Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee... Cruz-Kasich Backroom Deal is Devastating (Video)  —  Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Republican primary race.  —  Rudy says it's over and Trump is the nominee. … The post Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee …

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.

More than 500,000 boycott Target over transgender bathroom policy  —  A conservative Christian activist group has gained more than half a million signatures and counting from people pledging to boycott Target over its transgender bathroom policy.  —  The petition started by the American Family Association …

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.

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.

The Emotional Life of Sanders Supporters  —  Movement will go on, they say — with or without Democratic Party  —  Van Hollen, McGinty Surge Ahead In Kansas, Pompeo Won't Challenge Sen. Moran Major Mystery Donor Reveals Why He Backed Donna Edwards  —  BALTIMORE - Bailey Myers …

Trump rejects new adviser's push to make him ‘presidential’  —  Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO.

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

RUSH LIMBAUGH: If Cruz Plan Succeeds and He Wins on Second Ballot, It's the “End of the Republican Party”  —  Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience today that if Ted Cruz succeeds in his plan to win the nomination on the second ballot it will be the “end of the Republican party.”

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: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens  —  Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group.

The only campaign that would have even been legal eight years ago belongs to a 74-year-old socialist. … The Uncampaign has upended the system across the board, turning even the most basic of candidacies into something unrecognizable. … “All the rules of the playbook are thrown out the window …

Maybe Donald Trump has really lost his mind: What if the GOP frontrunner isn't crazy, but simply not well?  —  We've become familiar with his ramblings, and at ease mocking them.  But they might be the sign of someone unwell  —  The Donald Trump gaffe track keeps playing.

Husband charged with killing wife in St. Regis Park  —  Man says he didn't know gun was loaded when he pointed it at his wife, pulled trigger  —  A woman was shot and killed Sunday and her husband is behind bars at Metro Corrections.  —  Police said 22-year-old Damien Lacambra was arrested overnight and faces a murder charge.

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.

Don't Suggest to Hillary She Could Ever Be Behind in Votes  —  During MSNBC's town hall with Hillary Clinton, Rachel Maddow made the mistake of suggesting Clinton could ever in the future be behind Bernie Sanders in the delegate count.  —  “That was June 7, 2008 when you got out of the race and endorsed President Obama.

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.

Flint and America's Corroded Trust  —  It's been the subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it's hard for any of us on the ground to see.  —  One of the city's lead pipes has been replaced for the benefit of the press, but more than 8,000 additional service lines …

Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time  —  Trump: New Cruz-Kasich Alliance to Stop Him is ‘Pathetic’ and ‘Weak’ 2:47  —  Donald Trump has reached 50 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaners nationally for the first time since the beginning of the NBC News|

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 …

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.