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Monday, May 6, 2013

Cheat Sheet - America’s Best High Schools

Today: Benghazi Whistleblower: Requests for Military Backup Denied , Dzhokhar's Friend Can Be Freed , Sex 'Superbug' Discovered in Hawaii
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

May 06, 2013
EXPLORE THE LIST!

Did your school make the grade? For our latest annual ranking, Newsweek and The Daily Beast sorted through 2,000 public high schools to see which ones are doing the best job at producing college-ready graduates. Explore the list here. Plus, see our interactive map of the top 1,000 schools across the country and go inside the No. 2 school.

ON THE HILL

A new whistleblower will testify this week that requests for military support were shot down in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks—contradicting what senior Obama officials told Congress. The Daily Beast's Eli Lake reports.

HOUSE ARREST

Prosecutors have said that Robel Phillipos, a friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, can be freed from jail on $100,000 bail on the condition that he be placed under house arrest and wear a monitoring ankle bracelet while awaiting trial. Phillipos, 19, was arrested by the feds last week for lying to investigators about the disposal of Tsarnaev's belongings—a backpack containing emptied fireworks and his computer—after Tsarnaev was named a suspect. In affidavits, Phillipos's friends and attorney claim he was "frightened and confused" when questioned by the FBI. Two other friends, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, were also charged last week with conspiring to obstruct justice in removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the bombing.

Outbreak

Say aloha to the new sex "superbug." A drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been confirmed in Hawaii, and doctors are warning that it has the potential to be "a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect people more quickly." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking $50 million from Congress to research an antibiotic that could treat the disease. Called HO41, the "sex superbug" was first discovered in Japan in 2011 and now has spread to Hawaii, California, and Norway.

GRISLY DETAILS

The driver of a limo that set fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge—taking the lives of a newlywed and four of her bridesmaids—shed new light on the horrific incident Monday. "There were just so many flames," Orville Brown told the Associated Press. "Within 90 seconds, the car was fully engulfed." Brown said he mistook one woman's call: "smoke" from the backseat as her wanting to smoke a cigarette. By the time he noticed the fire, "it was almost impossible for them to get out." The Foster City Fire Department is investigating what caused the fire.


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