Donald Trump warns Barack Obama he'll ‘hit him’ like Bill Clinton  —  Presumptive Republican nominee rallies crowd in sweltering heat in Sacramento  —  Trump's remarks come after Obama waded into campaign  —  Trump says Obama 'doesn't have a clue'  —  Donald Trump, lashing back at Barack Obama …

UCLA gunman had accused slain professor of stealing his computer code, sources say  —  Police respond to the UCLA campus after a shooting Wednesday.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)  —  The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar …

Hispanic Official to Leave R.N.C. in Sign of Disaffection With Donald Trump  —  The head of Hispanic media relations at the Republican National Committee is resigning this month in what appears to be another indication of the lingering discomfort some party officials have about working to elect Donald J. Trump president.

Why Hillary Clinton Is Avoiding Press Conferences  —  She's playing to her strengths, as any politician would.  —  Pin It  —  Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference in 180 days.  That fact hasn't been lost on reporters who cover her, nor has it escaped the notice of her Republican opponent.

Snyder decides against endorsing Trump for president  —  Gov. Rick Snyder has sidelined himself in the race for president, choosing not to make an endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.  —  The Republican governor also did not endorse in the March 8 primary …

State leader quits ACLU after daughters were ‘visibly frightened’ by men using women's restroom  —  Aclu , Bathroom Bills , Georgia , Maya Dillard Smith , Trangenderism  —  The African-American woman who leads a state chapter of the ACLU has resigned, citing her own daughters' “frightened” …

Donald Trump's Secret Weapon: Letters of Love, Flattery and Revenge  —  In one letter, Donald J. Trump ranted about the crisis of unsightly hot dog vendors on his beloved Fifth Avenue.  “Having ketchup and mustard splattered all over the sidewalk,” he wrote, “is disgraceful.”

Reid unloads: McConnell ‘cuddled up’ with Trump  —  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Harry Reid says the public knows plenty about Donald Trump, and there's nothing he could do to make the presumptive GOP nominee more unpopular than he already is.  —  So rather than becoming the Trump attack dog …

Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be “Killed”  —  Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a delegate candidate on the Tennessee ballot, and when the state held its primary in March, voters selected Riden to go to the Republican National Convention.

It wasn't a ‘glitch’: State Department deliberately cut embarrassing questions from press briefing video  —  The State Department acknowledged Wednesday that someone in its public affairs bureau made a “deliberate” request that several minutes of tape be cut from the video of a 2013 press briefing …

Activist Trump University / La Raza Judge Now Attempts To Re-Seal Court Documents...  Candidate Donald Trump previously accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel of having a bias, a specific political and agenda bias, to the benefit of the plaintiffs in the case; and it appears he is correct.

New York AG: Trump U ‘really a fraud from beginning to end’  —  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stepped up his attacks on Donald Trump's Trump University business venture on Thursday, alleging the businessman and presumptive Republican nominee ran a thoroughly fraudulent enterprise.

The Sad Story of Milo Yiannopoulos: the Trump Troll With Daddy Issues  —  Milo Yiannopoulos is a fervent supporter of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  Referring to Trump as “Daddy,” the ostentatiously gay British media personality provides a camp component to the presumptive Republican nominee's fan base.

Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump's real strength and Clinton's fatal sleepwalking  —  The media covers for Hillary on her email scandal while Trump gallops through the non-stop artillery barrage  —  It's zombie time at campaign Hillary.  Behold the dead men walking!

GOP warns of ‘long summer for Crooked Hillary’  —  is facing a long summer of scrutiny over her emails and use of a private server during her tenure as secretary of State, the Republican National Committee (RNC) said Wednesday.  —  As news and criticism about the Democratic presidential …

Police: Mother, sons beat black teen while yelling slurs  —  Police say a mother and her two sons beat up a black teenager while yelling racial slurs at a campground southwest of Chicago over the weekend.  —  According to police, Carrie Weller, 42, and Corry Weller, 21 …

‘Missing’ White Voters Might Help Trump, But Less So Where He Needs It  —  A common refrain is that demographics will ultimately doom Donald Trump's candidacy.  His most reliable supporters have been whites without college degrees — a group that made up 65 percent of voters in 1980 but is on pace to make up just 33 percent in 2016.

Bank of America gets half off its Justice Dept. settlement  —  Bank of America has been able to reduce a multi-billion dollar mortgage fraud penalty imposed by the Justice Department by giving millions of dollars to liberal groups approved by the Obama administration.

There Will Be Subsidies  —  How the oil companies hit a gusher of tax breaks  —  Writing Off Drilling Expenses: A century ago, drilling for oil was risky business.  Start-up costs were high, and prospectors couldn't be sure they'd find crude.  To encourage the nascent industry …

Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage  —  The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day.  —  Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter.  That makes the four-year-old messaging app more popular than Twitter Inc. by daily active users.

I felt a shudder down my spine yesterday watching Donald Trump's fusilade against the press.  This is not a moment to be trifled with.  It wasn't his first tirade and it won't be his last.  —  I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham …

How Baby Boomer psychodrama infected the 2016 election  —  Barack Obama's election to the presidency in 2008 seemed to promise the end of the Baby Boomer reign over American life.  Even Obama seemed to know his rise was their downfall.  In The Audacity of Hope, Obama commented …

Cincinnati police don't recommend criminal charges in gorilla case  —  Last Video  —  Mother calls 911 about child who fell in gorilla moat  —  911 call about child who fell into Gorilla World moat  —  See how boy got into gorilla enclosure  —  ‘It was a life threatening situation’ says director of Cincinnati Zoo

A warning left on a nanny's car.  License plates stolen.  And a top Pentagon official in big trouble.  —  The mystery that for weeks unnerved this quiet Capitol Hill neighborhood began with a warning placed on a nanny's windshield.  —  “I know you are misusing this visitor pass to park here daily,” the April 4 note read.

Yale Students Tell English Profs to Stop Teaching English: Too Many White Male Poets  —  Some Yale University students are demanding changes to the English Department curriculum: specifically, they don't think it should feature so many English poets who were straight, white, wealthy, and male.