NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Altered seal: The White House says it didn’t know that an altered presidential seal featuring a twoheaded eagle clutching golf clubs and “45 is a puppet” in Spanish would be displayed at a speech by President Trump this week. Spokesman Judd Deere says officials “never saw the seal” before it was projected on a screen behind Trump as he was introduced at Turning Point USA’s teen summit on Tuesday. The real seal has a bald eagle clutching arrows in one set of talons and an olive branch in the other. Turning Point USA, a conservative group, reportedly fired a video team member for mistakenly displaying the seal.
2 Trans woman killed: The 12th known transgender person to violently die this year was found fatally shot in South Carolina. News outlets report 29yearold Denali Berries Stuckey was found dead Saturday on a North Charleston road. The Human Rights Campaign says all the victims in 2019 have been black transgender women. Chase Glenn, executive director of the Alliance For Full Acceptance in North Charleston, says Stuckey is the third known black trans woman murdered in South Carolina since 2018. The state is one of five without hate crime laws.
3 Shooting rampage: A 26yearold man suspected in a series of shootings that killed four people and wounded two others was arrested Thursday afternoon following an intense manhunt across Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, police said. The rampage spanned nearly 12 hours and prompted a massive response from the Los Angeles Police Department, which sealed off some neighborhoods during the dragnet. LAPD Deputy Chief Jorge Rodriguez said Gerry Zaragoza was taken into custody about 2:30 p.m. The rampage began when, police said, he killed his father and brother and shot his mother, who is in stable condition. Police said Zaragoza later killed a man inside a bus and a woman outside a gas station. 4 Budget deal: The House on Thursday approved a deal crafted by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lift the nation’s debt ceiling and raise caps set on federal spending for the next two years. Despite opposition from most Republicans and some progressive Democrats, most members agreed that the deal was a necessary compromise to prevent the nation from defaulting on its debt. The package is slated to get a vote next week in the Senate, where is it expected to pass. President Trump has endorsed the deal. 5 Mueller viewers: Nearly 13 million people watched former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two House committees on the biggest broadcast and cable news networks. The Nielsen company says Mueller’s audience Wednesday was smaller than it was for wellpublicized hearings involving former FBI director James Comey (19.5 million), Trump attorney Michael Cohen (15.8 million) and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (20.4 million).