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Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Dec. 28, 2020
December 28, 2020 07:23 - 4 minutes - 4.19 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump Signs $900B COVID Relief Package Into Law After Dragging His Feet, Vice President Pence Goes to Posh Ski Resort For Holidays While Unemployment Benefits Expire for Millions, RV That Exploded in Nashville Was Belting Out Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown,’ European Union Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout to Inoculate 450 Million People, Trump Claims Florida Is ‘Doing Well’ With No Lockdown, Ignores 17,000+ New COVID Cases, Beve...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020
December 23, 2020 19:42 - 6 minutes - 6.01 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Pfizer says it will double its vaccine supply as the U.S. sees its fifth worst day of the coronavirus pandemic, the FBI finds that Iran created a website to target officials who opposed President Trump’s election-fraud conspiracy theories, the Trump administration basically wants restaurant waiters to support their coworkers by handing over their tips, truckers stranded in Britain are angry—and rightfully so, White House st...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020
December 23, 2020 12:14 - 5 minutes - 5.36 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump makes an interesting—and last-minute—demand in regards to the stimulus bill, the president goes on a pardon spree, Sidney Powell is ‘on her own,’ a Black man holding just a cell phone is shot in Columbus, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vaccination plan receives criticism from experts, and a college basketball player develops a heart condition months after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Hosted on Acast. See ac...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
December 22, 2020 19:38 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: It may now be a little too late for the U.S. to ban travel from Britain, lawmakers put some pretty weird stuff in the coronavirus relief bill, the Washington football team paid off a sexual assault accuser, someone with experience will finally lead the nation’s education department, the coronavirus officially makes its way around the world—reaching Antarctica, and President Trump feels like he can’t trust many people during...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
December 22, 2020 12:16 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet is watching right now: Trump camp disregards COVID guidelines to jam into Mar-a-Lago for a gala, Americans are set to receive a whopping $600-pandemic relief payment, a former Trump adviser blames media coverage for the severity of the coronavirus, body-cam footage shows the Black man who was killed by a Texas cop was shot in the back, comedian John Mulaney struggles with sobriety during the pandemic, and the ex-Bloomberg News reporter who came out ab...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Dec. 21, 2020
December 21, 2020 19:20 - 5 minutes - 5.38 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A mutant form of the coronavirus has the world on edge, California’s governor is back in quarantine, right-wing mobs take over the Oregon State Capitol, U.S. authorities believe Chinese intelligence officials exposed undercover CIA operatives using stolen data, violence is up in Chicago, residents on Hawaii’s Big Island are told to stay inside to avoid ash exposure, and Attorney General William Barr says the federal governm...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Dec. 21, 2020
December 21, 2020 12:11 - 4 minutes - 3.82 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Americans can finally count on a second stimulus check, Tennessee has become the worse place in the U.S. in terms of the coronavirus, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants the U.S. government to block travel from the U.K. to prevent a mutant strain of COVID-19 from spreading, the next tier of Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine will include about 49 million essential workers and elderly people, and Dr. Deborah Birx face...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
December 18, 2020 20:12 - 7 minutes - 6.57 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump was going to do something decent, but his aides stopped him; undocumented immigrants will not be included on the U.S. census; a Jonestown survivor says Trump supporters are drinking his Kool-Aid; don’t buy vaccines from the dark web; the NYPD “heightened tensions” with the city’s residents over the summer; and Tucker Carlson and the owner of Fox News are on two separate pages in regards to the coronavirus v...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
December 18, 2020 12:22 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Sadly, Donald Trump may become a reality star again; Michael Flynn believes the president can use martial law to redo the 2020 presidential election; Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s Twitter account is following an escort who brags about being 'your favorite long-legged girl next door;' California has more coronavirus cases than the entire country of Germany; widow Vanessa Bryant and her mother battle over money; and game ‘Cyberpunk 207...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020
