Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The number of American troops in Iraq is set to decrease for the first time since the battle against terrorist organization ISIS began, nearly an entire population of residents has been instructed to flee amid a ravenous wildfire in an Oregon town, the same guy who compared Muslim women’s headwraps to the hoods of the Ku Klux Klan nominates President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, Mark Zuckerburg says he hopes Facebook won’t destroy humanity but he also won’t remove anti-vaxx information on the site, and all of the sexy—tacky—L.A. Halloween costumes will have to stay in the house this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices