10 things you need to know today: May 1, 2016

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1. Obama burns Trump at last Correspondents' Dinner
2. Ted Cruz picks up delegates at weekend conventions
3. Poll: Trump holds double-digit lead in Indiana
4. Donald Trump calls California protesters 'thugs and criminals'
5. Former California governor endorses Ted Cruz
6. Protesters storm Iraq parliament building
7. Turkey car bomb attack kills 2 police officers
8. Kenyan president burns more than 100 tons of ivory
9. Daniel Berrigan, anti-war priest, dies at 94
10. Spurs trounce Thunder 124-92 in Game 1

published 1 May 2016

1. Obama burns Trump at last Correspondents' Dinner

President Obama spared no one when he took the stage Saturday at his final White House Correspondents' Dinner. He poked fun at journalists, Democrats, and Republicans alike, saving his harshest jokes for Donald Trump, who didn't attend. "Is this dinner too tacky for The Donald? What could he be possibly doing instead?" Obama said. "Eating a Trump Steak? Tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel?" The president ended his speech with a literal mic drop and the words, "Obama out."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) picked up about 80 delegates of the more than 170 on the table at local and state conventions Saturday. He snagged a majority of delegates in Arizona and Virginia, two states that backed Donald Trump in primaries. Cruz also made gains in Missouri. Trump fared well in Massachusetts, Alaska, and Arkansas. Most delegates are obligated to support the winner of their state's nominating contest on the Republican National Convention's first ballot, but can switch allegiances later on.

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Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential race in Indiana with 49 percent support among likely voters, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll out Sunday. Ted Cruz sits 15 percentage points behind, with 34 percent support, and John Kasich notched just 13 percent. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders, 50 percent to 46 percent, ahead of Tuesday's primaries.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was none too thrilled Saturday with the protesters who blocked his way into California's Republican convention the day before. "The 'protesters' in California were thugs and criminals. Many are professionals," he tweeted. "They should be dealt with strongly by law enforcement!" Trump's campaign has seen protesters at many of his campaign events, some have which turned into violent clashes with supporters.

Hundreds of activists stormed Iraq's parliament building Saturday in support of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who had accused Iraqi politicians of corruption. The demonstrators climbed over blast walls in Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses most of the country's ministries and foreign embassies, after parliament couldn't reach quorum to hold a session. For months, protesters have been demanding Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi take more steps to fight corruption. The capital announced a state of emergency amid the protests Saturday.

A suicide car bomb attack Sunday on a police headquarters in Turkey killed two police officers and injured 23 people. The attack, which occurred in Gaziantep, is reportedly thought by authorities to be linked to an Islamic State militant, but no groups have claimed responsibility. Also on Sunday, Kurdish militants reportedly killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 14 more in an attack in Nusaybin, which is several hundred miles away from Gaziantep.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta burned more than $172 million in illicit wildlife goods Saturday, the nation's fourth such burn. The event, meant to combat poaching, included 105 tons of elephant ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn, and exotic animal skins. "The rising value of elephant ivory trade, illegally on the international market, has resulted in a massacre in the rainforest of Africa," Kenyatta said.

Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest influential in forming U.S. opposition to the Vietnam War, died Saturday at age 94. In 1968, Berrigan and his brother led other activists in seizing hundreds of local draft records in Catonsville, Maryland, and setting them on fire with homemade napalm. Berrigan was imprisoned. His activism and subsequent arrests continued in his later years. "The day after I'm embalmed, that's when I'll give it up," he said in 2001.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.