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Cheat Sheet - The NRA’s Victory Lap

Today: Katherine Russell: The Good Wife , From the Choom Gang to Drug Warrior, Barack Obama Keeps Bogarting Joints , Hundreds of Syrians Flee Coast May 04, 2013 Gun Control 1. In Houston, an NRA Victory Lap At the group's annual convention, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and others celebrated the failure of the Senate push for tougher background checks on gun buyers. Michael Ames on the triumphant storm of gun-supporters descending on Houston. Read it at The Daily Beast LOVE LOST 2. Katherine Russell: The Good Wife Authorities are widening their gaze in the Boston Marathon bombing case to the Tsarnaev brothers' closest associates, including Tamerlan's mysterious widow, Katherine Russell. New details on Russell, 24, paint the picture of a privileged East Coast girl, who played alto saxophone, sketched pictures of cats, and bought clothes (and once stole) from Old Navy. Russell's friends from college—who a classmate describes as "straight out of Sex and the City"—say she was "infatuated" with Tamerlan upon meeting him. By 2010 she had dropped out of college, converted to Islam, and married him. The FBI's investigation into her role in the bombings is ongoing. Read it at The New York Times DRUG WARRIOR 3. Obama the Buzzkill The president has governed not merely as a standard-issue White House drug warrior but as a particularly hard-hearted one. Nick Gillespie on how the once high-flying member of a pot-smoking crew became king of the "war on drugs." Read it at The Daily Beast desperate 4. Hundreds of Syrians Flee Coast Hundreds of Syrians have deserted coastal towns where government troops reportedly killed an estimated 150 people in two days. Activists posted footage online of mutilated and charred bodies, including women and children, killed in massacres in al-Bayda and Baniyas. Syrian government claimed the army operations were to drive back terrorist groups and restore peace. Refugees from the area have been blocked from taking shelter in a city south of the conflicted area, activists say. Read it at BBC THINK FAST 5. The Week's Best Longreads From the harrowing memoirs of a Guantánamo detainee to the coming-out story that rocked the basketball world, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. Read it at The Daily Beast HUNGRY HUNGRY Man Survives Being Swallowed By Hippo "It was as if I had suddenly gone blind." SCHMOOGLE THAT Google Recognizes Palestine On local home page. INTO THE FIRE Dimon to Meet With Bank Examiners Over complaints about management. OOPSY DAISY Clerical Error Leads to Criminal Release Murder suspect still at large after walking out of jail. GOING TO THE CHAPEL Keira Knightley Married To James Righton at ceremony in the south of France. 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. TV Anchors Bust a Move After 17 years without dancing on 'Today' (or so he says), Matt Lauer broke Friday morning, unable to resist Psy's live performance of 'Gentleman.' See which other television anchors have gotten jiggy wit it, from Katie Couric to Regis Philbin. More Videos Americans Are Ready for a Female President (Finally) by Eleanor Clift Six Years Later, No Sign of Madeleine by Barbie Latza Nadeau The Week in Viral Videos by The Daily Beast Video

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