Tornado Alley: More severe weather and tornadoes are predicted today in the Ohio Valley and the southern Plains. Storms and tornadoes could stretch from west-central Texas to southern Iowa and western Illinois.

It’s been a week of violent weather. At least 20 tornadoes were reported Monday in Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas. Homes and businesses were been ripped apart and cars tossed.

Permawar: The Islamic State claims responsibility for a car bomb that has killed at least 45 people in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. While ISIS loses territory, it still has the ability to mount devastating attacks.

The Circus: It turns out Hillary Clinton is also running for president. As Clinton heads toward a near-certain Democratic nomination, Donald Trump has sucked the oxygen out of the national newsroom. Without outlining a coherent policy on virtually anything, Trump has dominated the news because he’s just too much fun.

Clinton has vowed to stick to the issues despite Trump labeling her “Crooked Hillary.”

“I’m not going to run an ugly race,” Clinton said. Her problem is that she doesn’t need Trump to run up her negatives. She has plenty already. Polls show that both Clinton and Trump are less popular with the general electorate than any candidates for the last 10 years.

Trump and his surrogates have attacked Clinton’s Achilles heel; her husband’s checkered personal reputation. They have accused Hillary of being the defender and enabler of her president husband while he was accused of sexual improprieties.

But when you get past the personal, Clinton is pretty clear on what she presents to the voters. Her website lists positions and plans for 31 issues ranging from Alzheimer’s disease and primary education to college costs, immigration, racial justice, Wall Street and voting rights.

Trump’s website lists just seven issues; “Pay for the Wall,” Healthcare reform, US/China trade reform, Veterans Administration reform, tax reform, gun rights, and immigration reform.

The Buried Lede: Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in West Virginia yesterday, demonstrating that it’s not over until it’s over. “It’s an uphill struggle,” Sanders said, campaigning in Stockton, California. “We have a chance to end up with a majority of the pledged delegates. And if we do that, I think you are looking at the Democratic nominee for president.”

The trouble for Bernie is that Hillary has a huge lead in the so-called Super Delegates, who are not chosen by ballot. He does have enough votes to influence the party platform and political goals should Clinton win the nomination.

Nation: An off-duty police officer in Taunton, Mass. yesterday shot and killed a 28 year old man who had stabbed two people in a home and two more at a local shopping mall. Police say Arthur DaRosa, 28, crashed his car then entered a home and stabbed a mother and daughter, one of whom died later at the hospital. Then DaRosa drove to the Silver City Galleria, where he crashed his car into the door at Macy’s and stabbed two more people.

Postwar Diplomacy: President Obama next month will become the first US president to visit the city of Hiroshima, where the US dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II. The White House was careful to say that Obama will not be issuing an apology. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said, “He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb.”

MVP: The Golden State Warriors’ magical point guard Stephen Curry has been named the league’s MVP for the second year in a row. But possibly a more amazing accomplishment is that he won it by a unanimous and unprecedented 131 votes. Curry has a book of records but here’s just one: he’s the first player in NBA history to hit 300 three-point shots.

This Bud’s for You: The brewers of Budweiser have announced that they are re-naming their beer “America” through the November election to “inspire drinkers to celebrate America.” And you know, this is just perfect, because if there’s anything Americans are going to want to do through Nov. 8, it’s drink.

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