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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Why Obama Needs Kanye West

Today: 27 Dead from Freezing Weather , The GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing , Japan PM Visits Contentious Shrine
Cheat Sheet: Morning

December 26, 2013
PRAISE YEEZUS

Obama loves Kanye's music, but he'd rather spend an evening with the cast of Duck Dynasty than the egomaniacal rapper. Eli Lake on why he should reconsider.

ICE COLD

Twenty-seven people have died in the freezing temperatures left behind by an ice storm that knocked down power lines from Michigan across the Northeast—with 17 fatalities in the U.S. and 10 in Canada. Of those deaths in Canada, seven were caused by carbon-monoxide poisoning from generators or barbecue grills used to keep warm. Tens of thousands of Americans who lost power in an ice storm over the weekend will remain in the dark and cold until Friday, as frigid temperatures have not allowed the ice to melt. The American Red Cross set up a warming shelter and is providing meals for people out of a mobile food truck in Flint, Mich., the state hit the hardest by the storm.

REPUBLICAN SEXISM

Desperate to stop a second Clinton presidency in 2016, it's a sure bet many in the GOP will reprise the ugly attacks they used on her 22 years ago. Sam Kleiner reports.

TOUCHY

Japan's prime minister managed to irritate Chinese and South Korean leaders and worry the United States in one move. On Thursday, Shinzo Abe visited a controversial shrine that honors those killed in battle alongside Japanese leaders who were convicted of war crimes following World War II. The shrine is seen as a symbol of hostility by China and South Korea, but Abe insisted he went to the shrine in peace. "There is criticism based on the misconception that this is an act to worship war criminals, but I have visited Yasukuni Shrine to report to the souls of the war dead on the progress made this year and to convey my resolve that people never again suffer the horrors of war," he told reporters.

DESPERATE PLEA

Al Qaeda released a video on Christmas of a U.S. government contractor pleading for President Obama to negotiate for his freedom. Warren Weinstein, who was kidnapped from his home in Pakistan in August 2011, said in the video that he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten" by the U.S. The 72 year old, who looks significantly older and more worn down than in previous videos the terrorist group has released, noted that his health is waning, and that his captors have agreed to let his family visit him if Obama permits members of al Qaeda held in the U.S. to receive visits from their relatives. The White House has not yet responded to the video, which was released by The Washington Post, but officials have said in the past that the U.S. will not negotiate with al Qaeda.


FREE TO GO
Russia Releases Activists
Arrested Greenpeace crew allowed to leave.
UNSETTLING
Snowden: Spying Worse Than '1984'
Compared NSA to Orwell novel in Xmas message.
REVOLUTIONARY BIRTHDAY
China Wishes Mao a Happy 120th
As it debates how to remember him.
EXTREMISTS
U.S. Sending Arms to Iraq
To help fight al Qaeda.
WALL STREET WIN
Stocks Set to Break Records
Slated for best year since 1997.
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