Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race  —  Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday night, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.

The crisis in the Republican Party is even worse than it looks  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president, and this alarms ideological conservatives for several reasons:  —  1. They think he will lose badly to Hillary Clinton, perhaps so badly that Republicans lose control of both houses of Congress.

Sanders: Clinton ‘wrong’ to think it's over  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, fresh off a surprise victory in the Indiana primary, is confident that he is only helping the Democratic Party by remaining in the race against Hillary Clinton.  —  “The Clinton campaign thinks this is over.

Trump and the Lord's Work  —  Like many others, I watched the video that President Obama showed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday of him inviting former House Speaker John Boehner over to solicit his advice on what Obama should do post-presidency.

The Mythology Of Trump's ‘Working Class’ Support  —  It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.  There are elements of truth in this perspective: Republican voters, especially Trump supporters, are unhappy about the direction of the economy.

Mesa, AZ student arrested for indecent exposure in yearbook picture  —  A student at Red Mountain High School in Mesa is facing dozens of criminal charges for indecent exposure after a prank got published in the yearbook, according to the Mesa Police Department.

Question … Answer  —  Two aspects of this stand out.  First, high levels of name recognition from both probable nominees.  (I'm not there yet with presumptive nominees.  Give me time.)  Both Trump and Clinton have been in the public eye for a long time, and the information about them has not always been favorable.

Selfie provoked argument that led to fatal Arlington shooting, suspect's wife says  —  Updated May 3: Revised throughout to include new details.  —  By JULIETA CHIQUILLO and TOM STEELE  —  Staff Writers  —  The wife of the suspect in an Arlington slaying says a revealing selfie set off …

In N.Y., White House poised to create first monument to gay rights struggle  —  Live updates … President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood …