April 6, 2016

• 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.
• On the Woke Olympics.
• "White resentment" fuels opposition to gun control.
• 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.
• In the wake of the anti-trans law, PayPal cancels $3.6M plan to open operations center in Charlotte.
• 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.