Trump Tries to Downplay Role of “Low Level Volunteer” George Papadopoulos
Bill Clark/ZUMA President Donald Trump distanced himself from George Papadopoulos, the former campaign aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russian officials, claiming in a Tuesday tweet that Papadopoulos was nothing but a “low level volunteer.” It was the president’s first public acknowledgement of Papadopoulos after it was revealed the…
We Found Cool Dinosaur Fossils in Utah and Now Trump Might Ruin Them
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmentalists and scientists were rattled last week following a report that President Donald Trump plans to scale back two of southern Utah’s national monuments. Not only would the project endanger sacred Native American sites and breathtaking Western vistas open to the public…
Mystery Professor in Mueller Case Had Contacts With Russian Officials
Jens Kalaene/DPA/Zuma The statement made public by special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday morning announcing the guilty plea of former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos produced a stunning revelation: a professor who touted his close ties to Russian officials told Papadopoulos in late April 2016 that he had learned on a trip to Moscow…
Season 6 of “The Wire” May Star Trump Campaign Aide
The hot gossip about the indictments issued today is this: Was George Papadopoulos wearing a wire? Papadopoulos is a small fish who was arrested in July, but his arrest was kept secret until today. Why? In a court filing, investigators said it was because they wanted to preserve Papadopoulos’s value as a “proactive cooperator”—a term of…
The Bond Market Doesn’t Care About Climate Change
But there’s another element that helps cement the bargain: investors’ confidence that coastal towns will pay back the money they borrow. Homebuyers are irrational. Politicians are self-interested. But lenders—and the ratings agencies that help direct their investments—ought to have a more clinical view. Evaluating long-term risk is exactly their business model. If they thought environmental…
7 Eye-Popping Allegations in the Indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
Paul ManafortOlivier Douliery/Sipa via AP Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday unveiled an indictment of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Rick Gates, Manafort’s longtime business partner. The indictment alleges that the men earned tens of millions of dollars in income by secretly lobbying for the former pro-Russian president of Ukraine and then…