First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC  —  Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.

Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic  —  Afraid of Trump's reaction, they're “subtly trying to make it disappear,” says an industry source.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Audiences at screenings around the world …

Mitt Romney offers scathing indictment of Republican tax policies  —  Donald Trump, in Maine, just got through unloading on Mitt Romney in response to the speech that Romney gave earlier today, casting the Mittster as a loser who begged for his endorsement — “on his knees” — and choked in 2012 …

Lion Ted: Cruz Crushes the Detroit Debate  —  In theory, Ted Cruz's best states are behind him.  But at the Detroit debate, Cruz was clearly the class of the field and it's clear that no one should count him out as the delegate race moves into its next phase.

She Is Cait, and I Am Not: Face to Face with Jenner  —  Winding my way 'round deadman's curves at unsafe speeds all the way up a Malibu mountaintop to meet Caitlyn Jenner, I asked myself: who would live here except a recluse?  Cut off from the rest of the world, high above it all …

Joe Biden: The Senate's Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee  —  IN my 36-year tenure in the United States Senate — nearly half of it as chairman or ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee — I presided or helped preside over nine nominees to the Supreme Court, from both Republican and Democratic presidents.

Rubio's path to an outright win has vanished  —  Marco Rubio's path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.

Trump kills GOP autopsy  —  Reeling from a second straight loss to Barack Obama, a flailing Republican Party in 2013 found its culprit: Mitt Romney's callous tone toward minorities.  Instead of being doomed to irrelevance in a changing America, the party would rebrand as a kinder, more inclusive GOP.

Number of Troubled Companies Nears 2009 Peak  —  Financially strapped companies' ranks are swelling.  —  A Moody's Investors Service tally of the least-creditworthy companies rose by 10 to 274 this month, pushing it nearer to April 2009's record 291.  The list comprises companies rated …

Mittens: GOP Establishment Chooses Mount Romney as Hill to Die on  —  After , , , , , and , the Republican establishment is now turning once again to the Adlai Stevenson of the GOP - Willard Mitt Romney.  —  Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment's death drive …

Facebook to pay millions more in UK tax  —  Social media company to pay more tax as revenue from largest advertisers to be routed through UK rather than Ireland  —  Facebook will pay millions of pounds more in UK tax after approving fundamental changes to its corporate structure in Europe.

Sasha Obama's high school classes will keep first family in Washington for a while  —  MILWAUKEE — President Obama can issue sweeping directives and deploy troops to faraway corners of the world.  But it became clear Thursday that the leader of the free world sometimes takes orders from his 14-year-old daughter.