Cruz Scolds Boy After Child Tells Him ‘You Suck’ At Indiana Rally [VIDEO]  —  La Porte, IN-Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally.  The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement …

GOP Congressman: “I Truly Don't Know” If I'll Support Trump Or Clinton In November  —  “So, I think like a lot of Americans, we are gonna have to begin to spend the summer studying the candidates and decide who's best for the future of the country.”  —  BRIAN BLANCO / Reuters  —  w.soundcloud.com

Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto  —  Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.  —  His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.

Senate takes 2016 sabbatical  —  Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters.  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft an identity that's distinct …

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.

Heidi Cruz responds to people who call her husband the Zodiac Killer  —  CARMEL, Ind. — Heidi Cruz knows her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is not the Zodiac Killer, no matter what people online say.  —  Heidi spent Monday morning traveling across Indiana in support of her husband's presidential campaign.

Bernie's Bad End  —  This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged.  Can someone tell Bernie that he's in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?

Colorado court overturns fracking bans  —  Colorado's highest court overturned two cities' bans on hydraulic fracturing Monday, ruling that state law preempts them.  —  The state's Supreme Court cited the main state law regulating oil and natural gas drilling and found that lawmakers clearly intended …

Catching a Flight?  Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security  —  If you sense that airport security lines are getting longer — much longer — you're definitely not alone.  —  A combination of fewer Transportation Security Administration screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures …

The Hell After ISIS … Falah sabar heard a knock at the door.  It was just before midnight in western Baghdad last April and Falah was already in bed, so he sent his son Wissam to answer.  Standing in the doorway was a tall young man in jeans who neither shook Wissam's hand nor offered a greeting.

After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight  —  Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but a study of them helps explain why they could not keep all of that weight off.  —  Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage.

The Model American  —  In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours.  The couple had been in London.  At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.

An iPad Misplaced at the Airport Takes Its Own Vacation  —  Last month, Shelby Bonnie's iPad vanished from his carry-on bag somewhere at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a red-eye flight from San Francisco.  He figured he would never see it again.

Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service  —  New subscription service would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels  —  Hulu is developing a subscription service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels, people familiar with the plans said …

DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout  —  Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.

Scientists Discover 3 ‘Potentially Habitable’ Earth-Sized Planets  —  Threatening to move to Canada over President Trump is out.  But moving to TRAPPIST-1 is in after scientists announced the discovery Monday of three Earth-sized planets that could support life.

Blogger sues Kathryn Knott, her father, and Bucks D.A.  —  A blogger who wrote about Kathryn Knott - the Bucks County woman convicted of participating in a 2014 attack on a gay couple in Center City - has sued Knott, Knott's father, the Bucks County district attorney, and others.