Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket'  —  Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world whether they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders.  —  All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate in Flint …

Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’  —  Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week  —  Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more.  With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …

Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’  —  Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.

Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption.  —  The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused …

More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump  —  DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.

Lust for Destruction  —  When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election.  They won't.

Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past  —  Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right.  (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images)  —  The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …

Woman in ‘Mystery Machine’ mini van leads police on pursuit  —  Suspect still at large  —  REDDING, Calif. -  —  A Shasta County woman led law enforcement officers on a pursuit in a mini van painted to look like the ‘Mystery Machine’ from the Scooby Doo cartoon.

Father is hospitalised by ‘Sharia patrol’ in Austria after he told them to stop threatening his wife and daughter for not being properly dressed as fears rise of no-go areas in Vienna  —  Austrians fear parts of Vienna are becoming no-go areas after a father was attacked by a 'Sharia patrol …

Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term  —  President Ronald Reagan was running for a second term, and Nancy Reagan was worried.  The president's tight little circle of White House advisers and political strategists were confident as long as Reagan's Democratic opponent …

Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands  —  Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.

U.S. Strikes Kill 150 Shabab Fighters in Somalia, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — American warplanes on Saturday struck a training camp in Somalia belonging to the Islamist militant group the Shabab, the Pentagon said, killing about 150 fighters who United States officials said were preparing …

Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump  —  Listen to the Story  —  Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a crass age.  Founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, the magazine chronicled …

27 giant profitable companies paid no taxes  —  Death and taxes are supposed to be two certainties of life.  But a few companies have at least escaped the taxes part.  Investors, though, don't seem all that impressed.  —  There are 27 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 …