California voters resigned to vote for Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, SurveyUSA poll shows  —  Donald Trump won the Republican primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut, while Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Maryland on Tuesday, April 26, 2016.  —  KABC

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.

GOP Congressman Doesn't Know If He'll Back Trump, Clarifies He Won't Back Clinton  —  “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

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 …

White House press secretary defends Larry Wilmore's use of the ‘n-word’ in addressing President Obama  —  These 10 states will decide whether Trump is the GOP nominee … White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended comedian Larry Wilmore's use of the n-word and other racially-tinged epithets during …

The real obstacle to voter turnout in Democratic primaries: caucuses  —  Bernie Sanders wants to transform how the Democratic Party chooses its presidential nominee.  —  To do so, Sanders has made abolishing the closed primary — which prevents independents from voting …

Obamacare's November surprise  —  The last thing Democrats want to contend with just a week before the 2016 presidential election is an outcry over double-digit insurance hikes as millions of Americans begin signing up for Obamacare.  —  But that looks increasingly likely as health plans socked …

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.

Current Indiana Polling  —  Executive Summary - Current Indiana Poll Results - May 2nd, 2016  —  Winter Springs, Fla. - Even after a five-for-five shut out victory for Donald J. Trump in last Tuesday's primaries, the pathway to 1,237 delegates is still not a 100 percent lock for the GOP Presidential Nomination.

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.

Hulk suing Gawker for allegedly leaking his racist tirade  —  More On:  —  Hulk Hogan is trying to take down Gawker one more time.  —  After his $140 million legal victory against the gossip website, the famous pro wrestler has filed a second lawsuit over his surreptitiously recorded sex tapes …

Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties  —  In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win.

Tenn. Guns On Campus Bill Becomes Law Without Guv's Signature  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bill allowing staff and faculty at Tennessee's public colleges and universities to be armed on campus has become law without Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's signature.

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Seattle minimum wage law  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by business groups to a trendsetting Seattle law that will raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour, leaving in place a lower court's decision to uphold the ordinance.