Mad Bomber: A package blew up at a Federal Express facility outside San Antonio overnight, the fifth in a series of bombings in Texas. One person was injured. Investigators say the incident is more than likely related to other explosions in Austin. They say the package was shipped from Austin to an address in Austin.

Autonomous Death: An autonomous car has had its first fatal accident resulting in the Uber car service taking its “driverless” cars off the road.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., was killed by one of Uber’s self-driving cars late Sunday in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian hit by an autonomous vehicle on a public road. The Uber had a human driver but was in autonomous mode when it struck the woman, who was walking her bicycle across the street outside of a crosswalk, Tempe police said.

Companies have been testing self-driving cars with human backups but have been moving toward going completely driverless. Arizona already allows them. The Tempe accident could prove to be a big bump in the road.

Death Be Not Proud: President Trump in an appearance in New Hampshire yesterday proposed the death penalty for some drug dealers to put a stop to the nation’s addiction crisis.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers we’re wasting our time,” the President said. “Remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”

He added, “I don’t want to leave at the end of seven years and have this problem.” He’s optimistic on two counts.

Without naming them, Trump said, “Take a look at some of these countries where they don’t play games. They don’t have a drug problem.”

Trump did not say what would qualify a drug dealer for death, but he said some of them are responsible for thousands of deaths. He also didn’t say what he would do about doctors, legitimate drug companies, and distributors who play a large part in feeding the opioid addiction crisis.

The Russia Thing: Revealing his strained nerves, the President tweeted yesterday — a little out of nowhere — “A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!” He had spent part of his weekend railing about the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The President yesterday hired Washington lawyer and former US Attorney Joseph diGenova, who has espoused the theory that the FBI and Justice Department are attempting to frame Trump in the Russ investigation

DiGenova has claimed that a secretive group of FBI agents cooked up the Russia investigation to keep Trump from being elected. “There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton and, if she didn’t win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime,” he said on Fox News in January. He said, “Make no mistake about it: A group of FBI and DOJ people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime.”

Inside Out: Olivia Nuzzi has written a fascinating article for New York Magazine called “What Hope Hicks Knows,” about the departing White House Communications director and “Trump whisperer.” The article says Hicks was the closest aide to Trump and had his complete confidence.

Nuzzi writes that Hicks was immediately overtaken by the sickness of working for Trump. “She’d thought that being in the White House would feel different than the campaign, but instead, surrounded by eccentrics, maniacs, divas, and guys from the Republican National Committee who seemed to think they were managing a Best Buy in Kenosha, it was somehow sicker there in the stillness of it all.”

One fascinating detail, Hicks was followed everywhere she went. Nuzzi wrote, “Hicks was being tailed by a group called Probe-Media, ‘an elite agency’ that ‘deals in exclusive material and provides images and video footage and reconnaissance in a service uniquely tailored to meet our clients’ needs,’ according to the company’s sparse website.”

We’re going a little long with this, but Nuzzi includes a juicy paragraph about what happened when Staff Secretary Rob Porter was fired for being a twice-divorced wife beater who was dating Hicks. “Political genius wasn’t required to predict that the White House would respond to the Porter news by somehow making it even worse news. The story about Porter and Hicks became the story about Porter and the women who said he abused them. That became a story about the White House covering up Porter’s secrets, which became a story about Hicks and Kelly, which became a story about Hicks and Trump, which became a story about security clearance and Jared and Ivanka, which became a story about Kelly again. Eventually, it was just a story about who populates our anarchic new government and whether or not we can trust them.”

Money, Money: As the Dow Jones lost 335 points yesterday, Facebook stock dropped by nearly seven percent, a loss of $40 billion in value, on the news that a political research firm had mined the social network’s data. Cambridge Analytica, a company hired by Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, collected information of a potential 50 million Facebook users with a Trojan horse app. Some outlets are calling it the biggest data breach in Facebook’s history, but it happened in part with the voluntary actions of Facebook users.

Also yesterday, Facebook’s chief information security officer resigned after becoming frustrated with the company’s handling of disinformation distributed on the network, in particular the political stuff promulgated by Russians.

Celebrity Politics: Cynthia Nixon, the redheaded actress who played Miranda on the HBO series “Sex and the City,” announced yesterday that she’s running for governor of New York against the two-term incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

Nixon, who has never run for public office, hopes to knock Cuomo out of the Democratic nomination, even though he has $30 million in campaign cash and a real Nu Yawk accent.

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