As France Goes: French voters went to the polls today to choose between two political outsiders, a far right nationalist, and a moderate political novice whose campaign was hacked just days before the election.

Emmanuel Macron, 39, wants to strengthen labor and he supports free trade. Marine Le Pen wants to crack down on immigration and leave the European Union.

Documents from the campaign of Macron were posted on a white nationalist website that supports Le Pen. The campaign admits that many of the documents are real, but says some are fake.

France requires a 44-hour press blackout before an election, and most of the media reported little about the released documents. The daily Le Monde published a note saying the documents were released “with the clear goal of harming the validity of the ballot.”

Fake President: All of the major television networks have rejected a Donald Trump 2020 campaign ad that accuses the networks of being purveyors of “fake news.”

Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara wrote on the DonaldJTrump website that, “Apparently, the mainstream media are champions of the First Amendment only when it serves their own political views. Faced with an ad that doesn’t fit their biased narrative, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC have now all chosen to block our ad. This is an unprecedented act of censorship in America that should concern every freedom-loving citizen.”

While granting some leeway, the networks have long-rejected ads with demonstrably false information. CNN explained its decision in a statement that said, “CNN requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that the mainstream media is ‘fake news.’ The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted.”

The Oracle Speaks: At the annual Berkshire Hathaway investor meeting, Billionaire Warren Buffett slammed the Republican health care bill as a tax cut for the rich. He said that if the law had been in effect last year, “my federal taxes would have gone down 17 percent last year, so it’s a huge tax cut for guys like me.”

He also attacked the effort to lower corporate taxes. Buffett said that in 1960, corporate taxes were 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product and now they’re about 2 percent. “So when American business talks about taxes strangling our competitiveness,” he said, “they’re talking about something that as a percentage of GDP has gone down from 4 to 2.”

Kentucky Home: The favorite horse Always Dreaming won the 143d Kentucky Derby on a wet day at Churchill Downs in the annual quest for a repeat of the Triple Crown. It’s been two years since American Pharoah won the triple, the first to do it since 1978. Next up, the Preakness in Baltimore, May 20^th.

World: Boko Haram Islamic militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of more than 200 they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014 in exchange for prisoners. Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross did the negotiations.

Twenty girls were released last year and some have escaped. Boko Haram has killed as many as 20,000 people.

The Obit Page: Steven Holcomb, a gold medal-winning Olympic bobsled driver, died in Lake Placid, NY, at age 37. A cause was not revealed.

Holcomb competed in Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010, and Sochi 2014. In 2010, he drove the American 4-man bobsled team to its first gold medal since 1948. He won bronze medals in both the 4-man and 2-man bobsled events in Sochi.

Hard to Watch: The wooden actor Steven Seagal, an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin who starred in the 90s action movies “Hard to Kill” and “Under Siege,” has been banned from Ukraine for five years as a national security risk. The formerly-muscled tough guy, who now looks more like Kung Fu Panda, often praised the Kremlin while criticizing President Obama. Ukraine didn’t say what risk Seagal poses, but maybe they’re afraid he could dumb down the population.

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