History regularly offers up events that turn out to be litmus tests for political courage, wisdom, and judgment. The last one was the Iraq War. The new one is the candidacy of Donald Trump.

Alabama governor Robert Bentley is widely suspected of having carried on an affair with a woman named Rebekah Caldwell Mason, who currently serves as one of his most senior advisors. Although the rumors of infidelity are public enough that several fellow state Republicans asked the attorney general to investigate, Bentley, who divorced his wife last year, has always denied he was unfaithful.

Belgium’s top prosecutor says at least one of the suspects involved in the Brussels bombing is still on the loose as authorities work to identify all the men involved in the plot that left at least 34 dead and hundreds more injured Tuesday.

In California, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 has qualified for the ballot. Californians can use the money to pay USC’s $51,000 annual tuition.

Erstwhile presidential candidate and public sad man Jeb Bush endorsed Ted Cruz in a statement posted to Facebook page this morning.

Donald Trump, who once claimed to have ended his partnership with Macy’s over the fact that his “shirts and ties were made in China,” is in for a rude awakening as far as his daughter’s own fashion line is concerned. Exclusive photos shared with Gawker confirm that Ivanka Trump, the smokin’ hot apple of her father’s eye, is in fact part of the problem.

Earlier this afternoon, a man in Seattle decided to climb up a tree, throw apples at the surrounding medics, and otherwise refuse any attempt at aid. Twelve hours later, he is showing no signs of letting up. In fact, it looks like our Man in Tree has even begun to build himself a home.

Ted Cruz won the Republican caucus in Utah on Tuesday, the New York Times reports, capturing all 40 delegates. Mitt Romney recorded a get-out-the-vote call for Cruz on Monday, and an anti-Trump PAC encouraging Mormons to vote for the Texas senator promoted a nude photo of Melania Trump on Instagram.

According to the Associated Press, Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Utah and Idaho.

Turnout in Arizona on Tuesday was high, the New York Times reports, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, respectively. For the Republicans, Arizona is a winner-take-all state, awarding Trump 58 delegates.

Following the deadly terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, Ted Cruz declared, “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.” The NYPD’s director of communications responded to this horrifying proposal with a snappy tweet.

On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump threatened Senator Ted Cruz, via Twitter, over a social media advertising campaign funded by the anti-Trump political action committee Make America Awesome. The campaign included a nude photograph of Melania Trump, originally shot for British GQ in 2000.

On Tuesday, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics announced that it had chosen Seth Agata, a former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, as its new director. Agata is the third consecutive JCOPE director with close ties to the governor whose government it is supposed to hold accountable.

The indictment against the last defendant charged in the armed occupation earlier this year of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was unsealed yesterday. As of Tuesday afternoon, Jake Ryan, of Plains, Montana, was one of two defendants (out of 26) still at large—the other is Travis Cox.

It’s been a long day (terror, politics, grief, my chicken sandwich had a piece of chicken bone in it) and this gentleman from Seattle agrees, which is why he’s gone berserk and up a tree, and man, he just won’t come down.

First, it was offensively inauthentic sushi at the Oberlin dining halls. Now, a new—and somehow worse—wickedness torments America’s students: Someone drew the word “Trump” on the ground at a college.

In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, housing is expensive and in short supply. All throughout the Bay Area, cities are discussing where the hell all their schoolteachers are supposed to live.

The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. It’s a huge pay-day for an indiscretion that would have been quickly forgotten, one among many in the professional wrestler’s personal life.

Thanks to a bill signed by Governor Scott Walker last week, Wisconsin will soon have a fully modernized voter registration system, which will allow any resident with a government ID and an internet connection to register without leaving their home. Perhaps not accidentally, the bill will also make it more difficult for poor people to register.

What’s worse than getting your leg peed on and being told it’s raining? Getting your leg peed on and being told that it’s Palin. At least, that’s how it feels after reading PEOPLE’s report that the hip-hop rappin’ former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (pictured above with another human whose politics are as garbage as his TV) has her eyes set on becoming a TV judge. Says PEOPLE: