Cheat Sheet - What’s the Matter With Mississippi?

Today: Report: NSA, FBI Tapped 9 Internet Companies , At the U.S.-China Summit, Friendship Isn't What Matters , National Intelligence Director Condemns Leaks June 07, 2013 A WORLD APART 1. What's the Matter With Mississippi? With the nation's highest poverty rate, second-highest teen pregnancy rate, and highest teen birth rate, Mississippi may be the worst state in the nation for women. Michelle Goldberg on how Gov. Phil Bryant is making the problem worse. Read it at The Daily Beast WHAT PRIVACY? 2. Report: NSA, FBI Tapped 9 Internet Companies It's all coming out now. The Washington Post reports that the National Security Agency and the FBI have been tapping into the central servers of nine top U.S. Internet companies in a highly classified program code-named PRISM that began in 2007. The tap allegedly collects audio, video, photos, emails, documents, and connection logs that let analysts follow a user's movements and contacts from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Senior officials from the aforementioned Internet companies told the Guardian that they did not offer direct access to servers and that if data collection was taking place, it was without their knowledge. James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, also issued a statement on his website saying that the reports "contain numerous inaccuracies" and that the collection of communications "cannot be used to intentionally target any U.S. citizen, any other U.S. person, or anyone located within the United States." Read it at The Washington Post SUMMIT MEETING 3. At the U.S.-China Summit, Friendship Isn't What Matters President Obama and Chinese President Xi kick off a meeting at a resort today, and while the hope is that the men will become pals, that goal misses the point, says Gordon G. Chang. Read it at The Daily Beast GOOD NEWS 4. Jobs Report Shows Hiring Is Steady Our government may be spying on us, but at least we still have jobs. A new report from the Labor Department out Friday shows the U.S. added 175,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose from 7.5 percent in April to 7.6 percent, which apparently is actually a good thing because it means people are looking for work. The report shows that job growth has remained steady over the past three months, with employers adding an average of 155,000 jobs, but still not as high as the surge—an average of 237,000 jobs added—that occurred between November 2012 and February 2013. Read it at The Daily Beast CUT IT OUT 5. Turkey's Prime Minister Won't Cave to Protesters Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is back from a trip to North Africa and not happy to find protests still raging throughout his country a week after they started. "These protests that are bordering on illegality must come to an end as of now," Erdogan announced from a bus outside the airport upon his return. "Some people say, 'The prime minister is only prime minister to 50 percent.' We have always said that we are the servants of 76 million." While in Tunisia Thursday, Erdogan apologized for police use of tear gas against protesters but insisted "there is no country in the world that does not use tear gas" and reaffirmed plans to raze Istanbul's Gezi Park—the issue that sparked the protests in the first place. Read it at Washington Post BRING THEM BACK Hollande Demands Return of Missing Journalists in Syria Says their lives are in danger. NOT SO TOUGH Joe Arpaio Suspends Immigration Crackdown His controversial program being phased out. population problems Japan's Births Fall to Record Low Deaths still exceed births. ROYALTY Prince Philip to Undergo Surgery Hospitalized right before his 92nd birthday. ON THE EDGE Report: Paris Jackson Was in 'Meltdown Mode' All year, sources say. 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. Internet Ranters Scold the NSA They're debatably eloquent, definitely angry. Although everyone's mad at the National Security Agency for their spying, hacking, tapping, (insert your own gerund about invasions of privacy), these amateur pundits need the Web to know how they feel. More Videos South Carolina Goes Rogue by Jamelle Bouie Britain Can Hear You Now by Eli Lake A Second Act for Wesley Snipes by Allison Samuels

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