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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and a key ally to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are among the 120 rich and powerful people mentioned in the Paradise Papers, a new release of data about offshore tax havens and obscure financial dealings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/\">The Paradise Papers\u003c/a> are a massive trove of 13.4 million records — many of which were leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, which was founded more than 100 years ago and operates in places ranging from Bermuda and the Cayman Islands to the Isle of Man, Mauritius, Shanghai and Hong Kong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting millions of loan deals, financial statements, emails and other documents, the data reveal how specialty firms handle the money of wealthy individuals, families and corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 380 journalists collaborated to unravel the connections in the Paradise Papers' nearly 1.5 terabytes of data. The trove was acquired by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/paradise-papers-das-paradies-der-reichen-1.3735767\">the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung\u003c/a>, which says the records show how the wealthy and powerful sometimes duck taxes, regulations, sanctions and \"at least their social responsibility.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4XeBz1hYJQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilbur Ross \"was a major client of Appleby,\" the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says, noting that the law firm administered more than 50 companies and partnerships linked to investments on behalf of his private equity firm, W.L. Ross & Co, LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ross divested himself of most of his business interests when he joined the Trump Cabinet in February 2017,\" \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.cloud.icij.org/stories/wilbur-louis-ross-jr\">the group says\u003c/a>. \"But he kept a stake in the shipping company Navigator Holdings through a chain of companies in the Cayman Islands, Appleby's files and public records show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussing Ross' Paradise Papers file with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, reporter Jon Swaine of \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> said Ross' investments link him to Navigator — which is in turn linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>Navigator is paid about $20 million a year to ship gas out of Russia for a Russian company named Sibur,\" Swaine said on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"And Sibur is co-owned by Putin's son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/562349277/562349927\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41883392\">an interview with the BBC\u003c/a>, Ross said Monday, \"There is nothing whatsoever improper about Navigator having a relationship with Sibur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said that Sibur wasn't under sanctions when the deal was made and that it's not under sanctions now. But critics of the arrangement note that in addition to Shamalov, another of Sibur's co-owners is Gennady Timchenko, a close Putin ally who is currently under U.S. sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the money generated by the deal, Swaine says, \"Navigator's brought in about $68 million in revenue since 2014 from the deal. The contract is worth at least $200 million a year, and it's scheduled to continue for about a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to Sibur, the commerce secretary said, \"The fact that it happens to be called a Russian company does not mean that there's any evil in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to his financial disclosure Form 278 that was filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Ross said, \"Where there is evil is the misstatement that I did not disclose those holdings in my original form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another high-profile figure named in the papers is \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.cloud.icij.org/stories/queen-elizabeth-ii\">Queen Elizabeth\u003c/a>, who reportedly had around 10 million pounds (some $13 million) of her money offshore, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-41879690\">the BBC says\u003c/a>. The queen's investments included a previously undisclosed stake in a Cayman fund in control of a rent-to-own company called BrightHouse, which, as the \u003cem>Guardian \u003c/em>reports, has been criticized \"for exploiting thousands of poor families and vulnerable people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-queen-private-estate-invested-offshore-paradise-papers\">The Guardian notes\u003c/a> that Elizabeth's estate, the Duchy of Lancaster, says it was unaware of the holding prior to being contacted by news agencies. The ICIJ notes that \"the queen voluntarily pays tax on income received.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3iSL3usQwBbjT0c84fwIwAjRPzSVZThT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable names include tech giants Facebook and Twitter — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/kremlin-owned-firms-linked-to-major-investments-in-twitter-and-facebook\">the news site Reveal\u003c/a> says benefited from large investments that were indirectly made by \"two Russian government-owned firms known as vehicles for the Kremlin's politically sensitive dealings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments — reportedly $191 million, in the case of Twitter — were used to buy early stakes in Twitter and Facebook via the investment firm DST Global, according to Reveal, which adds that DST founder Yuri Milner and others made profits of more than $1 billion when it sold some holdings after the two social media giants took their stocks public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those revelations come as Russia's attempts to use social media to influence the 2016 U.S. election remains a hot topic. Both tech firms and members of President Trump's inner circle have faced scrutiny; the Paradise Papers add to that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More recently, Milner invested $850,000 in Cadre, a real estate firm co-founded by Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-exposes-donald-trump-russia-links-and-piggy-banks-of-the-wealthiest-1-percent/\">the ICIJ reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICIJ adds, \"Milner is a Russian citizen who lives in Silicon Valley. His ties to Twitter, Facebook and Kushner's firm have been previously disclosed. But his links to the Kremlin financial institutions weren't known.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple CEO Tim Cook. