Big Hit: Al Qaeda has confirmed the death of its number two man, Naser Abdel-Karim Wahishi, in a US airstrike last week in Yemen. Wahishi, once served as Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary and as chief deputy to Ayman Zawahiri, who succeeded Bin Laden in 2011. Wahishi’s replacement has already been named.

Old Time Hockey: The Chicago Blackhawks beat Tampa Bay 2-0 last night to win The Stanley Cup for the third time in six years. It’s Chicago’s sixth cup since 1938.

It was a tight game, despite Tampa’s failure to shoot the puck at the net. Chicago didn’t score until less than three minutes were left in the second period. Chicago’s Patrick Kane scored another late in the third. Even in the final minutes, with a Blackhawk in the penalty box and the Tampa Bay goalie on the bench, the Lightning were unable to make anything out of a two-man advantage.

Black Like Me: The well-regarded head of the Spokane NAACP has resigned after the revelation that she is white pretending to be black.

Rachel Dolezal, 37, graduated from the historically black Howard University, has taught African studies, and said she’s been the target of racial hatred in the largely white Spokane area. She has light brown skin and dark curly hair. But her parents recently said she is white with a touch of American Indian, revealing a childhood picture of her with white skin and blonde hair.

Dolezal once sued Howard University for discrimination, claiming that an art exhibit favored the work of black students over hers … because she was white.

Other NAACP leaders in Spokane said they didn’t care what color she is, but in a note on the group’s Facebook page Dolezal said, “I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP.”

Bush 3.0: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced for president yesterday. He said, “Our country is on a very bad course and the question is, ‘What are we going to do about it?’ The question for me is, ‘What am I going to do about it?'” Next up at the plate, maybe Donald Trump.

Nation: Five people were killed and eight injured early this morning after the collapse of a fourth floor balcony on an apartment building in Berkeley, Calif. Police say some of the injured have life-threatening wounds. Witnesses said there was a party in the apartment where the collapse occurred.

World: Fire has destroyed a significant portion of the roof on the 19^th Century Saint-Donatien basilica in the French city of Nantes. Firefighters did an amazing job of stopping the fire that was well on its way to taking the whole church. The cause is attributed to work being done on the roof.

> An Egyptian court has upheld the death sentence for former President Mohamed Morsi for his part in a 2011 prison break. The byzantine Egyptian court system allows him to keep appealing.

The Khaki Krisis: It’s going to be increasingly hard to fall into The Gap. The clothing chain that made its name first with jeans and then with Khakis announced that it is closing 175 stores in North America. That’s about a quarter of Gap stores. The Gap has been struggling to compete with the fast food of fashion chains like H&M.

Gap President Jeff Kirwan said in a statement, “We’re focused on offering consistent, on-brand product collections and enhancing the customer experience across all of our channels, including a smaller, more vibrant fleet of stores.” And doesn’t that just make you want to rush to the mall and shop at The Gap?