December 17, 2020 19:43 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The pandemic is only getting worse, an alleged pimp who worked for Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested in France, Vice President Pence is preparing for the wrath of Trumpworld, a Georgia woman denies COVID rules to visit her boyfriend in the Cayman Islands—and gets arrested, Russia will have no involvement in the next two Olympics, and Atlantic City is taking bids on who can blow up the old Trump Plaza. Hosted on Acast. See...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020
December 17, 2020 12:26 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The U.S. has more of the coronavirus vaccine than it previously thought, a South Carolina Republican is now in quarantine, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany blames U.S. laws for keeping President Trump from a second term in office, an alleged member of a white supremacist organization tries to sell weapons to an international terrorist organization, Tyson Foods is launching an investigation into claims of wrongfu...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020
December 16, 2020 19:52 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A man said to be working for the terrorist organization al Shabab allegedly was looking for “the tallest building in a major U.S. city” for an attack, CDC officials left their post because Kellyanne Conway and Ivanka Trump were too annoying, coronavirus death counts in Florida were manipulated to not appear as serious, AOC says the Democratic party needs new leadership, people who live around Mar-a-Lago do not want Donald T...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020
December 16, 2020 12:19 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump’s new pick as attorney general may become the quickest person to be fired within the administration, many staffers under Betsy DeVos will stick around during the Biden presidency, the Trump organization tries to use attorney-client privilege to keep from handing over tax documents, an Ohio man attempted to assume the identity of a missing teen in order to escape his own family, officials are consulting triba...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020
December 15, 2020 19:43 - 7 minutes - 6.61 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Another COVID-19 vaccine may be released next week; people are actually hosting fight club events during a global health pandemic; researchers wonder if the coronavirus can lead to symptoms similar to Parkinson’s Disease; more agencies are on the list of targets attacked by Russian hacking; the post office can’t seem to keep up with so many packages; and someone, please tell Santa Claus to stay home this year. Hosted on A...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
December 15, 2020 12:19 - 5 minutes - 5.27 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Attorney General Bill Barr leaves his post with an unusually praising tone of President Trump; Trump supporters really think that doomsday is looming over a Biden presidency; Republican senators finally face political reality; a group of irresponsible firefighters in New Jersey celebrate the holiday season; rather than furniture or a bag of clothes being dropped off, a boy is left at a Goodwill store; and the National Film ...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Dec. 14, 2020
December 14, 2020 19:13 - 8 minutes - 7.5 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A New York nurse is one of the first Americans to step up and take the COVID-19 vaccine; a possible Russia-linked cyberattack shut down U.S. civilian government agencies; the fashion industry continues to fail its Muslim models, designers, workers, and audiences; personal finance guru Dave Ramsey holds a 1,000-person maskless soiree; Pornhub cleans house; and Santa Claus spreads a little more than cheer at one nursing home ...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Dec. 14, 2020
December 14, 2020 12:51 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump administration gets first dibs on the coronavirus vaccine; National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien’s wife tags along during official business on international trips; nearly 30 people were arrested during Saturday’s far-right rally in D.C.; a former aide accuses New York’s governor of sexaul harassment; a Christmas concert in New York City was interrupted Sunday with a public shooter; and finally, Cleveland’s Majo...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
December 11, 2020 20:32 - 6 minutes - 5.68 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A study shows that one event back in February proved to be a major COVID-19 superspreader nearly a year later; President Trump continues his killing spree; a Christian crowdfunding site gets used and abused for secular purposes; Donald Trump probably should be concerned after he leaves the White House; restaurants may be threatened again as New York City deals with another wave of the coronavirus; not only is COVID-19 creep...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
December 11, 2020 12:21 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Despite pleas to do otherwise, President Trump moves forward with the federal execution of Brandon Bernard; the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine could be released to the public this weekend or next week; President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris beat President Trump for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year; an investigation has been ongoing into Hunter Biden since 2018; and Ghislaine Maxwell’s family want the a...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
December 10, 2020 19:51 - 6 minutes - 5.78 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Politicians keep skipping COVID-19 mitigation efforts, Minneapolis votes to defund the police, Attorney General Bill Barr is staying for the long-haul, 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' isn’t doing all that hot, erectile dysfunction and anti-depressant pills should not be mixed, and here’s to a new—different—year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
