| Panama alarmed as leak threatens vital finance sector Posted: 04 Apr 2016 02:35 PM PDT  Alarm spread through Panama on Monday as concerns rose that a massive data leak from one of its legal firms could threaten its vital financial services sector that relies on offshore business. President Juan Carlos Varela vowed that "what we are going to do is defend the image of our country," while worried representatives from the financial and associated legal sector held an emergency meeting with the government. The so-called Panama Papers leak has revealed that politicians, celebrities and criminals used the breached law firm, Mossack Fonseca, to create offshore entities for their assets -- in some cases to illegally launder money or evade taxes.
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| GOP ‘wall of shame’ on display inside Trump campaign HQ Posted: 04 Apr 2016 09:16 AM PDT  New York magazine got a tour of the Republican frontrunner's decidedly unglamorous offices.
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| Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’ Posted: 04 Apr 2016 10:36 AM PDT  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz continued to court female voters ahead of the Tuesday Wisconsin primary by contrasting his relationship with women against his rival's. According to recent polls, the majority of registered female voters have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump.
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| Greece sends migrants back to Turkey on 1st day of new deal Posted: 04 Apr 2016 11:35 AM PDT  The first migrants and refugees arrived back in Turkey from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios this morning as a part of a new plan to limit migration to Europe. One image captures Turkish police escorting deported women as they arrived at the port of Dikili district in Izmir, Turkey. Another shows some people gathered on a beach in Izmir watching others who were deported from Greece arrive on a small ferry.
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| Ivanka and Eric Trump: Loyal offspring, proud surrogates — but not Republicans Posted: 04 Apr 2016 01:21 PM PDT  Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump attend a news conference in New York, May 1, 2014. Donald Trump's three oldest children have campaigned with their father and served as surrogates during the presidential race. Records from the New York State Board of Elections show that neither Ivanka Trump nor Eric Trump are enrolled in a political party.
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| Arianna Huffington thinks Donald Trump needs more sleep Posted: 01 Apr 2016 11:40 AM PDT  World-renown author, columnist, co-founder, and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington is a very busy and productive person. Her secret to success and happiness: Sleep. Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric catches up with Huffington to discuss her new book, The Sleep Revolution, why sleep is so essential to her success and where she finds the time to fit it all in.
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| Trump calls on Kasich to quit race: 'He's taking my votes' Posted: 03 Apr 2016 07:39 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday called for John Kasich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, arguing that the Ohio governor shouldn't be allowed to continue accumulating delegates if he has no chance of becoming the nominee.
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| Syria monastery ravaged by IS was symbol of coexistence Posted: 04 Apr 2016 12:38 PM PDT  The Syrian army on Sunday drove out the jihadists, but the damage they have caused in a place that was once a symbol of religious tolerance seems almost irreparable. IS razed the fifth-century church in August 2015 using explosives and bulldozers, as they have done with shrines and other religious buildings elsewhere, "under the pretext that people worshipped a deity other than God", according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Under the broken stone cover of a sarcophagus lay the skull and bones of Mar or Saint Elian -- a Christian from Homs province who was slain by the Romans for refusing to renounce his faith.
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| U.S. says it killed IS militant who killed Marine in Iraq Posted: 04 Apr 2016 06:15 AM PDT  The anti-Islamic State coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria has killed the IS militant believed responsible for an attack on U.S. troops in northern Iraq last month that left a Marine dead, it said on Sunday. Militant Jasim Khadijah, a former Iraqi officer not considered a high-value target, was killed by a drone strike overnight in northern Iraq, coalition spokesman U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters in Baghdad. "We have information (that) he was a rocket expert, he controlled these attacks," said Warren, referring to the shelling of a base used by U.S. troops near the town of Makhmour, located between Mosul and Kirkuk.
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| Prosecutors open probes as world's wealthy deny 'Panama Papers' links Posted: 04 Apr 2016 04:20 PM PDT  By Kylie MacLellan and Elida Moreno LONDON/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies. The "Panama Papers" revealed financial arrangements of politicians and public figures including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan, and the president of Ukraine. While holding money in offshore companies is not illegal, journalists who received the leaked documents said they could provide evidence of wealth hidden for tax evasion, money laundering, sanctions busting, drug deals or other crimes.
