Cheat Sheet - Rupert Murdoch’s Game of Thrones

Today: Homophobic Comments From Jeff Flake's Son Reflect GOP's Isolation , Yahoo Fought Prism (and Lost) , Jeb Bush: Immigrants 'More Fertile' June 14, 2013 High Stakes 1. Murdoch's Game of Thrones Personal matters aside, the mogul's impending divorce from wife Wendi Deng could have a huge impact on his media empire. The Daily Beast's Peter Jukes on the succession drama brewing at News Corp.—and how it could all play out in the press. Read it at The Daily Beast AWKWARD 2. What the Senator's Son Said Homophobic, anti-Semitic, racist…the online profile of Arizona Republican Jeff Flake's son has it all. The Daily Beast's Jamelle Bouie on why, in this case, the children of politicians shouldn't be off limits—and how the offensive remarks reflect the state of the GOP today. Read it at The Daily Beast THEY TRIED 3. Yahoo Fought Prism (and Lost) It looks like Yahoo fought the law, and the law won. According to a report in The New York Times, the Internet company had challenged the legality of a government order that ultimately led to the Prism program, saying the request violated users' Fourth Amendment rights. The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court did not agree, and in 2008, citing government assurances that the U.S. does not maintain a database of information on nontargeted Americans (ahem...), ruled Yahoo's compliance was obligatory, and called its privacy concerns "overblown." Yahoo! has repeatedly denied involvement in any government sweep of its users' data, and said it "has not joined any program in which we volunteer to share user data with the U.S. government." Key word here being "volunteer."   Read it at The New York Times Come on Over! 4. Jeb Bush: Immigrants 'More Fertile' Jeb Bush just doesn't understand what his fellow Republicans don't like about immigration reform. Bush, who's wife was born in Mexico, knows that the U.S. needs immigrants—particularly their willingness to work hard and supposed exceptional fertility—to maintain a competitive advantage over other countries like China and Japan. "Immigrants create far more business than native-born Americans," he said at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference earlier this week. "Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity." Read it at The Washington Post Under Our Nose 5. Nazi Commander Living in MN You never know where these will turn up. A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit lied to U.S. immigration officials about his military service in 1949 in order to get into the United States, and has been living in a heavily Ukrainian town in Minnesota ever since. Michael Karkoc, now 94, was the founder of an SS-led Ukrainian group and later a part of the SS Galician Division. Documents do not show that Karkoc was personally involved in his units' war crimes, but men from his units said the groups he commanded carried out massacres of civilians and that Karkoc was on the scene for some of those events. Other Nazi documents show he was involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which Germany brutally repressed Polish resistance. The AP's investigation has aroused the interest of German authorities in exploring whether Karkoc can be prosecuted. Read it at The Associated Press LAST STRAW U.S. to Send Weapons to Syria After chemical weapons use confirmed. PAY UP Two More Former Interns Sue Condé Nast slapped with suit. BRING DOWN THE HOUSE NBA Finals Singer Faces Slurs On Twitter after performing national anthem. Tragic Ohio Boy Admits to Shooting Mom Agrees to plea deal. Oh Dear Report: Lohan Refused Therapy Skipped out of rehab early. 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. Palin's Back, Eh? You Betcha! Heck, Fox News isn't quite done with the former VP candidate who understood foreign policy because she could see Russia from her house. Can't wait for her return? Check out these oh-so-entertaining highlights of Palin's first stint as on-air contributor. More Videos OMG, I Want This House by The Daily Beast My Uncle the Serial Killer by Christine Pelisek Athletes Who Failed as Bosses by The Daily Beast

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