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Friday, October 4, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Who’s Really Winning the Shutdown Fight?

Today: Report: D.C. Crasher Was Delusional , Gaming the Twitter IPO , Alex Rodriguez Sues the MLB
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

October 04, 2013
LOSERS

Republicans lashed out today after an Obama official said the White House was 'winning' the shutdown fight, but the truth is no one's winning—neither the GOP, boxed in by its rhetoric, nor Democrats, says Jamelle Bouie.

TRAGIC

Miriam Carey, 34, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Connecticut, has been identified as the woman shot by Capitol Hill police after she attempted to drive her vehicle into a barricade near the White House, setting off a police chase that led to her death. According to the Associated Press, Carey was delusional and reportedly believed the president had communicated with her. Her mother also told ABC News that Carey suffered from postpartum depression. "A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed … She was hospitalized." Her child, a 1-year-old girl named Erica, was taken to a hospital and is now in protective custody.

#MONEYMAKER

A formal IPO S-1 filing makes it official: Twitter is going public. There's no doubt the social-media company has grown massively in a short time, but can it turn a profit? Daniel Gross isn't so sure.

PUSHBACK

Scandalized Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is suing Major League Baseball claiming he was the subject of a "witch hunt" intended to end his baseball career. Rodriguez claims that MLB paid an investigator $150,000 for stolen records of his and $5 million to the former head of the Biogenesis clinic for his cooperation in the performance enhancing drugs scandal that resulted in the suspension of Rodriguez and 12 other players. The lawsuit, which names MLB Commissioner Bud Selig as a defendant, was filed this week. Rodriguez has simultaneously been in an arbitration hearing for a record 211-game suspension as a result of the Biogenesis scandal. Selig, Rodriguez claims, has targeted him specifically in an effort to sabotage him.

UNSOLVED

As the child's aunt testifies in Portugal against the lead investigator in the case, U.K. police are combing through thousands of cellphone records, and say they are edging closer to a breakthrough. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.


BUILD-A-BABY
Baby Gene-Predicting Patent Approved
Bioethicists say it borders on eugenics.
RED STATE ALERT
Hurricane Brews, Meteorologists Stranded
Thanks to government shutdown.
TIME OUT
Preschool Programs Close in Shutdown
Poor children cut from Head Start.
trouble in oregon
Teenager Kills 2 in Hunting Camp
Returns to the scene after shooting himself in the leg.
VOGUE
Being Donatella
Gina Gershon on her new Lifetime movie.

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