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• Unconventional #3: The return of the dark-horse nominee, why Trump is ‘out of his mind’ (and more!)
• Ecuador counts over 400 quake deaths, damage in the billions
• A party primary ‘is not a public decision,’ rules expert says
• Bernie Sanders blasts critics who call his ideas unrealistic: ‘Nothing is radical’
• Top Trump aide lobbied for Pakistani spy front
• Tax time: More than 5M returns expected by midnight deadline
• Johnny Depp's wife cops good behavior bond as Australia ends 'war on terrier'

Unconventional #3: The return of the dark-horse nominee, why Trump is ‘out of his mind’ (and more!) Posted: 18 Apr 2016 09:00 AM PDT A primer on the history of convention dark horses, an expert colorfully counters Trump's claim that the delegate system is "rigged," RNC goes to Hollywood, more.

Ecuador counts over 400 quake deaths, damage in the billions Posted: 18 Apr 2016 04:24 PM PDT The death toll is likely to rise further, and the country faces a long, difficult recovery.

A party primary ‘is not a public decision,’ rules expert says Posted: 18 Apr 2016 08:45 AM PDT Members of the Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee, from left, Donna Brazile, Elaine Kamarck and Alice Germond vote on what to do with Florida delegates during their meeting in Washington in 2008. Elaine Kamarck got her start in Democratic politics in the 1970s, at a time when political parties had just recently begun to open up the presidential nominating process. The modern primary system did not really even exist until that decade, after a set of party reforms following the 1968 election took control of the nominating process out of the hands of party insiders and allowed voters a greater say.

Bernie Sanders blasts critics who call his ideas unrealistic: ‘Nothing is radical’ Posted: 18 Apr 2016 09:06 AM PDT On CNN's "New Day" Monday, one day before New York's primary, Sanders pointed out that he called for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour from $7.50 more than five years ago. California, New York, Oregon have done it.

Top Trump aide lobbied for Pakistani spy front Posted: 18 Apr 2016 02:00 AM PDT For more than five years, Donald Trump's new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan's intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News. Manafort's work in the 1990s as a registered lobbyist for the Kashmiri American Council was only one part of a wide-ranging portfolio that, over several decades, included a gallery of controversial foreign clients ranging from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire's brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko to an Angolan rebel leader accused by human rights groups of torture. It was considered so politically toxic in 2008 that presidential candidate John McCain nixed plans for Manafort to manage the Republican National Convention — a move that caused a rupture between Manafort and his then business partner, Rick Davis, who at the time was McCain's campaign manager.

Tax time: More than 5M returns expected by midnight deadline Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:21 AM PDT Millions of taxpayers will meet the deadline while millions of others will ask for more time — a six-month extension.

Johnny Depp's wife cops good behavior bond as Australia ends 'war on terrier' Posted: 17 Apr 2016 11:11 PM PDT An Australian court let off the actress wife of Johnny Depp after she pleaded guilty to falsifying travel documents to sneak two pet dogs into the country.

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