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the deals and documents cited in the Paradise Papers have to do with avoiding taxes — and that is the focus of reports on Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording billions in profits, Apple began to look for a new way to shelter itself from taxes after Ireland toughened its stance on international corporations in late 2013. That prompted Apple to make a plan with Appleby to use subsidiaries to park money in Jersey, a tax haven in the English Channel, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/apples-secret-offshore-island-hop-revealed-by-paradise-papers-leak-icij/\">the ICIJ\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news\">the New York Times reports\u003c/a>, \"Apple has accumulated more than $128 billion in profits offshore, and probably much more, that is untaxed by the United States and hardly touched by any other country. Nearly all of that was generated over the past decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump Cabinet member, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is mentioned in the documents as a former director of a Bermuda company named Marib Upstream Services Co., which the ICIJ says was \"created to conduct oil and gas operations\" in Yemen. Tillerson reportedly served on Marib's board for roughly a year, from 1997 to 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"l3oAyMgTe6NyZH6cYbeIEtX7v2L3PVat\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights two Democrats who are not currently in government. \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/stories/penny-pritzker\">Former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker\u003c/a> is said to have transferred shares of two companies into a limited liability corporation that is referred to as being \"owned by trusts that are for the benefit of Penny Pritzker's children,\" the ICIJ says, citing Appleby documents. The move was made just after Pritzker was confirmed; the report says she later filed ethics paperwork in which the holdings were \"simply listed as having been sold.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shorter entry, former \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.cloud.icij.org/stories/wesley-k-clark\">presidential candidate Wesley Clark\u003c/a> is mentioned for his ties to Amaya, an online gaming company that is now called the Stars Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paradise Papers are the fruit of a new branch of the work that brought \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/04/472985787/heres-what-you-need-to-know-so-far-about-panama-papers\">the Panama Papers\u003c/a> to light in 2015 and 2016. Those leaked documents caused embarrassment among the elites in several countries, from the U.K. to Ukraine, and resulted in the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan leaving office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaked Appleby records that are at the heart of the Paradise Papers detail more ties to the U.S. than to any other nation, according to the ICIJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At least 31,000 of the individual and corporate clients included in Appleby's records are U.S. citizens or have U.S. addresses, more than from any other country,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/about/\">the ICIJ said in a statement about the release\u003c/a>. \"Appleby also counted clients from the United Kingdom, China and Canada among its biggest sources of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stephen-bronfman-trudeau-paradise-papers-1.4382511\">The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reports\u003c/a> that the names of more than 3,000 Canadian citizens, companies and other entities appear in the Paradise Papers, including three former prime ministers: Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also mentioned is Stephen Bronfman, a key fundraiser for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Noting that Trudeau has mentioned tax fairness as a priority, the CBC says that Bronfman, a Seagram family heir, and his investment company, Claridge Inc., \"were key players linked to a $60 million U.S. offshore trust in the Cayman Islands that may have cost Canadians millions in unpaid taxes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More revelations seem likely to come from the Paradise Papers — so far, we're seeing only a sampling of the documents; the stories that were launched by dozens of collaborating media outlets on Sunday reflect only the highlights of the data. A member of the ICIJ's data team says the group will release \"the full structured data from the Paradise Papers investigation in the coming weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the timeline described in the leaked documents, the ICIJ says the records date back to 1950 and run forward to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the reports, Appleby released a statement saying in part, \"The journalists do not allege, nor could they, that Appleby has done anything unlawful. There is no wrongdoing. It is a patchwork quilt of unrelated allegations with a clear political agenda and movement against offshore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm added, \"We wish to reiterate that our firm was not the subject of a leak but of a serious criminal act. This was an illegal computer hack.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of offshore accounts and tax havens has been grabbing headlines since it broke on Sunday. But the ICIJ warns against assuming the guilt of anyone mentioned in its reporting. Noting that there are \"legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts,\" the group says, \"we do not intend to suggest or imply that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was founded in 1997, as part of the Center for Public Integrity; it became an independent organization early in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilbur Ross \"was a major client of Appleby,\" the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says, noting that the law firm administered more than 50 companies and partnerships linked to investments on behalf of his private equity firm, W.L. Ross & Co, LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ross divested himself of most of his business interests when he joined the Trump Cabinet in February 2017,\" \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.cloud.icij.org/stories/wilbur-louis-ross-jr\">the group says\u003c/a>. \"But he kept a stake in the shipping company Navigator Holdings through a chain of companies in the Cayman Islands, Appleby's files and public records show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussing Ross' Paradise Papers file with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, reporter Jon Swaine of \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> said Ross' investments link him to Navigator — which is in turn linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>Navigator is paid about $20 million a year to ship gas out of Russia for a Russian company named Sibur,\" Swaine said on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"And Sibur is co-owned by Putin's son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/562349277/562349927\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41883392\">an interview with the BBC\u003c/a>, Ross said Monday, \"There is nothing whatsoever improper about Navigator having a relationship with Sibur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said that Sibur wasn't under sanctions when the deal was made and that it's not under sanctions now. But critics of the arrangement note that in addition to Shamalov, another of Sibur's co-owners is Gennady Timchenko, a close Putin ally who is currently under U.S. sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the money generated by the deal, Swaine says, \"Navigator's brought in about $68 million in revenue since 2014 from the deal. The contract is worth at least $200 million a year, and it's scheduled to continue for about a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to Sibur, the commerce secretary said, \"The fact that it happens to be called a Russian company does not mean that there's any evil in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to