Cheat Sheet - Shutdown Aversion: Republicans May Have Just Lost the House

Today: Al Qaeda Suspect Likely on Navy Ship , Three Biologists Win Nobel for Medicine , Scalia: I 'Suspect' I Have Gay Friends October 07, 2013 STUCK 1. Shutdown Aversion: Republicans May Have Just Lost the House The electorate says Republicans are not acting rationally and John Boehner has been left scrambling for an exit plan. Next year's midterm elections could now become a referendum on House management—and The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift says that could give Obama the Democratic Congress he craves. Plus, Michael Tomasky on three upcoming lies you'll hear from the GOP in the debt-ceiling debate, Jacob Siegel on the shutdown's hidden cost, and more coverage of the shutdown. Read it at The Daily Beast CAPTURED 2. Al Qaeda Suspect Likely on Navy Ship The captured suspected al Qaeda operative Abu Anas el-Liby is on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Sunday. Abu Anas is not headed to Guantánamo Bay, but rather is expected to end up in New York, where he will stand trial for the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224. A computer expert, Abu Anas has been tied to a terrorism manual that details plans for "blasting and destroying the embassies and attacking vital economic centers." The manual has been used in the 2001 conspiracy trial of four operatives as well as in the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th September 11th hijacker. Read it at The New York Times American Universities 3. Three Biologists Win Nobel for Medicine Two Americans, James Rothman and Randy Schekman, and Germany's Thomas Suedhof were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday. They were honored for their research into how cells organize their transport system. The Nobel committee said the research helped determine how insulin is manufactured and released into the blood. Rothman is a professor at Yale University, Schekman is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Suedhof is a professor at Stanford. Medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes to be awarded, with physics to be announced Tuesday, chemistry Wednesday, literature Thursday, and peace Friday. Read it at Reuters TELL ALL 4. Scalia: I 'Suspect' I Have Gay Friends Antonin Scalia believes in the devil as well as in God, he still follows "the Catholic teaching" that homosexuality is wrong, and he wakes up in the morning with newspapers (there's no love for The Daily Beast or The New York Times here). In a revealing New York magazine profile, Scalia admitted he "very much suspect[s]" that he has friends "who are homosexual," but insisted that he will not come around about his beliefs, even if "maybe the world is spinning toward a wider acceptance of homosexual rights, and here's Scalia, standing athwart of it." As for the devil, Scalia certainly has a lot to say—he insists "most of America" believes in him, certainly "most of mankind throughout history." Oh, and apparently he didn't understand the Ninth Amendment until after law school. Read it at New York JOIN US! 5. McCain to Speak at Hero Summit The Daily Beast's Hero Summit: An Exploration of Courage, Character & Our National Security —this Thursday in Washington, D.C. —just confirmed additional speakers including: Sen. John McCain, who will kick off the day at 8:30am on the government shutdown and the crisis in Syria; former senators Olympia Snowe and George Mitchell along with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in a flash debate moderated by Walter Isaacson about the loss of political courage in our nation's capital; and journalist Richard Engel, who comes in from his overseas beat to describe his harrowing kidnapping in Syria. The October 10th event will be live-streamed on The Daily Beast. Follow the Hero Summit to see the complete rundown for the summit. Read it at The Daily Beast CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE? Kerry 'Pleased' With Syria Disarmament Praises Assad for complying. TRAGEDY Newtown Votes to Close Sandy Hook New school will be constructed. TRENDING Nielsen to Measure Tweets During TV shows. HIGH STREET Kate Moss to Return to Topshop Will launch in April. SPACING OUT 'Gravity' Rakes In $55.55M at Box Office Scores biggest October opening ever. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. TV's Hated Character Talks Back by Andrew Romano The Sharpton Boycott by David Freedlander Miley's New Album Is Catchy as Hell by Marlow Stern

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