Cheat Sheet - Hostages Dead in Algeria Siege

Today: First Lady's Office Joins Twitter , Lennay Marie Kekua and the Manti Te'o: A Scandal Explained , U.K. Police Arrest Sun Reporter January 17, 2013 TERRORISM 1. Hostages Dead in Siege The kidnapping of oil workers, including several Americans, on Algerian soil by jihadists has apparently ended in tragedy. The Daily Beast's Jamie Dettmer reports on the mounting hostage crisis—and the one-eyed "uncatchable" warlord believed to be behind the operation. Read it at The Daily Beast TWEET TWEET 2. First Lady's Office Joins Twitter Welcome to 2008, FLOTUS. Michelle Obama's office joined Twitter on Thursday, sending the first tweet at 8:35 a.m. The account from the first lady's office comes a year after President Obama's reelection campaign had launched an account for her. Her very first tweet: "The @FLOTUS Office is now on @twitter & will post updates & pics. When it's her, she'll sign –mo. PS RT to wish Mrs. Obama a #HappyBirthday." By noon, she already had 6,000 followers. The president and his team regularly use social media to send messages, as Obama held a live-tweeting Town Hall and a Reddit AMA. Read it at Talking Points Memo Who's Who 3. The Manti Te'o Circus Explained Everyone's talking about Manti Te'o, the college football star whose teary story of a cancer-stricken girlfriend was apparently a hoax. Still catching up on the twisted saga? The Daily Beast's Andrew Carter brings us up to speed. Read it at The Daily Beast OBIT 4. 'Dear Abby' Columnist Dies Pauline Phillips, the woman who founded the 'Dear Abby' advice column, died Wednesday at the age of 94. She had been battling Alzheimer's disease. Phillips started the column in 1956 under the pseudonym Abigail Van Buren, choosing Abigail "after a wise woman from the old Testament" and Van Buren after her favorite president. In nearly 50 years of writing the column, she grew to have a daily readership of 100 million. Her twin sister, advice columnist Ann Landers, died in 2002. Phillips's daughter, Jeanne, who co-wrote "Dear Abby" starting in 1987 and took over entirely in 2002, said she has "lost my mother, my mentor, and my best friend." Read it at TMZ BUMMER 5. Citigroup Earnings Sink Well, that's disappointing. Citigroup earned just 38 cents a share in the fourth quarter, well below the 97 cents a share that analysts had expected. Bank of America had fourth-quarter earnings of three cents a share, up from the two cents a share that analysts had forecast. Bank of America made $732 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, much less than the $1.99 billion it had made in the same period the year before. Both Citigroup and Bank of America were among the 10 banks that signed last week's $8.5 million settlement with regulators over foreclosure and mortgage servicing issues in 2009 and 2010, and earnings forecasts for Bank of America plunged after that announcement. Read it at USA Today OBSESSED Scottish Woman Builds Smurf Shrine Has more than 4,000 blue toys and memorabilia. NEXT ON OPRAH Armstrong Stripped of Olympic Bronze Reportedly teared up during Winfrey interview. OBIT Conrad Bain Dies at 89 Star of "Diff'rent Strokes." PHONE-HACKING SCANDAL U.K. Police Arrest Sun Reporter And two officers as part of Operation Elveden. GIRTH Dunham: I'm Thin for Detroit Tells Howard Stern. 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. Fresh Prince of Where? Wackier than Carlton's dance moves, check out what happens when a classic TV theme song gets put through Google Translate. Mirror dice! More Videos Airbus's Time to Fly by Clive Irving James Deen: My Lindsay Lohan Experience by Marlow Stern 16 Crazy Tennis Faces

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