Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: No More Drones for the CIA

Today: How Obama Became Netanyahu , South Korea Hacked , One in 50 Kids Has Autism March 20, 2013 POLICY SHIFT 1. Exclusive: No More Drones for the CIA Three senior officials tell The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman that the Obama administration is poised to shift the CIA's drone program to the Pentagon. Read it at The Daily Beast ISRAEL TRIP 2. How Obama Became Bibi By refusing to challenge Bibi's approach to the Palestinians, Obama has made it his own. The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart on why the president's trip to Israel is probably going to be a missed opportunity. Read it at The Daily Beast CYBERFIGHT 3. South Korea Hacked South Korea suspected the North of being responsible for a computer network outage at banks and major broadcasters on Wednesday, which sent the nation's stocks into a nosedive. The networks went down around 2:20 p.m. The operations of at least two of the banks were back up and running later in the afternoon. South Korean president Park Geun-hye has set up a cybercrisis headquarters to investigate whether the North was responsible for the outages, which came just one month after the North detonated a nuclear weapon and one day after Pyongyang threatened retaliation if the U.S. flies B-52 bombers overhead again. Read it at Bloomberg Businessweek EPIDEMIC 4. One in 50 Kids Has Autism These are some dramatic numbers: one in 50 American schoolchildren has autism, meaning at least 1 million children are affected by the disease, according to a government survey of parents released on Wednesday. Health officials cautioned that the numbers reflect that autism is diagnosed more frequently—especially since it is diagnosed not through blood tests but by psychiatrists—but not necessarily that it is occurring more often. The latest study by the Centers for Disease Control is considered more accurate than the earlier figure of one in 88 schoolchildren because this study cast a far wider outreach, although fewer than a quarter of parents contacted agreed to answer the questions. Read it at Associated Press Really?! 5. Pope Supported Gay Civil Unions A closet liberal? Old colleagues of the newly installed Pope Francis recall that in 2010, when Argentina was on the verge of legalizing gay marriage (and the Catholic Church led a charge against the proposed law, condemning it as the work of the devil), then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio advocated in a meeting of bishops that the Argentine church should support gay civil unions. A gay-rights leader who spoke with him said that Bergoglio supported civil unions but not same-sex marriage.The unexpected approach was more pragmatic than theological though, as he saw civil unions at the time as "the lesser of two evils," according to his authorized biographer. Still, it offers insight into the kind of pragmatic leadership he may bring to the papacy. Read it at The New York Times CRISIS Cyprus Seeks Russian Bailout EU threatens to cut them off. NO APPALACHIAN TRAIL Sanford Advances to Runoff Colbert's sister wins Democratic nomination. TAKE THAT House Across From Westboro Church Painted Rainbow Inspired by 9-year-old protester last year. Royal Duds Princess Diana's Gowns Sell for $1.2M Includes dress she wore to dance with John Travolta. HEARTBREAK WARFARE Katy Perry, John Mayer Split For the second time. 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. See-Through and Scandalous As Lululemon pulls its see-through pants from stores, take a look back at some stars' deliberately revealing outfits. More Videos Roger Ailes Is Still Dissing Obama by Howard Kurtz Joshua DuBois: First Ladies of the Church Rise by Joshua DuBois Selena Gomez Is All Grown Up by Marlow Stern

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