Haiti Crisis: Haitian authorities hunted down the people they say were responsible for the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, getting into a shootout in which four suspects were killed and two were arrested.

  The suspects were not identified.

  Prime Minister Claude Joseph announced the country is under a “state of siege” and promised to hunt down the “mercenaries” responsible for the assassination.

  The motive for Moïse’s killing has not been revealed. Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, said the killing was carried out “by well-trained professionals, killers, commandos.” A Haitian judge, told the Nouvelliste newspaper that the attackers had posed as agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration

Hope Fades: Search teams in the rubble of the collapsed Florida condominium have ended hopes of rescuing anyone alive and are looking only for bodies.

  Two weeks after the collapse, “Just based on the facts, there’s zero chance of survival,” Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told families of the missing in a private briefing. The diggers say the wreckage is so dense and compacted that no one could survive.

  Rescue teams from all over Florida, as well as Texas, Israel and Mexico have worked over the pile. They have found 54 bodes while 86 people remain unaccounted for.

  It may will likely be time before the cause of the collapse is determined. Florida has some of the strictest regulations for high-rise buildings, but they are not always followed.

Trumped Up: Donald Trump announced that he’s suing the big social media companies Facebook, Google, and Twitter, claiming that they wrongly censor him.

  Trump said at a press conference that, “We’re demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well.”

  The companies have banned or censored Trump because he lies and makes things up — for instance, that the election was stolen from him.

  Describing it as “a pivotal battle in the defense of the first amendment,” Trump said, “Social media has given extraordinary power to a group of big tech giants that are working with government, the mainstream media and a large segment of a political party to silence and suppress the views of the American people and they’ve been very, very successful at that.”

  By “American people,” Trump really means himself.

  Legal analysts give the lawsuit little chance of success. The law allows the tech companies to moderate speech on their platforms. Paul Barret, the deputy director of the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Washington Post, “”In fact, Facebook and Twitter themselves have a First Amendment free speech right to determine what speech their platforms project and amplify — and that right includes excluding speakers who incite violence, as Trump did in connection with the January 6 Capitol insurrection.” 

The Boys of Summer: It’s safe to say no one played pond hockey in North America last night, but the National Hockey League wrapped up the final game of the Stanley Cup championship with the Tampa Bay Lightning beating the Montreal Canadiens four games to one. One hundred years ago the series ended in mid-March in Canada, but this year’s final game was July 7th in Tampa Bay, Florida, where the only ice is in cocktails.

The Spin Rack: In the past 24 hours the world surpassed four million deaths caused by the coronavirus; 4,002,924. — A Washington DC appeals court suspended the law license of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and lawyer for Donald Trump. The DC court acted in concert with New York’s  suspension and determination that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statement to courts, lawmakers, and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer” for Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. — Jessica Springsteen, daughter of rocker Bruce, has made the US Olympic equestrian jumping team. She was born to ride.

The Obit Page: Robert Downey Sr., an actor and filmmaker and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., has died of Parkinson’s disease at age 85. 

He appeared in the films “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” and “To Live and Die in LA.” Downey put his mark on the movies writing and making the 1969 classic “Putney Swope” about an irreverent all-black advertising agency called “Truth and Soul, Inc.” As one of the characters said, “No shit!”

The Rich Are Different: Billionaires Elon Musk,  Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson are in a race to see which of them will be first to take a recreational trip to space, proving that none of them pays enough taxes.

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