May 4, 2016

• Trump locks in the GOP nomination, Cruz quits the race, Bernie wins Indiana to little avail.
• GOP faithful switch to supporting Hillary.
• Trump supporters attack GQ writer, who wrote a profile of Trump's wife she didn't like, with lurid antisemitism.
• Tennessee governor signs law allowing university faculty to carry loaded guns on campus.
• Charts show where you're permitted to carry a loaded weapon at every public university in Texas.
• Fights on planes break out 400% more often on planes with first-class sections.
• Europe tentatively approves visa-free travel for Turks.
• Drones outfitted in LEDs perform with traditional Japanese musicians at Mt. Fuji.
• Afghan boy's family forced to flee the Taliban after he receives autographed Lionel Messi jersey—and many threats.
• The number of unregistered, stateless children in Middle Eastern refugee camps is likely in the hundreds of thousands.
• Not to be overlooked, Al-Qaeda affiliate Jhabat al-Nusra is building its own caliphate in Syria.
• Britney Spears, ever successful, lives inside a "conservatorship," to prevent her from making any key decisions.
• Primer on Puerto Rico's financial crisis.
• Brazilian judge orders yet another shutdown of WhatsApp, used by 100 million Brazilians.
• New website lets scientists annotate mainstream news articles about climate change.
• The Amateur Cloud Society was an internet delight—until it actually discovered new clouds.
• Sales of ping-pong tables rise and fall with tech startups' success, and may predict the next bubble's collapse.
• Two trends converge on the word “bullying”: Its expanding definition, and the contracting qualifications for being an asshole online.
• See also: Man sues Starbucks for adding too much ice to cold coffee drinks.
• Ninety-nine items found in Prince's secret vault.