Jeb Bush Has Some Thoughts On Trump's Cinco De Mayo Tweet  —  He also thinks the Republican Party may no longer be relevant.  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't been coy about the scars he bears from the Republican primary.  He won't be voting for his bete noire, Donald Trump …

Donald Trump Is Not Expanding the GOP  —  Donald Trump likes to say he has created a political movement that has drawn “millions and millions” of new voters into the Republican Party.  “It's the biggest thing happening in politics,” Trump has said.  “All over the world, they're talking about it,” he's bragged.

NOLAND, MARY ANNE  —  NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend.  Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.  Born in Danville, Va. …

A Small Group of Superdelegates Could Close the Deal for Hillary—But Won't  —  In the interest of unity and fairness, a small group of crucial voters are staying on the sideline until more votes are cast.  —  stevenyaccino  —  Jason Rae learned about the pressures of being a superdelegate in 2008.

Fundamentally Speaking, Hillary Clinton Won't Blow It  —  The election won't be decided by gaffes and personality.  —  In 2012, liberals worried that Barack Obama would fumble the election to Mitt Romney.  “With 100 days left in the presidential campaign, perhaps the two most vexing questions …

U.S. judge strikes down D.C. concealed-carry gun law as likely unconstitutional  —  For the second time in as many years, a federal judge in Washington ordered the city to halt enforcement of its new, concealed-carry law that requires applicants to state “good reason” to carry a weapon in order to obtain a permit from police.

Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia  —  The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, defying vocal opposition from the White House.  —  The upper chamber approved the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act by unanimous consent.

Why Pennsylvania Could Decide The 2016 Election  —  When most people think of battleground America, they think of Florida and Ohio, two of only three states (along with Nevada) that have voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1996.  They tend not to think of Pennsylvania as a classic …

Audio of Donald Trump Saying Model ‘Looks Like a Third-Rate Hooker’ Resurfaces  —  Back in 2004, a model named Victoria Zdrok gave an interview to a guy named Chaunce Hayden.  In it, she detailed the way that Donald Trump had called up her bosses at Playboy and requested to meet her under …

Five people who are never going to be Donald Trump's vice president  —  We don't know all that much about who Donald Trump is going to pick — or even consider — as his vice presidential running mate.  In fact, the most insight we have on Trump's VP thinking is who he's not going to pick.

Newlywed husband divorces his wife hours after the ceremony because she was too busy texting her friends to have sex on their wedding night  —  A husband divorced his wife hours after their wedding because she was too busy texting her friends to consummate the marriage.

North Carolina governor's ignorance of trans identity  —  North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has doubled down on his support for H.B. 2, the discriminatory bill requiring public school students to use restrooms for the gender they were assigned at birth.  Recently, he filed a lawsuit …

Teacher issues apology for emails about special-needs student  —  A Wyoming Area School District teacher issued a written apology Monday for comments about accommodations to help a special-needs student.  —  In emails from October 2014, Tenth Street Elementary School teacher Amy Kosco compared making …

McCain In Deep Trouble in GOP Primary; Trump, Clinton Close in AZ  —  PPP's new Arizona poll finds that John McCain has a negative approval rating with Republican primary voters, and is at pretty serious risk of losing nomination for another term.  Only 35% of GOP voters approve of the job McCain is doing to 50% who disapprove.

The Never Trump Movement Is Anti-American And Hypocritical  —  Far too many of my ultra-conservative colleagues are acting exactly like the party elitists they purport to despise.  They didn't get their way, so they throw a temper tantrum.  Let the whining and crying begin.  I don't have time for it.

Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan  —  WASHINGTON — A rift between environmentalists and labor, two pillars of the Democratic coalition, broke open acrimoniously on Monday, when a group of big unions threatened to boycott an ambitious …

Gender-Segregated Public Bathrooms Have A Long, Ugly History  —  While anti-transgender bathroom bills have only recently gained momentum, gender-segregated public restrooms have been sites of gender inequity for over a century.  Cultural anxieties about bodily secretions, disease, sex …

Second Amendment Protects Right to Buy and Sell Guns, Court Rules  —  Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sides with business partners who were denied zoning permit to open gun store  —  The Second Amendment protects the right to buy and sell firearms, as well as the right to keep and bear them, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis  —  One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state's Department of Health.  —  Only 4 percent of the general population …