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Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, April 13, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The white cop who allegedly shot a Black man in Minnesota because she mistook her handgun for a stun gun; Tennessee authorities investigate an “officer-involved shooting” at a school; COVID cases in Minnesota are traced to a wrestling event in South Dakota; Florida’s governor won’t back down in his fight with YouTube; Thousands of skulls are housed at the Penn Museum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 13, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, April 12, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Young adults are signing up to be delivery people and Uber drivers so they can have quicker access to COVID-19 vaccine; Porn stars open up about anti-Asian racism within the industry; Generation Z gets creative on how to approach the topic of suicide on social media; Georgia loses a major Will Smith movie; Donald Trump wins an award after railing against Mitch McConnell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Apr 12, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, April 12, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Protests break out after a Black man is killed by a cop in a Minneapolis suburb; Congressman reveals the emotional trauma he’s experienced from the Capitol riot; A “White Lives Matter” participants rally over the weekend; The South African variant of COVID-19 may be extremely aggressive—so aggressive that it can break the protection shield of one of the vaccines; Cuba has a new animal welfare law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Apr 12, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, April 9, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Rapper DMX passes away; Alabama Amazon workers vote to not unionize; If an accused sex trafficker cooperates with authorities, that could be bad news for Rep. Matt Gaetz; Before you get ready for an international vacation, you may want to prepare for if you’re unable to return to the U.S.; Florida’s governor is mad that people are unable to take cruises; Greta Thunberg says COVID-19 vaccines need to be more readily available. ...

Apr 09, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, April 9, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The first Republican calls for Matt Gaetz to step down; Gov. Ron DeSantis attempts to spread pseudo-science on YouTube; The CDC director says racism is an “epidemic impacting public health;” Authorities conduct mass arrests on a Mississippi highway; The Mets have a controversial opening win. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 09, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, April 8, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Authorities investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a San Antonio facility for migrant children; Beloved zookeeper Jack Hanna leaves the spotlight; Doctors try to determine next treatments for rapper DMX; A cop in Dallas was charged with kidnapping and murder but has been released; Fox News hires another Trump crony; Matt Gaetz’s reckless rolodex seems endless. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 08, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, April 8, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Former Congresswoman Katie Hill’s nude photos were considered by a judge to be of “compelling public interest;” Caitlyn Jenner taps Brad Parscale on a possible run for governor; Former VP Mike Pence signs a two-book deal; A woman is stabbed allegedly over the price of a refrigerator; A group purposefully punctures a hole in a Confederate monument. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 08, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, April 7, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A man went way left after a bad breakup; New details are out about the Tiger Woods car accident; Rudy Giuliani’s son thinks he can be governor of New York; Caitlyn Jenner thinks about getting into politics; St. Louis has its first Black woman mayor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 07, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, April 7, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Ironically, Rep. Matt Gaetz is set to speak at a women’s event; Actor Zach Horwitz allegedly funneled nearly $700 million in a Ponzi scheme; Northeastern universities require students to be inoculated against the coronavirus; A Texas mother allegedly wanted to protect her children from abuse—even if it meant “eliminating them;” The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing may take a hit due to allegations of China abusing ethnic minori...

Apr 07, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Coronavirus vaccines will be available for American adults before May; Capitol police are pretty fed up; An ancient Native American site in Georgia has been destroyed by vandals; Baylor crushes Gonzaga’s winning streak; Rep. Matt Gaetz thinks that revenge porn is O.K., Khloe Kardashian is upset about an image of her circulating online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 06, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Montana’s governor gets sick with the coronavirus; Wayne LaPierre runs to a friend’s yacht when there are school shootings; ESPN gets really conservative with what an analyst does during his free time; DMX’s children take time to visit him in the hospital; Navy commander is mysteriously fired from his job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 06, 2021•3 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, April 5, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: An Easter party in Alabama gets violent; Republicans really don’t think that the Capitol insurrection was as bad as it was; The creator of the right-wing 8chan nearly tells on himself; Irish moms travel to Dubai for boob jobs; A legendary baseball bat hits it out of the park in a weekend auction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 05, 2021•2 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, April 5, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Patient steals an ambulance; Hundreds of homes around Tampa had to be evacuated; Detainees at a secretive Gitmo site have been moved to another location; A Florida bar has been raided and shut down by police—and the reason is not COVID-related; Hunter Biden explains the severity of his former addition to crack cocaine; Dominion Voting Systems possibly has a new legal target. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Apr 05, 2021•2 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, April 2, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Rep. Matt Gaetz is self-destructing before our eyes; People need to keep wearing masks—even if they’ve been vaccinated; The U.S. is back in the Iran nuclear deal; The New York Times conducts an investigation that finds Georgia’s new voter laws are pretty garbage; After all of that chaos from the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, Charlottesville can finally remove those god-awful Confederate statues; Bees bully a man out of his ...

Apr 02, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, April 2, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Things aren’t looking too well for Rep. Matt Gaetz; A college student from Florida has been arrested by the FBI after being caught on camera assaulting a cop during the Capitol insurrection; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—apparently—has no patience for COVID-19 prevention; Ghislaine Maxwell whines about her living conditions in prison; Georgia Republicans retaliate against Delta for taking a stand against the state’s voter suppre...

