You’ve Got Mail: A brief private meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch this week at the Phoenix airport set in motion events that could have serious consequences for candidate Hillary. Lynch said the meeting was a brief social “hello,” but it set off a storm of criticism by Republicans because the Justice Department is investigating Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secy. of State. As a result, Lynch has agreed to accept the recommendations of the FBI and career prosecutors on whether to press criminal charges against Hillary. That removes the possibility that Lynch, a Democratic political appointee, could step in to save Hillary from indictment.

Brexit: The chaos grows within the political camp that convinced the majority of Brits to vote for leaving the European Union. Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was a loud voice for leaving the union, and was for a few days the presumed successor of Prime Minister David Cameron, announced that he won’t run.

The politicians who won the exit vote had no plan for what they would do if they succeeded, but the fratricide has begun. The political death of Boris Johnson probably means that the next administration will not attempt to keep tariff-free trade relations with Europe if it means keeping open borders.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove now steps up as a contender. He said, he had “come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.”

Serial: Adnan Syed, the subject of the groundbreaking “Serial” podcast who was convicted of murdering his former high school girlfriend, has been granted a new trial. Syed was convicted in 2000 and has served 16 years of a life sentence.

The podcast was a fascinating study of memory, character, evidence, and the criminal justice process in Baltimore. The series made it nearly impossible to make a decision whether Syed was guilty or innocent. Asked whether the new trial would have been granted without the podcast, Syed’s lawyer C. Justin Brown said, “I don’t think so.”

The family of the victim, Hae Min Lee, has expressed outrage.

Auto Death: In the race to develop a self-driving car, the federal government has announced that for the first time the operator — or primary passenger — in a self-driving car was killed this past May when the car was in self-driving mode.

The National Highway Traffic Administration said the accident happened May 7 in Florida when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of the Tesla Model S and the car failed to apply its brakes. In a news release Tesla said, “Neither autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.” It’s interesting that the company didn’t say anything before the feds did.

Nation: Just before it was going to go into effect, a federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that would have afforded special protections to people who oppose same-sex marriage for religious reasons.

The law would have shielded people who made religiously-based decisions in foster care, counseling, school administration, facility rentals and wedding services.

Judge Carlton Reeves said the law created “a vehicle for state-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Small Screen: Nancy Grace, the former prosecutor and television host who never saw a suspect she didn’t think was guilty, announced that she’s leaving her show on the HLN network.

The 56-year old Grace became obsessed with criminal justice when her fiancé was murdered when she was just 19. She breathlessly focused on the cases of Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her two-year-old daughter; the kidnapped teenager Elizabeth Smart; and the charges of rape against members of the Duke University lacrosse team. Grace said in a statement that she would “continue my fight for justice across a variety of traditional and new media, where victims’ voices can reach an entirely engaged audience.” She didn’t say exactly where and for whom.

Digit Heads: Just to keep you up to date, the hot discussion out there in geek world is about whether Apple is planning to eliminate the headphone jack from its next iPhone. The internet posts include a lot of indecipherable terms like “DRM audio,” “analog loophole,” and “Lightning.”

What it means is that your next iPhone might not work with your headphones or the radio in your car because you can’t use a wire. Apple has never been shy about abandoning established technology. Just look in your desk drawer at all those white cords that don’t fit anything anymore.

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