December 10, 2020 11:47 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The U.S. shatters a heartbreaking record Wednesday, law professor John Eastman works to spread racist birtherism theories about Vice President-elect Harris, a Wisconsin judge says that it’s not the job of a federal job to choose the president of the United States, the White House needs a deep clean after the Trump administration moves out, a number of Republicans contract COVID-19 during a meeting at a ski resort—possibly r...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
December 09, 2020 19:21 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The coronavirus vaccine roll-out has not been seamless and people may try to steal them, a Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania reveals she was afraid to defy President Trump, Iran builds a replacement nuclear site, YouTube is over the 2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories, and Rudy Giuliani is set to be released back out into the wild. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Dec.9, 2020
December 09, 2020 12:14 - 5 minutes - 5.27 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The worst is yet to come with the coronavirus; so-called voter-fraud witness Mellissa Carone seems unfazed by Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis testing positive for COVID-19—even though they were around her for an extended period of time just a few days prior; Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s husband racked up in stocks just before federal coronavirus relief provisions went public; former Democratic Representative Katie Hill alleges that ...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
December 08, 2020 17:29 - 4 minutes - 4.25 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: No safety concerns: FDA scientists pave way for Pfizer vaccine approval, Zuckerberg personally threatened U.K. government with investment pull, Arizona Republican party asks: are you ready to fight to the death to support Trump?, Brit named William Shakespeare first man to get Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as mass rollout begins, Mexicans were illegally smuggled over the border to help guard Trump’s wall, Pfizer tells Trump Admin...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
December 08, 2020 09:22 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump admin turned down Pfizer’s offer to sell more COVID vaccine doses to U.S., Pompeo spent over $40,000 in taxpayer money on extravagant dinner parties for GOP elites, celebs, Trump called Pennsylvania House Speaker twice to ask for help reversing election loss, Walter Reed doc who blasted Trump COVID joyride loses schedule spot, video appears to show COVID-defying Staten Island bar owner hit Sheriff’s deputy with car, C...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Dec. 7, 2020
December 07, 2020 17:30 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Bob Woodward announces his next book on the dying days of Trump’s presidency, Ffamily Says Ohio Cops Are ‘Lying’ About Fatal Shooting of 23-Year-Old Black Man, Bob Dylan Offloads His Entire Songwriting Back Catalog for a Reported $300 Million, Pope Francis to Visit Iraq in March 2021, Mystery Sickness Lands 300+ People in Hospitals in South India, All With Negative COVID Tests, California locks down again: 33 million told t...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Dec. 7, 2020
December 07, 2020 09:26 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Rudy Giuliani hospitalized with coronavirus, Attorney General Barr could step down before end of Trump’s term, Georgia Secretary of State blames Stacey Abrams for Trump’s refusal to concede, Operation Warp Speed chief says nursing home residents could get vaccine by end of December, bar owner who defied COVID restrictions arrested after allegedly driving into deputy, family of British author Roald Dahl apologizes for his an...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
December 04, 2020 18:37 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President-elect Joe Biden asks Dr. Anthony Fauci to stay on board; Americans didn’t listen to public-health experts about traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday; there’s been a rise in LSD use in the Marines; hiring continues to slow during the pandemic; it’s a little too late but President Trump is afraid of looking like a criminal; and the country’s young Republican leaders were determined to throw an annual gala—deadl...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
December 04, 2020 12:26 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump is trying to take credit for the COVID-19 vaccine, a couple of cronies of the president and Jared Kushner were investigated this summer on suspicion of bribery, Trump may hold a competing event to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, former tenants of Donald Trump are suing his family for overpayment, the mother of the man who had been missing for 28 years is no longer a suspect in his lack of well-bein...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020
December 03, 2020 19:00 - 8 minutes - 7.69 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Joe Biden will have a lot to tackle when it comes to reuniting families who were separated at the border; drug overdose during the time of COVID proves to be a pandemic during a pandemic; a couple who disregarded their COVID-positivity status thought they could go on a tropical vacation gets arrested; Attorney General Bill Barr seems to be President Trump’s latest friend-turned-foe; previous presidents band together to take...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020
