ARSON ATTACK: Police in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect in the arson attack that heavily damaged the governor’s mansion overnight Saturday while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were asleep. No one was injured.

  Shapiro, his wife, and four children were awakened at 2 am by a police officer pounding on the door.  The Democratic governor, who is Jewish, is considered a possible contender for the presidency in 2028.  The family and guests had celebrated a seder dinner earlier.

  The suspect identified as Cody Balmer, 38, was arrested in Harrisburg yesterday afternoon. Investigators say the arsonist jumped a fence, broke into the building, and set fire with  homemade incendiary devices before escaping from state troopers. The fire was in a non-residential wing of the home, seriously damaging at least once large reception room with a piano in it. 

  Balmer is expected to be charged with attempted murder, arson and terrorism. 

  The attack follows a spate of attempts on the lives of major political figures in recent years; two on Donald Trump, one on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and one murder plot on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

CHIPPING IN: In his make-it-up-as-he-goes tariff  policies, President Trump over the weekend removed the 145 percent tariff on electronics and computer chips made in China, returning the iPhone to its normally high price.

  The exemption from Trump’s most punishing tariffs includes smartphones, computers, semiconductors,  modems, routers, and flash drives. But, adding to the daily confusion, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said tariffs on semiconductors are coming in a month or two.

  China retaliated by suspending exports of some rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the electric car, semiconductor, and aerospace industries.

  Despite all the chaos, Trump said aboard Air Force One, “We’re doing really well and financially our country is going to be stronger than it’s ever been, 

  The Trump administration says as many as 130 foreign countries are trying to negotiate the new tariffs, but corporate executives are calling as well and probably calling in their chits. Apple’s Time Cook gave a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration celebration.

  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement Saturday saying the President is still committed to getting more electronics made in the US. “President Trump has made it clear America cannot rely on China to manufacture critical technologies,” she said and that at his direction tech companies “are hustling to onshore their manufacturing in the United States as soon as possible.”   

  Whether that’s true is as questionable as anything that comes out of the White House. Businesses are not likely to make long-term decisions based on the short term whims of the President.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE:

— Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that the United States sent 10 more immigrant gang members to prison in El Salvador. The Supreme Court ruled last week that the administration may continue to deport Venezuelan migrants using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act  … for now.

— President Trump’s physician reported after his annual physical exam that the 78-year-old is “fully fit” to serve in office. Trump weighed 224, down from 244 at his last presidential checkup four years ago. 

THE WAR ROOM: Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into a city center celebrating Palm Sunday in northeastern Ukraine yesterday morning, killing at least 32 people in what appears to have been the deadliest Russian attack on civilians this year. Children were among the dead

  Gruesome video of the aftermath in the city if Sumy showed mangled and bloody bodies, burning cars, and debris in the streets as screams and sirens filled the air.

   “Only filthy scum can act like this — taking the lives of ordinary people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on social media, 

WOMEN IN SPACE: CBS Morning News anchor Gayle King and five other celebrity women are set to be launched into space this morning aboard a Blue Origin rocket.

  Also in the crew are pop star Katy Perry, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and  scientist/activists Amanda Nguyen and Aisha Bowe. The 6^th is Lauren Sánchez, fiancée of Blue Origin’s owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Sanchez led the design of fashionable space suits for the eleven minute ride out of Earth’s gravity.

THE OBIT PAGE: Irmgard Furchner, who was convicted for being a cog in the machinery of a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland during World War II, is reported to have died in January at age 99. 

  As a teenage secretary, Furchner, whose last name was Dirksen during the war, typed deportation and execution lists for the camp commandant, making her an accessory to more than 10,000 murders.

  Furchner was not charged until Germany decided to prosecute not only the people directly involved in the exterminations, but those who aided the process. 

  “I am sorry for everything that happened,” Furchner said during a court appearance. “I regret that I was in Stutthof at that time.” She was given a two-year suspended sentence.

THE SPIN RACK: The Measles outbreak that started in West Texas has grown to 700 cases. — Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is trying to stop the development of a Muslim community outside the city of Josephine that would be anchored by a mosque. “To be clear, Shariah law is not allowed in Texas,” the Republican governor has written on social media. “Nor are Shariah cities.” — Former French Rugby star Sébastien Chabal, 47, who was on countless championship teams, says he no longer remembers anything about his career. The game is played without helmets. “When I talk about it at home with my wife, I tell her that it feels like I wasn’t the one who played rugby,” he told an interviewer. “I think that it wasn’t me who played rugby, especially because I don’t remember the moments.”

BELOW THE FOLD: Donald Trump’s “MAGA” has taken on a new meaning for Americans visiting Canada this summer; “Make America Go Away.”

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