* David Cameron to return as Prime Minister; Conservatives take UK election after months of favorable polling for Labour. * Twenty-year-old student, youngest MP in centuries, rides wave of support for Scottish National Party. * GOP field to remain big and crazy for a while. * Because of Republicans' troubles with
* Cameron's Conservatives likely to win the most seats in today's UK election, but may not form the next government. * Senate Republicans expect to best more conservative Republicans in passing Iran bill without controversial amendment. * Tornadoes in Oklahoma City wreak havoc, cause severe flooding, release bears. * Carroll
* Baltimore residents notice strange planes that turn out to be providing surveillance support from FBI to police. * Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau: Great satire doesn't demean disenfranchised minorities, it attacks the powerful. * Iranian-Americans confounded by census race questions that code them as white despite generations of exclusion.
* Vengeful Jalisco cartel shoots down a Mexican military helicopter, accedes to power vacuum created by feds targeting top cartels. * "The swiftness with which the movement now acts has turned every police killing into a national referendum on the value of black lives." * Some US police departments look to
* Last night at an anti-Muslim event near Dallas, two gunmen were killed after shooting a security guard. * Elite patronage drives art-world delusion: "That by looking at political art we are somehow engaged in a deeply political act." * Texas's new governor capitulates to conspiracy theorists,
* Second man in police van with Freddie Gray disputes allegations that he was trying to injure himself. * Bipartisan bills in the House and Senate would reform the Patriot Act, prohibiting bulk collection. * Gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor is widening, and social services aren't
* American Psychological Association accused of secretly partnering with the Bush White House to help justify torture post-9/11. * Hillary Clinton gives first big policy speech—on police and prison reform. * Multiple eyewitnesses claim Baltimore's Monday riots began when cops wouldn't allow after-school crowd of
* History weighs heavily on justices in the Supreme Court's first day of oral arguments on same-sex marriage. * Pilot Viruet, "Black Exhaustion." * While the city protested, Baltimore County celebrated its annual Hunt Cup with underage drinking, pastels, and no second thoughts. * Police unions may be the
* In wake of protests, Baltimore governor declares state of emergency, deploys National Guard. * When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. * Orioles' COO: "An American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from
* Death toll in Nepal earthquake rises above 3,000. * Piecing together the first 45 minutes of Freddie Gray's police encounter. * In the past four years, more than 100 people have won judgements or settlements related to Baltimore police brutality. * US preparing to issue hacking-related sanctions against foreign
