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Friday, May 25, 2012

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Today: Patz Suspect On Suicide Watch , Sandusky Charity to Shut Down , Donald Trump Is Still a Birther
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

May 25, 2012
STAR TREK

The privately built Dragon capsule successfully docked at the International Space Station on Friday, the result of a historic partnership between the government’s public space program and the technology company SpaceX. The Daily Beast’s Daniel Stone talks to NASA’s Phil McAlister, who coordinated the venture, on what’s next for private space exploration—and how Congress is holding things up.

Cold Case

Pedro Hernandez, the man who has been arrested in connection to the 1979 death of Etan Patz, was transferred Friday morning was placed under suicide watch Friday at Bellevue Hospital and will be arraigned from his hospital bed. Hernandez had been scheduled to be arraigned on Friday morning—the 33rd anniversary of the day that Patz disappeared—and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder. Hernandez said he strangled the six-year-old to death after luring him to the basement of a bodega with the promise of a soda. 

SHUTTERED

The youth charity started by disgraced Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky began the legal process of dissolving its operations on Friday. The charity, which has been in existence for more than 30 years, plans to transfer its programs and assets to Arrow Child & Family Ministries, a multimillion dollar charity that operates in Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland and elsewhere. Donations to the charity dried up after Sandusky was arrested last year on allegations that he sexually abused young boys he met through the charity.

Conspiracy Theories

A birth certificate and confirmation from Hawaii's Health Department may be enough to convince Arizona's Secretary of State that President Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen, but Donald Trump's no fool. Recently, a former literary-agency assistant admitted that, at the time Obama's first book was published, she had mistakenly written he was born in Kenya. But Trump insists, "that's what he told the literary agent. That's the way life works ... he didn't know he was running for president, so he told the truth." He told The Daily Beast, "His mother never spent a day in the hospital."

BUSTED

The Sistine snoop may have been unmasked. Papal butler Paolo Gabriele has been detained as one source of the VatiLeaks flow of documents, a Vatican spokesman confirmed to Italian media on Friday. "The inquiry carried out by Vatican police … allowed them to identify someone in possession of confidential documents," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said. Lombardi confirmed that the person being questioned was Gabriele, and that he had been under surveillance for weeks.


CUTBACKS
Times-Picayune Scales Back
New Orleans daily plans to cut schedule, staff.
STORMY
Hurricane Bud Heads for Mexico
Category 2 storm set to hit Pacific Coast.
SUSPICIOUS
Iran Nuke Plant Sees Uranium Rise
Says surge may be “beyond the operator’s control.”
BURLESQUE
Berlusconi Dancer: I Dressed as Obama
At bunga bunga party.
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
British Millionaire’s Daughter Jailed
Laura Johnson convicted of burglary in London riots.
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