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FIRST 22 STORIES ARE ADDED STARTERS SINCE 2 P.M. BUDGET

CRUZ-KASICH – BORDEN, Ind. – Ted Cruz and John Kasich debut their alliance against Donald Trump, as both try to produce what anti-Trump Republicans have yearned for since the fall: a one-on-one showdown with the GOP presidential front-runner. Developing, by Sean Sullivan and David Weigel (Post).

CRUZ-KASICH-ANALYSIS – Why the Ted Cruz-John Kasich alliance seems destined to fail. 1,030 words, by Chris Cillizza (Post). One video.

TRUMP – Trump blasts “pathetic” agreement between Cruz and Kasich. 485 words,

by Jose A. DelReal (Post).

CRIME — White House’s Council of Economic Advisers report on ways to reduce crime without mass incarceration. 690 words, by Max Ehrenfreund (Post).

ILLINOIS-COLLEGES – Illinois gives universities $600M in funding, but is it too little too late? 795 words, by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel (Post).

MARIJUANA – Marijuana companies join forces to expand beyond state lines. 1,088 words, (Post special).

CHARLESTON – A friend of the man accused of killing nine parishioners in Charleston, S.C., last year intends to plead guilty to two charges related to the massacre. 365 words, by Mark Berman (Post).

SAUDI-OIL – Saudi Arabia announces plan to end its ‘addiction’ to oil. 900 words, by Adam Taylor (Post). With SAUDI-EXPLAIN (Bloomberg). One photo.

TURKEY – Ankara deploys rocket launchers on its border with Syria. 500 words, by Selcan Hacaoglu and Firat Kozok (Bloomberg).

PHILIPPINES-BEHEAD — Islamist militants behead Canadian man in southern Philippines. 535 words, by Brian Murphy (Post).

CHERNOBYL-SCIENCE – This is how scientists are keeping Chernobyl’s radiation contained. 490 words, by Andrew Roth (Post). This is a sidebar to CHERNOBYL, which moved earlier.

TECH-QUAKE – Analysis: How a bunch of tech geeks helped save Nepal’s earthquake victims. 1,490 words, by Brian Fung (Post). One photo.

CHARTER – Federal regulators allow Charter to move ahead with its massive takeover of Time Warner Cable. 270 words, by Brian Fung (Post). Also moved CHARTER-BG.

SCOTUS-PATENTS — U.S. Supreme Court justices question a new system that has drawn applause from Google and Apple for invalidating hundreds of disputed patents without forcing the challengers to go to court. 600 words, by Greg Stohr (Bloomberg).

CHINA-ECON — Fresh economic data shows from China’s provinces suggests a splintering growth path that complicates the policy outlook. 710 words (Bloomberg). Two photos.

DOLLAR – Analysis: A strong dollar puts the squeeze on U.S. manufacturers. 715 words, by Jacob Bogage (Post special).

CABLE-ANALYSIS – The future of TV is arriving faster than anyone predicted. 900 words, by Larry Downes (Post special).

ZEPPELIN — Judge sees quick, drug-free Led Zeppelin copyright trial. 350 words, by Edvard Pettersson (Bloomberg)

UN-COMMENT – Everyone hates the UN (until they need it). 3,210 words, by Suzanne Nossel (Foreign Policy).

CARLSON — How to be presidential, the Donald Trump way. 775 words, by Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg).

MILITARY-HAZING — Pentagon will be required to track military hazing if this legislation passes. 800 words, by Dan Lamothe (Post).

HASTERT — Alleged Hastert abuse victim sues for additional $1.8 million he claims he’s owed. 600 words, by Matt Zapotosky (Post).

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Politics

DEMS-PA-ANALYSIS – PHILADELPHIA – With GOP in chaos, Democrats struggle with their own deep divisions. 1,380 words, by Paul Kane (Post).

DEMS-CONN – Hillary Clinton is hoping her position on gun control will help her in Connecticut against Bernie Sanders. 1,275 words, by Arit John (Bloomberg). With CLINTON-AD, one video.

KASICH – There are few signs Ohio Gov. John Kasich is making gains ahead of Tuesday Republican primaries. 1,135 words, by Mark Niquette and Romy Varghese (Bloomberg).

TRUMP-FACTCHECK – Donald Trump’s false claim about the Islamic State and Libyan oil. 610 words, by Glenn Kessler (Post).

TRUMP-AIDE-BG – Donald Trump hires another veteran political operative to help fight for delegates. 665 words, by Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg).

National

CLEVELAND-POLICE – The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the relatives of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a police officer in 2014. 505 words, by Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery (Post).

SCOTUS — WASHINGTON — As McDonnell awaits Supreme Court, another governor watches from prison. Developing, by Robert Barnes (Post).

COMMUNITY-COLLEGES – White House launches $100M competition to expand tuition-free community college. 570 words, by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel (Post).

ZIKA-STATES – Zika funding battle steals states’ public health emergency money. 1,035 words, by Lena H. Sun (Post).

IMMIG-DEPORT – WASHINGTON – Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants. 990 words, by Lisa Rein (Post). One photo.

