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Donald Trump All but Clinches Nomination With Indiana Win; Cruz Quits

By JONATHAN MARTIN and PATRICK HEALY

Mr. Trump's commanding victory over Senator Ted Cruz clears his path to reach the required number of delegates on the last day of primary voting on June 7.

Syrian security forces evacuated medical workers on Tuesday after rockets reportedly fired by rebels hit a hospital in a government-controlled area of Aleppo.
U.N. Security Council Condemns Attacks on Health Workers in War Zones

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

A new resolution raises an awkward question: Can the most powerful countries enforce the rules of war when they and their allies are accused of flouting them?

Harvesting raw opium at a poppy field in the Zhari district of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in April.
Bountiful Afghan Opium Harvest Yields Profits for the Taliban

By TAIMOOR SHAH and MUJIB MASHAL

The crowded poppy fields in Helmand Province, overflowing with both opium bulbs and laborers, amounted to an insurgent recruiter's dream.

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A group of mares and foals in one of the paddocks at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., home of the Triple Crown-winning racehorse American Pharoah.

SPORTS

American Pharoah Is Already a Champion at the Stud Life, Too

By JOE DRAPE

The Triple-Crown-winning stallion American Pharoah has adapted to his new career in the breeding shed with the same efficiency, élan and joie de vivre that he demonstrated while winning nine of his 11 starts.

OPINION | Op-Ed Columnist

Ted Cruz's Bitter End

By FRANK BRUNI

Sour, smug and nakedly ambitious, the Texas senator was never built to go the distance.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"You can wait four or five subways to get on, and you're just smushed."

CYNTHIA HALLENBECK, a commuter on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue line, the most crowded in the New York subway system, before boarding a train on a recent morning.

World
King Felipe VI of Spain, left, signed a decree to dissolve Parliament and call new elections after a meeting with Patxi López, the president of the lower house of the assembly, in Madrid on Tuesday.
King Felipe of Spain Dissolves Parliament, Clearing Way for New Elections

By RAPHAEL MINDER

The step followed months of political paralysis and discord over who should form a government after inconclusive voting in December.

A man waiting for work on a sidewalk in Shenyang last week. Unemployed workers advertise their skills on signs hanging on their scooters.

Shenyang Journal

In China's Northeast, a Daily Jostle for Jobs Produces Mostly Despair

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and OWEN GUO

The wait at a labor market in Shenyang, a large city in northeastern China, drives workers to beg, worry about families, resort to dark humor and ignore billboards urging entrepreneurship.

A wildfire on Tuesday forced the evacuation of the city of Fort McMurray in the heart of Alberta's oil sands region.
Wildfire Empties Fort McMurray in Alberta's Oil Sands Region

By IAN AUSTEN

The entire community of Fort McMurray was ordered to evacuate on Tuesday night as a fast-spreading wildfire cut off its only highway link to the south.

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On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on antiwar protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

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