Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: This Is Kim Jong-un’s Rocket

Today: Gitmo Hunger Striker Writes NYT Op-Ed , OK, Anne Frank COULD Have Been a Belieber , Dish Network Bids $25B For Sprint April 15, 2013 Exclusive 1. How North Korea Tipped Its Hand How did the U.S. come to believe that Pyongyang possesses the ability to stick a nuclear warhead on top of a ballistic missile? The Daily Beast's Eli Lake has the inside story: analysts recovered the front section of the rocket used in a satellite launch in December, which gave away a surprising amount of information about the status of the regime's nuclear-arms program. Read it at The Daily Beast Plea 2. Gitmo Hunger Striker Writes NYT Op-Ed An inmate at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, took to the pages of The New York Times to tell about the degradation and misery the hunger strikers are experiencing at the prison. Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel and his fellow strikers are tied down and force-fed twice a day, often painfully. "I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose," he writes. "I wanted to vomit, but I couldn't. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone." Moqbel, who has been imprisoned for 11 years and three months, has been fasting since February 10. "I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late." Read it at The New York Times REAL TALK 3. Anne Frank Coulda Been a Belieber Pop star Justin Bieber worked the world into a tizzy by touring Amsterdam's Anne Frank museum and suggesting that the Holocaust icon would have been a fan. But, really, she might have been—some Jewish leaders even agree. Aren't we all overreacting? By Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast MEGACOMPANY 4. Dish Network Bids $25B For Sprint The next communications supercompany? Dish Network Corp. made a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., an unsolicited offer that, if accepted, would combine one of the country's largest pay-TV providers with the third-largest wireless-communications company. It could be a shrewd move for Dish Network, which is seeing the pay-TV business face increased competition from other distributors as younger consumers opt for services like Netflix and other digital platforms. Absorbing Sprint would allow the company to offer Internet and phone service along with satellite services.   Read it at Los Angeles Times Awful 5. Cop Murders Her Baby, Boyfriend An off-duty NYPD officer shot dead her baby son and the baby's father in Brooklyn on Monday morning, before turning the gun on herself. Cops arrived at the scene after her 19-year-old son heard a dispute and called 911 after escaping through a window of the first-floor apartment. But by the time they got there, the cop, her 1-year-old child, and boyfriend were all dead. The bodies of the female officer and her baby boy were found face up on the bed in her bedroom. The identity of the officer has not yet been revealed, and police are still investigating a motive. Read it at The Associated Press SCANDALOUS? 'Captain Underpants' Is Most Controversial Book '50 Shades' comes in fourth. PROUD Gay Soccer Star: Why I Came Out Robbie Rogers considering a comeback. CRY UNCLE Google Yields on Search Concedes to changes with European regulators. PANIC Gold Continues Plunge New two year low. NOT REHEARSED Plaza Kicked Out of MTV Awards After crashing Will Ferrell's speech. 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. Kerry: Foreign Students 'Scared' Of U.S. Guns Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN's Jill Dougherty that he's 'heard in a couple quiet conversations' with foreign officials that students are now wary of coming to America because they're afraid of gun violence. More Videos Happy About Your Tax Refund? Don't Be. by Megan McArdle Gosnell: What 'Conspiracy'? by Michael Tomasky Best Dressed at the MTV Movie Awards by Claire Stern

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