| Hillary marks her milestone while Trump celebrates his wins from the golf course | "Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone," Hillary Clinton told a cheering and emotional crowd.
It was quite a moment. My ears are still ringing.
It was in a huge industrial hangar with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge that Hillary declared herself the presumptive nominee for the Democrats on Tuesday night.
Framed by giant American flags, surrounded by supporters and backed by a blaring female power soundtrack, she grabbed her moment.
It's the "first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee," she said.
We've awarded the headline of the week to the New York Post for this gem. It says it all.
Just to be clear, Hillary won't officially be the actual nominee until the delegate votes are cast at the Democratic National Convention in July. But she has the numbers.
Providing all of her superdelegates stay with her, and there's no indication that they won't (let's pause to consider Bernie Sanders' backers), she will have enough delegates at the convention and she will be confirmed as the nominee.
She has the endorsement of the current POTUS too by the way.
Barack Obama announced his support via a video on her campaign website and will begin campaigning with her next week in Wisconsin.
So, after 56 presidential elections, she will then become the first woman to run for the White House.
That's a journey that will either end with an even-more-deafening, history-making speech at the inauguration in January, or flame out like a damp squib. We're gearing up for one or the other.
Speaking of great headlines, the New York Daily News has form and it didn't disappoint this week.
Bernie is still hanging in there despite clearly not having the numbers but we're tipping that he'll bow out after next week's final (phew) primary in this, The Most Powerful City in the Free World, Washington DC.
He had a chat with POTUS on Thursday and emerged saying he was getting ready to work with Hillary to beat Donald Trump.
We'll have to wait and see what that means in a practical sense but we suggest you turn your eyes and ears this way around the middle of next week and see what he has to say when the primaries process is finally complete.
VICTORS
Hillary. She's standing under that cracked glass ceiling.
Will she burst through it like a speeding bullet or will it shatter and land in a hail of glass around her feet? We'll call that a watching brief.
Trump. Oh yeah, so he won all five Republican primaries on Tuesday unopposed because he was the only one left in his party's race.
He was relaxing at one of his golf courses lapping up the numbers as they came in. That said, it was a messy week for this presumptive nominee. Stand by, I'll explain.
VANQUISHED
Bernie. You cannot fault him for persistence that's for sure, but The Bern is nearly burned out.
His failure to win the Golden State of California pretty much ended his mandate to stick around.
We're keen to see what role he takes on now and what continuing influence he has on Democratic policy having changed the conversation and engaged huge numbers of young people during his campaign.
TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK
Just as the Republican establishment started to fall into line behind Trump, he put them offside again with his comments that a Latino judge hearing a case against one of his companies would be influenced by his policies on Mexicans.
The comment has sparked something bordering on fury from many Republicans.
Some who had endorsed him reversed their decisions and there was renewed talk about changing the Republican convention rules to stop Trump from winning.
In a sense it feels like we reverted back to the start on that.
Influential Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said what Trump said was something close to "the textbook definition of a racist comment".
However, Mr Ryan said he would continue to endorse Trump anyway which sparked all sorts of debate about senior Republicans deserting their principles for the sake of politics.
Some Republicans have already unendorsed their nominee.
And so it continues.
DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT
"Delete your account". It was these three simple words that sent the Twittersphere into a spin on Thursday.
They came from Hillary's account in response to Trump's attack on the Obama endorsement. Press secretary Josh Earnest said it was "no surprise".
The sassy tweet spread like wildfire and soon became her most retweeted piece of content ever.
That did not stop Republicans from looking for a counterpunch because, you know, Hillary and her emails.
TIE-GATE
Mr Obama's endorsement of Hillary came just a couple of hours after meeting with Bernie at the White House.
The big question: did he record the message immediately after the meeting?
No, he didn't. He'd already done it on Tuesday.
How do we know?
He was wearing the same tie as the one he had on when he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mystery solved.
AWARD-WINNING PERFORMANCE
Oscar Wilde said imitation was the sincerest form of flattery but what about this Meryl Streep impersonation of Trump?
The three-time Oscar winner took to the stage doing her best Donald as part of the Public Theatre's gala benefit in New York.
It needs to be seen to be believed, and if not The New York Times describes the performance disturbingly well. Give her another Oscar.
MAKE DATING GREAT AGAIN
Trump has been married three times so why not get aboard the Trump dating train?
You can now find like-minded supporters via Trumpsingles.org.
The New York Post reports Trump supporter David Goss, 35, said his support for the nominee was a deal-breaker on a recent date.
This smells a little like Berniesingles.com, which we've talked about in the past.
BIG BUCKS FOR BERNIE
Bernie has made a point of not fundraising via campaign donations from Super PACs and repeatedly reminds crowds the average campaign donation is $27 (give or take).
Perhaps most amazingly he raised more than $200 million with this strategy.
But who are all these people? The LA Times analysed nearly 7 million individual contributions and mapped them so you could search the average contribution in any postcode across America.
It's pretty telling about where Bernie's been strongest across the map.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Whatever your inclinations are about Hillary and/or her politics, this hype video highlighting aspects of the women's suffrage movement was something.
It played moments before she took the stage to claim victory on Tuesday night.
Check it out here
BERNIE INK
My colleague Stephanie March spent the past week in California ahead of the primary there and was at Bernie's rally with supporters in Santa Monica on Tuesday night.
She met a bunch of big-time Bernie supporters but none better than Jane - an avid supporter of Senator Sanders, who sported a forearm tattoo of the 74-year-old. Yep.
BY THE NUMBERS
3,442,623. That's the number of votes cast in the Democratic primary in California on Tuesday.
The figure was 28 per cent down on the 2008 primary despite voter registration in the state being at record levels.
For the record, Hillary won both eight years ago and this week, but it does perhaps indicate a depressed voter turnout caused by media outlets declaring her the winner ahead of the final states heading to the polls.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW
The presidential hopeful field has been winnowed effectively down to two. Where did they all go? Well, we know where New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went. The former Republican nomination race runner, who has now endorsed Trump, took four hours of his time this week to co-host Boomer & Carton - a sports talk radio program. Really.
That's a wrap for this week. Oh and by the way, we have just 21 weeks to go until the presidential election!
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