Cheat Sheet - Hassan Rouhani's Holocaust Politics

Today: Int'l Court Affirms Taylor Sentence , The Court Case That Pivots on What 'Corrupt' Really Means , U.N. to Test Iran on Nuke Deal September 26, 2013 Lost in Translation 1. Hassan Rouhani's Holocaust Politics Not so fast, CNN. Iran's president did not denounce the Nazis. Michael Moynihan says a more accurate translation suggests he is just another Holocaust denier. Read it at The Daily Beast Guilty 2. Int'l Court Affirms Taylor Sentence An international appeals court in The Netherlands on Thursday upheld the 50-year sentence of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was convicted for aiding war crimes in Sierra Leone. The Special Court for Liberia in The Hague, backed by the United Nations, rejected Taylor's appeal that there had been mistakes in evaluating the evidence and applying the law. Taylor was found guilty last year for encouraging and supplying violent rebels in Sierra Leone, who carried out a campaign of murder, rape, sex slavery, and conscription of child soldiers. Taylor also used Sierra Leone's diamonds to fuel the civil war and enrich himself. Read it at CNN Tea Leaves 3. What 'Corrupt' Really Means It sounds like just another campaign-finance case, but McCutcheon v. FEC will show whether the Supreme Court's conservatives truly honor the worldview of the Founding Fathers. By Lawrence Lessig. Read it at The Daily Beast Friends? 4. U.N. to Test Iran on Nuke Deal The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany will meet with Iran's top diplomat Thursday to discuss a deal over the Islamic nation's nuclear program. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made bold headlines at the U.N. General Assembly this week, suggesting that Iran was eager to strike a deal and acknowledging the Holocaust, as his hard-line predecessor notoriously failed to do. The meeting will be the first high-level talks between the U.S. and Iran in six years; the U.S. is hopeful that Rouhani will be more moderate on the nuke issue than his predecessor, but is skeptical that Iran's supreme leader will allow him to change the country's stance. Read it at The Associated Press Shocker 5. NSA Spied on MLK, War Critics Nothing new under the sun, right? The National Security Agency spied on Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and other critics of the Vietnam War during the 1960s, according to classified documents revealed Wednesday. The spying program was discovered in the 1970s, when it was shut down, but its targets had never been known. The NSA also spied on journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post, and two members of Congress. Alarmed by the intensity of antiwar dissent, President Lyndon Johnson asked U.S. intelligence agencies if the protests had been masterminded by foreign powers, and to create "watch lists" of war critics.   Read it at Al-Jazeera America HIGH SCHOOLS SAT Scores Fall Slightly African-Americans make small gains. WELL OKAY THEN Bush Is Witness at Same-Sex Marriage Attended a private ceremony for two friends. 'State of Jefferson' CA Secession Movement Spreads Second county votes to secede. Migration Flying Spiders Spook Texas Webs floating through the sky. EXPLAINS IT ALL Melissa Joan Hart Did a Lot of Drugs Also made out with Nick Carter one time. Wonderwall Serena Williams' Best Bikini Moments CNBC 8 Things to Know About Obamacare (That You Were Too Afraid to Ask) Vulture 100 Pop-Culture Things That Make You a Millennial 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. A Celebration of Fall(ing) It's that time of year again! The air is crisper and the leaves will be turning soon. To commemorate the seasonal change, here's 70 seconds of people face-planting. Happy fall! More Videos How to Survive a Filibuster by Kent Sepkowitz Brooklyn Is the New Guantánamo by Michael Daly Fall TV's Best Sitcoms by Kevin Fallon

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