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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Sunday, January 13, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Daniel Politi NRA President: Congress Likely Won't Pass Assault Weapons Ban Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 2:26 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Treasury Department Rules out $1 Trillion Platinum Coin To Avoid Debt Ceiling Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 11:39 AM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Internet Activist Aaron Swartz, Reddit and RSS Pioneer, Commits Suicide at 26 Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 5:15 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Colin Powell Defends Chuck Hagel as Republican Questions his "Temperament" Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 3:06 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Six Men Arrested in India After New Bus Rape Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 1:35 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Report: Obama To Push Broad Immigration Reform, Including Path to Citizenship, in one Bill Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 12:37 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi NBC's David Gregory Won't Face Charges for Displaying Ammo Clip on TV Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 2:00 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi White House Says No to Death Star, Secession Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 12:13 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi USA Today: Lance Armstrong Plans To Confess To Doping in Oprah Winfrey Interview Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 12:52 AM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi France Increases Security Amid Africa Operations in Mali and Somalia Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 5:35 PM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Rep. Gingrey of Georgia Says Akin "Legitimate Rape" Comments Were "Partially Right" Friday, January 11, 2013, at 11:49 AM EST   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Reminder: Your Paycheck Just Got Smaller Friday, January 11, 2013, at 1:43 PM EST   Blog | Aisha Harris Hear the First New Destiny's Child Song in Eight Years  Friday, January 11, 2013, at 5:48 PM EST   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 8:30 AM EST Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   BEST FEATURED STORIES Facebook's Plan To Charge for Emailing Is Brilliant Yglesias: Aaron Swartz Was the Smartest, Most Talented Person I'd Ever Met There Was Actually a Lot To Admire About Casa de Mi Padre Obama Is Getting Us Out of Afghanistan Fast—and Changing the Story of Why We Went   Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend

Cheat Sheet - A Real ‘Downton’ Affair

Today: 7 Men Rape Woman on Bus in India , Obama Wants Immigration Overhaul , Court Orders Mubarak Retrial January 13, 2013 SOAP OPERA 1. A Real ‘Downton’ Affair Margaret Powell was a servant to the Wardhams at its Redlands estate when her friend Rose, the beautiful under-parlor maid, eloped with the family’s only son, Master Gerald. In Servants’ Hall, Powell recounts the true story of the romance with her signature wit and humor. Read it at The Daily Beast NOT AGAIN 2. 7 Men Rape Woman on Bus in India Indian police say that a woman was gang raped by seven men over the weekend after she boarded a bus on Friday night. Police have arrested six of the men and are searching for the seventh. The 29-year-old woman boarded a bus in Gurdaspur district in Punjab, but the bus sped past her stop. The bus driver and his helper than took her to an undisclosed location, where five other men joined and raped her through the night. They dropped her off in her village the next day. The victim said, “They threatened me with a sharp edged weapon and did wrong things with me. They kept me confined all through the night and forced me to do what they want.” Read it at CNN FORWARD 3. Obama Wants Immigration Overhaul President Obama will push Congress for an overhaul of the immigration system in the coming months. Obama and Senate Democrats plan to propose one large, comprehensive bill, despite efforts by some Republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces. The bill would include a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country and the president will oppose measures that did not allow immigrants who attain legal status to become American citizens one day. The legislation could be introduced as early as March with a Senate vote to be held before August. Read it at The New York Times TRY, TRY AGAIN 4. Court Orders Mubarak Retrial Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be retried, after a court granted his appeal of his life sentence on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising. Habib el-Adly, Mubarak’s security chief, who is also serving a life sentence on the same charges, will also be retried. No date has been set for either retrial. But Mubarak isn’t out of the woods yet. Prosecutors placed a new detention hold on Mubarak while they investigate allegations he received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Egypt’s top newspapers as a show of loyalty during his regime. Read it at The Associated Press MISS AMERICA 5. Here She Is…Relevance The 92-year-old competition has struggled to reclaim its significance, but enthusiasm for a handful of inspiring contestants—one with autism, another bravely taking on breast cancer—prove that the pageant is far from dead, writes Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast TENSION French President Raises Terror Threat Level After Mali strike. REDDIT SUICIDE Swartz Family Blames MIT And attorney for suicide. SCARY Police Shoot Gunman in Movie Theater During screening of Les Miserables. TIGHT ENDS 49ers Beat Green Bay Peyton Manning and the Broncos fall to Ravens. WEDDING BELLS Sudeikis and Wilde Engaged Have dated since 2011. 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. ‘Girls’ Season 1: Everything You Missed Lena Dunham’s buzzy HBO series returns for a second season this Sunday. Catch up with Hannah and her friends with The Daily Beast's ‘precap’ of the delightful debut season. More Videos School Shootings: My Son Was at the Virginia Tech Massacre by Azar Nafisi Risky Rescue: A Year After It Sank, Raising the Costa Concordia by Barbie Latza Nadeau ’50 Shades of Grey’ Musical Takes Broadway by Lizzie Crocker

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