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| Exclusive: Democrats Clinton, Sanders promise to include Latinos in cabinet Posted: 04 Apr 2016 10:23 AM PDT  By Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders vowed to nominate Latinos into key cabinet posts in their administrations if elected, according to their answers to a questionnaire organized by the nation's largest Latino coalition. The 20-question survey was submitted by the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda to all U.S. presidential candidates on Feb. 25, but received responses only from the two Democratic contenders and none from the Republicans, according to the results reviewed by Reuters. Latinos and African-Americans have emerged as key voting blocs in the Democratic race for the White House nomination so far, and are likely to play a large role in the outcomes of big contests looming in New York and California.
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| Leaks about offshore accounts leave Russians unimpressed Posted: 04 Apr 2016 09:04 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — In the list of presidents, prime ministers, sheikhs, billionaires and other magnates cited in a sweeping worldwide investigation into hidden assets in offshore accounts, there was an odd man out: A Russian cellist.
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| Trump and Cruz making final pitches to Wisconsin voters Posted: 04 Apr 2016 02:16 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — After Donald Trump's toughest stretch of the campaign, he and Ted Cruz made spirited final pitches Monday to Wisconsin voters, who will cast ballots Tuesday in a Republican primary that both consider a key step in the race for president.
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| Alaska Air to buy Virgin America for $2.6 billion Posted: 04 Apr 2016 11:35 AM PDT  Alaska Air Group Inc said on Monday that it would buy Virgin America Inc for $2.6 billion in cash to become the top carrier on the U.S. West Coast and compete more effectively with larger airlines. At $57 a share, the deal represents a premium of about 86 percent from Virgin America's stock price before reports in March that the company was considering a sale. Analysts characterized the price as steep but said the merger would strengthen Alaska Air.
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| Exclusive: Makers took big price increases on widely used U.S. drugs Posted: 04 Apr 2016 12:50 PM PDT  By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major drug companies took hefty price increases in the U.S., in some cases more than doubling listed charges, for widely used medications over the past five years, a Reuters analysis of proprietary data found. Together, the price increases on drugs for arthritis, high cholesterol, asthma and other common problems added billions in costs for consumers, employers and government health programs. Extraordinary price hikes by two small companies, Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc , drew new attention to drug costs.
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| Law firm in Panama Papers leak is secretive, with big clients Posted: 04 Apr 2016 07:38 AM PDT  Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the "Panama Papers" scandal, is a discreet outfit with a roster of big-name clients and a quiet reputation for hiding money from the tax man. Politicians, sports stars, celebrities -- many were named in the 11 million pages of documents, according to information starting to be released by the International Consortium of Investigating Journalists (ICIJ), which is parsing the data. The revelation detailing the off-shore structures of many wealthy clients is a "crime" and an "attack" on Panama, the law firm maintains.
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| Pressure mounts on Iceland government over PM scandal Posted: 04 Apr 2016 02:48 PM PDT Iceland's opposition filed a motion of no confidence in the prime minister and protesters gathered outside parliament on Monday after the Panama Papers showed his wife owned an offshore company with big claims on the country's collapsed banks. The allegations in the leaks released globally over the weekend first surfaced in Iceland last month. |
| Migrants sent back from Greece arrive in Turkey under EU deal Posted: 04 Apr 2016 08:47 AM PDT  By Dasha Afanasieva and Karolina Tagaris DIKILI, Turkey/LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey on Monday in a drive to shut down the main route used by more than a million people fleeing war and poverty to reach Europe in the last year. Under a pact criticized by refugee agencies and human rights campaigners, Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean to enter Greece illegally, including Syrians. In return, the European Union will take in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and reward it with money, visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations.
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| Trump's prediction of 'massive recession' puzzles economists Posted: 03 Apr 2016 05:04 PM PDT  They dispute Trump's claim that unemployment and an overvalued stock market have set the stage for another slump.
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