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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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Luke Harding / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: what you need to know
The Panama Papers: what you need to know
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ThinkProgress, Reuters, Yahoo 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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McClatchy Washington Bureau
Simon Bowers / Guardian:
Iceland's PM faces calls for snap election after offshore revelations
Iceland's PM faces calls for snap election after offshore revelations
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USA Today, Mashable and Business Insider
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, The Panama Papers, Engadget, Business Insider, The Colorado Independent, BBC, Slate, NPR 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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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Politico, Moe Lane and New York Magazine
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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Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Washington Times, The Right Scoop, CBS News and Morning Consult
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump faces uphill fight in Wisconsin presidential primary
Trump faces uphill fight in Wisconsin presidential primary
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BizPac Review
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.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote. Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Says States May Continue To Use Total Population In Deciding Districts
Supreme Court Says States May Continue To Use Total Population In Deciding Districts
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The New Civil Rights Movement
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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Latest from Crooks and Liars and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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, FOX31 Denver, WCMH-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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RedState, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
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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New York Magazine, Slate, NBC News, Capitol View, BostonGlobe.com and Washington Post
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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National Review, Liberty Unyielding and Patterico's Pontifications
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
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.
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
Facebook:
Adopt-An-ANGEL — Molten got adopted and this pretty girl gets to do the weekend update! The week went to the cats. — Dogs adopted: — Dozier — Sasha — Missy (foster to adopt)... Adopt-An-ANGEL shared K-38 Baja Grill, Tower 7 & Cafe Del Mar's photo. — Two days to Cinco de Bow Wow!
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WTKR-TV, New York's PIX11 and myfox8.com
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