Obama's “Trudge up the Hill” joke wasn't really about Hillary.  It was a Bernie Sanders dig  —  Out of President Obama's roughly thirty-minute set at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, one joke stands out as unusually revealing of how the president thinks about politics.

Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips  —  The Vermont senator continued to argue that he could still win the Democratic nomination.  —  aritbenie  —  Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing …

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by  —  As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic.  It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.

U.S. cruise sets sail for Cuba; first voyage in decades draws protests  —  Miami (CNN)The first U.S. cruise ship bound for Cuba in decades set sail Sunday as salsa music played and protesters picketed nearby.  —  Standing beside a Cuban flag and an American flag, the cruise manager touted the journey as “the beginning of a new era.”

CRUZ POACHES NEARLY ALL AZ DELEGATES=> Former Gov. Jan Brewer Screams “I Got CheaTED!”  —  Donald Trump won the Arizona Republican primary with 47% of the vote to second place Ted Cruz with 25%.  —  Trump won all 58 delegates in Arizona.  —  But that didn't stop the Cruz campaign …

Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’  —  IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition.  “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan.  “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …

Heidi Cruz says ‘Ted is an immigrant’  —  GREENFIELD, Ind. — At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband's strengths in the campaign is that he “is an immigrant.”

Toddlers have shot at least 23 people this year  —  This past week, a Milwaukee toddler fatally shot his mother after finding a handgun in the back seat of the car they were riding in.  The case drew a lot of national attention given the unusual circumstances: Little kids rarely kill people, intentionally or not.

The Reagan Coalition Is Dead.  What's Next For Conservatism?  —  Ronald Reagan swept to two landslide victories on the strength of his famous three-legged stool—economic conservatism, social conservatism and an internationalist, hawkish foreign policy.  But the elements of the Reagan coalition …

As deadlines come and go, Puerto Rico's debt crisis grows  —  Puerto Rico's May 1 deadline on a $422-million debt payment has arrived, and US lawmakers are no closer to finding a solution for the island's financial woes.  —  Most of Sunday's payment is principal and interest due …

Historic church up in flames after Easter service  —  A massive 4-alarm fire engulfed a Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan on Sunday—hours after their Easter service, authorities said.  —  The blaze broke out in Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava at 20 W 25th St at around 6:49 p.m., according to FDNY officials.

Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump  —  Republican Sen. Pat Toomey's reelection bid is on a collision course with the most dominant force in GOP politics.  —  The biggest challenge to Toomey's reelection might not be Democrats, but Donald Trump

Why is the government out to destroy vaping?  —  MORE FROM:  —  If a new delivery-room procedure reduced deaths of mothers during labor by 95%, CNN and “60 Minutes” would do special hour-long tributes and the new technique would quickly become mandatory.  —  If a new safety gadget inside automobiles …

Scalia's death affecting next term, too?  Pace of accepted cases at Supreme Court slows. … The ways in which Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death are altering the current Supreme Court term have been widely chronicled.  —  But it appears the absence of Scalia will be felt on the court's work next term, as well.