Happy Tuesday. On this day in 1978, actor James Franco was born and immediately entered a PhD program in Semiotics.

IF DONALD TRUMP does really well in today's New York GOP primary, he can mathematically exclude Ted Cruz from clinching the nomination on the first ballot at the convention – while having no effect on John Kasich’s life, since Kasich seemingly has nothing better to do than lose the presidency forever.

SO THE GOP FRONTRUNNER went for his home state’s heart-strings on Monday by invoking the hallowed memory of 9/11 – but unfortunately, he accidentally referred to the tragic day as "7/11." (Seriously.)

IF TRUMP DOESN'T SUCCEED in dominating his home state, the schedule gets much tougher for him. Which means, with a bad showing tonight, April 19, 2016 could go down in history as the Trump campaign's 7/11.

TODAY IS THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, where polls continue to show Hillary Clinton with a healthy – and seemingly formidable – lead.

WHILE BERNIE SANDERS is a native son, voters fondly remember Clinton’s courage in September 2001 when she held fast in the face of an unspeakable tragedy: Rudy Giuliani’s emergence as a national leader.

NEW YORKERS HAVE EMBRACED Clinton ever since – reveling in her state pride, basking in her reflected glow, and trying to block out the lurking suspicion that she probably thinks Derek Jeter is still on the Yankees.

TWO BIG DIFFERENCES between corporations and undocumented immigrants are that immigrants actually want to pay taxes... but corporations are the ones conservatives consider people.

THE STATE OF TEXAS and 25 other Republican-led states are now upset that they must grant driver’s licenses to certain undocumented immigrants, preferring the sweet liberty of knowing the road is filled with millions of unlicensed drivers who won’t bother them by hanging around the scene of an accident.

THE SUPREME COURT heard arguments about the fate of 4 million such immigrants on Monday in United States v. Texas, which is not only the name of the case, but probably our eventual next civil war.

AUSTRALIA HAS FIGURED OUT a way to get two of the world's most highly sought after actors to work for free – threaten jail time.

APPARENTLY JOHNNY DEPP and Amber Heard entered the island nation via private plane last year without declaring their Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, in an effort to avoid quarantine laws. That crime could have sent Depp or Heard to jail for 10 years.

BUT THE STARS AGREED to record a solemn video as part of a plea deal to keep them out of prison. Depp has not yet publicly apologized for 2013’s The Lone Ranger, but we’re assuming that was quietly included as well.

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NO, COCA-COLA DIDN’T BUY DR. PEPPER to close the brand down. And Dr. Pepper is not considering retiring because of Obamacare.

SHOW THEM YOU’RE A TIGER—Toronto police want to speak to the “moron” in this video who hopped a fence into a tiger cage to get his hat back. And so does the tiger.

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