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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Guidelines suggest that schools should completely reopen in the fall—even if people are not vaccinated; More bodies have been found in the Florida condo rubble; A former GOP staffer admits to possessing child pornography; The Taliban swoops in to take control of Afghanistan; Giant pandas are no longer considered to be endangered, but instead are “vulnerable.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 09, 2021•3 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Allen Weisselberg leaves his position with the Trump Organization Scotland golf course; Two Haitian-Americans claim they were translators for the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse; North Korea is undergoing a crisis; New Yorkers wade through water after Elsa makes landfall on the East Coast; Zaila Avant-garde is not only a spelling bee champ, but she also has a title in the Guinness Book of World Records. Hosted on Acast. See...

Jul 09, 2021•4 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The Delta variant becomes the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the U.S.; Haiti ambassador says “there’s no doubt about it” that the assassination of the president was an “inside job;” An Arizona official wants to look into Donald Trump’s elections dealings in the state; Feds give a pricey incentive to anti-vaxxers; Authorities have yet to find any evidence that a transgender person was at an L.A.-area spa the day an attack was said...

Jul 08, 2021•5 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The Olympics will be crowdless and quiet this year; Tropical Storm Elsa makes it way up the East Coast; The Trump White House kept a secret report on foreign car tariffs; A woman dies due to the force of a theme park rollercoaster; A kid gets more than a toy in his Happy Meal; Nick Cannon keeps having babies—we just want to understand why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 08, 2021•4 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Rescuers are losing optimism that there are survivors from the Florida condo collapse as they find more bodies; Donald Trump is still salty about getting kicked off of social media; Crime has risen throughout New York; An alleged Capitol insurrectionist kept a Lego model of the building he supposedly stormed; A surrogate wants custody of the baby she carried; Bill Cosby is trying to turn his legal experience into some form of entertainm...

Jul 07, 2021•5 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Haiti’s president is shot during a raid at his home; After nearly two weeks of waiting, NYC finally has a Democratic mayoral candidate; Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps making inappropriate comparisons to the Holocaust; Troops will stay at the U.S.-Mexico border for another year; Another scandal rocks Chris Brown’s name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 07, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, July

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The Delta variant of COVID-19 looks to run amuck in unvaccinated areas; Afghan officials are upset that Americans left bases abruptly; Women from the Philippines have filed complaints of modern-day slavery in against a Saudi prince in France; Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates will join the English department at Howard University; Some people in the RNC did not want to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election—and supp...

Jul 06, 2021•5 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Hundreds of shootings are tallied during the holiday weekend; A storm threatens the search for more survivors from the condo collapse in Florida; The Taliban hovers with control in parts of Afghanistan; Britney Spears’ manager says that the singer wishes to retire; A woman tries to behead her dog with a sword; An albino python finds its way up a man’s toilet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 06, 2021•5 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The Miami-area residential building that collapsed consistently received water damage for decades; A man’s brand new car bursts into flames while he’s inside; Canadians protest the country’s history on Canada Day; President Joe Biden wants to change how sexual assault cases are handled in the military; Track star Sha’Carri Richardson explains how she dealt with grief after finding out her biological mother passed away; A Michigan warran...

Jul 02, 2021•5 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Afghanistan forces prepare for America’s departure; Report says workers were afraid to do repairs on the condo building that collapsed; A settlement will go to abou 60,000 people who filed abuse claims against the Boy Scouts; An Ohio police chief says that putting KKK material on the desk of a Black employee was just a joke; Sha’Carri Richardson could face a penalty for cannabis use. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Jul 02, 2021•3 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead not guilty for the charges he faces in connection to the Trump Organization; House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he would strip any Republican members of their committee assignments if they accepted House Leader Nancy Pelosi’s offer to serve on the Capitol riot investigation committee; There are fears that the rest of the Miami condo will fall; Tour de France organizers don’t want t...

Jul 01, 2021•4 min

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

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Heatwave continues to pound upon the Northwest; A tourist who was swimming says she filmed the Miami-area condo collapse; The LAPD kind of botch a job; Two iconic TV mothers go head-to-head on Twitter; Britney Spears’ father is still legally tied to her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 01, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The death toll in the Miami condo collapse climbs to 16; Bill Cosby will be a free man; San Jose becomes the first city in the nation to charge gun owners for gun violence; People in the Pacific Northwest try to take advantage of others during the heatwave; The Trump Organization is going down; Turns out, trans athletes in sports is not a real problem—unlike what many conservatives try to claim. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Jun 30, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A heatwave runs through the Pacific Northwest; The NYC mayoral race vote count gets a little blundered; Some Republicans want to keep reminders of the Confederacy in the U.S. Capitol; Britney Spears has another ally in the battle against her conservatorship; Serena Williams gets injured during her Wimbledon match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich; An activist who explored intersecting issues of race, gender, and class has died at ...

