Big Idea: California Is So Over  —  California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.  —  California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.

Granny Get Your Gun  —  WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem.  She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman.  —  In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.

FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000  —  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Voting Rights, by the Numbers  —  When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated.  —  Discrimination against minority voters may have been pervasive in the 1960s when the law was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote …

Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom  —  The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.  —  He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.

Walker Shines in New Hampshire  —  Nashua, N.H.  —  Scott Walker was feeling it.  —  He'd been speaking for a little more than ten minutes, telling stories about his battles in Wisconsin to a crowd of Republicans nodding their heads in enthusiastic agreement.

Ohio principal dumps school's Muslim headscarf day after online backlash  —  Mindy McCarty-Stewart, principal of Mason High School in Mason, Ohio, Thursday, April 16, 2015, canceled a student-led event in which girls planned to celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.

The world's financial leaders see a number of threats facing a global economy still on an uneven road to recovery with U.S. and European officials worrying that Greece will default on its debt.  —  The finance ministers and central bank governors ended three days of meetings in Washington determined …

Officer: ‘I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force’  —  Kidder says relative gave him body camera to use at work after Ferguson  —  Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.

Rand Paul slams GOP foreign policy hawks  —  NASHUA, N.H.—Rand Paul ripped into his hawkish rivals for the Republican nomination Saturday, suggesting that problems in the Middle East would actually be worse under them than President Barack Obama.  —  “There's a group of folks in our party …

Jeffco board member apologizes for sharing link to “hate group” on Facebook  —  Jefferson County school board member Julie Williams said late Friday that she was “sincerely sorry” and that she would remove a link on her personal Facebook page that she shared that encouraged families to keep …

Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials  —  U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.  —  Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships …

New Hampshire could be make-or-break for Jeb Bush  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — St. Anselm College has been a required stop on the pilgrimage for presidential aspirants, going at least as far back as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon more than a half-century ago.