Nation: Authorities in Fox Lake, Ill. outside Chicago are preparing to report today that the death of a popular police lieutenant in September was a suicide, not a murder. Lt. Charles Gliniewicz, 52, had radioed in that he was out of his car chasing three suspects. He was later found shot dead with his own gun, triggering a massive and unsuccessful hunt for the three men he had said he was pursuing.

Free Trade: The US is levying a $70 million fine on the Japanese company Takata for failing to disclose known defects in airbags installed in millions of automobiles. The company faces an additional fine of up to $130 million if it does not adhere to a consent decree to clean up its act and stop making airbags activated with a specific kind of ammonium nitrate.

The bags sometimes exploded, spraying the interior of the car with shrapnel. Eight people were killed and more than 100 injured around the world. It is likely to take years to retrofit all the cars that have the defective airbags.

Election Roundup: Wealthy Republican Matt Bevin, a political outsider sometimes compared to Donald Trump, won the race for Governor of Kentucky. The Tea Party likes him. Bevin said he would stop enrolling new people in Medicaid under the healthcare reform act, even though 10 percent of the state’s population was able to get insurance because of it — Ohio voters shot down a referendum that would have legalized medical and recreational marijuana — Voters in Houston turned down an equal rights ordinance aimed at protecting lesbian, gay and transsexual people. The opposition adopted the slogan, “No men in women’s bathrooms.”

Robin Williams: The widow of the late comedian Robin Williams blames his suicide on dementia, not depression. Susan Schneider Williams told ABC News and People Magazine that her husband had “Lewy body dementia,” a deteriorating condition sometimes confused with Alzheimer’s disease.

BookBeat: Republican candidate Donald Trump has begun to hawk his campaign book, “Crippled America.” In a press conference yesterday he took the camera time to also say he thinks some of the other candidates should drop out. “I think Marco is highly overrated” — “Ben Carson does not have that energy.” And he said it would be easy to beat Hillary Clinton. Trump gives himself a favorable review in his book. It costs $25.

Marathon Man: An Italian man missing since he ran in New York’s marathon Sunday was found yesterday, still in his running gear, wandering the New York subway system. Thirty-year-old Gianclaudio P. Marengo was trying to find his way back to his hotel, but he doesn’t speak English, and couldn’t seem to find anyone in all of New York City who speaks Italian.

Support Your Local Police: Movie director Quentin Tarantino is in trouble with the cops … all across the country. They’re angry about Tarantino’s remarks at a New York rally against police brutality during which he said, “When I see murders, I do not stand by… I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” Unfortunately, he said that only days after the murder of a New York police officer.

Police from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles are calling for a boycott of Tarantino’s upcoming move “The Hateful Eight.” The National Association of Police Organizations issued a statement saying, “We ask officers to stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino’s projects.”

Tarantino told the LA Times that he never called all cops murderers and that the backlash against him is to silence critics of the police. He said, “It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument.”

E-Commerce: Internet superstore Amazon has opened its first physical bookstore in Seattle’s University Village. It’s amazing. You can have a book in your hands within seconds.

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