The EPA has reportedly spent $3 million on Scott Pruitt’s security but can’t name any death threats for him.
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Three Republican senators criticized embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Sunday’s political talk show, but President Trump seemed to sweep away Pruitt’s many ethics scandals on Saturday night. “While Security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, Scott Pruitt has received death threats because of his bold actions at EPA,” Trump tweeted. “Rent was about market rate, travel expenses OK. Scott is doing a good job!”
Trump’s tweet followed a report in Politico that Pruitt’s lobbyist landlords had boot him from his $50-a-night sweetheart rental deal and change the locks last year after he overstayed his welcome by four months, plus a brutal Associated Press article on Pruitt’s $3 million in security expenses and counting. AP reached that cost, which includes Pruitt’s large 24-hour security detail and first-class flights, from records and an EPA official with direct knowledge of Pruitt’s security spending.
Pruitt’s schedules show that multiple EPA security agents accompanied him on a family vacation to California, including a day at Disneyland, and to the Rose Bowl and a University of Kentucky baseball game. However, AP says:
On weekend trips home for Sooners football games, when taxpayers weren’t paying for his ticket, the EPA official said Pruitt flew coach. He sometimes used a companion pass obtained with frequent flyer miles accumulated by Ken Wagner, a former law partner whom Pruitt hired as a senior adviser at EPA at a salary of more than $172,000. Taxpayers still covered the airfare for the administrator’s security detail. [The Associated Press]
EPA officials have justified Pruitt’s steep security costs by citing death threats, but “a nationwide search of state and federal court records by AP found no case where anyone has been arrested or charged with threatening Pruitt,” AP says, and the EPA didn’t detail any threats when asked. BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold tweeted Saturday night that he “filed a #FOIA with EPA for any records of death threats made against Scott Pruitt. EPA said it had zero [records].” Peter Weber
From left: Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt and Steve Doocy hosting the “Fox & Friends” program last year.Credit: Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
During the early days of the Obama administration, I did a few appearances on “Fox & Friends.”
The conversations were predictably shallow, tilted and exploitive. The hosts had a particular knack for asking the idiotic with chipper earnestness, spewing venom through simpering smiles. There was, I felt, maleficence at work with a pretense of positivity.
I knew well that I was swimming in a shallow intellectual pool, and yet I told myself that I was doing yeoman’s work, doing my small part to try and correct misinformation and to reach those lost in Fox’s fog.
But I soon discovered that the show, and indeed the network, was beyond redemption.
I was simply being used to help give the show the appearance of fairness, impartiality and legitimacy, when it was anything but.
Appearing on Fox, I became part of the disinformation machine rather than hobbling it. So, I cut ties, stopped responding to their requests and stopped the appearances.
I never saw the show as anything more than a carnival, a propaganda tool for conservatives. I would never have thought that the show’s hosts would emerge as the most influential in American media, as the website Mediaite dubbed them.
This show, with its kindergarten-level intellectual capacity, moved from parroting conservative policies to constructing presidential priorities. “Fox & Friends” has essentially become Donald Trump’s daily briefing.
Countless media outlets have written and talked about the strangely intense connection between Trump and the show.
As The Guardian put it, “The show manages to serve as a court sycophant, whispering in the ear of the king, criticizing his perceived enemies and fluffing his feathers.”
Politico Magazine concurred, saying the show “feels intentionally designed for Trump himself — a three-hour, high-definition ego fix.”
And the impact that the show is having on Trump is undeniable. Dan Snow, a master’s student at the University of Chicago, analyzed the president’s tweets and found that they are highly concentrated in the hours when the show is on.
As Politico wrote, Trump is “live-tweeting” Fox’s coverage. Vox noted that at times he seems to be tweeting precisely what he sees on the show, sometimes even using their exact language.
Indeed, a February analysis by The Washington Post found that of all the things that Trump has tweeted about since his inauguration, “Fox & Friends” ranked third, behind only Obama and tax cuts.
In fact, Trump had tweeted about the show roughly twice as often as about the stock market and roughly three times more often than about the border wall.
Trump’s Fox fixation isn’t benign or inconsequential — because, like him, the network has an aversion to the truth.
According to PunditFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times and The Poynter Institute that checks the accuracy of claims made by pundits, of the statements on Fox that have been fact-checked, only 10 percent were rated true, while a full 60 percent were rated either mostly false, false or “pants on fire,” the worst possible rating.
The site did not do a separate analysis confined to “Fox & Friends,” but it has done three fact checks each on two of the show’s co-hosts: Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy.
In both cases, two statements were rated false and one rated “pants on fire.”
But these fact checks don’t even paint the full picture of how problematic this show is. Kilmeade once said on the show that “the Swedes have pure genes because they marry other Swedes,” and of Finland he said, “Finns marry other Finns so they have a pure society,” which was apparently better than America because, “We keep marrying other species and other ethnics.”
The intellectual giant who is Doocy once attacked SpongeBob for pushing a “global warming agenda.” He was accused in a lawsuit by former co-host Gretchen Carlson of engaging in a “pattern and practice of severe and pervasive sexual harassment of Carlson” in part by “refusing to accept and treat her as an intelligent and insightful female journalist rather than a blond female prop.”
