Saturday's Headlines: Panama Papers reveal a perilous world for U.S. tax cheats
Cruz derided 'New York values' with a sneer, but now he must face New Yorkers; Some 200 delegates could make or break a Trump nomination; Prosecutors offer details on ex-House speaker Hastert's alleged sex abuse of teens;
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
Offshore experts said they doubt that many prominent U.S. citizens will turn up in the data, but Americans continue to hide vast sums of money in tax havens and are becoming increasingly sophisticated about it.
If Donald Trump arrives at the July convention just shy of the 1,237 delegates required to secure the nomination outright, unbound delegates could decide to push him over the top — or force a contested convention.
Dennis Hastert's victims struggled with the impact of his abuse even as he rose through the political ranks, prosecutors wrote in a memo for a sentencing hearing later this month.
Cory Batey, a 22-year-old from Nashville, is one of four former football players charged with rape and accused of violating the female student in June 2013. He is the only one on trial.
The unverified claim of a successful engine test is the latest in a steady drumbeat of North Korean threats. "It seems pretty clear that they're sick of us making fun of them, and they're going to shove it down our throats," one analyst said.
He arrived Saturday to show support for a government that has grown increasingly unpopular as a stumbling economy and a resilient Taliban fuel a brain drain of Afghan migrants.
Elon Musk's company made several unsuccessful attempts to place an unmanned rocket on a floating platform, a milestone that it says could help lower the cost of spaceflight.
Two 15-year-olds were convicted and sentenced life in prison for beating Angela Wrightson to death with items in her house: a shovel, a TV set and a wooden stick filled with screws.
In a long-awaited document on family life, Francis offered no concrete changes in church laws but appeared to leave open the important question of whether divorced and remarried Catholics could take Holy Communion.
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