Hillary Is Not Sorry  —  WASHINGTON — IT'S hard not to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.  She is hearing ghostly footsteps.  —  She's having her inevitability challenged a second time by a moralizing senator with few accomplishments who chides her on her bad judgment on Iraq and special-interest money …

HOW TRUMP CAN LOCK UP GOP NOMINATION BEFORE THE CONVENTION  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — To all the political junkies yearning for a contested Republican convention this summer: not so fast.  —  It's still possible for Donald Trump to clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.

Bernie Sanders secures five minutes with Pope Francis  —  The US presidential hopeful managed to sit down with pontiff after all.  —  ROME — Bernie Sanders privately met with Pope Francis at the pontiff's residence in Vatican City on Saturday morning before the pope left on a trip for Greece.

Hillary Clinton Faces a Liberal War Against the 1990s  —  Hillary Clinton has long literally and figuratively stood beside Bill Clinton, fully embracing his policy moves to make the Democratic Party more centrist in the 1990s and defending him after his affair with a White House intern and subsequent impeachment.

College student booted from Southwest flight after passenger heard him say ‘God willing’ in Arabic  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A UC Berkeley student whose family fled Iraq in 2002 after his diplomat father was killed under Saddam Hussein's regime, was booted …

Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’  —  Now she's turned that dark time into a force for good  —  ne night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky.  Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master's in social psychology at the London School of Economics.

Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow …

Donald Trump Is A Fiercely Loyal Boss Right Up Until He Fires You  —  For a man who once tried to trademark the phrase “You're fired,” Donald Trump seems awfully eager these days to cast himself as a loyal boss.  —  With his campaign reeling from tactical blunders and his inner circle gripped by infighting …

State seeks to pick up pace on bringing Syrian refugees to US  —  The State Department is hoping to bring an average of nearly 1,500 Syrian refugees to the United States per month in order to meet President Obama's target of settling 10,000 refugees in the country by September.

END OF HUMANITY?  Artificial Intelligence could destroy us ‘WITHIN DECADES’ warns expert  —  A LEADING scientist involved in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has warned that it could rise up against us and end humanity within decades.  —  GETTY  —  AI could destroy humanity ‘within decades’

Nevada Court Arraignment Of Bundy Brothers Goes Off The Rails  —  The arraignment of Ammon and Ryan Bundy grew tense Friday as both brothers scoffed when asked to enter pleas in a case regarding their involvement in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada.  —  Brian Cavalier …

WATCH: Chicago police release video of cop standing on neck of suspect who died during arrest  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Two Chicago police officers have been placed on desk duty after authorities finally released dashcam video showing one of them standing on the neck …

Gulf Coast  —  THESE days, in the thick of the American presidential primaries, it's easy to see how the 50 states continue to drive the political system.  But increasingly, that's all they drive — socially and economically, America is reorganizing itself around regional infrastructure lines …