Berned Out: Under heavy pressure to quit the presidential race, Bernie Sanders is scheduled to meet today with President Obama, who will lean on Sanders to throw his support to Hillary Clinton and allow the president to endorse her as well. It’s a delicate negotiation as Sanders has vowed he will soldier on. Several senators have publicly called for Sanders to quit. The Democrats have to win over Sanders without losing his millions of loyal followers.

Sanders has already laid off half his campaign staff, but is not expected to make any major announcement until after next Tuesday’s final primary in Washington, DC.

The Democrats may have to make some concessions to Sanders to encourage him to fold his hand. He’ll be looking for ways to carry on his campaign for a $15 minimum wage, changing the laws on campaign finance, and reining in Wall Street.

Nyet Ball: Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has been suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation because she tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug Meldodium, a heart medication that improves blood flow and allows athletes to recover faster. The 29-year-old Sharapova herself announced in March the results of her test. She said she took the drug for medical reasons and didn’t know the World Anti-Doping Agency had banned it in January.

Permawar: The Islamic State is claiming credit today for car bombings that killed 25 people in Iraq, striking hard even as they lose ground.

Iraqi special forces have entered the southern end of Fallujah for the first time in two years as Islamic State forces fight a vicious house-to-house defense. Fallujah is one of the last major pieces of real estate held by ISIS in Iraq and the battle is expected to rage on.

>Israel has suspended special entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians after terrorists shot and killed four people yesterday in Tel Aviv. The gunmen, dressed like orthodox Jews, opened fire on a busy restaurant. Both were captured.

Natural Selection: Rangers at Yellowstone Park have stopped trying to recover the body of a 23-year-old Portland, Ore. man who slipped and fell into an acidic hot pool. The man left the established walkways and went more than 200 yards onto the thin crust around the pools before he slipped and fell in. The pool is about 200 degrees.

Hoop Dreams: The Cleveland Cavaliers embarrassed the Golden State Warriors 120-90 last night at home, interrupting the Warriors’ march to the NBA championship. LeBron James scored 32 points for Cleveland. The Warriors lead the series 2-1.

Monkey Business: A monkey who strayed into a power station in Kenya caused a nationwide power outage Tuesday. The animal of the Vervet species got into the compound and landed on a transformer, causing to trip the power, resulting in a domino effect of tripping transformers. The lights, internet, and computer-dependent businesses all went down. The monkey survived and was handed over to Kenya’s wildlife services.

The Generation Gap: With young supporters of Bernie Sanders threatening to boycott the general election or even vote for Donald Trump if Bernie doesn’t get the nomination, John Cole writes on the blog “Balloon Juice,” that, “Basically, what we are dealing with when we hear about the kids not getting their way with Bernie is the political equivalent as the same annoying entitled fucks who at the age of 22 go on House Hunters and demand granite countertops and stainless steel appliances and his and her en suite bathrooms and wood floors and a big deck because ‘they like to entertain.’ Go earn that shit, and until then, go fuck yourself. Here- a bunch of old dudes wrote a song about this before you were born, you obnoxious little shits. ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want.’

Your drum circle entitles you to zero votes. Also, get off my grass.”