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12:30 PM 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  —  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’
Discussion: KTLA
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: Mother Jones and 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
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
John Fritze / Baltimore Sun:
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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Tom Blumer / NewsBusters:
AP, NY Times Ignore Hillary's Reference to ‘Unborn Person’
Discussion: Washington Times and 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 …
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.
Princeton University:
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Alexandra Markovich / New York Times:
Princeton Board Votes to Keep Woodrow Wilson's Name on Campus Buildings
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.
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 …
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
Lien Yeung / CBC News:
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.
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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Philip Cohen / Washington Post:
American policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
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Telegraph:
China jitters could trigger global market bloodbath, IMF warns
Julie Collins / FOX6Now.com:
“Makes me sick:” Protester seen stomping on American flag outside Trump town hall at UWM
Joshua Kurlantzick / Washington Monthly:
How Big a Success Is the Democratic Revolution in Burma?
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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
 Earlier Items: 
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
JoNel Aleccia / The Seattle Times:
Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker's price hike with new medication
Discussion: FOX40
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Liberal bastions may decide GOP race