Cheat Sheet - Happy Father’s Day! 13 Coolest Movie Dads

Today: North Korea Proposes Talks with U.S. , Food Stamps Under Threat: House GOP Wants to Cut $20.5B From SNAP , NSA: 300 Phone Numbers Recorded June 16, 2013 Father Figures 1. 13 Coolest Movie Dads Happy Father's Day! In honor of dads everywhere, The Daily Beast rounds up the coolest dads on the big screen, from Bryan Mills' vengeful father in Taken to Mufasa in The Lion King. Plus, Emma Garman on Scott C. Johnson's discovery that his father was a CIA operative, and Nina Strochlic finds the most fashionable dads. Read it at The Daily Beast ONE-EIGHTY 2. North Korea Proposes Talks with U.S. Is North Korea ready to be reasonable? On Sunday, the North Korea proposed high-level talks with the U.S. to discuss easing tensions, drafting a treaty to formally end the Korean War and eventually eliminating nuclear threats on the Korean peninsula -- including American ones. A spokesman even said that North Korean officials are willing to meet "any time and at any place the United States wants." It's a dramatic turnaround from comments spanning the past few months, in which officials vowed never to discuss the possibility of eliminating its nuclear-weapons programs. Are they for real this time? Read it at The New York Times Balanced Budget? 3. Food Stamps Under Threat With the House about to take up the farm bill, the Republican Party's ascendant libertarian wing is taking aim at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift on whether food stamps will survive. Read it at The Daily Beast CYBERSNOOPING 4. NSA: 300 Phone Numbers Recorded There's some comforting news to come out of the NSA phone-monitoring scandal: thee agency claims that it only conducted investigations on fewer than 300 of the phone numbers collected in its 2012 "metadata." The information comes from a declassified paper that made the rounds of Washington on Saturday in an attempt to defend the spying scheme. The paper even gave an example of a terrorist plot stopped with help from the agency's knowledge of phone data: a 2009 plan to attack New York City's subway system led by individuals in the U.S. Read it at Reuters WORTHWHILE? 5. NSA: Scheme Foiled Terrorist Plots The NSA wants to convince you that its knowledge of your web habits went to a good cause: according to the agency, that information really did keep the terrorists from winning. Okay, maybe it wasn't your information, specifically. But top officials said on Saturday that data taken from two of the NSA's controversial data-gathering programs helped foil terrorist plots not only in the U.S., but also in more than 20 other countries worldwide. No details were immediately released about the countries or plots involved, but officials are working on declassifying as many of the events as they can. Trying to get back on our good side? Read it at Associated Press BREAKING UP Morsi Cuts Off Ties With Syria Will close Syrian embassy in Cairo. Change? Moderate Cleric Wins Iran Presidency Has half the votes counted in presidential race so far. HIGH AMBITION Google to Release Wi-Fi Balloons Balloons will beam Internet to hard-to-reach places. SCARY Report: Nigella Lawson Assaulted By her husband, Charles Saatchi. BABY YEEZUZ Kim Kardashian Has a Baby Girl A month before due date. 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. Cheerio, Haters! In response to the deluge of racist comments aimed at a heartwarming Cheerios ad depicting a bi-racial family, this parody takes on the bigotry surrounding the original ad, and takes things one step further. More Videos Rape Won't Get You Pregnant? by Caitlin Dickson Breast Cancer's Inequality by Rache M. Simmons Praise 'Yeezus' by Marlow Stern

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