Hillary supporters take down Bernie FB pages in coordinated porn attack  —  Multiple Facebook pages supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  were abruptly removed from the social media network late last night following an apparent coordinated cyberattack.

Live Blog: Exit Poll Analysis From Tuesday's Primaries  —  Voters in five states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island — head to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests.

NY judge decides Trump University case going to trial  —  A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial - raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season.

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.

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results  —  Capital Return Program Expanding to $250 Billion  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 second quarter ended March 26, 2016.  The Company posted quarterly revenue of $50.6 billion and quarterly net income of $10.5 billion, or $1.90 per diluted share.

Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist resigns  —  Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith resigned from the paper on Tuesday, after the paper prevented him from writing about casino owners Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, whose family owns the Review-Journal.

Florida Senate candidate says it's not safe to allow ‘anybody from the Middle East’ into U.S.  —  Carlos Beruff, candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, speaks to the monthly meeting of the Broward Republican Party on April 25, 2016, at Deicke Auditorium in Plantation.  —  Sun Sentinel

Ted Cruz Doesn't Want Any Transgender People In Any Bathroom Anywhere  —  Ted Cruz's tour de transphobia, launched last week to capitalize on Donald Trump's criticism of North Carolina's anti-transgender law, has embraced a new extreme position.  Speaking to reporters this weekend in Indiana …

Harriet Tubman Has A Legacy Worth Upholding  —  Retired Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was a 2016 Republican candidate for President of the United States.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  Independent Journal Opinion is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put forth by contributors …

Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet  —  John Kasich, one of only three still-standing GOP presidential candidates, isn't featured in Oregon's voters' pamphlet for the May primary election — an embarrassing blunder for any major campaign.

Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge  —  A 32-year-old man jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning - but miraculously survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said.  —  The unidentified emotionally disturbed man walked to the middle of the iconic span's pedestrian pathway …

Anger is a business  —  Many news outlets' business models now depend on stoking anger.  This exacerbates the political system's polarization and dysfunction.  —  Anger seems to define the 2016 election.  Donald Trump is riding Republican voters' rage to a possible nomination …

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows  —  In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that most young people do not support capitalism.  —  The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29 …

Ex-Politico CEO Courts Silicon Valley With Bizarre ‘Third Party’ Op-Ed  —  In a Monday newspaper column that borrows heavily from the language of Silicon Valley disruptors, former Politico CEO Jim VandeHei laid out a barely cogent “template” for usurping the order of “Establishment America.”

SCIENTOLOGY LEADER DAVID MISCAVIGE THREATENS TO SUE FATHER OVER BOOK  —  [Ron Miscavige's book, with its US and UK covers, is due out a week from today]  —  London publisher Silvertail Books has received a letter from Scientology leader David Miscavige's attorneys threatening that it will be sued …

Today Is Clinton's Chance To End The ‘Groundhog Day’ Campaign  —  The Democratic campaign has taken on the feel of “Groundhog Day,” repeating the same storyline over and over with only minor variation.  Hillary Clinton, in our view, has spent most of the year in the liminal space between “clear favorite” and “presumptive nominee.”

‘Wild animals’: Racist texts sent by San Francisco police officer, documents show  —  The following story contains offensive language and may not be suitable for all audiences.  —  (CNN)"I hate that beaner," one text reads, “but I think the nig is worse.”  —  “Indian ppl are disgusting,” proclaims another.