* North Korea launches ballistic missiles test, following Obama's new round of sanctions. * Latest Chinese social-media skinny craze finds women trying to hide waists behind single sheets of paper. * The Chinese nickname for Facebook—“must die” or “doomed”—makes sense when Zuckerberg jogs in smog. * Related: Chinese citizens
* America’s first climate refugees, a Native American tribe in Louisiana, receives $48 million to relocate. * The story of Oyotunji, a West African village in South Carolina. * Kurdish-controlled area in Syria to declare autonomy. * Putin: If need be, Russia can re-up its armed forces in Syria to previous
* Myanmar elects Aung San Suu Kyi’s chosen president, ending decades of military control. * Profile of two Chinese sisters who, after years in Boston’s Chinatown, are awash in gentrification struggles. * Clinton and Trump win big in Tuesday's primaries, see path to nomination. * All of the Republican campaigns
* Putin pulls Russia out of Syria, either because Assad’s rule is secure again, or he no longer cares. * War in Syria has made refugees of some 2.4 million children. * Four Egyptian children charged with blasphemy for mocking ISIS. * Summary of issues at stake for Democrats today in Florida,
* Death toll from Turkey's car bombing in Ankara rises to 37; officials blame the PKK. * Obama’s SCOTUS shortlist reportedly shrinks to three nominees. * Less than nine months after Charleston, the move to remove Confederate symbols slows or stops. * White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy
* Merkel’s refugee policies to be tested this weekend in Germany's regional elections. * Carson endorses Trump, calling him a "leader with an outsider's perspective." * White Trump supporter who punched a black protester in North Carolina: "Next time, we might have to kill him.
* Top State Department drugs official encourages other countries to decriminalize narcotics. * Some nine million Americans have private wells with dangerously high levels of lead, according to Virginia Tech projections. * Bus of journalists attacked, set on fire, during a press tour organized by the Committee Against Torture. * The unethical practice of
* Slovenia and Croatia shut their borders to migrants to shut off migrants' "Balkan route." * Populism wins at the polls, with big victories by Trump, surprising win by Sanders. * Shocked by the Sanders coup in Michigan, pollsters reexamine numbers for other Midwestern states with open primaries. * Trump'
* Voters go to the polls in four states, with Michigan the biggest prize for both parties. * Clinton voters like Obama more than Sanders supporters do, and other divisions. * Related: Clinton shilled for worldwide fracking as Secretary of State on behalf of industry interests. * If the GOP does split, it may
* Afghanistan, America’s longest war, is being almost entirely ignored during this election cycle. * Takeaways from the Democrats' debate: Sanders got personal; Clinton scored on guns. * Sixty-eight percent of Sanders supporters don’t watch cable news. * Potential upside of Trump’s destroying the political norm: the end of
