Mad Bomber: The suspect in a series of bombings in Texas is dead after blowing himself up in his car as police closed in on him early this morning. One police officer was hurt in the explosion.

The suspect was a 24-year-old white man. Austin police chief Brian Manley said, “We do not understand what motivated him to do what he did.”

Police have not said how they identified and located the bomber. They found him at a motel.

The end came quickly after a sixth explosive package bomb was discovered yesterday after a fifth bomb blew up in the Federal Express center outside San Antonio. A Federal Express statement said, “The individual responsible also shipped a second package that has now been secured and turned over to law enforcement.”

Four bombs had exploded in Austin, killing two people. The fifth blew up on a Federal Express conveyor belt and the sixth was neutralized.

The FBI says the last two bombs were mailed from a private package mailing service. Confusing the situation was the explosion last night of an incendiary device in Austin. Police say they believe that incident is not related to the package bombings.

Coupla’ Winners: President Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday and congratulated him on winning re-election in which the primary opponent was barred from running. Trump said it despite being handed a briefing paper from his national security team that said, “Do Not Congratulate.”

In the call, Trump also failed to say anything about the evident poisoning in England of a former Russian double agent.

“We had a very good call,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We will probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future.”

This makes two people Trump won’t say anything bad about; Putin and the porn star Stormy Daniels. Read on.

Dark and Stormy: A second woman in a month is suing to be allowed to tell her story about having an affair with Donald Trump, another is proceeding with her defamation suit, and Stormy Daniels has revealed the results of a lie detector test. Guess how it came out.

The latest to sue is former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who sold her story to the parent company of the National Enquirer in 2016 for $150,000, but the tabloid never printed it. The company, American Media, Inc. is owned by a friend of Trump’s who is believed to have paid McDougal with the intention of never publishing the story.

McDougal’s complaint claims that her own lawyer worked against her interests and took nearly half the money. Although details of the 2006 affair have been in several publications, AMI will not allow McDougal to talk about it, she says. Her complaint says, “They threaten her with financial ruin if she does not remain ‘loyal.’ AMI, meanwhile, feeds those same reporters false information about Ms. McDougal, her relationship with Mr. Trump, and its own machinations to bind her to silence.”

In New York, a judge ruled that Summer Zervos, a contestant on Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice,” may proceed with her sexual assault lawsuit against the President. “No one is above the law,” the judge said.

And porn actress Stormy Daniels has released the results of a lie-detector test after which the examiner concludes she told the truth about going to bed with Trump. We’ll spare you the more exact language, but Daniels tweeted, “Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago.” Not a wink.

That leaves us with Junior. Now that Donald Trump Jr. is divorcing, the lid is off his life as well. The story is out that he had an affair in 2012 with Aubrey O’Day, whom he met while trolling the set on season 5 of “The Apprentice.” The Trump men must having been elbowing each other out of the way.

Talking Heads: A long time military analyst for Fox News has quit, saying the network is “harming our system of government for profit.”

Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said in his resignation letter, “In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration” he said, “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.”

Nation: A high school police officer in Maryland rushed to the sound of gunshots yesterday and confronted a student with a gun who had wounded two other students. The shooter dies, although it’s undetermined whether he was killed by the officer or by his own hand.

The officer, St. Mary’s County sheriff’s deputy Blaine Gaskill, is credited with heading off a possible massacre.

Spring Break: A fourth winter storm in a month is hitting the East Coast this morning bringing snow and rain from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. In California, up to five feet of snow is expected in the Sierras. It’s the second day of spring.

Extinction: Sudan, the last known male northern white rhinoceros, was euthanized at an African preserve at the advanced age of 45 after unsuccessful efforts to breed him with the last two remaining females. The animal was deteriorating and in pain for some time. Finally, he was unable to stand.

The northern white rhinos, a subspecies of the more populous southern white rhinos, was native to the grasslands of east and central Africa. In was hunted basically to extinction for its horns.

Scientists hope to bring the species back with stem cells, sperm from dead males, and eggs from females, but success is many years off.

The Little Woman: Secy. of Housing and Urban development Ben Carson yesterday blamed his wife for ordering a $31,000 dining set for his executive dining room. He told a congressional committee, “They showed us some catalogs. The prices were beyond what I wanted to pay. I made it clear that just didn’t seem right to me. And, you know, I left it with my wife.”

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