his financial disclosure Form 278 that was filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Ross said, \"Where there is evil is the misstatement that I did not disclose those holdings in my original form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another high-profile figure named in the papers is \u003ca href=\"https://offshoreleaks.cloud.icij.org/stories/queen-elizabeth-ii\">Queen Elizabeth\u003c/a>, who reportedly had around 10 million pounds (some $13 million) of her money offshore, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-41879690\">the BBC says\u003c/a>. The queen's investments included a previously undisclosed stake in a Cayman fund in control of a rent-to-own company called BrightHouse, which, as the \u003cem>Guardian \u003c/em>reports, has been criticized \"for exploiting thousands of poor families and vulnerable people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-queen-private-estate-invested-offshore-paradise-papers\">The Guardian notes\u003c/a> that Elizabeth's estate, the Duchy of Lancaster, says it was unaware of the holding prior to being contacted by news agencies. The ICIJ notes that \"the queen voluntarily pays tax on income received.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable names include tech giants Facebook and Twitter — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/kremlin-owned-firms-linked-to-major-investments-in-twitter-and-facebook\">the news site Reveal\u003c/a> says benefited from large investments that were indirectly made by \"two Russian government-owned firms known as vehicles for the Kremlin's politically sensitive dealings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments — reportedly $191 million, in the case of Twitter — were used to buy early stakes in Twitter and Facebook via the investment firm DST Global, according to Reveal, which adds that DST founder Yuri Milner and others made profits of more than $1 billion when it sold some holdings after the two social media giants took their stocks public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those revelations come as Russia's attempts to use social media to influence the 2016 U.S. election remains a hot topic. Both tech firms and members of President Trump's inner circle have faced scrutiny; the Paradise Papers add to that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More recently, Milner invested $850,000 in Cadre, a real estate firm co-founded by Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-exposes-donald-trump-russia-links-and-piggy-banks-of-the-wealthiest-1-percent/\">the ICIJ reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICIJ adds, \"Milner is a Russian citizen who lives in Silicon Valley. His ties to Twitter, Facebook and Kushner's firm have been previously disclosed. But his links to the Kremlin financial institutions weren't known.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/TimCook-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple CEO Tim Cook. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the deals and documents cited in the Paradise Papers have to do with avoiding taxes — and that is the focus of reports on Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording billions in profits, Apple began to look for a new way to shelter itself from taxes after Ireland toughened its stance on international corporations in late 2013. 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"content": "\u003cp>Devin Patrick Kelley had an assault-style rifle and two handguns — all purchased by him, according to federal officials — when he drove to a small Texas church on Sunday, opened fire and killed at least 26 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also had a known record of domestic violence. In 2012, while he was in the U.S. Air Force, he was court-martialed for assaulting his then-wife and their child. Under federal law, his conviction disqualified him from legally possessing a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Col. Don Christensen, who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force at the time of Kelley’s general court-martial, tells NPR the case was serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He fractured his baby stepson’s skull,” Christensen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628567\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11628567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley-375x486.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/kelley-520x673.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows Devin Kelley, the suspect in Sunday’s shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. \u003ccite>(Texas Department of Public Safety via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelley accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to a charge of assault on his wife and to a charge of “intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm” on the child, Christensen says. His crimes were punishable by up to five years confinement (the military equivalent of a prison term). As part of the deal, Kelley received an 18-month cap on his confinement, and was ultimately sentenced to 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley’s punitive discharge — a bad conduct discharge — did not prohibit him from owning a gun, as a dishonorable discharge would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal law\u003c/a>, anyone convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” is prohibited from possessing a firearm. The same is true for anyone convicted of “a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence,” under a provision that allows no exception for the military or law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley’s conviction qualified under both categories, Christensen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if his conviction was listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or if he would have been flagged as ineligible to purchase a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462252799/research-suggests-gun-background-checks-work-but-theyre-not-everything\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaping holes\u003c/a>” in the current background check system, as NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben reported last year, which can allow people who should fail background checks to buy guns anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley purchased four guns over a four-year period, according to federal officials; all those purchases were made after his court-martial conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Texas+Church+Shooter+Should+Have+Been+Legally+Barred+From+Owning+Guns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Monday at 5:10 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities are investigating a shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a small community southeast of San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a news conference Sunday night, an official from the Texas Department of Public Safety described the scene: Around 11:20 a.m., a man dressed in black tactical gear approached the church and began firing an assault rifle. He then entered the church and continued firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed that at least 26 people were killed. A Texas Department of Public Safety official said the ages of the victims ranged from 5 to 72 years old. The AP reports that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/325a116cb78e4b8b8e5992c8763ca956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the pastor's 