April 6, 2016

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Mossack Fonseca, the firm at the center of the Panama Papers, provided financial services to Bashar al-Assad’s cousin and financier, whom America has sanctioned.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with his brother-in-law and other top officials, linked to Mossack Fonseca.

All mentions of the Panama Papers have been scrubbed from Chinese news websites.

In the election’s battle of ideas, the Panama Papers benefit Sanders and wound Clinton, Trump.

Shell corporations do good when protecting citizens’ wealth from authoritarian leaders.

Creator of China’s Great Firewall forced to bypass it to access a South Korean website during a university talk.

Extreme heat due to climate change will kill 27,000 Americans a year by 2100, a White House report finds.

Smithsonian Institution doesn’t object to “dark money” from private interests flowing to climate change-denying, oil industry-tied scientist.

If white people are looking for an easy retreat, I suggest they stop looking. On the Woke Olympics.

“White resentment” fuels opposition to gun control.

Scalia was in a whole other league when it came to getting laughs at oral argument. SCOTUS deals with uncomfortable dynamics in Scalia’s absence.

Pennsylvania processes decades of sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials.

Snuck inside North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law: the removal of residents’ ability to sue employers for discrimination.

Nearly 60% of college students have little to no faith in the news media.

Afghan government hands machine guns to rural villagers to help fight ISIS.

Google removes app made by Afghan Taliban from the Play Store.