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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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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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The Panama Papers: what you need to know
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How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History
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How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami's luxury real-estate boom
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Here are the famous politicos in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’
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USA Today, Daily Kos, Guardian and The Panama Papers

Iceland's PM faces calls for snap election after offshore revelations
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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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Grandmother of 9-year-old Utah girl allegedly raped by four men: ‘I want justice’
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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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Supreme Court rejects conservative bid to count only voting-age population for districts
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Supreme Court Says States May Continue To Use Total Population In Deciding Districts
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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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Top Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee
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Trump refuses to rule out third party run if he loses GOP nomination
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Trump faces uphill fight in Wisconsin presidential primary
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Clinton names campaign staff for Md. — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the Founders Day Gala, Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Mary Altaffer / AP) — Quincey Gamble, a veteran political operative and Baltimore native …
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Hillary Clinton: ‘Unborn person’ has no constitutional rights
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AP, NY Times Ignore Hillary's Reference to ‘Unborn Person’
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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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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.


Trustees call for expanded commitment to diversity and inclusion — Trustees adopt report, recommendations of committee on Woodrow Wilson's legacy at Princeton — The Princeton University Board of Trustees has called for an expanded and more vigorous commitment to diversity and inclusion at Princeton …
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Princeton Board Votes to Keep Woodrow Wilson's Name on Campus Buildings
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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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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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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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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.
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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


Mexican flag hung by construction worker at Vancouver's Trump Tower — ‘You are against an ethnic group that you are benefiting from,’ says Diego Reyna — The Mexican flag hung from the roof of the soon-to-be complete Trump Tower in downtown Vancouver, put there by construction worker Diego Reyna, a Mexican-Canadian.
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Raw Story, Independent Journal …, KTLA, Fusion and Mashable


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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