GOP Quickly Unifies Around Trump; Clinton Still Has Modest Lead  —  PPP's new national poll finds that Republicans have quickly unified around Donald Trump, making the Presidential race more competitive than it has previously been perceived to be.  —  Hillary Clinton leads Trump 42-38 …

Cruz floats restarting campaign if he wins Nebraska primary  —  on Tuesday floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraska's GOP primary, as he avoided saying whether he supports Donald Trump  —  's bid for president.  —  Cruz, who ended his White House run …

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Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will oversee the vice-presidential search  —  Political adviser Beth Myers headed up the process for Mitt Romney.  Washington lawyer A.B. Culvahouse managed the selection for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).  Now, Corey Lewandowski will have that responsibility for Donald Trump.

White House seeks to contain fallout from aide's comments  —  Ben Rhodes might have a “mind meld” with President Obama, but he is causing headaches for the White House.  —  Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, managed in a recent New York Times Magazine profile to undercut …

A Secret Section of Central Park Reopens  —  Since the days when Fiorello H. La Guardia was mayor and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, it has been a well-kept secret of New York City — to people, if not to migrating birds, the occasional wandering coyote and annoying, invasive plants like wisteria …

From playboy to president?  Trump's past crude sex talk collides with his White House bid.  —  Over 15 years, radio shock jock Howard Stern and his buddy Donald Trump periodically carried on like towel-snapping “bros” in a locker room, rating women's tops and bottoms, debating whether oral sex is …

The First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima  —  President Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan after the conclusion of the G-7 Summit later this month.  —  There has been intense interest on both sides of the Pacific in the possibility of a presidential visit to Hiroshima …

Ted Cruz is not releasing his delegates before the GOP convention  —  Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz is not releasing his delegates in at least three states, a sign he may hold onto some clout at this summer's Republican National Convention.  —  Cruz sent a letter to Republican state parties in at least Kansas …

Aftermath of Munich knife attack shows bloodied footprints  —  Play!  —  Auto update  —  Off  —  ‘No indication’ of Islamic extremist motive  —  Bavaria's top security official says investigators have no indications that the suspect in a stabbing at a train station had an Islamic extremist motive.

Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall  —  When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about U.F.O.s, she quickly corrected his terminology.  —  “You know, there's a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance.

Paul Ryan Says U.S. Must Admit Muslim Migrants, Sends Kids to Private School that Screens Them Out  —  After the Paris terrorist attack, House Speaker Paul Ryan declared that the United States cannot turn away the hundreds of thousands of Islamist migrants now being approved for visas to enter the United States.

Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says  —  (CNN)The former city administrator of Flint, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit against the current mayor's office, claiming she was fired after raising concerns about donors being directed away from a charity for victims …

The rise of militias: Patriot candidates are now getting elected in Oregon  —  Like Trump, the Patriot Movement's surge is due partly to fear and the perceived indifference of political leaders to places that didn't recover from the 2008 crash  —  oseph Rice's manner is a long way from militia stereotypes.

Trump expands the battleground...to Utah?  —  Historically from 1952 to 2012, the likely range of movement in two-candidate margin from this time until Election Day has been 10 percentage points, which is the standard deviation from the 16 past elections.  Therefore, even though Clinton currently leads …

The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents:  —  Ghassan Hage  —  Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne  —  Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages  —  2-105

‘Trump wall’ draws crowd and controversy at UW  —  A group of University of Washington students showed their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by building a “Trump wall” on the school's Red Square.  —  Two days after Donald Trump made his first campaign visit to Washington state …

The Scariest Reason Trump Won  —  There are many reasons why Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.  The four most-often cited reasons are the frustrations of white working-class Americans, a widespread revulsion against political correctness, disenchantment …

Arkansas Judge Resigns After 1000s of Photos of Nude Male Defendants Found on His Computer  —  An Arkansas judge accused of swapping sex for reduced sentences resigned Monday after a state commission said it discovered thousands of photographs from his computer that depicted nude male defendants.

The Obama Administration Provokes a Legal Crisis — the War against North Carolina  —  Attorney general Loretta Lynch (Jonathan Earnst/Reuters)  —  The state of North Carolina and the federal government are now in a state of declared legal war.  On Wednesday afternoon …

A depressingly accurate 29-word description of the dismal state of our politics  —  Marty Baron, my boss and the editor of the Washington Post, gave a commencement speech at Temple University over the weekend.  It was on the fungible nature of truth in our modern world and how everyone is not …

Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Is A Donald Trump Delegate  —  While the technology industry may not be the most supportive group of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump can count at least one Silicon Valley powerbroker as a backer.

Uber Recognizes New York Drivers' Group, Short of Union  —  Uber announced an agreement on Tuesday with a prominent union to create an association for drivers in New York that would establish a forum for regular dialogue and afford them some limited benefits and protections — but that would stop short of unionization.

Bernie Sanders's Next Revolution  —  How can he continue to harness the enthusiasm that defined his candidacy beyond the time-limited scope of a campaign?  —  Bernie Sanders spent the better part of three decades in national politics trying to bring ideas that would strike most of the democratic world …