R.I.P., Anthony Bourdain. The globe-hopping chef and TV host is dead—of suicide.
■ From 2016: His favorite Chicago spots.
■ Celebrities react: “It illustrates that success is not immune to depression.”—Actor Bryan Cranston.
■ A Chicago firefighter involved in a confrontation that led to a fatal police shooting has committed suicide.
■ The Centers for Disease Control: U.S. suicide rates are up almost 30 percent since the turn of the century.
■ Does journalism spread suicide?
■ The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.
Gee—8? President Trump is calling for Russia’s readmission to the group representing the world’s largest economies, the (for now, still) G-7.
■ From 2014: Why the others kicked Russia out.
■ The New Yorker: “‘America First’ Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone.”
■ New York: “President Trump Still Way Too Lazy to Do His Job.”
■ The president says he’s considering pardoning the late Muhammad Ali for that draft-evasion conviction.
Love and secrets. In the first case of the Trump Justice Department going after a journalist’s data, prosecutors secretly sucked in years’ worth of phone and email records from a New York Times reporter who had a previous romantic relationship with a Senate Intelligence Committee senior staffer …
■ … who was arrested late Thursday on charges of lying to federal agents investigating unauthorized disclosure of non-public information.
■ The Radio Television Digital News Association (of which your Chicago Public Square publisher is a member) is protesting the Justice Department’s seizure.
Lead limit. One of Mayor Emanuel’s challengers, former schools chief Paul Vallas, is joining a movement to hold Chicago’s mayors to two terms, max …
■ … in the form of a referendum that could kill Emanuel’s reelection campaign in the cradle, as explained in the latest Chicago Public Square Newscast.
■ McDonald’s is planning a round of corporate layoffs.
Can jobs end Chicago’s bloodshed? The Tribune’s Annie Sweeney reports one of Chicago’s biggest social service agencies is pumping millions of dollars into a plan to offer part-time jobs to men who’ve been driving the city’s gun violence.
■ More than a million Americans could lose food stamps under Trump’s farm bill—but thousands of farmers would stay on the public dole.
Yeah, but what’s the downside? Vape shops complain a bill to raise Illinois’ legal age for purchasing tobacco and nicotine products—legislation headed to Gov. Rauner’s desk—would hurt their business.
■ E-cigarette makers are offering college scholarships to get students to write essays about vaping’s potential benefits.
■ A college student who started vaping as a teen says “it’s impossible to let go.”
■ NPR: “Terrible news for anyone who is try [sic] to block ex-boyfriends or frenemies from seeing their latest updates.”
■ But at least Facebook is cutting down on some of those annoying “Now Connected On Messenger” notices.
Caddyshack’s origin. The author of a book about the making of a 1980 classic is one of dozens of guests taking the spotlight at this weekend’s Printers Row Lit Fest.
■ Netflix is planning a comedy about teens who spend a summer in Chicago before attending college.
Corrections.
■ An item in yesterday’s Chicago Public Square—about Fox News’ “destructive propaganda machine”—linked to a not-quite-on-point web page. Here’s a better one.
■ And hyperattentive reader Mike Braden noted that the P should have been capitalized in the phrase “SIU President Randy Dunn.”