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Bloomberg:
Republican Crisis May Deepen Even If Trump Loses Wisconsin — If the Republican front-runner heads into the party's convention leading the delegate count, but is denied the nomination, his supporters may sit out the general election. — michaelcbender — mniquette
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates — Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight. — The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism …
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Washington Post, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Ivana Trump: We need immigrants to clean for us — 's ex-wife defended the Republican presidential front-runner's immigration policies in an interview published in Sunday's New York Post. — Ivana Trump said the first step for America to regain respect is adopting the billionaire's immigration policies.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
In Wisconsin, Trump looks to put rough week behind him
In Wisconsin, Trump looks to put rough week behind him
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BizPac Review
The Panama Papers:
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption — Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens … Reading time: … A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of 12 current …
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David Pegg / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore — Guardian analysis of leaked papers will show how influential people including heads of government have exploited tax havens — The hidden wealth of some of the world's most prominent leaders …
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Fusion:
Here are the famous politicos in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’
Here are the famous politicos in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’
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ThinkProgress, Reuters, USA Today, Yahoo, Guardian, Business Insider and The Panama Papers
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami's luxury real-estate boom
How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami's luxury real-estate boom
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USA Today and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Luke Harding / Guardian:
Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
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Vox, The Atlantic, Courthouse News Service, Engadget, The Panama Papers, Business Insider, The Colorado Independent, BBC, NPR, Slate and Instapundit
Mark Green / fox13now.com:
Four arrested in Utah for allegedly raping 9-year-old girl while mom got high in garage — VERNAL, Utah — Four men were booked into jail on felony charges after they allegedly raped a 9-year-old girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a garage with a friend.
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Mark Green / fox13now.com:
Grandmother of 9-year-old Utah girl allegedly raped by four men: ‘I want justice’
Grandmother of 9-year-old Utah girl allegedly raped by four men: ‘I want justice’
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KTLA
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics — Woodward on his ‘very unusual’ Trump interview What's at stake in the Wisconsin primary … In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. — On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump's campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire's private club in Palm Beach.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Liberal bastions may decide GOP race — Conservative voters in New York and California are finally going to have their say. — Republicans in the two liberal strongholds have long been marginalized in national politics, with their primaries coming late in the process and their general election votes canceled out by Democrats.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Kasich predicts open convention: 'It's going to be so much fun'
Kasich predicts open convention: 'It's going to be so much fun'
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Politico and Washington Post
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention
Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention
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NBC Bay Area:
California Highway Patrol Officer Rescues Wayward Chihuahua After Chasing It Across Bay Bridge — Highway patrol officers noticed the small dog on the bridge's north side catwalk heading toward San Francisco — California Highway Patrol officers gave chase to an unlikely suspect early Sunday — a Chihuahua.
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New York Times:
Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders's Campaign — The morning after he lost the Nevada caucuses in February, Bernie Sanders held a painful conference call with his top advisers. — Mr. Sanders expressed deep frustration that he had not built a stronger political operation in the state …
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Eric Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
This may be the week the SJWs lost it all...or, at least, their power to bully people in the hacker culture and the wider tech community. — May of you probably already know about the LambdaConf flap. In brief: LambdaConf, a technical conference on functional programming …
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Vox Popoli
Tom Blumer / NewsBusters:
AP, NY Times Ignore Hillary's Reference to ‘Unborn Person’ — Earlier this evening, Curtis Houck at NewsBusters noted how Hillary Clinton committed an obvious gaffe for someone who is supposedly radically pro-abortion. On NBC's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked, “When, or if, does an unborn child have constitutional rights?”
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Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Hillary Clinton: ‘Unborn person’ has no constitutional rights
Hillary Clinton: ‘Unborn person’ has no constitutional rights
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Liberty Unyielding and Patterico's Pontifications
Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi RV park owner evicts interracial couple — TUPELO — A Mississippi RV park owner evicted an interracial couple because of the color of their skin. — “Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” said Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic …
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Economist:
Beware the cult of Xi — Xi Jinping is stronger than his predecessors. His power is damaging the country — From the print edition — “IF OUR party can't even handle food-safety issues properly, and keeps on mishandling them, then people will ask whether we are fit to keep ruling China.”
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The Diplomat
JoNel Aleccia / The Seattle Times:
Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker's price hike with new medication — After a Canadian drugmaker doubled the price for the most commonly prescribed aid-in-dying drug, Washington Death-with-Dignity advocates created a cheaper new medication to help terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives under the law.
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
They were freed from Boko Haram's rape camps. But their nightmare isn't over. — MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence, the young women's minds drifted to escape or death.
Steven W Thrasher / Guardian:
Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life — Steven W Thrasher paid $1,000 a month for a Brooklyn renter's dream - 2,400 square feet of space on a beautiful tree-lined block - that was too good to be true — or five years, I lived on the most beautiful block …