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11:55 AM ET, April 4, 2016

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Will Fitzgibbon / 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
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami's luxury real-estate boom
Simon Bowers / Guardian:
Iceland's PM faces calls for snap election after offshore revelations
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’
Discussion: KTLA
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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Los Angeles Times:
Trump refuses to rule out third party run if he loses GOP nomination
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump faces uphill fight in Wisconsin presidential primary
Discussion: BizPac Review
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ACS Blog
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative bid to count only voting-age population for districts
Discussion: Politico
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Says States May Continue To Use Total Population In Deciding Districts
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.
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'
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention
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.
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 …
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 …
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?”
Discussion: Washington Times and BizPac Review
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Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Hillary Clinton: ‘Unborn person’ has no constitutional rights
Abby Wambach / Facebook:
Last night I was arrested for DUII in Portland after dinner at a friend's house.  —  Those that know me, know that I have always demanded excellence from myself.  I have let myself and others down.  —  I take full responsibility for my actions.  This is all on me.
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 …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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!
Joshua Kurlantzick / Washington Monthly:
How Big a Success Is the Democratic Revolution in Burma?  —  Last November, Myanmar held its first truly fair national elections in twenty-five years.  The National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of the Nobel laureate and longtime dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, routed the Union Solidarity …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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.
 
 
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Princeton University:
Trustees call for expanded commitment to diversity and inclusion
Conor Lynch / Salon:
Donald Trump is the pinnacle of American stupidity: Why his campaign consummates decades of rising anti-intellectualism
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly: There have been threats against my life since Trump questioning
Carly Hoilman / TheBlaze.com:
Scottie Nell Hughes Responds to ‘SNL’ Skit Depicting Her as ‘Nutjob’ Trump Supporter
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Tickets to the 2016 Olympics aren't selling, and Brazil is scrambling to boost demand
Discussion: Mediaite
Avrahm Berkowitz / The New York Observer:
The Day Free Speech Died at Harvard Law School
Discussion: Althouse
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
They were freed from Boko Haram's rape camps. But their nightmare isn't over.
Economist:
Beware the cult of Xi
Discussion: The Diplomat
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JoNel Aleccia / The Seattle Times:
Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker's price hike with new medication
Discussion: FOX40
Gabriel Kahn / Mother Jones:
For many decades, power players—Republicans and Democrats—have been marching toward a carbon-neutral existence.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi RV park owner evicts interracial couple
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Marc Morano / Climate Depot:
‘Never before seen’ spring snowfall in the Caribbean islands …
Discussion: AOL and NBC News
Steven W Thrasher / Guardian:
Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
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