NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Dillinger’s body: Relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery beneath a gravestone bearing his name may not be him and FBI agents possibly killed someone else in 1934. The Indiana State Department of Health released affidavits signed by Mike Thompson and Carol Thompson Griffith, who say Dillinger was their uncle. In the documents, they say they’re seeking to have “a body purported to be John H. Dillinger” exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery for a forensic analysis and possible DNA testing.
2 Stormy Daniels: Columbus police say five officers from the department’s nowdisbanded vice unit face discipline for a raid on a strip club last year that resulted in the arrest of Stormy Daniels. The department said the Ohio officers could face punishment ranging from a reprimand to firing. Daniels was arrested at Sirens in July 2018 on suspicion of inappropriately touching an undercover officer. An investigation focused on allegations that officers who support Republican President Trump conspired to retaliate against the porn actress over her claims she had sex with Trump before he became president.
3 Song theft: Katy Perry, her collaborators and her record label must pay more than $2.78 million because the pop star’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse” copied a Christian rap song, a Los Angeles jury decided Thursday. It was an underdog victory for rapper Marcus Gray, a relatively obscure artist once known as Flame, whose 5yearold lawsuit survived constant court challenges and a trial against topflight attorneys for Perry and the five other musicindustry heavyweights who wrote her song. The amount was less than the nearly $20 million sought by attorneys for Gray and his two cowriters on the 2009 song “Joyful Noise” but they said they were pleased with the decision.
4 Budget approved: The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a twoyear budget deal that would raise federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and allow the government to continue borrowing money, sending the measure to President Trump for his expected signature. Barely half of the Republican majority joined almost all of the Democrats in voting for the measure, 6728, after a deal largely negotiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stoked conservative dissatisfaction over Washington’s failure to cut government spending.
5 Snowden book: Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir. The book by the man whose leaks of classified documents transformed the debate about government surveillance is coming out on Sept. 17. Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers in New York, announced Thursday that Snowden’s “Permanent Record“will be released simultaneously in more than 20 countries, including the U.S., Germany and Britain.