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Friday, October 18, 2013

Cheat Sheet - The Real Story Behind ‘12 Years a Slave’

Today: Former House Speaker Tom Foley Dies , Norwegian-Somali ID'd as Kenya Gunman , Daisy Coleman Blogs About Alleged Rape
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

October 18, 2013
RECENT HISTORY

The Steve McQueen film 12 Years a Slave, which opens in limited release today, is being hailed as the most devastating film about slavery ever. But the 1853 memoir it's based on shows the institution to be even more hideous than you can imagine, writes The Daily Beast's Jimmy So. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)

'Big Tom'

Former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Foley has died at the age of 84, his wife confirmed Friday. The son of a judge from Spokane, Washington, Foley considered the 30 years he represented Eastern Washington in Congress as his greatest achievement. In 1994, the Democrat became the first Speaker of the House to lose a reelection vote in 134 years. But he made a comeback as U.S. ambassador to Japan. He was known for his stoicism and dedication to his work as well as his ability to laugh at himself.

BREAKING

Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a Somali-born Norwegian man, has been named as a suspect in last month's deadly attack on a Kenyan mall—the first of the possibly four gunmen to be identified. Norway said last week it had received information that a Norwegian citizen of Somali origin may have been involved, and police sent an investigator to Kenya. According to relatives, the 23-year-old had taken so many long "vacations" back to Somalia recently that they couldn't remember the last time they spoke to him. The Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 61. Two foot-long boxes of charred body parts and AK-47's recovered from the part of the mall that collapsed in the attack have been sent to the morgue to determine whether they may belong to the terrorists. 

Speaking Out

Daisy Coleman took to XoJane.com, Friday, with a gut-wrenching account of the events surrounding her alleged rape in Maryville, Missouri last January. The teenager's case has captured national media attention recently as the county prosecutor who initially dropped the felony charges against the two 17-year-old boys—accused of sexually assaulting then-14-year-old Coleman and a 13-year-old friend—said this week that he's reopening the case. "My whole life since January 8, 2012, has been a long, reckless winter," Coleman wrote in Friday's blog post, describing the ridicule and depression she's endured and crediting Anonymous with bringing her case back into the public domain. "I can't ever go back."

TECH

Healthcare.gov, the portal site for Obamacare that went live on October 1, has been plagued by tech problems for weeks. But it's not the White House's fault, says a top web strategist for Obama's 2012 campaign. The Daily Beast's Andrew Romano on why the deck is stacked against government technology—and how we can fix our flawed system.


ZZZZZ
Study: Sleep 'Cleans' Your Brain
Nocturnal cleaning system rids the brain of toxins.
jailbreak
2 Killers Escape Florida Prisons
Using forged court documents.

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