14-year-old daughter is among the dead\u003c/a>. In a news conference, Freeman Martin, a regional director of the Texas Department of Safety, said 23 of those killed were found in the church, two were found outside the church and one died after being taken to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Safety confirmed to NPR that at least 20 others were wounded. A DPS official said in the news conference that the gunman was confronted by an armed civilian outside the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter has been identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, according to a law enforcement official. Kelley previously served in the U.S. Air Force in New Mexico from 2010 until he received a bad conduct discharge in 2014, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told NPR in an email. He was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and child and sentenced to 12 months of confinement. Kelley died shortly after the attack. It's unclear whether it was self-inflicted or whether he was shot by a resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley lived in New Braunfels, northeast of San Antonio, records show. He attended New Braunfels High School, a classmate confirmed to KUT's Mose Buchele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tom Vinger of the Texas Department of Public Safety said, \"The shooter was later found deceased in his vehicle in Guadalupe County. The exact circumstances of the gunman's death are still under investigation. The wounded individuals were transported to San Antonio Medical Center and University Hospital in San Antonio.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ksat.com/news/neighbor-who-watched-shooting-unfold-says-gunman-unloaded-at-least-6-clips-on-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSAT television\u003c/a> spoke with Fred Curnow, who lives near the church. Curnow said he heard gunfire. \"I went to the window to look and I see an armed man dressed in riot gear — I guess that's what you call it — SWAT gear,\" Curnow said. \"Fully masked, fully armored. He was just shooting the church from the outside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he saw the shooter return to a white SUV to reload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MaxMasseyTV/status/927252802182754304\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the attack, the shooter reportedly exchanged gunfire with a nearby resident before getting in his vehicle and driving away. Martin said he could not confirm whether the neighbor hit the suspect, but said it was safe to say that his actions, which caused the shooter to drop his weapon, saved lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KSAT spoke with Johnnie Langendorff, who said the man who exchanged fire with the suspect \"came to my vehicle in distress with his weapon\" and quickly explained what had happened. \"The other gentleman came and said, 'We need to pursue him. He just shot up the church.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/927265906086031363\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langendorff said he and the other man pursued the shooter at high speed before he appeared to lose control and go off the road. \"The other gentleman jumped out and had his rifle on him and he didn't move after that,\" Langendorff told the TV station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than a thousand people live in Sutherland Springs. Kelsey Bradshaw, a reporter for the \u003cem>San Antonio Express-News\u003c/em>, told NPR: \"The number of people who are injured and killed make up about 10 percent of the entire population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio told NPR's Noel King: \"This is a blue jeans and working boots kind of church. It's a big part of the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the details of this horrific act are still under investigation, Cecilia and I want to send our sincerest thoughts and prayers to all those who have been affected by this evil act,\" Gov. Greg Abbott \u003ca href=\"https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-statement-on-shooting-in-sutherland-springs-tx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. \"I want to thank law enforcement for their response and ask that all Texans pray for the Sutherland Springs community during this time of mourning and loss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a small Baptist church. It's an older building,\" one witness who works nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/several-casualties-reported-texas-church-shooting-n817751?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">told MSNBC\u003c/a>, adding that she heard \"semiautomatic gunfire\" from her vantage point about 150 yards away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never thought it would happen here. This is something that happens in a big city. I would never have thought this would have taken place here. It's just too tight a community. It doesn't make sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local media reported that law enforcement closed off the scene, where emergency vehicles lined the streets and witnesses told of several helicopters overhead. FBI agents also arrived at the church. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/927255361660301314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> that special agents from its San Antonio field office were on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas,\" President \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/927265906086031363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president opened previously scheduled remarks in Tokyo on Monday morning local time with \"thoughts and prayers\" for the victims. He said he was sending \"thoughts prayers and deepest condolences to victims of horrific assault on a church in a beautiful area. So sad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/927397233741492225\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In dark times, and these are dark times, such as these, Americans do what they do best and pull together,\" Trump said. \"Through the tears and through the sadness we stand strong.\" He said his administration would provide support to Texas and the local authorities investigating the shooting.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCorrection, Nov. 6, 2017:\u003cbr>\nIn a previous version of this post, Kelsey Bradshaw was identified as a reporter for the San Antonio News Express. In fact, the newspaper's name is San Antonio Express-News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just a week ago, the employees at local news websites DNAinfo and Gothamist in New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/nyregion/dnainfo-gothamist-union.html\">voted to unionize\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday evening, the publications' \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2013/Ricketts-Family/\">billionaire owner, Joe Ricketts\u003c/a>, announced that he was shutting them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The websites, which had been reporting on everything from the truck attack in Manhattan to the boot mugs at Chicago's Christkindlmarkt, suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html\">began redirecting to a letter from Ricketts\u003c/a>, who founded the online stock brokerage TD Ameritrade and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricketts \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/media/story/2017/03/trump-donor-local-news-publisher-joe-ricketts-acquires-gothamist-websites-004939\">bought the Gothamist network\u003c/a> of sites in March; he said DNAinfo and Gothamist were visited by 9 million people a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown leaves 115 people out of work, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reports. The sites' employees in Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all lost their jobs, though they had not unionized. