Midterm Election Indicators Daunting for Democrats  —  No Improvement in Perceptions of Job Market  —  With the midterm elections six months away, Democrats are burdened by an uneven economic recovery and a stubbornly unpopular health care law.  Perhaps equally important …

U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4%  —  Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate for U.S. adults in April was 13.4%, down from 15.0% in March.  This is the lowest monthly uninsured rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in January 2008.

Source: Coach Craig Robinson fired by Oregon State  —  Craig Rohinson's teams failed to reach the NCAA tournament during his six seasons at Oregon State.  —  Oregon State fired head coach Craig Robinson on Sunday night, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

GOP establishment looks nervously at North Carolina Senate primary  —  Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN) — For a Republican establishment still spooked by the ghosts of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock — grassroots-backed conservatives who threw away winnable Senate races in recent elections …

Gary S. Becker, Nobel-winning scholar of economics and sociology, 1930-2014  —  Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, AM'53, PhD'55, made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences, combining disciplines to understand decisions in everyday life, while spawning rich new questions for scholars in diverse fields to pursue.

Man shot to death after he gets out on the wrong floor  —  A 26-year-old San Francisco man was shot to death early Saturday when he went to a unit on the wrong floor of his apartment building after returning home from a night out.  —  Stephen Guillermo had been out drinking with friends …

The Benghazi-Industrial Complex  —  Will the pseudo-scandal be enough to stop Hillary from running?  —  Perhaps if the Republicans can't beat Hillary Clinton fairly in 2016, they can make her so disgusted by the prospect of running that she'll stay out of the race.  —  That's where the Benghazi-Industrial Complex comes in.

At Derby Day With Murdoch, Rand Paul Goes Through His Paces  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On the afternoon of the Kentucky Derby, Rand Paul, the state's junior Republican senator and likely presidential candidate, spilled out of an elevator in the exclusive Jockey Club Suites of Churchill Downs …

Libertarians Trail Meter Readers, Telling Town: Live Free or Else  —  KEENE, N.H. — In most places, the parking enforcement officer reflects the municipal compact.  Armed only with a gadget that can spit out a ticket at the forgotten drop of a dime, the officer quietly serves civic and commercial life by ensuring that meters are fed.

This Man Is the Future of Super PACs  —  Multimillionaire John Jordan is one of a growing number of donors taking matters into their own hands.  —  Lights, camera, super PAC action: Jordan(Courtesy of Jordan Winery)  —  HEALDSBURG, Calif.—It's a Monday afternoon in mid-March …

Standing to Sue Obama  —  Congress should challenge his refusal to enforce the law.  —  The legal left and media are always last to know, but there are the makings of a correction in how the courts police conflicts between the political branches.  President Obama's serial executive power abuses …

E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Hillary difference  —  There are two majorities in the country right now.  One disapproves of President Obama.  The other is still inclined to vote Democratic.  The key question for the 2014 elections is whether voting this fall — and Obama's approval ratings …

Barack Macbeth's ‘Murder’ of Net Neutrality (News, Switzerland)  —  “Pictures are louder than promises.  They are also, unlike words, more easily turned into gold.  For instance, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a decades-long lobbyist for mobile networks and cable operators (that says it all about Barack Macbeth …

Obama Plays to Liberal Base, Not Independents  —  At a low point in President Barack Obama's first term, a White House official conceded the president had lost a disturbing amount of ground with independent voters.  —  We have to get them back, the official said in an interview.

Las Vegas Police Host ‘Choose Purity’ Event Claiming Premarital Sex Turns Girls Into Prostitutes  —  If he doesn't put a ring on it, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police warns that she could become a prostitute.  —  CREDIT: Shutterstock  —  Girls who are not sexually abstinent …

Liberal donors eye new long-term investments in states and new voters to boost Democrats  —  A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level …

Democratic, Republican voters worlds apart in divided Wisconsin … In the acrid and escalating clash between red and blue America, there is no battleground quite like metropolitan Milwaukee.  —  KEY  —  Throughout this series, click on for more information.