Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins  —  When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican national convention, they got an unexpected visitor.  —  Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus …

Assessing Trump's Path to 1,237  —  A look at the remaining contests shows how he could get there  —  About a month ago, after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary and all of its delegates, we headlined a piece “The Hour is Growing Late to Stop Trump.”

Obama's tango ripped on ‘Morning Joe’  —  On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced the tango at a state dinner in Argentina.  By the next morning, a bipartisan chorus of disapproval of the optics was bursting out on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”

North Carolina governor signs controversial transgender bill  —  Washington (CNN)North Carolina's governor on Wednesday signed a controversial bill blocking cities from allowing transgender individuals to use public bathrooms for the sex they identify as — as well as restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws more broadly.

Trumpism After Trump  —  There is now no possibility that the Republican Party will survive its rendezvous with Donald Trump unbroken.  —  If Trump is the party's nominee, the best-case scenario — the best case! — for G.O.P. unity probably involves a host of Republican officials withholding …

This is why Trump's winning, and why I won't vote for Hillary  —  GOP needs to wake up and realize Trump is its fault.  But the Trump/Clinton death match is a national nightmare  —  This week's horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign.

Moulton compares Trump's rise to election of Hitler in 1930s  —  Congressman Seth Moulton on Wednesday compared the rise of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump to the election of Adolf Hitler and said constituents should warn “that crazy uncle” against voting for the businessman if he wins the GOP nomination.

Religious freedom deserves deference: Our view  —  Obamacare didn't have to end up at the Supreme Court because of birth control.  —  If the Obama administration had thought long and hard about the meaning of religious freedom, one of the nation's most fundamental rights …

There Were 5-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act  —  Reducing the number of polling places in Phoenix had catastrophic consequences in the March 22 primary.  —  By ,  —  Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala …

Concord man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later  —  CONCORD, N.C. —  A Concord man was arrested for failing to return a 2002 VHS rental movie, “Freddy Got Fingered.”  —  James Meyers showed Channel 9 the arrest warrant Wednesday.  It shows Meyers is charged with failure to return rental property, a misdemeanor.

Cross-border drug tunnel linked restaurant to home  —  CALEXICO, Calif. - For the first time in a decade, federal agents uncovered a completed drug tunnel in Calexico, a border city about 100 miles east of San Diego.  —  The opening of a drug tunnel was found in a fairly new home in Calexico …

In N.F.L., Deeply Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Big Tobacco  —  The National Football League was on the clock.  —  With several of its marquee players retiring early after a cascade of frightening concussions, the league formed a committee in 1994 that would ultimately issue …

Self-cleaning laundry may be on the way  —  Imagine doing laundry in a flash — just by hanging your clothes outside.  Or what if you could get rid of that coffee stain just by standing under a bright light?  —  Researchers in Australia say they have found a way to alter fabric …

The GOP's nuclear option: how Trump could be denied the nomination even with a majority  —  You probably know by now that if Donald Trump doesn't win over a majority of Republican delegates, he'll fail to clinch the party's nomination on the first ballot, and a contested convention will ensue.

How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript  —  Code pulled from NPM - which everyone was using  —  Updated Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript.

Hannity Interview With Jorge Ramos Devolves Into Shoutfest: 'I Don't Need Lectures From You, Jorge!'  —  Things quickly went off the rails Wednesday night when Fox News host Sean Hannity welcomed Univision anchor Jorge Ramos onto his program to discuss coverage of Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Loughner lawsuit against Giffords, federal government could be hoax  —  A lawsuit allegedly filed by Jared Lee Loughner, the man who carried out the mass shooting in Tucson in 2011, against one of the victims as well as the federal government, could be a hoax.

IS TRAINS 400 FIGHTERS TO ATTACK EUROPE IN WAVE OF BLOODSHED  —  PARIS (AP) — The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time …