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Friday, February 14, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Obama's Iran Deal Makes Saudis Want Nukes

Cheat Sheet: Morning

February 14, 2014
GEARING UP

While the U.S. is working towards a small victory on the nuclear front with Iran, Saudi Arabia is on the verge of its own nuclear rebellion, report Eli Lake and Josh Rogin. Riyadh fears the agreement will leave Tehran with break-out nuclear capacity, and it would like its own. Ironically, Obama's quest to curb the spread of nuclear weapons could be undone by his own diplomacy.

NOT SO FAST

A federal judge ruled that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the state's attorney general announced late Thursday night. The ruling said that the law infringed upon rights guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment. "We have arrived upon another moment in history when We the People becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect," the judge wrote. The Marshall-Newton Amendment was passed by 57 percent of voters in 2006. The judge's ruling was immediately stayed pending appeal.

DEADLY BLIZZARD

As the Eastern seaboard struggles to recover from this week's storm, the Northeast may be hit again tomorrow. So far, 21 people have died due to the weather conditions, including a pregnant woman in New York who was struck by a snowplow. A new round of snow could come Saturday, adding another three inches of fluffy stuff onto a season that has already had triple the typical amounts usually received at this point in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

I LOVED YOU, MAN

Before David Wildstein became a critical player in Bridgegate, he had an online crush on Chris Christie. Olivia Nuzzi reports on Wildstein's time "Wally Edge," his nom de plume at PoliticsNJ.com. Wildstein gave loads of publicity to a largely unknown Christie who sent tips to the Wildstein for the site. Wildstein wrote lavishly about Christie, which helped him get a job at the Port Authority. Of course, that real-life job could hit delete on Christie's future political career.

RIGHT-SWIPE GOLD

It's long been suspected that when you get a group of young, impossibly fit people from around the globe at a once-in-a-lifetime event like the Olympics, they will go at it like rabbits. Tinder, the location-based hook-up app, has made the Olympic Orgy even easier, writes Lizzie Crocker. Since U.S. Olympian Jamie Anderson revealed she had to delete her Tinder account because it was so distracting, we finally have confirmation that when Olympians aren't hitting the slopes, they're hitting the sheets.


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