April 4, 2016
By The Morning News
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- “Panama Papers” document links Putin, Xi Jinping, other leaders and family to shady tax evasion firm Mossack Fonseca.
- One immediate consequence of the leak: Icelandic PM hit with calls for a snap election.
- Inside Iceland’s Kviabryggja Prison, which holds the only bank chiefs convicted in the wake of the 2008 crash.
- Detailed account of how ISIS quietly and cleverly wormed its way into Western Europe.
- First outbreak of Zika occurred in 2007 on Yap Island, "a speck of land in the Western Pacific."
- Astonishing pictures of Hong Kong's urban density.
- Photographs of new construction in Mumbai matched with slogans from buildings' marketing materials.
- Asian airlines will need 200,000 additional pilots in the next two decades to meet demand.
- Almost 25% of the world’s billionaires dropped out of college or high school.
- Tesla receives 276,000 orders within three days of debuting its "affordable" electronic car.
- How the rich use offshore bank accounts to screw their spouses in divorce cases.
- Trump and Cruz fight for turf in Wisconsin.
- "Gender grand canyon" anticipated for Trump in a national contest.
- Those who complain that Sanders is “not Jewish enough” really just want him to embrace Zionism.
- Seniors, scared of foreign terrorists and domestic “radicals,” take NRA training classes—four times as many since 2010.
- One in five US cops who fatally shoot civilians go unidentified by their departments, a result of police union lobbying.
- Things people say before committing murder in big Hollywood movies.
- Even as Hollywood demonized Russia for decades, there was little reciprocation from the Soviet film industry.
- Joseph Medicine Crow, last surviving war chief of Montana's Crow Tribe, dies at 102.
- Writer decides no, hoping a future child will save us from ourselves.
- List of gender identities that aren't male or female.
- In 2015, the New York Times published an average of four stories a day with anonymous sources.