The Terror Beat: French police have arrested an Algerian man they say was planning attacks on churches. On Sunday the man accidentally shot himself in the foot and called for an ambulance. Police followed a trail of blood to his car and found weapons and notes about potential targets. The French interior minister said the notes proved “beyond doubt that the individual was planning an imminent attack, probably on one or two churches.”

FrackQuake: The State of Oklahoma has concluded that a series of earthquakes that caused millions of dollars worth of damage have been caused by the underground injection of billions of gallons of wastewater from oil and gas drilling. The number of quakes magnitude 3 or greater in Oklahoma multiplied five times between 2013 and 2014. A website created by the state says, “We know that the recent rise in earthquakes cannot be entirely attributed to natural causes.”

This is a big turnaround for a state, and for an industry, that for years has denied any correlation between earthquakes and the drilling process known as hydraulic fracking. Oklahoma is the fifth most oil-producing state in the country.

Advise and Consent: Senate leaders yesterday reached a complicated compromise on the human trafficking bill that may break the deadlock over the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General. The vote on Lynch’s nomination had been held hostage to a fight over anti-abortion language in the bill. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said that with the trafficking bill settled, they’ll call the vote on Lynch.

The compromise on human trafficking says that government money paid to victims of human trafficking would be subject to the prohibition on using it for abortions, except in cases of rape. The deal leaves some latitudes for both sides of the issue.

The Bomber: The federal prosecutor in the case against Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev opened her case for death with a picture of the defendant flipping the finger at a security camera in his cell three months after the bombing. Assistant US Attorney Nadine Pellegrini said, “This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unconcerned, unrepentant, and unchanged.”

The jurors also heard from horribly wounded survivors and family members of people killed.

Interestingly, the family of eight-year-old Martin Richard, who was killed instantly, called for life in prison, not death for Tsarnaev. The family said in a recent statement, “The continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives.”

Black Lives: Protests are growing in Baltimore over the death of 25-year old Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal cord injury on Sunday, a week after he was taken into police custody. The Justice Department announced it is opening an investigation into the case.

Cellphone video shows that Gray was screaming as he was handcuffed and hauled into a police van. His voice box was crushed and his spine nearly severed. The six police officers involved with the arrest have been suspended with pay.

Career Bust: The director of the Drug Enforcement Administration is retiring after a weak performance before a Congressional committee asking outraged questions about her agents cavorting with hookers in Colombia. Drug agents were accused of attending sex parties paid for by drug cartels and received only suspensions.

It was the last straw for Michele Leonhart who previously had been accused of poor management and disagreeing with President Obama about marijuana policy. Leonhart was the first female drug agent and has been with the agency for 35 years.

Spiritual World: Solving a continuing mystery, investigators have arrested nine Kentucky distillery workers and charged them with stealing some of the world’s best and most expensive bourbon in a plot going back to 2008. The thieves hit mostly the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries.

Investigators suspect it’s the same crew that stole 65 cases of the prized Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve in 2013. Locally the theft was known as “Pappygate.” It was a crime against humanity.