Toughen up!  The video of Donald Trump's campaign manager ‘assaulting’ a female reporter is ridiculous.  A man would have been condemned as a laughing stock for complaining  —  A few years ago, I was punched in the head three times at the British Press Awards in London.

Trump takes back pledge to support GOP nominee  —  Donald Trump has rescinded his pledge to support the Republican nominee for president.  —  Asked during a CNN town hall whether he stood by the earlier pledge — which he signed in September after meeting with party chairman Reince Priebus — Trump said: “No, I don't.”

GOP panelists eager to scrap rule that helps Trump  —  All four early appointees of the rules committee for this year's Republican convention told POLITICO they're prepared to weaken or scrap a rule that could limit the convention's alternatives to Donald Trump.

Anchorage school suspends 1st-graders for plotting to poison classmate  —  Three first-grade students at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage have been suspended after plotting to poison and kill a classmate, the school principal says.  —  In a bizarre case, Anchorage police …

Viral video prompts investigation at SFSU  —  SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Campus police at San Francisco State University have launched an investigation into a viral video that shows a female student confronting a male student on campus about his dreadlocks.  —  Campus officials confirmed …

How To Make Sense Of The Baffling Order The Supreme Court Just Handed Down On Birth Control  —  The biggest birth control case to reach the Supreme Court in 40 years just got a whole lot more confusing.  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down an unusual order seeking more briefing in Zubik v. Burwell …

Muncie man arrested for stabbing brother with fork over pot roast  —  MUNCIE, Ind. (March 29, 2016)- Police arrested a Muncie man after he allegedly stabbed his brother with a fork over a pot roast.  —  On Monday, police say Rodney Gilliam and his brother Randy Gilliam were drinking alcohol and got into an argument.

Jupiter Got Whacked by Yet Another Asteroid/Comet!  —  On March 17, Gerrit Kernbauer, an amateur astronomer in Mödling, Austria, was taking video of Jupiter using a 20 cm telescope.  This is a common technique to capture thousands of frames of an object, so that the best parts of each frame …

Man invents gun that looks exactly like a cell phone  —  Good idea or bad?  —  Kirk Kjellberg from Minnesota says he came up with the “Ideal Conceal” pocket gun, designed to look identical to a smartphone, after a little boy pointed out Kjellberg's own larger, not-so-concealed gun at a restaurant.

Israeli firm helped FBI hack iPhone  —  The Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite helped the FBI hack into the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, NBC reports, citing industry sources.  —  The firm has been rumored to be behind the FBI's newfound ability to access the device …

Why Hillary Clinton Should Be Worried About Ross Perot  —  As the Clinton camp looks ahead to the November election, it's not clear whether this is a time to celebrate or panic.  Its leading opponent isn't the kind of conventional Republican it has been gearing up to run against …

Ex-Miss Wisconsin tears up thanking Trump at rally  —  A Donald Trump  —  supporter who claimed to be Miss Wisconsin 2005 thanked the GOP front-runner in an emotional moment at a Tuesday rally for his help as she struggles with an incurable disease.  —  She thanked Trump for sending …

Widower gets charged $853 ‘rebooking’ fee when wife dies before cruise … LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man had just lost his wife only to be dealt another painful blow.  —  He received an $850 charge from Viking River Cruises because his late wife wasn't going on the prepaid trip.

Teen girl pepper-sprayed, groped outside Wisconsin Trump rally  —  JANESVILLE, Wis. — As GOP front-runner Donald Trump prepared to speak to supporters in Wisconsin on Tuesday, a 15-year-old girl outside the venue was pepper-sprayed by another bystander, police said.

By any measure, Donald Trump is unfit to be president  —  No to Donald Trump.  —  No to his bigotry.  —  No to his contempt for women and minorities.  No to his vague, clueless bluster about the problems facing the nation.  —  No to Trumpism, which runs counter to the ideals of this nation …

Leahy asked State Dept. to investigate Israeli human rights ‘violations’  —  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and 10 House members have asked the Obama administration to investigate claims that the Israeli and Egyptian security forces have committed “gross violations of human rights” …