Study: Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, gets the most negative media coverage  —  The biggest news outlets have published more negative stories about Hillary Clinton than any other presidential candidate — including Donald Trump — since January 2015, according to a new analysis of hundreds …

Ted Cruz Says He Won't Ban Dildos If He Becomes President  —  “What people do in their own private time with themselves is their own business and it's none of government's business.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Ted Cruz says he will not ban dildos and other sexual toys if he becomes president.

G.O.P. Chief Discourages Rule Changes That Seem to Block Donald Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican National Committee has privately urged members of the party's rules committee not to make changes to the guidelines governing the presidential nominating process …

Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency  —  This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to publicly denounce the political positions of Donald Trump's presidential campaign during the keynote speech of the company's annual F8 developer conference.

Rocker delivers message during Detroit tour stop, days after canceling North Carolina show in protest  —  Days after canceling a North Carolina concert in political protest, Bruce Springsteen sent a shot across the bow to Michigan legislators during his Thursday show at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Michelle Fields: Trump Campaign Should Apologize for ‘Defaming My Character’  —  The ex-Breitbart journalist who was grabbed, and bruised, by Trump's campaign manager is adamant she wants him to say sorry—even though the authorities won't prosecute him.  —  After being called “delusional …

In Texas, some local GOPs call for statewide vote on secession  —  A handful of Texas Republican district or county conventions in March passed resolutions calling for a vote on secession, paving the way for a potentially awkward debate at the state GOP conference in May.

Coachella promoters look to book Dylan, Stones, McCartney and Young for mega-concert  —  Top row (L to R): Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Neil Young.  Bottom row (L to R): Bob Dylan; Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who; and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters.

Thinking Outside the Cable Box: How More Competition Gets You a Better Deal  —  Today, building on efforts over the last seven years, the President is launching a new initiative to stoke competition across our economy, so that no corporation can unfairly squeeze their competitors, their workers, or their customers at everyone's expense.

Failed North Korea missile launch prompts Chinese ‘saber-rattling’ jibe  —  North Korea attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of U.N. sanctions and in an embarrassing setback for leader Kim Jong Un, drawing criticism from major ally China.

Billions of cicadas will descend upon the northeastern United States as another 17-year cycle concludes  —  The eighth biblical plague that tortured Egypt was a plague of locusts.  —  As described in Exodus 10:5, “And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth …

Why I Haven't Felt The Bern  —  Today's column offers an opportunity to say, for the record, why I haven't been the Bernie booster a lot of people apparently expected me to be.  For the business about discounting Clinton support as coming from “conservative states” in the “Deep South” …

This is the worst argument about the national debt you'll ever find  —  The United States government has $13 trillion in debt, and I feel fine.  —  You should too.  That's because, despite what Jim Grant tells us on the cover of Time magazine, this doesn't mean that every man, woman, and child has to pay $42,998.12 themselves.

Abused?  You Can't Work at These Churches  —  Church job seekers are being asked if they were sexually abused as children based on the false belief that victims will become abusers.  The worst part—this discrimination is legal.  —  If you want to work for the Twin Cities Bible Church …

Sperm bank sued as case of mentally ill donor's history unfolds  —  Three families file lawsuit in Canada alleging that the donor's sperm was used for as many as 36 children in Canada, the United States and Britain  —  He was touted as the best of the best: Donor 9623 had an IQ of 160 …

Angela Merkel agrees to prosecution of comedian over Erdoan poem  —  Jan Böhmermann accused Turkish president of ‘repressing minorities, kicking Kurds and slapping Christians’ in sketch  —  The German chancellor has authorised the prosecution of comedian Jan Böhmermann for reading …

Charles Manson follower, killer Leslie Van Houten, approved for parole  —  BY YANAN WANG AND JUSTIN WM.  —  The vicious killers that crawled out of Spahn Ranch in the summer of 1969 at Charles Manson's behest to kill innocent people didn't just terrify California, but the entire country.

GOP foreign policy elites don't know whether they'll serve if Trump is president  —  When the Republican foreign policy elite gets together these days, conversation quickly veers from challenges such as the Islamic State or North Korea to focus on two questions.