously private, movie-making sibling team behind the Matrix movies, has come out as a transgender woman — but not really by choice.
• The robots are coming ... to show you to your room! This is pretty cool: Hilton is testing out a robot concierge named Connie. He's pretty cute.
• Mitt Romney reads aloud "Mean Tweets" on Jimmy Kimmel, and it's as fantastical as you'd imagine.

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