Politics: Trying to run for President as the “new” Bush, Jeb has been boxed into defending the last Bush, his brother George. Frontrunner Donald Trump has been pounding away at Jeb Bush’s claim that his brother “kept us safe.” Trump keeps pointing to the 9/11 attacks and the collapse of the Twin Towers saying, “When he said we were safe, that’s not safe. We lost 3,000 people. It was one of the greatest — probably the greatest catastrophe in this country.”

Bush asked his followers to donate $5 each to helps fight back against Donald Trump, who has found that fighting for free on Twitter serves him just fine. Once the presumed Republican candidate, Bush is running fifth overall in the Republican polls, and trading barbs with Trump isn’t pulling up his numbers. But the next to fall off the Republican ladder could be Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who’s running out of money.

Permawar: The US says a drone strike has killed the leader of the al Quaeda cell known as the Khorason Group, which plots attacks against the Unites States and Europe. Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi, was the highest-ranking leader among five senior members of the network of organizations killed in the past four months. A Pentagon spokesman said, “This operation deals a significant blow to the Khorasan Group’s plans to attack the United States and our allies,” but so far, killing terrorist leaders has not put their organizations out of business.

Israel: In the continuing spate of Palestinian knife attacks, an Israeli soldier was killed yesterday in a gun attack at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheeva. An Eritrean immigrant … a black man … who was mistakenly shot by the police and then turned on by angry bystanders who thought he was the attacker, later died of his wounds.

Nine other people were wounded and the assailant was killed. Authorities said that after killing the soldier, the gunman picked up the dead man’s weapon and continued shooting outside the bus terminal, where he was shot dead.

Heavy Weather: Nine provinces in the northern Philippines were left without power when a Typhoon blew through yesterday. Winds hit 150 mph. As many as 16,000 villagers were forced from their homes, some of them having to wade to safety in chest-deep water. Many had to be rescued from the rooftops of flooded houses.

The Billy Goat: The Chicago Cubs are in trouble after dropping the first two games of the National League series to the NY Mets. The Mets beat the Cubs 4-1 last night. Game three is tomorrow at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Up North: Canadians head to the polls today for an election in which Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper is trying to hold on for a fourth term as prime minister. Favored in the polls is Justin Trudeau, son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret, who married the 52-year-old Trudeau in 1971 at age 22 and became an international jet-setter. Justin Trudeau, at 43, would be Canada’s second youngest prime minister.

Revelation: Drought in far southern Mexico has revealed the ghostly specter of a 16^th Century church long covered by the 100-foot deep waters of a reservoir. The Temple of Santiago was covered in 1966 by the waters of the Nezahualcoyotl reservoir in Chiapas. Local tourists are taking people on tours of the church by boat.

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