Outer Limits: After a five-year, 1.7 billion mile commute to work, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is now orbiting Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet. Juno is programmed to search for clues to the origin of the Universe. How much water it has and the nature of its structure could tell NASA scientists where the planet came from in the Universe.

Jupiter’s radiation belts will deteriorate the orbiter. At the end of its 37^th orbit on Feb. 20, 2018, Juno will crash into the planet’s surface.

As the World Turns: The House returns to work today and the Democrats will continue to pressure Republicans to take up gun control measures. It could get noisy.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both in North Carolina today. Hillary is haunted by the ghost of her private email investigation. One of our Capitol Hill operatives says there’s a ten percent chance she could be indicted.

And Donald is dealing with the fallout of having issued a tweet featuring Hillary Clinton against a background of cash and a red Star of David, accusing her of being corrupt and suggesting something else as well. The image was first created by an overtly racist twitter user and borrowed for use by the Trump campaign.

Trump tweeted in his defense; “Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a sheriff’s star, or a plain star!” Well, for one thing, a sheriff’s star has a ball on each point.

Permawar: Suicide bombers blew themselves up in three Saudi Arabian cities yesterday, one of them near the US consulate in Jidda and another close to the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina. There’s been no claim of responsibility.

In Baghdad, the toll of an explosion in the busy Karrada section of the city is now 175, making it one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war and internal conflict.

Slam Dunk: Kevin Durant, one of the biggest names in sports to become a free agent, has decided to leave the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder and join the Golden State Warriors. The Thunder almost knocked off the Warriors in the Western Conference finals before Golden State went on to lose to Cleveland in the last game of the finals. Durant’s move makes the Warriors the favorite to win the next NBA championship before the first tipoff of the season.

The Obit Page: Actress Noel Darleen Neill, who played Lois Lane opposite George Reeves in the 1950s television series “Superman,” has died at age 95. Neill was the daughter of a newspaper copy editor who played a reporter at the fictional Daily Planet. She became so identified with the part that people just called her Lois.

Comeback Kid: Joey Chestnut has come back to re-claim the title from Matt Stonie in the annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest. Chestnut put away a record 70 tube steaks in 10 minutes. Stonie was barely in the running with 53.

It’s Chestnut’s 9^th win of the coveted Mustard Belt.

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