Belgian authorities now believe at least five men may have been involved in actively carrying out this week’s terror attacks; three are believed to be dead and two are the subject of an ongoing manhunt. In other news:
- North Carolina’s legislature and governor rushed through a law that invalidates Charlotte ordinances prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, ostensibly out of concern that men will take advantage of the ordinances to creep on women’s bathrooms. (Seriously!)
- Donald Trump implied that Ted Cruz has an ugly wife.
- The rookie NYPD officer who accidentally shot and kille Akai Gurley may not face jail time—and that’s not necessarily an outrage.
- A Fox cameraman appears to have caught a photojournalist staging a solemn picture of a young girl at a Brussels memorial.
- Joe “Biden Rule” Biden argued that there is no Biden Rule regarding Supreme Court nominations in an election year.
- Our correspondent found that devoted Sanders supporters at an L.A. event almost all said they’d vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election.
- The existence of a third individual who was allegedly sexually abused by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was disclosed in a court document.
- And we introduced the Trump Apocalypse Watch. Today it’s at two of a possible four horsemen.
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