Here's a roundup of news trending across the nation and world today.
What to know now:
1. Indiana primary: Will the vote in Indiana end the Republican primary season? It could, if New York businessman Donald Trump pulls out a victory in the state. Or at least it could make if very hard to keep Trump from getting the 1,237 delegates he needs to claim the nomination. It is likely that a win in the Democratic and Republican primaries there will cement the nomination for GOP front-runner Trump and Democratic leader Hillary Clinton. Both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), are holding out hope of a Hoosier State victory and the chance to fight through to their respective conventions this summer. Polls close at 6 p.m. ET in part of the state and 7 p.m. ET in the other part which is in the Central Time Zone.
2. Not offended: The White House says the president was not offended when comedian Larry Wilmore used a racial slur while entertaining at the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday. The crowd gasped when Wilmore, commenting on progress in race relations in the country said, "Yo Barry, you did it my n----. You did it." According to Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, Obama appreciated what Wilmore was trying to say.
3. What would Bill do: Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would put her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to work coming up with ideas for jobs in communities where unemployment has jumped because of manufacturing losses should she win the presidency in November. "I told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know he's got more ideas a minute than anybody I know." Bill Clinton was booed while campaigning in Logan W.V., Sunday by some there who are angry about Hillary Clinton's stand on the coal industry. Clinton had her own troubles in West Virginia Monday when she encountered an audience chanting "Killary" over her statement that she would "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
4. Jerry Sandusky: Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is seeking an appeal to his conviction on child sex abuse crimes. Maintaining his innocence, Sandusky appeared in a Pennsylvania courtroom Monday to ask for a new trial. Sandusky was sentenced in 2012 to 30 to 60 years in prison for the sexual abuse of 10 boys.
5. Watch that step: Carly Fiorina fell off a stage in Lafayette, Indiana, Monday after introducing Ted Cruz and his family. Fiorina, who was named as Cruz's running mate last week, appeared unhurt after the fall. Donald Trump, after seeing the footage, chastised Cruz for not helping her up, saying "even I would've helped her!" "She fell off-she just went down. She went down a long way, right? And she went down right in front of him, and he was talking, he kept talking. He didn't even look…that was a weird deal," Trump told a crowd he was speaking to in Indiana.
And one more
Virginia police officers who repeatedly tased a man who later died will not be charged in the man's death, according to prosecutors. Linwood Lambert died three years ago this week while in police custody. According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, prosecutors looked into whether officers intended to kill Lambert and whether the tasings were the cause of his death.
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