--- title: Morning Must Reads description: Kathmandu on Edge Aftershocks rattled Nepal on Sunday, sending much of Kathmandu into the streets one day after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake left more than 3,617... canonical: https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-27T11:45:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:41:43.361Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads og:description: Kathmandu on Edge Aftershocks rattled Nepal on Sunday, sending much of Kathmandu into the streets one day after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake left more than 3,617... og:url: https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads twitter:description: Kathmandu on Edge Aftershocks rattled Nepal on Sunday, sending much of Kathmandu into the streets one day after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake left more than 3,617... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: April 27 by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 27, 2015 11:45 AM CUT  The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 27, 2015 11:45 AM CUT ## [**Kathmandu on Edge**](http://time.com/3836004/nepal-kathmandu-earthquake-hospital-everest-avalanche/ "undefined") Aftershocks rattled Nepal on Sunday, sending much of Kathmandu into the streets one day after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake left more than 3,617 people dead, from the capital to small villages to Mount Everest, where an avalanche killed at least 18 people ## [**Baltimore Calm After Protests**](http://time.com/3836108/freddie-gray-protests-funeral-baltimore/ "undefined") The city remained largely quiet on Sunday after violent protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old who died in police custody ## [**Hackers Read Obama Emails**](http://time.com/3835981/russian-hackers-obama/ "undefined") Russian hackers reportedly read some of President Obama’s personal emails when they breached White House systems last year ## [**Jay Z Defends Tidal in Series of Tweets**](http://time.com/3836120/jay-z-tidal-spotify-itunes-twitter/ "undefined") Jay Z doesn’t tweet very often, but with all the flak that his recently launched artist-owned music-streaming service Tidal is getting, the rap mogul felt the need to counter all the haters, launching into a Twitter spree to defend the service ## [**Ex-Players Angered by NFL Concussion Settlement**](http://time.com/3836097/nfl-concussion-settlement-former-players/ "undefined") The exclusion from a legal settlement of chronic traumatic encephalopathy has angered many former players. Dozens have now opted out of the concussion lawsuit with the NFL, giving them the option of bringing future litigation against the league ## [**_Furious 7_** **Is Now Bigger Than** **_Frozen_**](http://time.com/3835920/furious-7-box-office-fourth-week/ "undefined") The film starring Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker is the first since 2012 — and one of only 29 films, ever — to keep the No. 1 box-office spot for four weeks. It has earned more than $1 billion worldwide but could be dethroned with the opening of_Avengers_ ## [**Clinton Foundation Admits Missteps in Donor Disclosure**](http://time.com/3836056/hillary-clinton-foundation-donors/ "undefined") The acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation is acknowledging the global philanthropy made mistakes in how it disclosed its donors amid growing scrutiny as Hillary Rodham Clinton opens her presidential campaign ## [**Amy Winehouse Doc ‘Misleading,’ Says Late Singer’s Family**](http://time.com/3836238/amy-winehouse-documentary-misleading-cannes-blake-fileter-civil-mitch/ "undefined") The family of late singer Amy Winehouse has fiercely criticized a new documentary movie of her life for being “unbalanced” and “misleading.” Titled _Amy_, the movie is slated to have its debut screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May ## [**Indonesia Set to Execute Foreign Drug Smugglers**](http://time.com/3836201/drug-smugglers-indonesia-execution-mary-jane-veloso-bali-9/ "undefined") Indonesian media report that nine coffins, covered in white cloth, have already been taken to the police station in the Javanese town of Cilacap, near Nusakambangan island, where the convicts are being kept and where they will be shot ## [**Film Shows Dad’s Effort to Honor His Son’s Short Life**](http://time.com/3835905/video-game-cancer-father-son/ "undefined") When a Colorado father’s 1-year-old was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2010, he began to make a video game that would honor his son’s life and give others a peek into the family’s reality of living with a child who would die too soon ## [**Los Angeles Airport Security Boosted Amid ISIS Threat**](http://time.com/3835698/los-angeles-airport-security-isis-threat/ "undefined") Security is being stepped up in Los Angeles, its area airports and other parts of Southern California amid new ISIS-related threats calling for attacks on uniformed personnel. Investigators said they were not aware of a specific plot ## [**Laverne Cox Urges Better Treatment of Transgender People**](http://time.com/3835554/laverne-cox-time-people-party-transgender/ "undefined") Laverne Cox, transgender activist and star of_Orange Is the New Black_, told TIME, “We need more of what’s happening in the media in terms of visibility to affect policies and how we treat transgender folks” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: April 27","datePublished":"2015-04-27T11:45:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:41:43.361Z","description":"Kathmandu on Edge Aftershocks rattled Nepal on Sunday, sending much of Kathmandu into the streets one day after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake left more than 3,617...","url":"https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3836333/morning-must-reads-april-27/","name":"Morning Must Reads: April 27"}}]}] ```