Today’s biggest stories:
- The former CEO of Politico appears to have lost his dang mind, in a borderline-authoritarian way, about the possibilities of a third-party candidacy.
- A British inquiry into an infamous, deadly 1989 soccer-stadium disaster ended with a landmark declaration exonerating the victims.
- Johnny Manziel was indicted for allegedly assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
- Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is not ready to talk in the past tense about his campaign to become mayor of Baltimore.
- Ted Cruz and John Kasich have revealed their Indiana-New Mexico-Oregon agreement to be basically meaningless.
- The Bernie Sanders campaign made its first public admission that it knows it probably can’t win the Democratic nomination.
- A federal judge upheld the legality of North Carolina’s restrictive voting laws.
- A number of current and former soldiers say that Trump’s promises about waterboarding and other unlawful national security tactics would quickly create a crisis if he actually became commander-in-chief.
- Leaks from the Trump campaign indicate that the candidate wants to have it both ways on the “dignity” question, i.e. he wants some people to think he’s starting to act more presidential while still being able to fire off random obnoxious insults. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
Have a good night out there.
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