Today’s most important news:
- The city of Cleveland has agreed to give $6 million to Tamir Rice’s family to settle its wrongful-death lawsuit—and the head of Cleveland’s police union used the occasion to lecture the family about how to use the money.
- Ted Cruz and John Kasich have struck a mini-deal in which Kasich will stop campaigning in Indiana and Cruz will stop campaigning in Oregon and New Mexico. Slate campaign blogger Josh Voorhees believes this quasi-alliance will be only quasi-effective. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- Alabama and Mississippi officially celebrated Confederate Memorial Day.
- Another progressive writer, this one an LGBTQ activist, was brutally killed in Bangladesh.
- A three-judge appeals court panel reinstated the NFL’s suspension of Tom Brady for allegedly conspiring to doctor footballs in a playoff game two seasons ago.
- Stephen Curry’s injured knee will likely keep him out of the playoffs for two weeks.
- And a Nashville neighborhood association told a man to take a zombie statue out of his yard, informing him in writing that “there is a zombie in your yard that needs to be removed.”
Have a good night out there!
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