The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week.
1. Tonight, top-seeded North Carolina played against the Villanova Wildcats in the national championship. The intensely close game ended with the Wildcats scoring a three-pointer as the buzzer rang, bringing the score to 77-74 and giving Villanova their first championship in over thirty years.
2. The leaked Panama Papers show how Mossack Fonseca clients were able to launder money, dodge sanctions and avoid tax. This is in direct breach of international regulations designed to stop money laundering and tax evasion. There are links to 12 current or former heads of state in the data, including dictators accused of looting their own countries.
3. The next Democratic Candidates debate is scheduled to take place in Brooklyn on April 14, five days before the New York primaries. It will air on CNN and the New York City news channel NY1 beginning at 9 p.m. EDT, CNN said.
4. Taylor Swift won five awards at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, including Female Artist of the Year, Most Thumbed Up, Best Tour, Most Meme-able Moment and Album of the Year.
5. An Amtrak train derailed southwest of Philadelphia, killing two people and injuring dozens more early Sunday after striking a backhoe on the tracks, the authorities said.
6. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that states must count all residents, regardless of their eligibility to vote, when drawing state and local voting districts, thus upholding the “One Person, One Vote” practice.
7. An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect Monday morning. In the next three days, Turkey aims to deport about 750 migrants, mostly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who did not apply for asylum or whose applications were rejected.
8. 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.
9. A week after taking back the historic town of Palmyra, Syrian troops and their allies on Sunday captured another town controlled by the Islamic State in central Syria, state media reported. The capture of Qaryatain deprives the Islamic State of a main base in central Syria and could be used by government forces to launch attacks on militant-held areas near Iraq.
10. On Sunday, the first passenger flight took off from Brussels Airport since the suicide bombings on March 22 that ripped through its check-in counters and killed 16 people.
