Airport Shooting: The gunman at LAX yesterday appeared to be targeting employees of the Transportation Security Administration. One witness said, “he looked at me and he said ‘TSA?’ I shook my head, no and he kept going.”

  TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez, 39, was killed, becoming the first TSA officer to die in the line of duty since the agency was formed after the 9/11 attacks. Hernandez had a son and a daughter.

  Police say Paul A. Ciancia, 23, originally of Pennsville, New Jersey, took an assault rifle out of a bag and started shooting in front of the TSA screening area of Terminal 3. Investigators were spare with details, but they said the incident ended near the end of the terminal where airport officers shot and seriously wounded Ciancia. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Ciancia was carrying at least a hundred rounds of ammunition.

Hit: Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, the US says. He had been accused of a 2009 attack on a US base in Afghanistan. Pakistan expressed unhappiness about the attack within its borders. A Pakistan statement said, “The Government of Pakistan has consistently maintained that drone strikes are counter-productive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications.”

Hunger Games: A cut in federal food stamp benefits for 47 million Americans went into effect yesterday because Congress has not agreed on a new budget. A family that gets $668 in food benefits a month will lose $36. USA Today reports that food banks are preparing for more clients.

Click: Bassem Youssef, the satirist described as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, has been suspended from the airwaves. Youssef’s network said a recent show violated editorial policy, although it did not specify how. Previously, Youssef has gotten in trouble for insulting Islam, and president Muhammed Morsi, who was deposed by the Egyptian army, which Youssef then made fun of shortly before his show went dark.

Big Box: A structure built on a barge has been the buzz of the Bay Area in recent weeks. The big white box is draped with black netting so no one can see what it is, but the project is believed to be a marketing center for Google, which is about to bang heads with Apple by releasing its cyborg-like smart-lens eyepiece known as Google Glass.

Editor, Hack Thyself: A scandal that never made the pages of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World was that the married editor was having an affair with another editor, testimony revealed this week in London. Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, both former editors of the defunct tabloid, and both married to other people, were having an affair during the same time  they are accused of ordering reporters to hack the phones of celebrities and public officials for gossip. Things like having an affair.

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