—From Sedona, Ariz.

Anti-Islam: One of the shooters killed in an attack on an anti-Islamic gathering in Garland, Tex. Sunday night has been described as a terrorism suspect known to the FBI. The man, Nadir Hamid Soofi, 34, lived in the same Phoenix apartment complex with the second assailant, Elton Simpson, 30.

Both men, who were firing assault rifles attempting to enter the event lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, were shot dead by a Garland traffic cop wielding only a pistol while providing security that night.

The incident immediately became part of the worldwide debate about the limits of free speech and the right to insult another person’s religion, particularly Islam The event organizer, Pamela Geller of New York, wrote on her blog, “Here’s what the enemies of freedom sought to crush last night. Truth and freedom.”

Nation: David Goldberg, the Silicon Valley executive married to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, died of head trauma after falling off exercise equipment at a Mexican resort, according to Mexican authorities and his own brother. Robert Goldberg said he found David at about 7 pm last Friday in the exercise room of the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Mita, about three hours after David had gone to work out. Robert Goldberg said David was surrounded in a pool of blood. He died at a local hospital.

The Gathering Crowd: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is expected to announce his candidacy for president this morning. Huckabee is both a conservative Evangelical and conservative politician who’s against same sex marriage but in favor or preserving Social Security as it is. He says his appeal is to the “Bubbaville” segment of the American electorate.

He joins the chorus with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, and Ben Carson.

Nuyawk, Nuyawk: New York State Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were arrested yesterday by the FBI on corruption charges involving a job with a sewer company for the Adam and shady commissions on title insurance and bond work.

According to the indictment the younger Skelos got a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff.”

Mickey D’s: The boss of the flagging McDonald’s burger chain announced a big turnaround plan yesterday, the heart of which is to make 91 percent of it restaurants into franchises, rather than company-owned. The chain expects that to save $300 million a year. Less clear is what Mickey D’s plans to do about its food, which Americans are finding less appetizing against the competition of Shake Shack and Chipotle. Because, you know, regardless of how the company is organized, the food has to be something people want to eat.

Punched Out: Welterweight Manny Pacquiao says he went into his losing bout with Floyd Mayweather suffering a torn rotator cuff and spent most of Sunday before the fight with his right arm in a sling. He says he’s going to have surgery to fix it.

3 AM Call: Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina failed buy the web domain “carlyfiorina.org,” which is now being used as a site to protest her tenure at Hewlett Packard. The site has 30,000 “sad face” emoticons to symbolize all the people Fiorina laid of from HP. Layoffs aside, would you vote for someone who can’t think ahead to nail down their own name for a web domain?

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