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George Papadopoulos Ordered To Prison As Judge Rejects Last Minute Bid
Climate Change Will Harm The Entire Nation If The U. S. Doesn’t Act Now, Federal Report Warns
The massive plume from the Camp fire as seen from Chico, Calif. A new federal government report warns to expect more of these types of catastrophes.
Former Trump campaign adviser George Pa- padopoulos has been or- dered to report to federal prison on Monday as a fed- eral judge rejected his last- minute bid to avoid his two week jail sentence.
Papadopoulos must sur- render to agents to start his 14-day sentence for lying to FBI agents working on spe- cial counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investiga- tion.
U. S. District Court Judge Randy Moss said Pa- padopoulos's legal argu- ments fell short of what was needed to justify delaying the sentence that was handed down in September, Politico reported.
Papadopoulos lawyers argued that the former Trump adviser should be granted a 'modest stay' until an appellate court rules in a separate case challenging the
George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante Pa- padopoulos arrive at US District Court for his sentencing in Washington, DC on September 7, 2018
It appears Republican Senator Cindy Hyde- Smith’s commitment to cel- ebrating the most painful and bigoted parts of Mississippi’s history runs even deeper than she let on.
Earlier this month, the senator faced national back- lash after she was caught on camera cracking a joke about her willingness to attend a public hanging, and now, it’s been uncovered that she also dressed as a Confederate
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soldier while visiting a Jeffer- son Davis museum.
“I enjoyed my tour of Beauvoir. The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library located in Biloxi,” Hyde-Smith wrote in a Facebook post from 2014. “This is a must see,” she con- tinues. “Currently on display are artifacts connected to the daily life of the Confederate Soldier including weapons. Mississippi history at its best!”
legality of Mueller's ap- pointment.
But Moss rejected that argument, which he called an “11th hour” request, writ- ing in a 13-page ruling that even if the challenge to Mueller's appointment was successful - and he doubted it would be - that would un- likely give Papadopoulos cause to undo his own con- viction, according to The
Washington Post.
Papadopoulos 'has failed to demonstrate that the D. C. Circuit is likely to conclude that the appoint- ment of the Special Counsel was unlawful - and, indeed, he has failed even to show that the appeal raises a 'close question' that 'very well could be decided' against the Special Counsel,' Moss wrote.
Climate change is taking an increasing toll on the nation’s environment, health and economy, and the damage will intensify over the century without swift action to slash greenhouse gas emissions, according to a major scien- tific report released Friday by federal agencies.
The congressionally man- dated report by 13 federal agencies, the first of its kind under the Trump adminis- tration, found that climate change is already being felt in communities across the United States. It projects widespread and growing dev- astation as increasing tem- peratures, rising sea levels, worsening wildfires, more in- tense storms and other cas- cading effects harm our ecosystems, infrastructure and society.
The assessment paints a dire picture of the worsening effects of global warming as nearly every corner of the country grows more at risk from extreme heat, more dev- astating storms, droughts and wildfires, waning snowpack and other threats to critical infrastructure, air quality, water supplies and vulnerable communities. By century’s end, the report projects thou- sands of additional deaths annually from worsening heat waves and air pollution, as well as declining crop yields and the loss of key coral reef and sea ice ecosys- tems.
Some $1 trillion in coastal real estate is threatened by rising sea levels, storm surges and high-tide flooding exac- erbated by climate change, according to the report.
The report also warns of economic consequences of in- action. Without substantial global emissions reductions and local adaptation meas- ures, the report says, “climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of eco- nomic growth over this cen- tury.”
If emissions continue to climb, economic losses will be in the hundreds of billions annually in some sectors by the end of the century — “more than the current gross domestic product (GDP) of many U. S. states,” the report says.
The assessment found cli- mate change already affecting California and the Southwest through extreme drought, ris- ing sea levels, heat-related deaths and increased wildfire risk. The area burned across the Western U. S. from 1984 to 2015 was twice what it would have been if climate change had not occurred, ac- cording to analyses cited in the report.
The report also details re- gional-level climate impacts across the nation in an effort to provide local officials with tools to respond and adapt.
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Busted For Once Dressing As Confederate Soldier
Mueller Report Will Be 'Devastating' For The President: Frequent Trump Defender
Alan Dershowitz, a fre- quent defender of Presi- dent Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller’s report will be “devastating” for the pres- ident.
The Harvard Law profes- sor emeritus told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that he believes the president will have to navigate the political impact of a potentially damn- ing final report from the spe- cial counsel.
“I think the report is going to be devastating to the pres- ident and I know that the
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president's team is already working on a response to the report,” Dershowitz said on "This Week" Sunday.
Dershowitz added that he believes the report, al-
though it will have a strong political impact, is unlikely to result in criminal charges.
“When I say devastating, I mean it's going to paint a pic- ture that's going to be politi- cally very devastating. I still don't think it's going to make a criminal case,” Der- showitz said.
The comments come as Trump, this past week, sub- mitted written answers to questions from Mueller in the investigation into Russ- ian interference in the 2016 election, according to a state- ment from his attorneys given to ABC News.
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