Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will not be prosecuted for battery for grabbing reporter Michelle Fields, authorities in Florida have confirmed. Unfortunately for Trump’s campaign, authorities in Florida can’t undo the damage caused by Trump and Lewandowski’s initial decision to claim that Fields had made the entire incident up, a claim that was later undermined by video evidence. In other news:
- A speaker at a Bernie Sanders rally used the ill-advised phrase “corporate Democratic whores” to refer to Hillary Clinton types.
- Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in his last game, but he had to miss a lot of shots to get there. Like, a lot.
- UC-Davis administrators spent $175,000 to try to hide internet evidence of a 2011 incident in which protesters were pepper-sprayed in appalling fashion.
- The “affluenza” kid is going to jail.
- Video has emerged of some of the 200-plus girls that Boko Haram kidnapped from a Nigerian school two years ago.
- And this chimpanzee is terrifying.
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