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10:00 AM ET, April 4, 2016

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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 …
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami's luxury real-estate boom
Fusion:
Here are the famous politicos in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’
Guardian:
Iceland's prime minister walks out of interview over tax haven question - video
Discussion: The Panama Papers and Slantpoint
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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Steve Holland / Reuters:
In Wisconsin, Trump looks to put rough week behind him
Discussion: 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
Discussion: Politico and The Resurgent
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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.
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
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.
Discussion: 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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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
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.”
Discussion: The Diplomat
 
 
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
They were freed from Boko Haram's rape camps. But their nightmare isn't over.
Joan Lowy / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Move to OK commercial drone flights over people
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Mail
JoNel Aleccia / The Seattle Times:
Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker's price hike with new medication
Discussion: FOX40
Nina Lakhani / Guardian:
Mexico tortures migrants - and citizens - in effort to slow Central American surge
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Gabriel Kahn / Mother Jones:
For many decades, power players—Republicans and Democrats—have been marching toward a carbon-neutral existence.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kristian Hernandez / Monitor:
BP Council says ‘catch and release’ policy continues fueling illegal immigration
Discussion: BizPac Review
Michael D'Antonio / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump, Johnny Carson and a vicuna coat: He's standing by Corey Lewandowski, but the …
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
GOP Establishment Grabs Delegates in Tennessee
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Apple/U.S. battle start of longer war
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention
Brian K Sullivan / Bloomberg:
Spring Flips Back to Winter in Boston With Fast-Moving Snowstorm
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
Fox News:
Donald Trump fights to win over women; Reince Priebus on possibility of contested GOP convention
 

 
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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Russian national Alexander Vinnik, one of the operators of crypto exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering

Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people”

 
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