PRISON – WASHINGTON – The attorney general’s new mission: Helping prisoners get IDs when they’re released. 360 words, by Matt Zapotosky (Post).

INTERLOCK – Why is my Lyft driver breathing into an ignition interlock device? Developing, by Faiz Siddiqui (Post).

OHIO – Marijuana-growing operations found at the scene of the Ohio execution slayings. 710 words, by Katie Mettler (Post).

TENN-GIRLFRIEND – Marine infamous for urinating on Taliban corpses helps foil girlfriend’s alleged hit man plot. 1,715 words, by Travis M. Andrews (Post). One photo.

MICHIGAN-SHOOTING – This convicted murderer was released early for good behavior. Months later, he killed again. 770 words, by Peter Holley (Post).

PRESIDENTIAL-LINCOLN – This week’s podcast focuses on Lincoln’s love and gift for language, both the written and the spoken word. 180 words, by Lillian Cunningham (Post). With podcast.

FORFEIT-OKLAHOMA – How Oklahoma police took $53,000 from a Myanmar Christian band, a church in Omaha and an orphanage in Thailand. 2,210 words, by Christopher Ingraham (Post). One photo.

OCEAN-RUNNER — Adventure runner’s Bermuda Triangle”‘bubble’ voyage ends in Coast Guard rescue . . . again. 700 words, by Lindsey Bever (Post). Two photos.

CURRENCY-WOMEN — Women’s suffrage leaders missing from the redesigned $10 bill. 1,075 words, by Jena McGregor (Post).

KOHN-OBIT – Walter Kohn, onetime refugee who became Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies at 93. 1,055 words, by Martin Weil (Post). One photo.

International

OBAMA-SYRIA (1STLD) – HANOVER, Germany – President Obama outlines plans to expand U.S. Special Operations force in Syria. words, by Greg Jaffe, Missy Ryan and Karen DeYoung (Post). One graphic.

OBAMA-EUROPE – HANOVER, Germany – President Obama urges Europeans to fight forces of xenophobia and division. 1,055 words, by Greg Jaffe (Post).

SANCTIONS-ASSESS — Global powers are boosting their reliance on U.N. economic sanctions, but the measures rarely succeed. 720 words, by Kambiz Foroohar (Bloomberg).

AFGHAN – KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan leader sets aside peace bids and vows harsher fight against Taliban. 610 words, by Tim Craig and Sayed Salahuddin (Post).

CHERNOBYL – KIEV, Ukraine – Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the containment effort is nearly completed. 1,010 words, by Andrew Roth (Post). One photo.

EGYPT-BG (1STLD) – Security personnel firing tear gas arrest at least 10 protesting the handover of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. 775 words, by Tarek El-Tablawy and Ahmed Feteha (Bloomberg).

AUSTRIA (1STLD) – Support for a nationalist party in weekend elections rocks Austrian politics. 740 words, by Boris Groendahl (Bloomberg).

SWEDEN – Missteps by Sweden’s Green Party are adding to the woes of Prime Minister Stefan Loefven. 645 words, by Amanda Billner (Bloomberg).

CAUCASUS — War can break out “at any moment” in the Caucasus flashpoint of Nagorno-Karabakh, the president of Armenia says. 930 words, by Sara Khojoyan and Tony Halpin (Bloomberg).

SPAIN-FAQ – Frequently asked questions about the political deadlock in Spain. 1,190 words, by Deborah Hyde (Bloomberg). Three photos.

SAUDI – Preparing for life after oil, Saudi Arabia is embarking on an overhaul of military spending. 540 words, by Glen Carey and Zainab Fattah (Bloomberg). One photo.

NIGERIA — The Nigerian government is planning to plant tracking devices on trucks to combat a fuel shortage. 360 words, by Yinka Ibukun and Chris Kay (Bloomberg).

SERBIA – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s Progressive Party wins a majority in parliament in snap elections. 800 words, by Gordana Filipovic and Misha Savic (Bloomberg). One photo.

PHILIPPINES – After ‘disgusting’ gang rape joke, Philippine presidential contender Duterte widens lead. 655 words, by Travis M. Andrews (Post). Also moved: PHILIPPINES-BG.

JAPAN-ABE – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party wins a closely fought by-election on the northern island of Hokkaido. 410 words, by Isabel Reynolds and Takashi Hirokawa (Bloomberg).

AUSTRALIA-RIVER – Australian politician blames fracking after he sets river ablaze with a lighter. 725 words, by Ben Guarino (Post).

Financial

GOOGLE-FIBER – Comcast and AT&T are beating Google to the punch on installing super-fast broadband. 900 words, by Olga Kharif (Bloomberg).

GANNETT — Gannett proposes to buy Tribune Publishing for $815 million. Developing, by Renae Merle (Post).

BONUSES – Bankers trying to determine if their paychecks would be subject to a new set of U.S. rules may find that the issue is more about how they’re paid — rather than how much. 745 words, by Anders Melin and Caleb Melby (Bloomberg).