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees in Los Angeles in San Francisco ran the \u003ca href=\"http://laist.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAist\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SFist\u003c/a> websites, part of the Gothamist network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Ricketts explained that he had founded DNAinfo in 2009 to cover neighborhood news in New York and Chicago, and \"because I believe people care deeply about the things that happen where they live and work, I thought we could build a large and loyal audience that advertisers would want to reach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85.png\" alt=\"In a letter posted to the DNAinfo and Gothamist sites on Thursday evening, billionaire owner Joe Ricketts announced he was shutting the sites down immediately.\" width=\"570\" height=\"875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85.png 570w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85-160x246.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85-240x368.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85-375x576.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/capture_custom-24121900c75f31f3f39efb580cbffbea69990f94-s700-c85-520x798.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a letter posted to the DNAinfo and Gothamist sites on Thursday evening, billionaire owner Joe Ricketts announced he was shutting the sites down immediately.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"But DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure,\" he concluded. \"And while we made important progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business, in the end, that progress hasn't been sufficient to support the tremendous effort and expense needed to produce the type of journalism on which the company was founded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown comes just a week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/graphs-data/tally-of-ballots/02-RC-207469\">25 of 27 workers\u003c/a> in its New York properties voted to join the Writers Guild East, which meant that management now was required to bargain with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I]t is no secret that threats were made to these workers during the organizing drive,\" the union said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WGAEast/status/926216932952608768\">in a statement\u003c/a>. \"The Guild will be looking at all of our potential areas of recourse and we will aggressively pursue our new members' rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reports that when workers tried to organize in the spring, Ricketts wrote to them, \"As long as it's my money that's paying for everything, I intend to be the one making the decisions about the direction of the business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Ricketts \u003ca href=\"http://blog.joericketts.com/?p=557\">penned a blog post\u003c/a> titled, \"Why I'm Against Unions At Businesses I Create.\" In it, Ricketts wrote, \"It's my observation that unions exert efforts that tend to destroy the Free Enterprise system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that all pages in the Gothamist and DNAinfo empires began redirecting to Ricketts' note spurred concerns among the sites' reporters that they wouldn't be able to access their work, complicating their now-requisite job searches. Reporters submit \"clips\" of their published work when applying for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people on social media saw the sudden redirect and inability to access the site's archives \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/926199502217891841\">as retaliation\u003c/a> against the sites' employees for voting to unionize. Instructions on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilycrockett/status/926205676048781312\">work-arounds\u003c/a> to access the outlets' archives began to proliferate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official at DNAinfo told the \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>that the sites would be archived online. As of Friday morning, the sites' archives were still not accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, Ricketts \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-failing-in-costly-anti-trump-effort-ameritrade-founder-joe-ricketts-to-back-nominee-1474381503\">announced\u003c/a> he planned to donate $1 million to aid Donald Trump's campaign. 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Richard Burr wasted no time on Wednesday connecting the abstract and amorphous story that is Russian election interference to strife in the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google sitting before him, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman described a divisive scene in Houston last year — engineered entirely by Russian influence-mongers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Facebook group, the \"Heart of Texas,\" posted anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content, then began promoting an event on May 21, 2016 marketed to \"stop the Islamization of Texas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yMQPdlTlOXYwGLnzfeUTeh8nxJtfmUdr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second group \"United Muslims of America,\" also began advertising an event to \"save Islamic Knowledge\" — across the street from the \"Heart of Texas\" rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, the advertising and social media campaign cost about $200, but created a tangible show of polarization that brought out crowds and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/heart-of-texas-russia-event/index.html\">received news coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm certain that our adversaries are learning from the Russian activities and even watching us today,\" Burr told the witnesses. \"Simply put, you must do better to protect the American people, and frankly, all of your users from this kind of manipulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers spoke with the Senate Intel Committee Wednesday morning, and with the House Intelligence Committee in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch the House Intel Hearing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"338\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=560481387&mediaId=560484663\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similarly interesting look into the content of the Russian interference efforts, on Wednesday, the House committee \u003ca href=\"https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/hpsci-11-1/\">released a small sample\u003c/a> of the ads Russia was pushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads take on a number of issues, but mostly focus on polarizing issues within American culture. 