PRIME SUSPECT:  President Trump said this morning on Fox News that authorities have a suspect in custody for the assassination of right wing political influencer Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. He said, “I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody” and that someone close to the suspect turned him in.

  There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Early information is that it was the father of the suspect who turned him in.

  The tip may have been the result of photos and video released yesterday. Investigators released grainy pictures of a college-age young man wearing jeans, a dark baseball hat, and black-long-sleeved t-shirt with an American flag and eagle graphic on the chest. He was wearing a backpack. The pictures may have been clear enough that anyone who knows him would recognize him.

  Investigators also yesterday released a video of a man running across the flat roof of a building at Utah Valley University then hanging off the edge, dropping to the ground, and running away.  Utah’s governor Spencer Cox said at a press conference last night that the man left palm prints on the edge of the roof and shoe prints on the ground.

  A rifle believed to have been used to shoot Kirk was found in a wooded area just off the campus. It’s been described as an older-model Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action. 

  Graphic videos of Kirk’s shooting circulated online as some media companies tried to suppress them. We found one gory video with a simple search.  

  President Trump immediately after the shooting on Wednesday ordered all flags at half-staff and yesterday announced that he would posthumously award Kirk the Medal of Freedom.

  Trump issued a four-minute video in which he said, “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals.” He said, “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”

  Kirk’s body was flown home to Arizona yesterday on Air Force Two with his widow Erika accompanied by Vice President JD Vance and wife Usha.

GUILTY: Brazil’s  supreme court yesterday convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup following his loss of the 2022 election, planning to  dissolve the courts, empower the military, and kill the president-elect.

  Four of the five justices on the court voted to convict Bolsonaro and seven co-conspirators, including his running mate, defense minister, and the Navy commander. Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison. In a country with a long history of coups and attempted coups, this is the first time leaders of a plot have been convicted.

  Bolsonaro is a political right winger who had the admiration of President Trump, who claimed that the Brazilian was the victim of a rigged election. Trump imposed steep tariffs on Brazilian goods … notably coffee … to pressure Brazil’s prosecutor and court to drop the case against his friend.

  Following the conviction yesterday Trump told reporters he was “very unhappy about it. I know President Bolsonaro” and like him, he said. “I think it’s a terrible thing, very terrible. I actually think it’s very bad for Brazil.”

ECON 101: The Dow Jones jumped 617 points yesterday and closed above 46,000 for the first time in its history on hopes that the Federal reserve will soon lower interest rates. Inflation is creeping up and employment is trending downward, possibly giving the Federal Reserve reason to begin lowering interest rates.

LA MIGRA: About 300 South Koreans detained by ICE at a Hyundai car and battery plant in George were flown home today, landing in Seoul this morning. Many of those workers were on visas that allowed them to work temporarily in the US. Company officials say they were doing highly technical work that local hires would not have known how to do.

  The warrant for the Georgia raid listed only four Hispanic immigrants. ICE said it was only by accident that they rounded up 475 workers, although they had arrived in massive force with enough chains to bind everyone hand and foot. 

  The giant ICE raid on the plant sends a mixed message, to say the least. President Trump has threatened steep tariffs on foreign companies if they don’t build factories and make their goods in the US. The Hyundai plant in Georgia was near completion and now it’s in limbo.

THE OBIT PAGE: British born June Wilkinson, the pinup and nude model who in her prime  measured 43-22-37. Comparing her to Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren, Playboy magazine wrote, “All of these were lowercase bosoms. The first Bosom worthy of a capital B has only recently reached Tinseltown.”

  She appeared in Playboy seven times, but also topless in such skin mgs as Girl Watcher and Fling Festival.

 Wilkinson was beautiful but the NY Times noted that, “she was well aware that the cornerstone of her legacy lay between her shoulders and her navel.”

  The title of Wilkinson’s autobiography was “Hollywood or Bust!”

THE SPIN RACK: Authorities in Evergreen, Colorado say a 16-year-old student who had been “radicalized by some extremist network” carried out the shooting Wednesday at the local high school. After shooting and reloading several times, the shooter killed himself. — Britain’s Prince Harry is in Ukraine for a surprise visit to support wounded troops. “We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process,” Harry told the Guardian newspaper. — As house cleaning continues under the aegis of Donald Trump, the head of jazz programming at the Kennedy Center for the Performing arts was fired yesterday. 

BELOW THE FOLD:  Nothing funny today.

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