Most Foul: A group of gunmen overnight burst into the home of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and killed him, also wounding the president’s wife, the country’s prime minister says.

  Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a statement that, “A group of unidentified individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the head of state.” 

  Haiti has a history of political instability. Moïse had been holding on to power, claiming he had another year to serve even though his term technically expired in February. He had been delayed taking office amid claims of election fraud. His refusal to step down sparked protests in the streets. In response, Moïse had 23 people arrested, including a top judge and a senior police officer. 

  “The goal of these people was to make an attempt on my life,” Moïse said at the time. “That plan was aborted.”

New Yawk Mare: Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams is a near lock to be the next mayor of New York after being declared the winner of the city’s Democratic primary. The Democrat always wins the general election in New York.

  Adams, who would be the city’s second black mayor, led Kathryn Garcia by a single percentage point after the count of 118,000 absentee ballots.

  Adams said in a statement, “While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City.” 

  He was a New York cop who retired at the rank of captain and became the first black person to be Brooklyn borough president. He had been a critic of discriminatory policing and was an advocate for black officers. He describes himself as the new face of the Democratic Party.

Delta, Delta, Delta: The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is now the dominant strain infecting Americans, accounting for 51 percent of new cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

  In some states, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa among them, the Delta strain is causing 80 percent of new infections.

  President Biden is pressing his campaign for Americans to get vaccinated after missing his target of 70 percent by July 4th. Just over 47 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

  It appears that vaccination doesn’t make you bulletproof. John Pavlovitz, a popular pastor who posts on Facebook, tells the tale of how all four members of his family came down with Covid-19 after three of them were fully vaccinated. He writes that, “The doctor who gave me my test results said that this Delta variant is frightening and unpredictable; showing a velocity and ease of transition that she wishes people understood and took seriously.” 

 In the West, for instance, About 7,550 out of 19.5 million fully vaccinated Californians have contracted the coronavirus, according to an analysis by CalMatters. While that’s statistically a great thing, it shows that the Delta variant is a tough nut. 

Condo Collapse: Searchers are finding bodies at an accelerated pace in the wreckage of the collapsed condominium building in Surfside, Florida. The count is now  36 confirmed dead and 109 missing.

Pumped Up: Rising gasoline process are threatening to put a crimp on the economy as it recovers from the pandemic. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the US is $3.13, according to AAA, up from $3.05 a month ago, and $2.18 a year ago when no one went anywhere except the grocery. The auto club says it expects prices to rise another 10 to 20 cents through the end of August.

Cloudy Picture: The Pentagon announced it is cancelling a $10 billion cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft over Amazon amid accusations that President Trump had improperly pushed the contract toward Microsoft.

  The Biden administration had concluded that the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, known as JEDI, was so long in the developing that it would be outdated by the time it’s deployed.

  It had been believed that Amazon had the proper capacity to develop the programming but that Trump stepped in because he hates the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. Now the Pentagon says it will develop something entirely new to be called Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, which doesn’t abbreviate to anything as cool as JEDI.

The Spin Rack: Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar is asking why no charges have been filed against the anonymous Capitol Police officer who shot and killed rioter Ashli Babbitt as she tried to smash into the House Speaker’s gallery during the January 6^th insurrection. He’s not demanding an investigation of the insurrection itself and its causes. — Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense is training its women soldiers to march in high heels. — General Motors said it will stop offering cars with a compact disc player in the radio starting in 2022. It’s such Stone Age technology.

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