Jun 30, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, June 29, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: President Biden plans a trip to condo collapse site in Florida; Rudy Giuliani is in trouble again; John McAfee’s widow blames U.S. authorities for his death; The homes of two prominent journalists in Russia are raided; Oregon hospitals are overwhelmed with victims due to heat illnesses; A man blames meth use for leaping out of a plane’s emergency exit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 29, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, June 29, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Residents were alerted about damage in the Miami condo as recently as April; Andrew Giuliani has no real concept of reality; Britney Spears receives public support from her sister; The FTC argues that Facebook has preserved its role as a social media monopoly; A lost Picasso painting has been recovered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 29, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, June 28, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: SCOTUS declines to review a case involving a transgender student in Virginia; The NFL shouts its inclusivity; Two Black New York state lawmakers sue the NYPD for police brutality; Even Mt. Everest is not safe from COVID-19; New book explains that Donald Trump was more concerned about what rioters were wearing rather than them actually storming the Capitol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 28, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, June 28, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Experts identify the location of where issues started in the Miami condo that collapsed; Donald Trump’s lawyers have until Monday afternoon to make closing arguments on why the Trump Organization should not face criminal charges; Officials have been working to identify 20 bodies found on a boat near Turks and Caicos and how the people died; The U.S. sends airstrikes on facilities that were used by groups whose missions were to carry out...

Jun 28, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, June 25, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Derek Chauvin receives his sentence for murdering George Floyd; Biden’s Justice Department goes to town on Georgia; At least four are dead after the building collapse near Miami; Mike Pence is going to make people mad with his latest statement; Rich people race to space; A sex toy company has made an agreement with Ringo Starr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 25, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, June 25, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching at The Daily Beast: One person is dead and 99 are missing the Florida-condo collapse; One officer in the Trump administration had to constantly tell the former president that shooting protesters was not an option; A white supremacist group defaces a statue of George Floyd; Biden campaign staffers say they were “terrorized and menaced” by Trump supporters; A pair of ministers do something very interesting in their spare time; A transgende...

Jun 25, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, June 24, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: New York’s most controversial celebrity attorney can no longer practice law in the state; It’s now too late for the Olympics to be canceled or postponed in Japan; More than 1.7 million people in California want to recall current Gov. Gavin Newsom; Buckingham Palace admitted they suck at diversity; A Greek priest faces a hearing for drug trafficking cocaine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 24, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, June 24, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Britney Spears speaks out against her conservatorship; San Francisco becomes the first major city to set a new rule in order; Former NRA president David Keene gets duped; Oregon inmates who helped fight wildfires will be rewarded; More unmarked graves of Indigenous children are found in Canada; U.S. soccer player Carli Lloyd will make her fourth Olympics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 24, 2021•5 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, June 23, 202

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Warren Buffet exits the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Vanessa Bryant has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for the helicopter crash that killed both her husband and daughter; Donald Trump hoped that COVID-19 would take out John Bolton; Apparently, socialists and neo-nazis are one-in-the-same, according to the Navy; Who knew that such a jealous ex-husband could be so dangerous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Jun 23, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, June 23, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The GOP put a stop to voting rights legislation; Democracy is nearly gone in Hong Kong; A security firm reportedly provided training to members of the Saudi Royal Guard—the same people involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative will look into systemic abuse of Native American children in the U.S.; A new report finds that most nonbinary adults in the U.S. live in urban ar...

Jun 23, 2021•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, June 22, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The White House misses its vaccination target; A lot of people got COVID-19 while working with then-President Donald Trump; Sen. Ted Cruz is a frequent target of protesters; Mice bully inmates and officers out of an Australian jail; A married math teacher tries to extort teenage girls with their nude photos; The Army will spend half a million dollars to disinter bodies of Native American children found in Pennsylvania; IKEA misses the m...

Jun 22, 2021•7 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, June 22, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Donald Trump cannot be sued over his photo op stunt; People in the Trump Org are upset that the company lost contracts in NYC after the Capitol insurrection; California keeps its assault weapons ban in place—for now; The driver of the vehicle in a Fort Lauderdale-area Pride parade that resulted in a crash says it was all just an accident; A Colorado man goes on trial for allegedly killing his son; More people tied to the Trump Organizat...

Jun 22, 2021•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, June 21, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Then-President Trump wanted to isolate American COVID patients at Gitmo; A Pride parade in Fort Lauderdale is interrupted with a crash; The Taliban is laughing because U.S. troops are leaving Afghanistan; “Gunther” from “Friends” reveals the reason why he didn’t attend the reunion special in person; Guests at a New Jersey diner assault their server after they attempted to dine and ditch; College athletes have been handed a huge victory....

Jun 21, 2021•6 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, June 21, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Tokyo Olympic Games will be set at a 50-percent capacity; A U.S. track star will participate in her fifth Olympic Games; American Airlines can’t handle the pressure; former President Donald Trump calls for unity after calling people “losers;” A Florida man is so upset that the bagel he ordered did not have cream cheese that he pulls a gun out on a Starbucks employee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 21, 2021•4 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, June 17, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Affordable Care Act has been saved; The grip is really tightening up in Hong Kong; The Congressional intern system seems to be one only meant for those with financially privileged backgrounds; Michael Avenatti has really embarrassed himself; A drug company seems to not have considered people with various forms of brain cancers in its decision to drop Medicare; A man thought that it was a good idea to rub ham on the Quran a...

Jun 17, 2021•8 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, June 17, 2021

These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: Security incidents that are supervised by the U.S. Marshals Service jumped to 89 percent from 2016 to 2019; A Microsoft shareholder wants to launch an investigation on Bill Gates; Andrew Yang makes an obtuse argument during an NYC mayoral candidate debate Wednesday night; The Biden administration shuts down the probe into whether or not Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton released any classified information in his book; A woman ...

Jun 17, 2021•5 min

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