Guilty: Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes now faces a hearing on whether he should be sentenced to death. In 12 hours of deliberations a Colorado jury found Holmes sane and guilty of murder yesterday.

It took the judge an hour to read 165 verdicts of guilty on counts of murder and attempted murder of 12 people who died and 70 who were wounded in Aurora, Colorado three years ago. Despite the defendant’s obvious signs of mental illness, the jury rejected the defense argument that Holmes was legally insane when he entered the theater and shot as many people as he could. Prosecutors and defense lawyers differed over the same evidence, notes and fantasies in which the state saw calculation and the defense said their client was crazy.

Nation: Four Marines and a Kuwaiti-born gunman died yesterday, including the gunman, after a shooting that started at a recruiting center and ended at a Naval reserve office at a shopping mall in Chattanooga. Three other people, including a Marine Corps recruiter and a police officer, were wounded,

The gunman identified as Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, was a naturalized US citizen who had shown no signs of being involved in radical Islam. He grew up in a Chattanooga suburb and has been described by neighbors as a normal American kid. The US Attorney for the Eastern Tennessee said federal officials were “treating this as an act of domestic terrorism.”

Globe: The year 2014 was the hottest on record, the third record-breaking year in the last 15 years, according to a study released by that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate scientist Deke Arndt told the NY Times that it’s the lower atmosphere that’s warming, suggesting that it’s a man made phenomenon. He said, “If an external forcing — such as the sun or some orbital phenomenon — would be driving the warming, we would see a warming across the board in most of the atmosphere. And we don’t.”

The Obit Page: Gary Mack, considered the leading expert on the Kennedy assassination and the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, has died of cancer in Texas at age 68. He was the go-to interview for historians and documentary film producers on the assassination.

Once a television reporter who approached the assassination as a conspiracy theorist, his intensive research led him to a more balanced view. “I’d read all the pro-conspiracy books and was convinced they were probably right. When I decided to step back, I realized they weren’t telling me the whole story, just one side of it.”

The Money Vote: The first round of primaries in presidential politics is fundraising. Hillary Clinton is leading the race with $47.5 million so far. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won’t take money from big donors, has banked a more modest $15.2 million, 80 percent of it in gifts of $200 or less.

In a showing of how influential super PACS have become in American politics, Republican leader Jeb Bush has raised only about $11 million. But the Super PACS that back his run for the White House have collected $103 million.

Distracted Driving: Objects in your rear view mirror may be larger than they appear. One of Google’s driverless cars has been involved in its first injury-inducing accident. A Google Lexus was rear-ended in Los Angeles and the three Google employees on board suffered minor whiplash.

The company says this was their 14^th accident in 1.9 million miles of road tests. In 11 of the 14 accidents, the Google car was rear-ended. So it turns out that it’s the cars that have drivers that are the bigger danger.

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