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Contaminated Skittles from Marathon Food Mart in Indiana put people in the hospital with burning throats and cramps on Wednesday.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted to block Debo Adegbile's nomination to lead the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division with a 47–52 vote, with seven Democrats joining Republicans to filibuster. The action was widely condemned because Adegbile is highly qualified for the position and the reason he was opposed was because of work he did in challenging the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a police officer in 1981. While that conviction has long been controversial, the Senate has ample precedent of not holding work on behalf of convicted felons against the lawyers who work on the case. Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, worked on a case defending a mass murderer who killed eight people prior to his nomination, and no concerns were raised about him because of that work.

Republican Party leaders converge in Washington today for a conference featuring, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio.

Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, say he was only joking when he made a remark to his sister that prosecutors have called damaging to his defense.