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But the company had not previously discussed how many people saw Russia-linked interference content shared organically through the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that content was aimed at widening divides in American culture, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"u0dHvXWegqltzhWAKvcjuKj4jSXtcMdQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these ads and posts are inflammatory, some are downright offensive, and much of it will be particularly painful to communities that engaged with this content believing it to be authentic,\" Stretch said. \"They have every right to expect more from us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stretch and his colleagues are set to face more questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday in an all-day marathon. 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The company's early mantra, \"move fast and break things,\" proved to be a winning approach to software development. Not so much to human relationships. It was a classic Silicon Valley case of product before purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook leaders now say that, perhaps by moving too quickly, they failed to anticipate all the ways in which people could abuse their platform. For a group of engineers focused on data and algorithms, it's like the modern version of Frankenstein: they've created a monster whose powers they're just beginning to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do it, the company will need to shift the focus of its metrics. People who've work at Facebook say that from Day 1, Zuckerberg has been fixated on measuring engagement: how much you like, click, share, up to what second you watch a video. 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The company's early mantra, \"move fast and break things,\" proved to be a winning approach to software development. Not so much to human relationships. It was a classic Silicon Valley case of product before purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook leaders now say that, perhaps by moving too quickly, they failed to anticipate all the ways in which people could abuse their platform. For a group of engineers focused on data and algorithms, it's like the modern version of Frankenstein: they've created a monster whose powers they're just beginning to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do it, the company will need to shift the focus of its metrics. People who've work at Facebook say that from Day 1, Zuckerberg has been fixated on measuring engagement: how much you like, click, share, up to what second you watch a video. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:20 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparent Russian agents began reaching out to Donald Trump's presidential campaign as early as March of 2016, the Justice Department established in documents released Monday, with appeals for partnership and offers of help including \"dirt\" on Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case is made in charging documents in the case of then-Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court documents got a little less focus early in the day than other indictments involving Trump's one-time campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a top aide, Rick Gates, who was Manafort's deputy and a business partner. Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday to all the charges announced earlier Monday, NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports. The two men were deemed a flight risk and put under house arrest. Both told the court they have a difficult time \"assessing their assets at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"aE2LHRTYJWqjXHl7gtEDAAaMOfuoboDV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Papadopoulos matter speaks to the heart of the mandate for Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller — to examine potential connections between people in the Trump campaign and Russian influence-mongers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is now known is that Russia tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign — and did so successfully, at least at some level. Put in context of other reporting around the Russia story, it is a remarkable establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court documents also establish that Russia promised \"thousands of emails\" that would have \"dirt\" on Hillary Clinton to Papadopoulos in April 2016. A trove of hacked Democratic emails was released by WikiLeaks three months later — in the midst of the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will tell you this, Russia: If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,\" Trump said, appearing to encourage Russia to continue digging. His campaign denied he was doing that. \"I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos tried to set up additional meetings or contacts between people in the Trump campaign and Russians. There were many contacts, according to the court documents, which describe meetings or messages between Papadopoulos and at least two Russians, a \"professor\" in London and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what remains unknown is who are the high-ranking campaign officials Papadopoulos contacted and what did those other officials do, if anything, with information Papadopoulos shared?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is known, however, that Donald Trump Jr., the son of the billionaire, organized and took a meeting with Russian nationals, who also promised dirt on Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's what you say,\" Trump Jr. wrote to the associate who set up the meeting, \"I love it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a key adviser, also attended the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time a connection between the Trump campaign and Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 election has been established by an ironclad official government source. Reporting that has linked the Trump campaign and Russia's effort has been dismissed by the White House and the president as \"fake news.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the charges against Manafort and Gates were announced, President Trump dismissed their significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925005659569041409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925006418989715456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos' guilty plea is going to be more difficult for him to downplay, although the White House tried to do so on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's announcement has nothing to do with the president or the campaign or campaign activity,\" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a White House press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that is not true. Trump named Papadopoulos as a foreign-policy adviser to the campaign. Sanders, however, dismissed him merely a \"volunteer member of an advisory council that met one time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders tried to pivot to the Clinton campaign instead, alleging it \"colluded\" with Russian intelligence to craft the so-called \"Steele Dossier.\" The dossier, which collected opposition research on Trump that eventually focused on his ties to Russia, was initially paid for by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website. The site \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html\">is funded in large part \u003c/a>by conservative donor Paul Singer, who was a Trump skeptic and backer of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research for the dossier was conducted by a firm called Fusion GPS, run by two former investigative reporters. They hired Chris Steele, a former British spy turned private investigator. He has ties to U.S. intelligence and is known as a Russia expert. As a specialist, they hired him to find more information about Trump's ties in Russia that they couldn't get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the primaries were over, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee picked up the tab to keep the research going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders called the dossier as \"false information.