How Clinton's email scandal took root  —  Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state.  She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn't allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.

Dems must pay price to keep Sanders sweet  —  (I-Vt.) want in exchange for endorsing Hillary Clinton  —  And what can Clinton and the Democratic Party give Sanders to get him to campaign aggressively for her in the fall, harnessing the voting power of the passionate, mostly young, white left-wing voters who favor him?

Kerry says Republican campaign ‘an embarrassment’  —  Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry warned that the Republican presidential campaign has descended into “an embarrassment” that raises awkward questions abroad about the reliability of the United States.

Suicide bomber targeting Christians kills 65, mostly women and children, in Pakistan park  —  A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians.

Photo: You Can Visit Donald Trump's Tombstone In Central Park  —  Donald J. Trump recently got approval to build himself a private cemetery at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, but clearly he has some very thoughtful, very caring fans who don't want him to waste his time worrying about end-of-life planning.

Gun Store Owner Refuses to Sell Weapon to Man Suspected of Planning Mass Shooting at Ohio University  —  A gun store owner is being credited with possibly stopping a mass shooting at Ohio University after he refused to sell a gun to a man who passed a background check, CNN reported on Sunday.

How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump  —  The manufacturing executives had gathered in an Atlanta conference room last year to honor their senior United States senator, Johnny Isakson, for his tireless efforts on their behalf in Washington.  But as the luncheon wound down …

Who Will Become a Terrorist?  Research Yields Few Clues  —  WASHINGTON — The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists.  But in San Bernardino, Calif., last year …

Conservatives to pounce if GOP relents on Supreme Court  —  There are plenty of plausible reasons why Republicans might eventually fold in the standoff over the Supreme Court: Overwhelming public opinion, a Democratic pressure campaign, and vulnerable GOP senators trying to save their jobs, to name a few.

North Carolina Sued Over Anti-LGBT Law  —  “By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B. 2 violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment and the U.S. Constitution,” the lawsuit argues.

One of two baby bald eagles hatches in Southwest Washington  —  The third baby bald eagle this spring in Washington hatched over the weekend at the D.C. police academy in Southwest.  —  The eaglet was born to Liberty and Justice.  They've had a nest at the property for 11 years that sits …

ISIS carries out Good Friday crucifixion of Indian Catholic priest in Yemen after he was kidnapped three weeks ago in attack on old people's home where four nuns were shot  —  The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed.

House panel wants names of scientists involved in fetal-tissue research … SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego, and one of its neuroscientists have become embroiled in a national debate over the legality and ethics of using human fetal tissue to study various diseases.

Soul Survivor  —  Late on a winter night, Aretha Franklin sat in the dressing room of Caesars Windsor Hotel and Casino, in Ontario.  She did not wear the expression of someone who has just brought boundless joy to a few thousand souls.  —  “What was with the sound?” she said, in a tone somewhere between perplexity and irritation.

Anthony Weiner Was The ‘Perfectly Evolved’ Politician — Until He Screwed Up  —  Undiscovered sexts gnawed at him “kind of like PTSD” during his mayoral campaign, he told Candidate Confessional.  —  In the spring of 2013, as he embarked on a campaign for mayor of New York City …

Marco Rubio's secret (money) legacy  —  Marco Rubio's campaign is dead.  His secret-money legacy lives on.  —  Nobody knows who funded the nonprofit group that spent more than $10 million on TV ads boosting Rubio, and untold more on mailers and research.  And, unless those donors out themselves, nobody ever will.

Obamacare at Six: A Legacy of Deception  —  Obamacare just turned six and the president is still attempting to convince a skeptical public that his “reform” law is working.  On the anniversary of its passage, the White House issued a statement from Obama containing all manner …

Guns at GOP convention petition nears 35K, Trump wants to study ‘fine print’  —  234 Shares  —  Donald Trump says he wants to study a petition that calls for allowing the open carry of guns at the Republican convention this July in Cleveland.  —  While proclaiming himself “a very …