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Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Remember that virtual debate President Trump was supposed to do with Joe Biden? He’s now doing a town hall on the same night; Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend sits down for an interview with CBS’ Gayle King; the coronavirus could get a lot worse with Thanksgiving travel; the White House champions “herd immunity” by citing a petition with a bunch of fake—and really bad—signees; and Trump contradic...

Oct 14, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump makes a not-so-smart move on his appeal to senior voters; America First Action spends a lot of time and money researching the Lincoln Project—rather than working to reelect the president; at least 13 people have contracted the coronavirus from the Sept. 26 White House Rose Garden event; the KKK makes “social visits” to Tennessee residents who support the Biden-Harris ticket; t...

Oct 14, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The first American is reported to have been reinfected with the coronavirus; Native American communities are especially at risk of COVID-19; President Trump is mad at Dr. Anthony Fauci for not wanting to be in his campaign ads; the Trump campaign appears to be struggling financially; and hopefully you’ve already registered if you’re a Virginia voter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Oct 13, 2020•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Fox News is working to find ways to validate President Trump’s conspiracy theories; the president is ramping—just in case—he doesn’t like November’s presidential election results; Joe Biden refuses to say whether he would reverse a Supreme Court conservative majority; a participant of a coronavirus vaccine trial develops an “unexplained illness;” an Ohio Board of Elections employee accidental...

Oct 13, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Oct. 12, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Even after his hospitalization, President Trump’s administration does not seem to take the coronavirus seriously; COVID-19 can survive for a really long time on your phone; Facebook finally takes a stance on a specific form of misinformation; a member of the “Big Red Machine” passes away; and be on the lookout for sketchy ballot drop-off boxes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Oct 12, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Oct. 12, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump gears up for his “big rally” in Sanford, Florida, after being hospitalized for COVID-19; an Orthodox Jewish leader in NYC has been charged with inciting a riot in connection to a mob attack on a journalist; the first week of tighter restrictions in New York do not go well; the Denver shooting suspect has been detained on suspicion of first-degree murder; Lebron James becomes t...

Oct 12, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Oct. 9, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump channels his inner daytime talk-show host; Louisville cops do some full-fledge victim blaming in the case of Breonna Taylor; Trump got a huge tax break for being concerned about the environment—only because it surrounded his mansion; a Louisiana priest gets down and dirty—literally—in his church’s pulpit, the World Food Programme wins one of the highest honors for combating ...

Oct 09, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Oct. 9, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump vows to do a campaign rally—after uncontrollably coughing through a Fox News interview; while his father is ill with the coronavirus, Donald Trump Jr. defies CDC guidelines and holds a crowded indoor rally; a Trump aide shows no empathy in the Michigan governor’s possible kidnapping; a church retreat leads to COVID-19 infections; a man tries to bring his grandmother back from ...

Oct 09, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump flakes out of the second presidential debate and decides to do things on his terms; a militia group is arrested for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; the Kentucky attorney general wants to keeps details of the Breonna Taylor case under wraps; Trump used NDAs during his 2019 Walter Reed hospital visit; and the first American writer since 1993 wins the Nob...

Oct 08, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump camp is really, really happy that Vice President Mike Pence isn’t as much of a loudmouth as the president; the winner of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate was the unexpected; families of fallen U.S. vets may have been exposed to COVID-19 during a White House event; Florida’s governor is truly not being responsible during the coronavirus pandemic; a driver in Maryland thinks a real ...

Oct 08, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The White House’s coronavirus precautions are questionable, to say the least; COVID-19 booms in New York City hotspots as hospitals fear bed shortages; Hurricane Delta weakens to a Category 3 storm; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to two scientists who developed DNA-altering pair of “genetic scissors,” and healthcare billionaires pass techies in wealth during the coronavirus pandemic. Hos...

Oct 07, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right: White House picks and chooses which COVID-19 precautions it wants to listen to; Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19 after repeatedly testing negative; President Trump goes on a Twitter tirade with himself on Tuesday night; Jeff Sessions and other top former DOJ officials did not help with fight against the children separation policy; a father seemingly values his new car more than his 1-ye...

Oct 07, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Michelle Obama is not playing any games ahead of the election; a formal Louisville police chief is questioning the morals of some of his officers; a Black man is shot by a white Texas cop after allegedly intervening to stop an altercation; employees of a Minneapolis steakhouse quarantine after catering an event where President Trump was present; and the White House blocks a necessary guidel...

Oct 06, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump disregards the advice of his public officials when it comes to COVID-19; the president uses his coronavirus infection as a political tool; Dr. Anthony Fauci says that the president’s caretakers should be aware of a possible reversal in health; an Atlanta financial adviser has gone missing; Wayne LaPierre of the NRA is dealing with more drama; and Rudy Giuliani coughs his way t...

Oct 06, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Oct. 5, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump supposedly took his COVID joyride so that he would not appear weak to the public; another person in the Trump camp tests positive for the coronavirus; a White House official told the CDC to revise COVID data on children to adhere to the president’s narrative on school reopenings; the case of Kim Davis—the Kentucky court clerk who denied marriage licenses for gay couples—make...

