The Drudge Report has become the “attack site” for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz said Monday. “Drudge Report over the years has done a good job highlighting the excesses of the left and excesses of liberalism, and about the past month the Drudge Report has basically become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign,” Cruz said during a telephonic appearance on the San Diego-based Mike Slater Show. “And so every day they have the latest Trump attack. They’re directed at me. By all appearances, Roger Stone now decides what’s on Drudge. And most days, they have six-month-old article that is some attack on me and it’s whatever the Trump campaign is pushing that day will be the banner headline on Drudge.” Cruz also complained that when he wins a state, Drudge Report does not put up a red siren. “There was no red siren on Drudge when we won all 34 delegates in Colorado,” Cruz said.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ted-cruz-the-drudge-report-has-become-the-attack-site-for-th#.fbErRe7ZJE

Radioactive boars are running wild and breeding uncontrollably in the northern region of Japan contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The animals have been devastating local agriculture and eating toxic, nuclear-contaminated food from around the accident site. Mass graves and incinerators have been unable to cope with the quantity of boar corpses, shot by local hunters … The damage to local farms beyond the quarantine zone caused by the boars has correspondingly increased.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/radioactive-wild-boars-rampaging-fukushima-nuclear-site-japan-a6972361.html

The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of 2016,” the agency said in a letter to senators. The DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from eight Democratic senators urging the federal government to facilitate research into marijuana’s medical benefits, doesn’t indicate whether it will reclassify marijuana as less dangerous. The letter, signed by Acting DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, explains in great detail the marijuana supply available at the University of Mississippi, the federal government’s only sanctioned marijuana garden.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dea-marijuana-reschedule_us_5704567de4b0537661881644

Corey Lewandowski, the embattled manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was mostly unknown to national political observers before the 2016 elections. But he is infamous to former co-workers at Americans for Prosperity, some of whom describe him as verbally abusive, unprofessional, and occasionally misogynistic. And at least one Republican operative who has interacted with him in his current role said much of the same.

While his own dealings with Lewandowski were unpleasant, [AfP field director Pat] Maloney said he felt Lewandowski reserved his worst behavior for female employees. “There was definitely a misogynistic streak to this guy,” he said. …

Lisa Bast, another Ohio regional field director at the time, said Lewandowski once threatened to “come really down hard” on her if she didn’t get 50 people to attend an AFP event in Akron. After she missed a 7 a.m. conference call to prepare for the event, her phone rang.

“Corey gets on the phone and defames my character. He called me incompetent, called me a loser,” Bast said. “He called me a f—— b—-, yelling, ‘I am going to fire your f—– ass!'”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/08/corey-lewandowski-called-coworker-f-cking-b-tch-yelled-at-subordinate-for-visiting-dying-grandma.html

A Wisconsin court has struck down the state’s right-to-work law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, calling it unconstitutional. A Dane County Circuit Court judge issued the ruling Friday in a lawsuit filed by local unions. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel promised to appeal the order, saying: “We are confident the law will be upheld on appeal.” The unions argued that Wisconsin’s law was an unconstitutional seizure of union property since unions now must extend benefits to workers who don’t pay dues. Walker launched his run for president just months after signing the law, and frequently mentioned it while campaigning. He dropped out of the race in September, four months before the first state voted.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scott-walker-right-to-work-law-unconstitutional

An 18-year-old University of Texas freshman was killed as she walked home from class on Sunday night, the first murder on the grounds of the campus since the Charles Whitman shooting spree in 1966. Haruka Weiser left the drama building at 9:30 p.m., calling a friend to say she was on her way. She never showed up and her body was found in a creek Tuesday. Surveillance video helped lead police to Meechaiel Criner, 17, who has been charged with first-degree murder. Police had made contact with Criner on Monday, when they took him to a youth homeless shelter after he was found at the scene of a trash fire near campus.

In addition to dance, Weiser was declaring a major in premed.

Her family issued a statement that stated, “”Although Haruka loved to perform on stage she never sought the spotlight in her daily life. Perhaps the last thing she would want is to be the poster child for any cause. And yet, as we struggle to understand why she was killed, if her death can somehow make it safer for a young woman to walk home, if it will prevent another assault or murder, then at least we could find some meaning behind an otherwise senseless and tragic death.”

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/us/university-of-texas-homicide-investigation/index.html

A tech sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base was being escorted to a disciplinary proceeding by a senior non-commissioned officer Friday morning when the tech sergeant opened fire in the commander’s office, killing the commander, a source told the San Antonio Express-News. The tech sergeant then killed himself. The senior NCO, a first sergeant, was uninjured. The victim is a squadron commander, the paper reported.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Bexar-County-Sheriff-s-deputies-responding-to-7236358.php

Ford has confirmed plans for a new assembly plant in Mexico, likely fueling more criticism of the company in the current presidential election. “We’re going to be in vesting in a new plant in Mexico’s San Luis Potosi state to produce more small cars for North America,” said Ford President of the America’s Joe Hinrichs. “It’s a $1.6 billion U.S. investment that will create 2,800 additional direct jobs by 2020.”

But the UAW wasn’t ready to be reassured, calling the announcement a disappointment and “very troubling.”

“For every investment in Mexico it means jobs that could have and should have been available right here in the USA,” said UAW President Dennis Williams in a statement. “This is another example of what’s wrong with NAFTA and why the TPP would be a disaster for the citizens of the United States. Companies continue to run to low-wage countries and import back into the United States. This is a broken system that needs to be fixed.”

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/04/05/ford-confirms-new-1-6b-plant-in-mexico/

Donald Trump has a more than two-to-one lead over his closest rival, John Kasich, in the Republican presidential front-runner’s home state of New York, a new poll finds.

A Monmouth University survey released Wednesday shows Trump taking 52 percent support, followed by Kasich at 25 percent.

Ted Cruz has 17 percent.

The April 19 primary in New York will go a long way toward determining whether Trump can reach the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the GOP nomination outright and avoid a contested convention.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/275350-trump-tops-50-percent-in-new-york-cruz-in-third-place