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Today: Primary Season: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. In Hiroshima, No Apologies.

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I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today.

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Primary Season: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

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There’s a month to go before California’s primary, and just when Hillary Clinton is focusing on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders keeps winning. The Vermont senator and Trump prevailed in West Virginia on Tuesday, while Sanders barnstormed California and pulled few punches. That means Clinton is fending off attacks from both, and as Cathleen Decker writes, it could spell trouble ahead for Clinton, even if she has a near-lock on the Democratic nomination.

More About the Campaign

-- A white nationalist is among Trump’s pledged delegates in California.

-- Trump wins Nebraska. Sanders wants to debate Clinton. And more from Tuesday’s action.

In Hiroshima, No Apologies

President Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb there on Aug. 6, 1945. Can a president go there without “going there”? The administration says Obama won’t offer apologies, nor seek any from Japan for the Pearl Harbor attack. Here’s how he plans to honor the victims while focusing on the future, not the past.

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The Bay Area’s ‘Rodney King Video’

After a wild pursuit during which a driver slammed into two Alameda County Sheriff’s Department cruisers and injured an officer, two deputies finally caught up with him in an alley. That’s where they tackled and beat him with fists and batons, all of it recorded by a security camera. Now, the two deputies are facing multiple felony charges. Take a closer look at what some are likening to the Rodney King beating.

Meet Amazon’s Prime Entertainment Exec

He got Woody Allen to sign up for a comedy series — and explained the concept of binge-watching to him. The shows “Transparent” and “Mozart in the Jungle” won Emmys and Golden Globes under his watch. And as the head of Amazon Studios, he’ll be distributing Allen’s latest film, which opens the Cannes Film Festival today. Read on to see how Roy Price is following in his family’s Hollywood footsteps in the Digital Age.

Is Quinoa the New Cash Crop?

“Keen-wah”? “Kee-no-ah”? However you want to pronounce it, quinoa has gone from a health craze to a popular ingredient in energy bars, cereals and more. It’s also sprouted a backlash. Now, farmers in California are giving it a try in a place far removed from the heights of the Andes Mountains: the low-lying, scorching-hot Imperial Valley.

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CALIFORNIA

-- Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris came under fire during a pointed debate among U.S. Senate candidates.

-- A man charged with burning down the Da Vinci apartments was angry about police killings of African Americans, a witness says.

-- Steve Lopez offers a five-point plan for dealing with L.A.’s homeless crisis.

-- Investigators have identified three men in a Death Valley rampage at a pupfish refuge.

NATION-WORLD

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-- When do fetuses feel pain? The question puts Utah’s abortion law and doctors at odds.

-- Why the number of stabbing attacks on Israeli soldiers has decreased.

-- A mysterious death in China raises suspicions of police brutality.

-- Kenya is pulling the welcome mat on 600,000 refugees, triggering fears of another mass migration.

-- Scientists have confirmed the existence of 1,284 more Milky Way planets, including nine that could be Earth-like.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

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-- Prince had seen a Minneapolis-area doctor on the day before he died, court records show.

-- Why a white woman’s discrimination lawsuit against the Getty could set a precedent.

-- What Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, the center of FX’s new “Feud,” can tell us about modern female movie-star power.

-- Kenneth Turan: The Cannes Film Festival rolls out the red carpet, but the mood is a bit dark.

-- Too old to rock? Our readers responded passionately to a piece taking on ageist jokes about the Desert Trip mega-concert.

-- There’s Madonna, Marsalis, Colbert and more: Why everyone is jookin with dancer Lil Buck.

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BUSINESS

-- By getting into the news business, Facebook opened itself up to a new controversy.

-- TMZ plans to end its celebrity tour bus partnership with Starline, and there’s bad blood between the two.

-- There’s no law against Budweiser calling its beer “America.”

SPORTS

-- The Dodgers are stuck in the blah of average.

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-- “Move on, ‘B,’ and think about your next chapter”: How Byron Scott found out he got fired from the Lakers and what he plans to do next.

OPINION

-- Jonah Goldberg: The Republican aristocracy is already bending its knee to King Trump.

-- Despite her shortcomings, Janice Hahn has the best grasp of the county supervisors’ role.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

-- Ready for the six-hour workday? A hospital in Sweden is trying it out. (Bloomberg)

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-- “The finest, most-listened-to baseball broadcaster that ever lived”: Sports Illustrated profiles Vin Scully.

-- Why one of Hong Kong’s busiest retail hubs saw a riot start over curried fishballs. (South China Morning Post)

ONLY IN L.A.

Take a bow — and then take 101 more. That’s because the second Piatigorsky International Cello Festival will feature 102 cellos when it wraps up in Walt Disney Concert Hall next weekend. Read on to see why the festival’s founder hopes it shows “the wide color spectrum and range of artistry we have in the cello world.”

Please send comments and ideas to Davan Maharaj.

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