A bystander rushed a gunman who shot up a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee. James Shaw, Jr. was grazed by a bullet before grabbing the assault rifle and snatching it from the gunman’s hands, burning his own in the process. The attack left four dead, and sparked renewed calls for gun control. The suspect was arrested today.
Meanwhile, another Waffle House in Alabama is embroiled in controversy after police threw a black woman to the ground, exposing her breasts, and suggested they’d break her arm if she didn’t cooperate. She had been waiting to receive the district manager’s phone number after refusing to pay for plastic utensils that she had asked for with her order.
A suicide bomber in Kabul detonated explosives at the gate of a voter registration center, killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 100 others. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ahead of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea has turned off the speakers that blare K-Pop and anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across the border. (Maybe switch to podcasts?) For its part, North Korea has committed to halting nuclear tests and closing a nuclear test site...for now.
Fox News host Sean Hannity interviewed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson without disclosing millions of dollars in loans he received from the department. He argues that he didn’t know all the details about his investments and also that it’s none of our business. One time there should be a surprising story about Sean Hannity being cool.
A van struck and killed nine pedestrians and injured 16 more in Toronto before the driver fled the scene, in what is believed to be a deliberate attack. They now have a suspect in custody and believe mental illness was the motive.
Mitt Romney failed to snag the Utah GOP nomination on Saturday, receiving only 49 percent of delegate votes—far short of the the 60 percent he would’ve needed to clinch. Now he has to face 11 competitors in a June primary, with an electorate that is increasingly hostile to the GOP establishment.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein represented the Trump administration before the Supreme Court in a criminal sentencing case. It’s not unprecedented for a DAG or attorney general to occasionally stand in for the solicitor general, but in this case it feels very last-meal-before-execution-y.
Vice President Mike Pence now plans to name National Security Council official Lt. General Keith Kellogg as his national security adviser. Trump reportedly opposed Pence’s first pick, Jon Lerner, who has ties to groups that ran anti-Trump efforts during the election.
John Bolton, Trump’s new national security adviser, chaired a nonprofit that promoted anti-Muslim news, which Russian trolls then amplified across social media.
Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who is now a Senate candidate, says her high school track coach sexually abused her. Lawmakers have grappled with scandals and changing Congress’ rules in the #MeToo era, but McSally is one of the few to go public about her experience with sexual abuse.
The state governments of Mississippi and Alabama closed Monday in observance of “Confederate Memorial Day.” From PSTP news crew member Clint Smith: This is what’s being celebrated as an official state holiday in 2018. They rebuke the “downfall of slavery” and they fear “the lust of half-civilized Africans.”
THERE’S A NEW ROYAL BABY! Kate Middleton gave birth to her third child—a boy whose name has yet to be announced. He becomes fifth in line to the throne. (Counterpoint to all the fun: Monarchy is disgusting. Don’t delete this, Priyanka, you Loyalist.)