JAPAN-BOJ – Japan Inc.’s executives are increasingly working for a shareholder unlike any other: the nation’s money-printing central bank. 1,015 words, by Yuji Nakamura, Anna Kitanaka and Nao Sano (Bloomberg). One photo.

KKR – The buyout firm reports a loss for the first quarter after its biggest investment loses a fifth of its value. 665 words, by Devin Banerjee (Bloomberg).

DEUTSCHEBANK – Deutsche Bank co-Chief Executive Officer Juergen Fitschen and four former bank officials are acquitted of charges that they lied to judges. 455 words, by Karin Matussek (Bloomberg).

HOUSING — Purchases of new homes unexpectedly declines in March for a third month. 660 words, by Shobhana Chandra (Bloomberg). One photo.

FED – Fed Chair Janet Yellen may have some room to raise rates this summer thanks to the European Central Bank’s decision to stand pat. 755 words, by Jana Randow (Bloomberg). One photo.

VALUATIONS — Companies that peddle soap, diapers and ready-to-eat food a somewhat less glamorous group are quietly reaching record valuations. 750 words, by Dani Burger (Bloomberg).

GE – GE’s latest tool in its effort to rebrand: hot sauce. 540 words, by Richard Clough (Bloomberg).

XEROX — Xerox plunges the most in more than a year after the company reported first-quarter earnings that missed analysts’ estimates and lowered some full-year forecasts. 425 words, by Aleksandra Gjorgievska and Jing Cao (Bloomberg).

REDROCK — The Fertitta brothersare set to take home the jackpot in In Red Rock Resorts’ upcoming initial public offering. 1,050 words, by Christopher Palmeri and Alex Barinka (Bloomberg).

SMART-BETA _ The smart-Beta war rages on as Cliff Asness slams Pimco star’s paper; trying to time the market is a dumb idea, according to Asness, co-founder of AQR Capital Management. 1,215 words, by Tom Redmond (Bloomberg).

FED-COMMENT – Most central bankers would agree that their primary goal is to give people and companies confidence that inflation will remain stable; unfortunately, the Fed may be failing at that task. 767 words, by Narayana Kocherlakota (Bloomberg).

EURO-COMMENT – The euro’s next existential crisis might arrive Friday. 885 words, by Mark Gilberg (Bloomberg).

ARGENTINA-COMMENT – The response to Argentina’s triumphant return to the markets could provide the wrong incentive underpinnings for financial relationships that involve an important element of trust. 875 words, by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Bloomberg).

Health, science and environment

SURGERY – Do you need complex surgery? Some doctors may not have much practice. 1960 words, by Sandra G. Boodman (Post special).

SPACE-RUN – Astronaut finishes the London Marathon from space in record-breaking time. 340 words, by Rachel Feltman (Post).

BEHAVIOR – The situational ethics of infants. 885 words, by Ana Swanson (Post).

POTATO-ANCIENT – Study: Fates of societies depended on whether they cultivated grain crops, like wheat and barley and corn, root crops, like potatoes, taro, and manioc. 2,455 words, by Jeff Guo (Post).

ARCTIC – The Arctic is melting – and scientists just lost a key tool to observe it. 1,425 words, by Chelsea Harvey (Post special).

Features

OBAMA-COMEDY – WASHINGTON – As he prepares for his final White House correspondents’ dinner, Obama has shown an edgier comic sensibility than most politicians. 1,345 words, by Emily Heil (Post). One video. With OBAMA-COMEDY-LINES.

Commentary

VP-COMMENT – Trump and Clinton should forget the conventional wisdom in picking running mates. 1,000 words, by Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko (Post special).

GOP-COMMENT — RNC chair Reince Priebus ignores the GOP’s existential choice. 550 words, by Jennifer Rubin(Post).

SANDERS-POLICY-COMMENT – Bernie Sanders doesn’t get policy. 625 words, by Stephen Stromberg (Post).

DEMOCRACY-COMMENT – Why is America so bad at promoting democracy in other countries? 1,380 words, by Stephen M. Walt (Foreign Policy).

COAL-COMMENT – Donald Trump’s triumph in Buchanan County, Virginia is indicative of an existential crisis in coal country. 1,890 words, by Francis Wilkinson (Bloomberg).

NKOREA-COMMENT – The real danger with North Korea’s nuclear weapons is not an attack, it’s a sale of arsenals to other rogue actors. 1,380 words, by John Hannah (Foreign Policy).

RACE-GIRLS – Q&A with Monique W. Morris, author of “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.” 2,800 words, by Alex Laughlin (Post). One photo.

MUSLIMS-COMMENT – Recent research indicates it’s much more likely that the reasons for the Islamic State’s recruitment success are cultural, rather than economic. 1,025 words, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg).

NAMES-COMMENT – Offensive names will get their day in court; the Washington Redskins are headed for the Supreme Court – in the guise of a dance rock band called The Slants. 845 words, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg).

CRIME-COMMENT – A better approach to fighting crime involves not only expanding education and employment opportunities but also increasing the odds that a criminal will be captured. 670 words, Peter R. Orszag (Bloomberg).

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