PROTECT YOURSELF. The “WannaCry” ransomware epidemic that over the weekend crippled governments, businesses and medical facilities around the world was the fastest-spreading such attack ever. Continual updates.
■ Don’t pay the ransom.
■ Macintosh users: Don’t get too comfy.
■ Meet the 22-year-old surfer who sounded the alarm and discovered the fix.
■ Microsoft’s president and Vladimir Putin blame the U.S. government.
■ Cory Doctorow: “After hearing from so many angry Americans who wanted to preserve net neutrality rules … the FCC has solved the problem by telling the public to go f—k themselves.”
CHICAGO’S GUN RUN. Firearms purchases nationwide have dropped since Donald Trump’s election. But not in Chicago.
■ A woman was shot and wounded on the Kennedy Expressway yesterday.
■ A suburb’s trustees aim to close a nightclub where five people were shot.
MOTHER’S DAY’S JUST LESS FUN IN JAIL. For the second Mother’s Day in a row, Cook County Jail inmates were confined to their cells because hundreds of employees didn’t show up for work.
■ A Chicago police officer’s 18-year-old daughter has died after the driver of an SUV rammed her into a tree and drove over her repeatedly.
■ The administration is hiding “inconvenient” scientific data.
■ Women working on-air for Fox News now can wear pants.
■ Neil Steinberg compares Trump to smoking.
■ A Virginia mayor’s condemnation of a Klan-like demonstration has triggered a wave of antisemitic tweets.
DEMOCRACY ‘UNDER ASSAULT.’ Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says the United States’ fundamental institutions face threats externally—from Russia—and internally, from President Trump.
■ Developing: The U.S. Supreme Court has handed voting-rights champions a victory, deciding not to review a decision that struck down a law that discriminated against black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
■ Young black Democrats across the country are entering politics from the left.
■ NBC News: Republicans are already in the midterm danger zone.
■ One Democrat says Senate Republicans have “a lot less fear” of Trump these days.
■ Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who many consider a potential candidate for governor, seems “boxed in” by her dad’s continued role as Illinois House speaker.
■ A fresh radio burst from space has escalated the phenomenon’s mystery.
READER WALKOUT? The unionized staff of the Chicago Reader newspaper has voted unanimously to authorize its leaders to call a strike at any time during contract negotiations.
■ After almost four decades, Reader media critic Michael Miner is leaving the staff.
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