The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore … NOTABLES  —OBAMA — ‘NO EXCUSE’ FOR ‘SENSELESS’ VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE: President Obama condemned the violence in Baltimore yesterday, saying there is “no excuse” for the violence, looting and arson that followed the funeral held for Freddie Gray …

Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray”  —  Shares -  —  The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.

State of the News Media 2015  —  Call it a mobile majority.  At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.

Back in Baltimore, Martin O'Malley is heckled, and could face political fallout  —  BALTIMORE —Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley was heckled on a street corner in riot-scarred West Baltimore Tuesday, after he cut short a trip to Europe to return to the city he led as mayor for seven years.

Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch  —  Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch.  9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15.  —  CONNECT  —  AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.

Thousands of new Lerner emails found  —  An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.

Holy war against Hillary  —  What have the American people done to deserve the political campaigns that have become a permanent feature of American life, starring politicians who perpetually escalate every unsavory tactic that brings politics into widespread disrepute?

Geraldo: ‘Annoying’ Protester Got in the Way of ‘Important Story’  —  Fox News' Geraldo Rivera nearly got into it with a protester last night as he was trying to interview Maryland State Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh in the midst of the Baltimore demonstrations.

Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’  —  A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations.  —  The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.

The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road.  After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …

61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill  —  Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario.  —  Shares  —  Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …

Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence  —  Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire Monday, April 27, 2015, at a senior living facility under construction at Federal and Chester Streets in East Baltimore.  (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem  —  Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame.  That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem.  Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …

Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch  —  Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence.  —  VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …

Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth, says official  —  Cargo vessel ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is said to be out of control after contact was lost  —  An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control.

Supreme Court Divided In Same-Sex Marriage Arguments  —  Justice Anthony Kennedy seemed to lean toward same-sex marriage, but not decisively.  —  The Supreme Court divided along traditional partisan lines Tuesday over a historic case that could make same-sex marriage legal in every state.

What the Public Knows — In Pictures, Words, Maps and Graphs  —  Pew Research Center News IQ Quiz  —  The latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey finds that, nearly half a century after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., an overwhelming majority of Americans (91%) are able to identify the civil rights leader from his picture.