* Global military spending is on the rise—36% is the US alone, at $596B. * The trials of women and children refugees, who now make up over half the refugee population in Europe. * Report finds "unprecedented" levels of violence and threats against abortion providers in 2015. * Obama's
* 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
* Guide to the Panama Papers, exposing the financial workings of Putin and other world leaders and their families. * Anonymous leaker: “I want to make these crimes public.” * Related: How to wrap your head around the size of 2.6 terabytes worth of leaked material. * Cruz confident in winning Wisconsin tonight—
* “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
* Aung San Suu Kyi to get a PM type role, bypassing Myanmar's ban on her becoming president. * Brussels airport likely to reopen tonight. * Researchers use terrorist-tracking technique to prove that Tyrion Lannister is the hero of Game of Thrones. * Obama has no right to lecture the press
* Terrifying Ebola update: Nearly half of survivors may go blind—possibly incubating the virus in their eyes. * Head of Libyan unity government sails into Tripoli in brave, possibly doomed gesture. * Obama hosts his fourth and final nuclear summit; Putin boycotts. * We have only a year or so to stop investing
* British man posed for selfie with EgyptAir hijacker mid-flight to get a better look at his suicide belt. * The end of the Cold War left a painful ideological vacuum in Europe. * Twelve questions for Niall Ferguson regarding his "medicore" Kissinger biography. * Unbearable uncertainty for refugees stuck in
* Long before Brussels, ISIS sent agents into Europe, and officials failed to notice ties to the nascent group. * Big companies like General Mills, Mars, and Kellogg to label GMOs—thanks to little Vermont. * Self-declared prophet—on crusade for minimum wage—shot in US Capitol after pulling a gun. * Governor
* Suicide bomber kills 70 on Easter Sunday at Lahore amusement park, injuring 300 others. * Why the US keeps killing ISIS's second-in-command: because there are so many of them. * Between the CIA and the Pentagon, America funds both sides of a firefight in Syria. * US cities lower
* Sixty percent of Republicans say the party should look elsewhere if Trump merely finishes with a plurality. * List of possible scenarios if the GOP has a brokered convention. * Misogyny isn't an incidental part of Donald Trump. It's who he is. * See also: Jimmy Kimmel mansplains to