\" Some of it has been confirmed by some news outlets. Some of it is incendiary and has not been independently confirmed. Sanders dismissed the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr. and Russian nationals as simply \"a meeting that took place\" and \"routine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not routine. Opposition research is, but not seeking it from foreign governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, though, contended the Clinton campaign's and DNC's \"millions of dollars\" paid for the oppo-research file (that it never used) was far worse that Trump Jr.'s meeting — or anything coming out of Monday's court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took one meeting, and nothing came of it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders also said the president had \"no reaction,\" because \"it doesn't have anything to do with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not the end of the Mueller investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be more details to come either from Mueller or the congressional committees that are investigating the Russia imbroglio. Court documents indicate that Papadopoulos has met with the government \"on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating Russia-Trump ties, called Monday's developments in a statement \"a significant and sobering step in what will be a complex and likely lengthy investigation by the Special Counsel. That is why it is imperative that Congress take action now to protect the independence of the Special Counsel, wherever or however high his investigation may lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office also said he wants bipartisan members of Congress to \"make clear\" to President Trump \"that issuing pardons to any of his associates or to himself would be unacceptable, and result in immediate, bipartisan action by Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has the unfettered ability to pardon anyone from federal crimes. But that only applies to \u003cem>federal \u003c/em>crimes. Some officials, including Manafort, could also face charges at the state level — in New York, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner also put the guilty plea and indictments in the context of broader developments on the Trump-Russia investigation over the last several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just the latest in a series of undisclosed contacts, misleading public statements, potentially compromising information, and highly questionable actions from the time of the Trump campaign that together, remain a cause for deep concern and continued investigation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are indications that Papadopoulos is cooperating with federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is in the best interest of our client, George Papadopoulos, that we refrain from commenting on George's case,\" his lawyers, Thomas M. Breen and Robert W. Stanley, said in a short statement obtained by NPR's Carrie Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They then added: \"We will have the opportunity to comment on George's involvement when called upon by the Court at a later date. We look forward to telling all of the details of George's story at that time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and other conservatives have tried to sully Mueller's name, hoping to delegitimize his findings as politically motivated. One Mueller ally, fired former FBI Director James Comey, took to his newly revealed Twitter account to seemingly — and cryptically — back up the special counsel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FormerBu/status/925070993692987394\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates, were charged with \"conspiracy against the United States,\" \"conspiracy to launder money\" and other offenses. The two were expected in court in Washington by the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department indictment on Manafort and Gates contains 12 counts: \"conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560816481/trumps-former-foreign-policy-advisor-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi\"> pleaded guilty to making false statements\u003c/a> to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Manafort and Gates indictment unsealed on Monday morning does not make any reference to Russia's influence campaign against the presidential election, but it does allege extensive financial ties between Manafort and Gates and powerful Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos materials, on the other hand, detail the many contacts investigators say he had with Russian-linked operatives. He met at least two people, a man and a woman, who the FBI says were working for the Russian government and had boasted to him about the help it could offer the Trump campaign against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560782357/paul-manafort-is-reportedly-told-to-surrender-to-federal-agents\">turned themselves in to the FBI\u003c/a> on Monday morning. Papadopoulos' status was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort appeared at the FBI's Washington field office just after 8 a.m. with his lawyer, Kevin Downing. Manafort was escorted into the building by an FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing after his client's plea, however, Downing sounded like his client and the Trump campaign were one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I think you all saw today that President Donald Trump was correct — there is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government,\" Downing said outside federal court, per NPR's Miles Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contended that Manafort was merely representing \"pro-European Union campaigns for the Ukrainian--.\" He added that \"he was seeking to further democracy and to help the Ukraine come closer to the United States and the EU.\" He then pointed out that his client's work in Ukraine ended in 2014 \"over two years before Mr. Manafort served in the Trump campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the indictment was being brought \"using a very novel theory,\" regarding a federal filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. He noted that FARA has only been used half a dozen times in the last 50 years and with only one conviction. He's right that the act is seldom-used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downing then thundered, \"The second thing about this indictment that I myself find most ridiculous is the claim that maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the United States as a scheme to conceal from the United States government is ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yCv1Q6F0dBXv40CZSzEFwLnIOIrqrjQk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The materials \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sco\">are online here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos court documents \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4163471-George-Papadopoulos-Documents\">are