Oct 05, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Oct. 5, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump ignores COVID guidelines for a publicity stunt; experts think that dismissing Trump from the hospital by Monday is not such a good idea; the president was not transparent during his phone call with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night; AG William Barr will finally practice some form of self-isolation after possible COVID-19 exposure; conflict escalates in Azerbaijan; a...

Oct 05, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Oct. 2,2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump is a triple-risk for severe coronavirus conditions; Joe Biden seeks to get tested for COVID-19 after participating in Tuesday night’s presidential debate; people who attended the Trump fundraiser in New Jersey should get tested for the coronavirus; Mary Trump blasts her uncle on Twitter—yes—after his diagnosis is made public; the TV show “Cops” is making somewhat of a comeba...

Oct 02, 2020•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Oct. 2, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The man who boasts about having political rallies and mocks those who wear face masks tests positive for COVID-19; the global stock market is on edge with President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis; Amazon claims that its COVID-19 infection rate among employees is lower than that of the general public; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will release on Friday the grand jury recording on th...

Oct 02, 2020•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump is literally causing harm to the world; Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse leaked to be a fan favorite of the Trump White House; people are upset that a pair of Amish sex offenders violated their probation; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may get hit with a lawsuit from the European Union; Trump takes credits for something else that he didn’t do; and Game 1 of...

Oct 01, 2020•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump tries to backtrack on his association with an extremist group; Brad Parscale leaves his role as a Trump campaign adviser after being detained by Florida police; the heiress of Seagram’s sentenced to prison for her role in branding women and manipulating them into master-slave relationships; one Florida teacher has no regrets of hanging a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroo...

Oct 01, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump White House is really trying to overexert its authority ahead of the election; “Fox & Friends” hosts were not the president’s friends on Wednesday morning; Republicans are getting antsy as more and more Democratic mail-in ballots roll in; apparently, Trump performed during Tuesday night’s presidential debate like a “crackhead,” Mariah Carey is not letting her ex-husband Tommy ...

Sep 30, 2020•12 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump loses—whatever is left of even existed—his cool during his presidential debate with former Vice President Joe Biden; the white supremacist Proud Boys group becomes a prime topic during the presidential debate; the Trump family defies orders—as always—and goes without wearing masks; an Arkansas pastor attempted an exorcism on a child and admits to using methamphetamines with hi...

Sep 30, 2020•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Records will finally be released on the grand jury hearing in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death; the White House bullied the CDC to manipulate positive reports on coronavirus cases; Amazon is not that safe of a place to work; saying a racial slur got a correctional officer fired—his third time in 10 years; and Donald Trump really is not the business genius he claims he is. Hosted on Acast....

Sep 29, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Fox News pretty much boots their hard-news staff; over a million people worldwide have lost their lives to COVID-19; a grand juror in the case of Breonna Taylor wants the transcripts of the proceedings to be released; a man who supposedly supported #SaveOurChildren on social media has been charged in the murder of his girlfriend's daughter; wildfires blaze out of control in California; Amanda...

Sep 29, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: September 28, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump wanted his daughter Ivanka as his 2016 running mate, Pelosi warns the November election just might be decided in the House of Representatives, Minnesota Representative Omar fights back with a meme, an NBC News reporter overheard CDC director Redfield trashing Trump's new COVID adviser, Alex NAvalny confirms he met privately with Angela Merkel in hospital, and the number of COVID c...

Sep 28, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: September 28, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: a federal judge blocks Trump's attempt to ban TikTok, a majority of voters want the new SCOTUS seat filled after the election, Trump attacks the IRS after a bombshell report, Chuck Schumer refuses to meet Trump's SCOTUS nominee, ex Elite agency boss accused of rape, and Joe Montana confronted a woman trying to kidnap his grandchild from his home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Sep 28, 2020•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Sept. 25, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump administration’s plans to prematurely end the census is a fail; the Seattle cop who rolled over a protester’s head is being investigated by the county’s sheriff’s office; President Trump makes a baseless claim that he’s going to provide prescription cards for senior citizens; a new challenge on TikTok proves to be deadly; Kim Jong Un actually shows a hint of remorse; Vladimir Puti...

Sep 25, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Sept. 25, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: More chaos rolls out overnight in Louisville in the aftermath of the Breonna Taylor case; the president is trying very hard to cast doubt on November’s election results; Putin’s hacking minions are at work; a Pennsylvania cop has been placed on paid leave after having a public temper tantrum; a man has been federally executed for shooting a Texas couple and burning them alive in the 1990s; an...

Sep 25, 2020•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: After a long night of protests, a suspect is arrested in Louisville for allegedly shooting two cops; it turns out that unknown forces are trying to hack into election machines; coronavirus cases spike after NYC schools open up; Mary Trump wants her share of the family pie; President Trump should really be used to people not liking him at this point; and railroad workers in NYC manage to bui...

Sep 24, 2020•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Mayhem erupts in Louisville in the aftermath of the case of Breonna Taylor; President Trump won’t walk away from the White House easily if he loses the election; the Department of Justice is acting hard to block a book by Melania Trump’s former BFF; Dr. Deborah Birx is exhausted; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to carry dirty clothes on his trips to Washington, D.C.; and whoev...

Sep 24, 2020•6 min

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