Clinton has another big night and is poised to become first female major party presidential nominee
Hillary
Clinton arrives to speak to supporters during her five-state primary
night rally held in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton is on
the verge of victory in the Democratic presidential primary,winning in
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware on Tuesday night. Clinton already
appeared to be on the path to clinching the race and becoming the first
female major party presidential nominee on April 19, when she earned a
victory in her home state of New York.Read More ...
Trump and Clinton trade barbs after big wins in Northeast
By
Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up wins in
Northeastern states on Tuesday in a major show of strength and
immediately turned their fire on each other in a possible preview of a
general election matchup. Trump easily defeated rivals John Kasich and
Ted Cruz in all five states that held contests, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, with a margin of victory
rivaling that of his home state of New York a week ago. Clinton, already
in control of the Democratic race, defeated challenger Bernie Sanders
in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.Read More ...
Storms bring hail, strong winds, small tornadoes to Plains
Hail as big as grapefruit and wind approaching hurricane strength lash portions of the Great Plains.Read More ...
Prince too weak to walk off plane after emergency landing; bodyguard carried him, records reveal
A week before his unexpected death, Prince was so weak that his bodyguard had to carry him off a private jet when the aircraft made an emergency landing in the middle of the night in western Illinois, according to fire and ambulance records released Tuesday.
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Trump’s campaign chief is questioned about ties to Russian billionaire
Paul
Manafort on “Meet the Press” earlier this month. A lawyer for Paul
Manafort, Donald Trump’s chief campaign aide, acknowledged Tuesday
evening that the longtime GOP operative has been questioned by officials
from the Cayman Islands in connection with a $26.2 million investment
by a billionaire Russian oligarch who was his partner in an ill-fated
telecommunications development in Ukraine. The lawyer’s comments came in
response to an earlier story by Yahoo News about the Cayman officials’
efforts to track down Manafort for his testimony.Read More ...
Pepper spray flies during Trump protest clash in California
ANAHEIM,
Calif. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed Tuesday
outside City Hall, and five people, including two little girls, were
pepper-sprayed by a demonstrator during the heated confrontation, police
said.Read More ...
After leading in Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson finds himself trailing in his bid to become Baltimore mayor
Activist,
DeRay McKesson is running for mayor of Baltimore. BALTIMORE — There was
one moment during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, when DeRay Mckesson
says he feared a casual gesture might cost him life. According to
Mckesson, the incident occurred in the first few days of the
demonstrations that engulfed the city following the August 9, 2014
shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson cop.Read More ...
Trump hits 50 percent in national GOP poll for the first time
While
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump still needs more than 300 delegates
to reach 1,237 — the magic number needed to secure the GOP presidential
nomination — he has finally reached a key milestone in his bid for the
White House: support from half of the country’s likely Republican
voters. According to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey national tracking poll
released Tuesday, 50 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning
independents say they support the real estate mogul’s candidacy,
compared to the 26 percent who support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and the 17
percent who are backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Trump’s double-digit lead
over his GOP rivals is one reason Cruz and Kasich banded together this
week in an effort to block the brash billionaire from winning the GOP
nomination.Read More ...
Hillary Clinton: Half of my Cabinet will be women
Democratic
frontrunner Hillary Clinton says that if she’s elected president, at
least half of her Cabinet will be women. During a town hall hosted by
MSNBC on Monday night, host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton whether she
would match a campaign promise Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
made good on earlier this year. “He promised when he took office that he
would have a Cabinet that was 50 percent women, and then he did it,”
Maddow said.Read More ...
Jury blames police, clears fans in 1989 soccer disaster
WARRINGTON,
England (AP) — The families of 96 Liverpool soccer fans who were
crushed to death at a crowded stadium in 1989 declared they had finally
won justice Tuesday after a jury found that police and emergency
services were to blame for Britain's worst sports disaster.Read More ...
Roger Goodell 'pleased' with Brady appeal decision (of course)
The NFL commissioner made the comments on Bloomberg TV.Read More ...
Cruz-Kasich pact highlights the importance of Indiana
Donald
Trump calls it “pathetic,” but a new deal between Ted Cruz and John
Kasich shows that Indiana could be a make-or-break state for the
#NeverTrump movement.Read More ...
Thirty years on, Ukraine mourns victims of Chernobyl
Ukrainians
held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world's worst
nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left
several thousand people dead or dying. Church bells rang and mourners
laid flowers at Chernobyl's memorial square as the clock turned 1:23 am
-- the moment the plant's reactor number four exploded and changed the
fate of a generation living across the former Soviet Union. At least 30
people were killed on site and several thousand more are feared to have
died from radiation in what Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said
"appears to have been the world's largest man-made catastrophe".Read More ...
Prince's Lawyer: Death a Shock; Singer Led Clean Lifestyle
Prince's
longtime lawyer called the death of the superstar a complete shock and
said Monday that the singer lived a clean and healthy lifestyle,
disputing suggestions that he had a drug addiction.Read More ...
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