Apr 02, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, April 1, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Four are killed in a California shooting; George Floyd’s girlfriend testifies in the trial against Derek Chauvin; The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is reported to be effective in preventing the South African variant of the coronavirus; Jobless claims pile onward during the coronavirus pandemic; Lengthy solitary confinements in New York prisons and jails are finally a practice of the past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Apr 01, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, April 1, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The store clerk who noticed the counterfeit $20 regrets the turn of events with George Floyd; Former Attorney General Bill Barr did not want to be seen with Matt Gaetz; L.A. County’s sheriff says “privacy issues” are keeping the causes of Tiger Woods’ accident a secret; A gender reveal party goes wrong; The Pentagon is rolling out new rules in regards to transgender people in the military; NYC prosecutors dig deeper into the T...

Apr 01, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, March 31, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: There’s finally a vaccine that has been proven to work for teens; The Trump administration ended annual reports on reproductive rights abuses; People looking for COVID-19 vaccines are going to more conservative, Republican towns; The British government produces a trash report on racism; People may finally get to enjoy marijuana without any limitations in New York; President Biden works to end anti-Asian violence; Mortuary work...

Mar 31, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, March 31, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Capitol police officers blame Donald Trump for the insurrection; Dr. Anthony Fauci is called the “father” of the coronavirus by one of Donald Trump’s former advisers; Britney Spears says she cried over the New York Times documentary covering her life; The White House’s first rescue dog bites another person. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, March 30, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Georgia is being sued; An MMA fighter says he tried to stop the brute force police used on George Floyd, Alleged Capitol insurrectionist and his mom get to wait at home in Tennessee until their trial; Kayleigh McEnany becomes a full-timer over at Fox News; At least Donald Trump has Donald Trump to love him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 30, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, March 30, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: South Dakota’s governor goes after trans women and girls in sports; Donald Trump says he didn’t listen to Dr. Deborah Birx because she’s a “terrible medical adviser;” CDC’s director is scared of the “impending doom” of the increase in COVID-19 cases; The Washington Post allows a breaking-news reporter to cover sexual misconduct cases again; Nike is not happy about the Satan-themed shoes from MSCHF in collaboration with Lil Nas...

Mar 30, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, March 29, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The trial begins for former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd; Coronavirus cases surge in multiple states; The CDC says COVID-19 vaccines are effective—even with emerging strains; The Suez Canal is almost back open for business; The fashion industry has been fairly quiet amid the uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 29, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, March 29, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Donald Trump makes a really weird speech at a wedding reception; A blockage in the Suez Canal is believed to be holding billions of dollars’ worth of goods; A woman in Philadelphia says city police didn’t save her or her mom from their burning home; An inmate holds a correctional officer hostage in an Oklahoma jail; Alabama Shakes’ drummer has been accused of violating probation; Lil Nas X has blood-infused sneakers. Hosted on...

Mar 29, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, March 26, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: House Committees are investigating the Trump administration’s handling of the Jan. 6 insurrection; Fox News is Dominion Voting Systems’ new target; Georgia lawmakers are not subtle about their ties to racist history; The Black man who was repeatedly shot by a white officer in Kenosha last summer is suing the cop; Rutgers may be the first of many major public colleges and universities to take this step with the COVID-19 vaccine...

Mar 26, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, March 26, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Major companies backtrack on their support for GOP lawmakers who objected to certify election results; Donald Trump thinks that Capitol insurrectionists were harmless; Michael Flynn’s family members say that they are not followers of QAnon; A naked woman survived for 21 days inside a storm drain; Eviction filings have allegedly risen during the pandemic—despite there being assistance programs; A radio host in Buffalo compared ...

Mar 26, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, March 25, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Boulder shooting suspect appears in court; AstraZeneca does a do-over on its COVID-19 findings; Researchers say more than 400,000 lives could have been saved during the pandemic if better governing took place; A bank teller in Houston steals nude photos from customers’ phones; Lawmakers slam President Biden for his employee-marijuana policy; Donald Trump is probably the last person you would think of when it comes to sprea...

Mar 25, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, March 25, 2021

These are top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prioritized his family and friends over others being tested for COVID-19; Dr. Rachel Levine is confirmed as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services; Medium suggested erotica for Joe Biden’s account; Two minors tried to jack a car with a stun gun; An annoying neighbor wants to install an airstrip on his Idaho ranch; Chrissy Teigen logs off of Twitter for good. Hosted ...

Mar 25, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon: Wednesday, March 24, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Capitol rioters made the bulk of their donations to the Trump campaign after the presidential election; Bernie Sanders does not like that Donald Trump cannot tweet; The lobster industry could be in jeopardy; President Biden’s pups are back at the White House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 24, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, March 21, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The suspect of the Boulder shooting claimed that he was heavily bullied while in high school; A cop was nominated for an award for his conduct during the Breonna Taylor protests—but some don’t agree with the accolades; One of Fox News’ biggest sponsors verbally attacks the network in a radio interview; James Huntsman claims the Mormon Church marginalized LGBTQ, African American, and women in its teachings; A woman says the ass...

Mar 24, 2021•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, March 23, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Colorado shooter’s brother says the suspect was “very anti-social;” AstraZeneca might have used outdated information in determining the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine; Nine women and six men have been chosen as jury members in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin; Thousands of New York City workers will head back to their offices starting May 3; Facebook could have helped prevent the Capitol insur...

Mar 23, 2021•4 min

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