Sophisticated soda connoisseurs drink Diet Mtn Dew. Average people drink Diet Coke. Then there are the loners, misfits, and weirdos, who drink Diet Pepsi. They’re always hollering about some obscure grievance.

On Wednesday, shortly after Norman Seabrook, president of New York City’s jail officers’ union, was arrested on corruption charges, Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a speech promising new regulations on independent expenditure committees (a.k.a. super PACs). This is the fourth time in five years that the governor has proposed such regulations, Politico reports, which—even in the unlikely event of them passing—would not actually do very much to ameliorate corruption in New York.

Hillary Clinton has finally commented on the FBI probe into her private email servers.

A Bloomberg report released Wednesday offered surprising new details about Donald Trump’s search for Vice President, including his consideration of “at least one” former rival who hasn’t endorsed him and concerns within the campaign that Trump will suddenly announce his pick online.

Anti-immigration activist Chris Simcox, who co-founded border patrol militia Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (not to be confused with the Minutemen Project) in 2005, was convicted of two counts of child molestation in Arizona on Wednesday, Slate reports.

While Donald Trump has stopped explaining his racially-based attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, his supporters have soldiered on. That includes vaping congressman Duncan Hunter, who creatively defended Trump’s remarks on Wednesday by imagining a trial featuring deceased American Sniper Chris Kyle.

The Washington Post—alongside the New York Times, the New York Daily News, USA Today, Hearst magazines, and a bunch of other media companies—still drug-tests its employees for substances including marijuana. Soon, the paper may take its own writers’ advice and stop doing that.

This is the big story that all the little stories come from:

Two shooters opened fire at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing four people and injuring at least three others, reports the Times of Israel. According to authorities, both shooters were captured alive, with one undergoing surgery at a local hospital after being shot by a security guard.

With the L train shutdown looming, some legislators are putting forward a radical proposal to make life easier for crosstown commuters: re-think 14th Street as a corridor for buses, bicycles, and pedestrians, with one large section that would be blocked to cars entirely.

Before you go into great debt to send your kid to college, you should hear from the low-paid, ill-treated workers who will actually be educating them: adjunct professors. They are sharing their stories with us. Their view is much different from the one you’ll find in the college brochure.

Norman Seabrook, the head of the influential Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association union, was arrested at his home this morning as part of the federal corruption investigation into the New York City government. According to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Seabrook’s crimes included taking five-figure kickback payments inside designer handbags.

Many financial types are very confident that China will have a financial meltdown in the near(?) future. The fear is so widespread that you can make a lot of money if China’s stock market doesn’t go to hell.

On Wednesday, the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office ruled that the mysterious car accident that killed fracking magnate Aubrey McClendon—just one day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for bid rigging—was an accident.

A recent survey of investors in hedge funds found that 94% of them expected their hedge funds to return at least 9% profits last year. The actual returns of hedge funds last year: -2%.

San Francisco’s Crissy Field is a treeless stretch of grass nestled in the armpit of the Golden Gate Bridge. The setting is picturesque, but the location—foggy, windswept, inaccessible—sucks. This did not stop Senator Bernie Sanders from summoning his supporters there on Monday, for what would turn out to be the last night, indeed, the last few minutes, during which the Vermont senator still had a shred of an excuse to remain hopeful about his prospects.

The Associated Press called the California and New Mexico Democratic primaries for Hillary Clinton early this morning, adding the states to the candidate’s slate of victories this week. The news follows Clinton’s win in New Jersey, and further secures her claim to the presidential nomination.

Barring an act of god or the FBI, Bernie Sanders is not going to win the Democratic nomination. He does, however, now have a window to make some demands in exchange for his support. What should he get?

A rude monkey just wrested control of a country without even really trying, sending it plunging into darkness. Meanwhile, in Kenya, a small animal fell into a power grid, causing a nationwide blackout.