December 03, 2020 12:22 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The vice president seems to be walking away from President Trump’s voter-fraud conspiracy theories; Rudy Giuliani has his nerve to be embarrassed of someone else in court; the Washington, D.C., attorney general is investigating Ivanka Trump for her involvement in the president’s 2017 inauguration; Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones refused to enforce COVID guidelines—and now he’s showing symptoms of the virus; the U.S. h...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
December 02, 2020 19:12 - 5 minutes - 5.53 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The United States has entered a “dangerous” zone in terms of the coronavirus, activist Joshua Wong has been jailed in Hong Kong, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed as early as next week in Britain, two men shortchanged the U.S. Postal Service of millions of dollars with their Amazon virtual store, people in Portland go to war with port-a-potties, and President Trump does not like it when people say mean things a...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
December 02, 2020 11:18 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A secret bribery scheme involving the White House is under investigation, a Republican group in New York really wants Sarah Palin to attend their event—despite the ongoing pandemic, Nevada’s governor and President Trump go toe-to-toe on Twitter over a COVID conspiracy theory, a 5-year-old boy dies after being forced out of the car by an Alabama soldier, the man responsible for removing the Utah monolith speaks out, and a Mi...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
December 01, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutes - 5.5 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A Trump White House plans to host multiple Christmas parties where, surely, COVID will be a special guest; election fatigue does not seem to exist in Georgia; Trump campaign lawyer made a comment that could be seen as a death threat to a former cybersecurity chief—it’s probably not going to go well; 21,000 fraudulent unemployment claims were made in California; Rudy Giuliani is reportedly scared of prison time after Preside...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Nov. 30, 2020
November 30, 2020 19:30 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: COVID numbers go through the roof after the Thanksgiving holiday comes to an end, President Trump goes to Twitter to bash another former officer, Moderna is set to be an option to preventing the coronavirus, a professor seems to think that very archaic methods could treat COVID-19, feds are upset about the amount of crap they’ve had to clean up around the mysterious Utah monolith, and First Lady Melania Trump gives Christma...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Nov. 30, 2020
November 30, 2020 12:06 - 4 minutes - 4.37 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano is informed of COVID status while at a meeting at that White House, President-elect Joe Biden names his senior communications staff, a Dominion Voting Systems server crashes in Georgia, a nurse in Oregon thought it was a cool idea to brag on social media about breaching COVID guidelines, actress Laverne Cox is “in shock” after being harassed by a man in Los Angeles, and—for some reason—two b...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Nov. 25
November 25, 2020 17:17 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Millions of Americans are ignoring COVID-19 guidelines to travel for Thanksgiving, the White House is mulling plans to lift COVID-19 travel ban on Europeans and others, a car covered in anti-globalization messages crashed in to the gate of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, McConnell and Trump plotted Barrett SCOTUS nomination on the might Ginsburg Died, Georgia’s Secretary of State says he feels betrayed after votin...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Nov. 25, 2020
November 25, 2020 10:26 - 4 minutes - 4.61 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Rudy Giuliani and Pennsylvania GOPers plan ‘hearing’ on election ‘issues,’ with Trump expected to attend, California approved $140 Million in unemployment benefits for 20,000 prisoners, including death row murderers, Zuckerberg flipped secret switch favoring credible news outlets on Facebook after the election, 32 bus passengers in multiple states potentially exposed to COVID-19, Netflix says executives have not been arrest...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020
November 24, 2020 20:09 - 6 minutes - 5.65 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Joe Biden finally—and officially—grabs Pennsylvania, actor Randy Quaid appears to be the remnants of President Trump’s dwindling support system, Michigan canvassers reportedly receive threats over their jobs in the election, Sweden is struggling with the coronavirus—and herd immunity is not helping, a Brooklyn synagogue will be fined for breaking coronavirus restrictions, someone in Trump’s administration may be mulling ove...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020
November 24, 2020 12:11 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump’s team finally gives in to the election results—everybody but the president, of course; an OAN reporter dances on a line of being legal assistance to Trump’s election efforts; New York City’s first and only Black mayor was in office from 1989 to 1993; mask mandates can save both “lives and livelihoods;” Ghislaine Maxwell was possibly exposed to the coronavirus while being detained in the Metropolitan Detenti...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Nov. 23, 2020
