Justice Delayed: Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, the Libyan bomb expert accused of building the device that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988, has been arrested and is in US custody.

  He would be the first conspirator tried for the attack in the US. 

  The incident killed 269 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground. Among the dead were 35 students from Syracuse University returning from a semester abroad.

  Ken Dornstein, whose brother was killed in the attack, told The NY Times in an email, “If there’s one person still alive who could tell the story of the bombing of Flight 103, and put to rest decades of unanswered questions about how exactly it was carried out — and why — it’s Mr. Mas’ud.” 

The Long Count: Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona

governor, has become a caricature of election denial while feeding belief in grand conspiracy.

  Lake tweeted: “The FBI & CIA went to Big Tech and the mainstream media and asked for their help destroying the First Amendment, Donald Trump and the Republican party. Big Tech & the media happily obliged. This is no longer the America that you and I grew up in.”

  She offered no evidence of FBI and CIA involvement.

  Lake sued to overturn the November 8^th election in her state, claiming that the number of illegal votes cast in the election, “far exceeds the 17,117 vote margin”  between her and the Democratic winner, Katie Hobbs. 

  Her lawsuit charges that between 15,603 and 29,257 Republicans who were “disenfranchised” would have voted for her, according to data analyst Richard Baris of Big Data Poll. 

  The complaint also says that “hundreds of thousands” of mail-in ballots lacked a chain of custody. It said over 298,942 ballots delivered to the third-party signature verification service Runbeck on Election Day lacked a chain of custody. 

The War Zone: Ukraine struck a headquarters of The Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary army, causing significant casualties, Ukraine says.

  Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the attack was on a hotel in Kadiivka. He said half the wounded survivors are expected to die for lack of medical treatment.

  In Melitopol, authorities said a Ukrainian missile attack had killed two people and injured 10. 

  After a couple of recent strikes over the border, the Times newspaper in England says “The Pentagon has given a tacit endorsement of Ukraine’s long-range attacks on targets inside Russia.”

Hijab revolution: Iran has hanged two people for protesting Islamic social restrictions. The first was 23-year-old Mahan Sadrat Madani, who was accused of “waging war against God.” Eight others are on death row as the Iranian regime sets a low bar for the death penalty to discourage protesters.  The danger is that executing protesters could feed the social unrest.

  It all started with the death in custody of a young woman arrested for not properly wearing the required head covering.

The Greeneing of America: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told a gathering at the Young Republican Club in Manhattan that if she and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon had organized the January 6^th insurrection, “We would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed.”  

  Among the guests were Rudy Giuliani, Bannon, and Donald Trump Jr. Also reported to be present were  members of the white nationalist VDARE, right-wing propaganda group Project Veritas, and far-right political operative Jack Posobeic. 

  Greene has referred to the 900 people arrested after the Capitol attack as “political prisoners.”

  Displaying her ignorance of world affairs, she also bragged about not supporting a “single penny” to help Ukraine battle Russia. “They care about a country called Ukraine whose borders are far away and most of you couldn’t find it on a map,” she said.

On the Pitch: Morocco shocked Portugal over the weekend, winning 1-0 to become the first Arab and African country to advance to the World Cup finals.

  They also left Portugal’s Ronaldo, one of the game’s most celebrated players, winless in the World Cup at what is probably the end of his career. As Morocco celebrated, the 37-year-old Ronaldo was on his knees, weeping.

Shopping and Shipping: Free returns for online shopping is beginning to end, The Washington Post reports. The paper says retailers are getting squeezed by the costs of people ordering several items to see what fits or what they like, then returning the rest.

 The Post says online retailers are beginning to eliminate the free return mailer and start charging a re-stocking fee. Among the major chains, starting to charge for re-stocking or return mailing are, Anthropologie, Zara, H&M, Abercrombie & Fitch, and J. Crew.

The Spin Rack: Karen Bass was sworn in as the first female mayor of Los Angeles yesterday. She said her first act today would be to declare homelessness an emergency. — NASA’s Artemis I moon mission returned to Earth with the splashdown of the Orion spacecraft. NASA is doing practice shots before returning astronauts to the moon. — US Special Operations forces in a helicopter raid killed two Islamic State operatives in northeastern Syria early yesterday. — Arizona’s outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has had work crews stacking shipping containers on the border and topping them with barbed wire to block illegal immigration.

Below the Fold: Authorities in the sprawling Griffith Park in Los Angeles are searching for P-22. What they’re looking for is not one of the elements, an escaped prisoner, or an actor for a sitcom … it’s a wild cougar that’s gone on the downlow.

  P-22 was tagged and numbered when he was captured and released about 10 years ago. He has fans, posters, a line of t-shirts, and he’s appeared in documentaries.

  But this is LA and P-22 had the temerity to go and kill someone’s dog. Wildlife officials are out to catch P-22 and they say that after they examine him, “no options are off the table.”

  They’re not talking about a movie deal.

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