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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Cheat Sheet - The Death Benefit Scandal

Today: Get Ready for Live Coverage of The Daily Beast's Hero Summit , Alice Munro Wins Literature Nobel , GOP May Make Debt-Limit Offer
Cheat Sheet: Morning

October 10, 2013
LEFT UNPAID

The $100,000 payment to families of fallen service members, meant as a first and immediate installment on an unpayable debt, is frozen in the shutdown. Michael Daly on the outrage.

WATCH HERE

The Daily Beast's second annual summit begins today with Gen. John Allen, Wole Soyinka, and others converging in Washington, D.C. Stay tuned for live coverage.

We Have a Winner

The Swedish Academy announced Thursday that Alice Munro, the Canadian author known for her short stories about life in southwestern Ontario, is the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The academy said it had not been able to reach the 82-year-old author, but had left a message. Munro won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and has twice won Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Munro has published 13 short-story collections, including her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), which won her first Governor award, and The Progress of Love, which won the award exactly three decades later.

Sign of Thaw

A short-term solution is better than no solution at all, right? GOP leaders might be on board with a short-term increase in the country's borrowing limit, a plan that Rep. Paul Ryan presented Wednesday that would extend the limit for four to six weeks. Though the White House has been firm in not negotiating its debt ceiling terms, top House Republicans will have the opportunity to bring up the offer with President Obama Thursday—their first meeting since the government shutdown began. 

Blowback

Prime Minister Ali Zidan was abducted—then set free—Thursday by an armed gang in Tripoli who claim he collaborated with a U.S. raid against al Qaeda on Libyan soil. Jamie Dettmer reports.


YOU GO, GIRL
Malala Wins EU Human-Rights Prize
Beat Edward Snowden.
FAIL
AP Retracts McAuliffe Story
Claimed he lied to a federal official.
LONG TRIP
Snowden's Father Arrives in Russia
Hopes to visit son in secret location.
AMAZING
Roman Skulls Found Beneath London
During digging for new rail line.
Sibling Rivalry
Jonas Brothers Cancel Tour
The cause? A "deep rift within the band."
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