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Monday, May 20, 2013

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Today: How Obama Handles Crisis , Twisters Sweep Through the Plains , Dozens Killed in Iraq Bomb Blasts
Cheat Sheet: Morning

May 20, 2013
OVERSCRUTINIZED

From her maternity leave to her acquisition strategy—including her move to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion—the Yahoo CEO's business decisions and personal life are under the magnifying glass far more than those of male CEOs, says The Daily Beast's Jessica Grose.

EVERYONE RELAX

The hand-wringers and bed-wetters in the D.C. punditocracy should know that Barack Obama will never be on their timeline, says his longtime speechwriter and Daily Beast columnist Jon Favreau.

TORNADOES

A 79-year-old Oklahoma man was killed Sunday night when a tornado touched down on his mobile home in Shawnee, Okla.—one of a series of twisters to sweep through the Plains states as part of a severe weather system that stretched from Texas all the way north to Minnesota. At least 20 more were injured in Oklahoma alone. "It looks like there's heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour," said Oklahoma's Pottawatomie County sheriff, Mike Booth. "It's pretty bad. It's pretty much wiped out." A tornado touched down in Golden City, Mo., early Monday, but the extent of the damage—as well as the number of injuries—was not immediately clear. Another tornado touched down about 30 miles west of Des Moines, Iowa—the first to hit the state in nearly a year.

VIOLENCE

At least 26 people were killed and over 100 more injured on Monday in a series of bomb blasts throughout Iraq, the latest in a series of escalating attacks linked to political and sectarian tension. Most of the dead were in Baghdad, where eight separate explosions rocked the capital, hitting bus stations and markets mainly in Shia areas. No group has taken responsibility for the bombings yet. Monday's blasts come just one day after 10 police officers were reportedly killed in the northwest, and on Friday, at least 60 people were killed in three separate bombings in Sunni Muslim areas in and around Baghdad.

BATTLE

Syrian troops—with the help of Lebanon's Hezbollah—pushed deeper on Monday into the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, which has been under control of the opposition for a year. Syrian state media reported that the town, located near the Lebanese border and a key position on the road to Damascus, is now mainly under control of Bashar al-Assad's forces. Opposition activists said at least 52 of their fighters have been killed in the battle, while 13 Hezbollah fighters were reportedly killed. Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters launched the offensive in Qusayr on Sunday, one day after Assad gave a rare interview—where he insisted his forces are not using "fighters from outside Syria, of other nationalities, and needs no support from any Arab or foreign state."  It's unclear how many civilians are trapped in Qusayr, although opposition activists put the number at close to 40,000.


TENSE
North Koreans Seized Chinese Boat
While Pyongyang fires off sixth missile in three days.
COME ON NOW
Gay Marriage Bill Splits U.K. Parliament
Cameron faces Tory rebellion.
SEEING RED
Taylor Swift Nabs 8 Billboard Awards
Gotye, Rihanna also clean up.
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