Map Shrinks for Donald Trump's Foes  —  Ted Cruz and John Kasich pin their fading hopes on Indiana's Republican presidential primary next week  —  ROCKVILLE, Md.—Donald Trump is poised to sweep five states' Republican primaries on the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, but his rivals …

Federal Judge Upholds North Carolina Voter Rules  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Monday upheld sweeping Republican-backed changes to election rules, including a voter identification provision, that civil rights groups say unfairly targeted African-Americans and other minorities.

Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP  —  Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina as a potential running mate, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned.  —  According to a spokeswoman for Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time presidential candidate is being vetted by Cruz's campaign.

Bring on a Third-Party Candidate  —  Establishment America deserves disruption, but not of the Sanders or Trump type.  Here's how to do it.  —  I have spent the past two decades in the Washington, D.C., bubble—the heart of Establishment America—covering politics and building a company, Politico, focused solely on politics.

Jay-Z's not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyonce, the born-again-black woman with a political mission  —  I never like it when entertainers go all political.  —  The cynic in me believes it's rarely done for genuine reasons but for strictly commercial ones.

EXCLUSIVE: Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz's Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over  —  The chairwoman of the Boulder County GOP has admitted that grave errors affected the Colorado Republican caucus, in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won a clean sweep of 34 delegates without opening up the process to voting by everyday citizens.

You need to chill out, Tim Robbins … The last we heard from actor and Bernie Sanders mega-supporter Tim Robbins, he was disparaging Hillary Clinton's big wins in the South by pointing out that those states would vote for the Republican in November.  (We pointed out that Sanders won a lot of red states …

Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins  —  Lena Dunham is the latest celebrity to say she'll hightail it out of the country if Donald Trump  —  is elected president.  —  “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,” Dunham told Andy Cohen at the Matrix Awards on Monday.

Rise in CO2 has ‘greened Planet Earth’  —  Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society have driven a huge growth in trees and other plants.  —  A new study says that if the extra green leaves prompted by rising CO2 levels were laid in a carpet, it would cover twice the continental USA.

Dennis Hastert's Accuser Sues Him for $1.8 Million  —  The accuser at the center of the Dennis Hastert hush-money case filed a $1.8 million lawsuit against him on Monday, two days before the former House Speaker's sentencing.  —  The man known only as Individual A — who says he was just 14 years old …

This city embedded traffic lights in the sidewalks so that smartphone users don't have to look up  —  Few nations in the world take red traffic lights more seriously than Germany.  —  Foreign visitors frequently wonder why crowds of Germans wait for traffic lights to turn green when there are no cars in sight.

Dutch newspaper publishes cartoon depicting Turkey's Erdogan as an ape crushing free speech … After a Dutch journalist was arrested in Turkey this weekend for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the most-read newspaper in the Netherlands on Monday published a front-page editorial cartoon …

Bobby Knight to campaign for Trump in Indiana  —  Legendary Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight will appear with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump  —  on Wednesday in Indianapolis.  —  Trump's campaign on Monday announced that Knight is joining the billionaire for a campaign rally.

The future of TV is arriving faster than anyone predicted  —  Late last week, Comcast announced a new program that allows makers of smart TVs and other Internet-based video services to have full access to your cable programming without the need for a set-top box.

Americans Overwhelmingly Engaged in 2016 Election but Tone of Race Is Affecting Voters, New GW Battleground Poll Shows  —  Obama's Approval Rating Turns Positive for First Time in Three Years  —  MEDIA CONTACTS:  —  Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631  —  John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199

Obama spends a little time in the ‘brave new world’ of virtual reality  —  When you're the leader of the free world who has been keeping an eagle eye on liberty and domestic surveillance for the past 7-8 years, sometimes you just want to take a look at a new version of reality.

Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now works to strengthen Democrats … Barack Obama rose to prominence as a different kind of Democrat, an outsider who was not part of the establishment and who would chart a separate course.  Eight years later, the president finds himself working hard …