Today’s biggest stories:
- A weasel caused the Large Hadron Collider to malfunction. That’s not a metaphor or something: The machine broke because of an actual weasel.
- NBC confused Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland with accused serial killer Robert Durst.
- A man who had appeared on Fox News at least 76 times as a CIA veteran and national security expert pleaded guilty to a number of fraud charges; the government says he was never in the CIA at all.
- There’s a massive anti-Semitism scandal happening in the U.K. that involves a violation of the basic political rule “don’t claim that Hitler was actually a Zionist.”
- A New York Times reporter says the Pentagon’s report about last October’s airstrike on an Afghani hospital is wrong about the critical detail of whether the hospital was clearly marked as a refuge for noncombatants.
- A number of prominent Republicans have decided or appear to have decided that, like death, Trump’s nomination is inevitable. Among them: Marco Rubio and Indiana governor Mike Pence (who endorsed Ted Cruz but only after covering his bases by talking about how great Trump is). Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.
- And a spokesman for the Satanic Temple objected to John Boehner’s characterization of Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh.”
