■ … a speech you can see, beginning at 45:00, here.
■ Mayor-elect Johnson’s choice as City Council floor leader is reassuring the business community: “Let’s collaborate. I want to hear from you: What are the issues that you’re seeing?”
‘Two inches from my butt.’ In a Facebook post, WXRT DJ Terri Hemmert clarifies news reports about her close call with a bullet in the New Orleans shooting that left a waiter dead and one of her friends wounded.
‘Residents … will be placed at additional risk of mass murder.’ Lawyers for Naperville and Illinois have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to leave in place city and state bans on assault rifles’ sale.
■ Cartoon: An excerpt from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow’s glimpse of a teacherbot history lesson for kids in the future.
An international incident. Noting that victims in the Brownsville, Texas, crash that killed eight were Venezuelan, Venezuela’s government wants the U.S. to investigate the prospect that the driver was motivated by “xenophobia” or “hate.”