available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort headed Trump's campaign from June to August of 2016. He stepped down after reports emerged about his business relationship with pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine, allegedly replete with millions of dollars in cash payments and undisclosed lobbying efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment released on Monday charges Manafort and Gates with the extensive use of offshore bank accounts, through which flowed more than $75 million. The document alleges that Manafort laundered more than $18 million of that to conceal it from U.S. authorities and Gates transferred more than $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort grew wealthy over a colorful career in his four decades as a Republican operative and lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked for Republican campaigns in the late 1970s and early 1980s before moving into the lucrative world of international lobbying, where he teamed up with Roger Stone to found the firm Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort represented a host of unsavory characters over the years, including Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire's leader Mobutu Sese Seko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2000s, Manafort headed to Ukraine to work as an adviser to the pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych, helping him win the presidency in 2010. Yanukovych was overthrown by a wave of popular protests four years later. He fled to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort later became an early backer of Trump, eventually assuming the role of chairman of his insurgent presidential campaign. Trump and the White House have lately downplayed the role that Manafort played in the 2016 operation. But at the time, their relationship was said to be close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort is \"the one person in the room that calls him 'Donald,' \" as Republican operative Scott Reed \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486085582/meet-paul-manafort-the-washington-insider-running-trumps-campaign\">told NPR last year\u003c/a>. \"It's not 'Mr. Trump.' It's 'Donald.' 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos' guilty plea is going to be more difficult for him to downplay, although the White House tried to do so on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's announcement has nothing to do with the president or the campaign or campaign activity,\" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a White House press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that is not true. Trump named Papadopoulos as a foreign-policy adviser to the campaign. Sanders, however, dismissed him merely a \"volunteer member of an advisory council that met one time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders tried to pivot to the Clinton campaign instead, alleging it \"colluded\" with Russian intelligence to craft the so-called \"Steele Dossier.\" The dossier, which collected opposition research on Trump that eventually focused on his ties to Russia, was initially paid for by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website. 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Court documents indicate that Papadopoulos has met with the government \"on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating Russia-Trump ties, called Monday's developments in a statement \"a significant and sobering step in what will be a complex and likely lengthy investigation by the Special Counsel. That is why it is imperative that Congress take action now to protect the independence of the Special Counsel, wherever or however high his investigation may lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office also said he wants bipartisan members of Congress to \"make clear\" to President Trump \"that issuing pardons to any of his associates or to himself would be unacceptable, and result in immediate, bipartisan action by Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has the unfettered ability to pardon anyone from federal crimes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates, were charged with \"conspiracy against the United States,\" \"conspiracy to launder money\" and other offenses. The two were expected in court in Washington by the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department indictment on Manafort and Gates contains 12 counts: \"conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560816481/trumps-former-foreign-policy-advisor-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi\"> pleaded guilty to making false statements\u003c/a> to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Manafort and Gates indictment unsealed on Monday morning does not make any reference to Russia's influence campaign against the presidential election, but it does allege extensive financial ties between Manafort and Gates and powerful Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos materials, on the other hand, detail the many contacts investigators say he had with Russian-linked operatives. He met at least two people, a man and a woman, who the FBI says were working for the Russian government and had boasted to him about the help it could offer the Trump campaign against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560782357/paul-manafort-is-reportedly-told-to-surrender-to-federal-agents\">turned themselves in to the FBI\u003c/a> on Monday morning. Papadopoulos' status was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort appeared at the FBI's Washington field office just after 8 a.m. with his lawyer, Kevin Downing. Manafort was escorted into the building by an FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing after his client's plea, however, Downing sounded like his client and the Trump campaign were one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I think you all saw today that President Donald Trump was correct — there is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government,\" Downing said outside federal court, per NPR's Miles Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contended that Manafort was merely representing \"pro-European Union campaigns for the Ukrainian--.\" He added that \"he was seeking to further democracy and to help the Ukraine come closer to the United States and the EU.\" He then pointed out that his client's work in Ukraine ended in 2014 \"over two years before Mr. Manafort served in the Trump campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the indictment was being brought \"using a very novel theory,\" regarding a federal filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. He noted that FARA has only been used half a dozen times in the last 50 years and with only one conviction. He's right that the act is seldom-used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downing then thundered, \"The second thing about this indictment that I myself find most ridiculous is the claim that maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the United States as a scheme to conceal from the United States government is ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The materials \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sco\">are online here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos court documents \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4163471-George-Papadopoulos-Documents\">are available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort headed Trump's campaign from June to August of 2016. 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