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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Rome’s Nightmare: ISIS Plot to Kill the Pope

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August 28, 2014
Crusades 2.0
The Vatican scoffs at threats that Pope Francis is "in the crosshairs" of ISIS as Italy issues a terrorist threat and tightens security. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Vatican City, where ISIS may be planning to raise "the level of confrontation" with the pontiff, who they say is the "greatest exponent of the Christian religions."
OH NO
Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after she stopped breathing during throat surgery at a nearby clinic Thursday morning. Rivers reportedly went into cardiac arrest but is now in stable condition. The 81-year-old was reportedly having her vocal chords operated on. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, is reportedly en route to New York. In July, The Daily Beast asked Rivers if she thinks about her own death. "Constantly. In your 80s, you'd be foolish not to think about that."
MY LITTLE FRIEND
A little girl was given an automatic weapon to play with this week and she killed her trainer by accident. Only one first-world country would allow such insanity to continue. Cliff Schecter on the corruption of policy by the arms-dealer front group known as the NRA.
OF COURSE

After capturing an air base in Tabqa, Syria, this week, ISIS fighters claim they have executed hundreds of members of the Syrian armed forces. The base was the army's last stronghold in the country's northeast region. According to a human-rights organization, the executed soldiers were trying to escape from the airport. On Wednesday, pictures and a video were posted online that seemed to show more than a hundred men in underwear being marched into the desert.

MISSION CREEP

The amount of federal money going to families with disabled children has surpassed traditional welfare programs as a source of income over the past two years. Roughly $20 billion was spent by the children's Supplemental Security Income program, about $2 billion more than other welfare programs. Analysts say that the program has become an access point for families that lost benefits in the welfare overhaul of the 1990s. It started in 1974 as a small program serving families in which parents could not work because they had children with severe physical disabilities. The program has doubled its number of recipients in the past two decades, and now serves 1.3 million youths with behavioral, mental, or learning disorders, including harder-to-assess conditions such as ADHD. Its defenders say it is one of the last programs for the poor that hasn't faced severe cuts from Congress.


NEEDY
White House Drafts Immigration End Run
Using a blame-it-on-Congress justification.
CONGRATS!
Jolie, Pitt Finally Get Married
Secret ceremony in France Saturday.
DEVELOPING
U.N. Peacekeepers Captured in Syria
By al-Nusra Front.
GET IT RIGHT
Jon Stewart: I Am Not Anti-Israel
Criticized IDF's incursion in Gaza.
MEOW
Hello Kitty Bombshell Ticks Off Fans
"Hello Kitty is not a cat."

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