Cheat Sheet - White House at War With ISIS Victim's Family

Read This, Skip That .... September 22, 2014 BLAME GAME 1. White House at War With ISIS Victim's Family The Obama administration is taking aim at the family of Steven Sotloff, the journalist beheaded by ISIS. Josh Rogin reports the White House rejected the family's claims that Sotloff was kidnapped by a Syrian rebel group, which then sold him to ISIS. If such a claim proves true, it calls Obama's entire anti-ISIS strategy for training Syrian rebels into question. Read it at The Daily Beast NEW FRONTIER 2. NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Arrives at Mars After traveling 442 million miles in more than 10 months, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting Mars on Sunday. MAVEN's mission is to study how the Red Planet's climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry—an undertaking that resonates right now, as hundreds of thousands joined the People's Climate March in New York City to focus on climate change right here on Earth. The unmanned MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) will take a first-of-its-kind look at the planet's upper atmosphere. NASA hopes that data it collects will help scientists understand what happened to the water on Mars and the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere billions of years ago. Read it at Yahoo WE COME IN PEACE 3. Russians March to End Ukraine War Thousands of people poured into the streets of Moscow on Sunday to protest the war in Ukraine. "Forgive us, Ukraine," read flags at the Peace March while others chanted "If there is no Putin, there is no war," reports Anna Nemstova. It may be wishful thinking, but for one day, there was the genuine sense in Russia that Putin could be stopped. Read it at The Daily Beast MAKING A POINT 4. Rockefeller Family Denounces Oil The Rockefeller family, whose legendary fortune was built by John D. Rockefeller through Standard Oil, announced that its $860 million philanthropic foundation is joining the divestment movement and abandoning fossil fuels. The announcement comes just ahead of the United Nations climate-change summit that starts Tuesday in New York City, and is part of a broadening divestment initiative in which people commit to selling shares of energy stocks. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has already eliminated investments involving coal and tar sands, while increasing its investment in alternative energy sources, the fund's president said. Unwinding other investments in a complex portfolio involving a broader range of fossil fuels will take longer, he noted. Read it at The New York Times CHURCH AND STATE 5. In Texas, Moses Is a Founding Father The Texas State Board of Education is wreaking havoc with history, and the consequences for students are dire, writes Edward Countryman. Under the state's new educational standards, textbook companies seeking lucrative Texas contracts have been made to distort history. Moses, John Calvin, and Thomas Aquinas have suddenly replaced Enlightenment thinkers as the critical influences on the Founding Fathers. Native Americans and African Americans are treated only as victims rather than history-makers. Read it at The Daily Beast AWOL Afghan Army Officers Go Missing in U.S. They were supposed to be training. DEADLY TRAVEL 2 Dead, 48 Injured on Bus to New York Overturned in Delaware Encouraging Ebola Lockdown Declared a Success As Sierra Leone ends 3-day curfew. PUSHBACK Kurds Halt ISIS in Syria Near Turkey As 130,000 Kurds flee to Turkey. KIWI REVOLT New Zealand May Cut Union Jack From Flag Referendum next year. HUFFINGTON POST Bill Clinton: Elizabeth Warren Is 'An Important Part' Of The Future Of The Democratic Party ROLLING STONE The NFL's Personnel Foul: 32 Teams, 32 Problems BUZZFEED Missing University Of Virginia Student's Parents Plead For Information 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. Can Lady Gaga Sing Jazz? by Ted Gioia Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Feminine Mystique by Marlow Stern New York City's New Mystery Art Piece by Sara Sayed

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