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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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Hot Air, New York Times, Shakesville, Mashable, Informed Comment, Business Insider and Mediaite
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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The Charlotte Observer
Guardian:
Iceland's prime minister walks out of interview over tax haven question - video
Iceland's prime minister walks out of interview over tax haven question - video
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The Panama Papers and Slantpoint
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, Engadget, The Panama Papers, Business Insider and NPR
Richard Bilton / BBC:
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
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The Atlantic, Guardian, NBC News, The Panama Papers, ABC, Slate, Business Insider and Instapundit
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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Washington Post, Washington Times, CBS News and The Right Scoop
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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
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Kasich predicts open convention: 'It's going to be so much fun'
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
An argument against the magical realism of the #neverTrump crowd
An argument against the magical realism of the #neverTrump crowd
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Politico and The Resurgent
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump calls on Kasich to drop out of GOP primary race, says he voiced displeasure to RNC chair
Trump calls on Kasich to drop out of GOP primary race, says he voiced displeasure to RNC chair
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Power Line, Fox News, Slate, CNN, Stumpin' For Trump!, providencejournal.com and Raw Story
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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Business Insider, Politico, Moe Lane and New York Magazine
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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WTVR-TV, KFOR-TV, KTLA, FOX6Now.com and fox8.com
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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ABC News, The Huffington Post, Fusion, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Salon and Mother Jones
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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WGN-TV, KTLA and FOX5 San Diego
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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The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
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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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Washington Times and BizPac Review
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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
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.
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.
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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NBC News, Capitol View, BostonGlobe.com, Washington Post and Ralston Reports
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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Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
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