November 23, 2020 20:58 - 8 minutes - 8 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump has no friends, no arrests have been made in a San Jose church stabbing, exotic olive oil is a lot more dangerous than you think, Fox News may be up for grabs—politically, Trump doesn’t want the names changed on some military bases—take a guess on which ones, a MAGA maniac breathes on two women, and good things come in 3’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Nov. 23, 2020
November 23, 2020 12:09 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump’s political team contradicts itself on who’s a lawyer and who isn’t, a Pennsylvania judge boots Trump’s challenge to election results—and the president is not happy, Joe Biden’s cabinet roll call to happen on Tuesday, a secret Hasidic wedding in New York hosted more than 7,000 guests, Pat Quinn helped raise millions of dollars in ALS research before passing away Sunday, and Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow say...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Nov. 20, 2020
November 20, 2020 19:16 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump’s election tantrums are supposedly in response to Democrats doubting his presidency in 2016, workers in a PPE factory in China have no days off and cannot leave on their own, a man in Germany may have made a meal out of his date, Pfizer wants to get the ball rolling on distributing its COVID-19 vaccine to the public, a Fox News correspondent wants to the name coronavirus vaccine after Trump...no. Hosted on...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Nov. 20, 2020
November 20, 2020 12:17 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: House Democrats are pretty fed up about the White House’s lack of transitioning power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, here’s the reason why Donald Trump probably is so adamant to remain president, a top Pentagon official seemingly contracted the coronavirus from a world leader, it seems as if leading world medical organizations are torn over the COVID-19 drug Remdesivir, the lawyers of the only female inmate on federal deat...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020
November 19, 2020 17:51 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: U.S. jobless numbers climb after the coronavirus makes a national comeback, the White House denied mental health care to migrants who were victims of family separation, Michigan lawmakers try to backtrack, drinking breast milk could be a solution of immunity to the coronavirus, and Facebook is in for a rude awakening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020
November 19, 2020 12:12 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet is watching right now: The number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. could become even more grim as time moves along, an employee of a Nebraska bar recorded the governor not wearing a mask around a group of women, a Trump aide just so happened to change her mind about the president—who she initially considered to be “an American fascist,” the Senate confirmed an unqualified Trump nominee to a lifetime judgeship, Will Smith finally sits down to talk wit...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020
November 18, 2020 19:56 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The White House has been warned that coronavirus death counts could get much scarier by the end of the year, the person in charge of the presidential transition in the Trump administration is crying crocodile tears over the amount of pressure she’s facing, Boeing is making another attempted comeback with its 737 MAX aircraft, Harvey Weinstein may or may not have the coronavirus, and President Trump wants a recount only of t...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020
November 18, 2020 12:15 - 5 minutes - 5.43 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: What Trumpworld thinks is a win for their campaign ends up being a political smack in the face, Rudy Giuliani rambles about nonsensical topics during a hearing in Pennsylvania, President-elect Joe Biden makes a political move that “feels like a betrayal” to a supporter of the Green New Deal, a Kentucky woman is arrested after her amateur legal adviser was found dead in his home, Americans are now able to do rapid COVID-19 t...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
November 17, 2020 21:58 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President-elect Joe Biden is not concerned with prosecuting Donald Trump once he takes his role in the White House; Rudy Giuliani must think that he’s some sort of reality show star to be paid this much money for his daily services with the Trump campaign; Georgia Republicans fear that Trump could be a liability; the secretary general for NATO says it would be a stupid idea for Trump to lower the number of American troops i...
Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
November 17, 2020 12:16 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MBThese are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump leads the U.S. on the brink of war with Iran just months before he’s supposed to leave the White House, a Trump campaign lawyer admits on his firm’s website that Joe Biden won the election, a former leader of the Congressional Black Caucus takes a role in the Biden administration, North Dakota mandates mask-wearing after the pandemic spirals out of control, hate crime murders boost during Trump’s presidency,...