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11:10 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
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’  —  VERNAL, Utah — Four men are behind bars and facing felony charges of rape of a child and sodomy of a child after they allegedly assaulted a 9-year-old girl, and Sunday the victim's grandmother expressed her outrage over the allegations.
Discussion: 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 …
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:
Trump faces uphill fight in Wisconsin presidential primary
Discussion: BizPac Review
Los Angeles Times:
Trump refuses to rule out third party run if he loses GOP nomination
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
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.
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
Discussion: 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!
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
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.
JoNel Aleccia / The Seattle Times:
Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker's price hike with new medication  —  After a Canadian drugmaker doubled the price for the most commonly prescribed aid-in-dying drug, Washington Death-with-Dignity advocates created a cheaper new medication to help terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives under the law.
Discussion: FOX40
 
 
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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
Daily Mail:
Horrific moment Muslim woman is mown down by grinning driver who then stops to take a PICTURE …
Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Raw Story
David Horovitz / The Times of Israel:
Paul Ryan in Israel dismisses talk of being Republicans' compromise pick
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.
 Earlier Items: 
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
Guardian:
Iceland's prime minister walks out of interview over tax haven question - video
Discussion: The Panama Papers and Slantpoint
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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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming

 
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