Happy Cinco de Mayo!  The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill.  I love Hispanics!

Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …

First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe  —  (CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email …

AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA  —  TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward:  —  (...or, stated more simply)  —  TO: The majority of America:  —  Note: If you are one of those rare souls …

This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …

New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP  —  Donald Trump has hired a Wall Street tycoon who has donated more than twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans to be his campaign's finance chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.

BREAKING.  Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan  —  We've said over and over... and to no avail... that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump.  During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he's in the process of reneging on them.

FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation  —  Rule extending oversight to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, allows agency to address public health concerns such as youth access to tobacco products … For Immediate Release

A Nation of Second Chances  —  Earlier this spring, I met with a group of individuals whose sentences were commuted either by President Bush, President Clinton, or myself.  They were all at different stages of a new chapter in their lives, but each of their stories was extraordinary.

Tow truck owner said he refused service to woman because she supports Bernie Sanders  —  A local tow truck driver said he refused to tow a woman's car after he saw Bernie Sanders stickers on the vehicle.  —  Kenneth Shupe said he was called to pick up a woman stranded on I-26 in Asheville on Monday.

NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says  —  Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX  —  Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’  —  House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …

Trump's Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn't Matter  —  And there shall be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth .... again.  Once again, movement conservatives have gone into a Republican presidential primary season arguing that the time had come to nominate a true follower of the faith.

The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru  —  How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age.  —  Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.