This would all be silly trifle if in January the show didn’t mark its 195th month as the number one morning cable news program and if the president of the United States wasn’t taking cues from it.
In a way, America is being governed by the dimmest of wits on the most unscrupulous of networks. The very thought of it is horror-inducing.
Betsy Southerland left the EPA in 2017, after working at the agency for over 30 years – under Democratic and Republican administrations. Here’s what she told FRONTLINE about the Trump administration’s EPA: http://to.pbs.org/2fRA7Rp
Betsy Southerland left the EPA in 2017, after working at the agency for over 30 years – under Democratic and Republican administrations. Here's what she told FRONTLINE about the Trump administration's EPA: http://to.pbs.org/2fRA7Rp
More than 4,000 black men, women, and children died at the hands of white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Can you name any of them? This memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, is trying to change that. https://cnn.it/2uYVbQj
More than 4,000 black men, women, and children died at the hands of white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Can you name any of them? This memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, is trying to change that. https://cnn.it/2uYVbQj
Keystone Pipeline Spilled 407K Gallons in South Dakota, Double Previous Estimate
Lorraine Chow April 9, 2018
Release area of Amherst incident. TransCanada
TransCanada’s Keystone crude oil pipeline leaked 9,700 barrels (407,400 gallons) on rural farmland near the city of Amherst last year—nearly twice the original estimate of 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons), a company spokeswoman told the Aberdeen American News.
The Nov. 16 incident was already considered the largest spill in South Dakota, but its new estimate makes it the seventh largest inland spill in the whole U.S. since 2010, the South Dakota publication noted.
TransCanada shut down the 590,000 barrel-per-day pipeline, which runs from Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas, immediately after detecting a pressure drop in their operating system. Operations restarted about two weeks later. Federal investigators said construction damage when the pipeline was built in 2008 was likely to blame.
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Repairs and cleanup efforts have since been made. The Calgary-based energy company said there was no impact to groundwater based on its own sampling.
“We have replaced the last of the topsoil and have seeded the impacted area,” the TransCanada spokeswoman told American News.
The spill drew fierce outcry from environmentalists and pipeline opponents, especially as it happened just days before Nebraska’s Public Service Commission would decide on whether its controversial sister project—the Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline—will go forward.
“We need to stop all expansion of extreme fossil fuels such as tar sands oil—and we need the finance community to stop funding these preventable climate disasters—disasters for the climate, the environment and Indigenous rights,” Scott Parkin, Rainforest Action Network‘s Organizing Director, said then.
The leak occurred near the Lake Traverse Reservation, a region covered with wetlands and home of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Many of its tribal members were on the ground during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
“My greatest concern is the safety of my family, my kids, and grandkids, and really all the people in this area no matter what race or color, because we all need clean water to live,” Mike Peters, a Sisseton Wahpeton member, said then. “The water and the land is important to us because everything has a spirit, and when anyone’s spirit is covered in oil it saddens all of us.”
TransCanada’s existing Keystone pipeline has gushed a significant amount of oil three times in less than seven years. That’s a much higher rate than the company predicted in its risk assessments provided to regulators, Reuters reported.
AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel
Michael Biesecker, AP April 6, 2018
In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Pruitt has spent millions of dollars in taxpayer funds on unprecedented security precautions that include a full-time detail of 20 armed officers, according to agency sources and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt’s concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.
Altogether, the agency spent millions of dollars for a 20-member full-time detail that is more than three times the size of his predecessor’s part-time security contingent.
New details in Pruitt’s expansive spending for security and travel emerged from agency sources and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. They come as the embattled EPA leader fends off allegations of profligate spending and ethical missteps that have imperiled his job.
Shortly after arriving in Washington, Pruitt demoted the career staff member heading his security detail and replaced him with EPA Senior Special Agent Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent who operates a private security company.
An EPA official with direct knowledge of Pruitt’s security spending says Perrotta oversaw a rapid expansion of the EPA chief’s security detail to accommodate guarding him day and night, even on family vacations and when Pruitt was home in Oklahoma. The EPA official spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Perrotta also signed off on new procedures that let Pruitt fly first-class on commercial airliners, with the security chief typically sitting next to him with other security staff farther back in the plane. Pruitt’s premium status gave him and his security chief access to VIP airport lounges.
The EPA official said there are legitimate concerns about Pruitt’s safety, given public opposition to his rollbacks of anti-pollution measures.
But Pruitt’s ambitious domestic and international travel led to rapidly escalating costs, with the security detail racking up so much overtime that many hit annual salary caps of about $160,000. The demands of providing 24-hour coverage even meant taking some investigators away from field work, such as when Pruitt traveled to California for a family vacation.
The EPA official said total security costs approached $3 million when pay is added to travel expenses.
EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said late Friday that Pruitt has faced an “unprecedented” amount of death threats against him and his family.
“Americans should all agree that members of the President’s cabinet should be kept safe from these violent threats,” Wilcox said.
A nationwide search of state and federal court records by AP found no case where anyone has been arrested or charged with threatening Pruitt. EPA’s press office did not respond Friday to provide details of any specific threats or arrests.
Pruitt has said his use of first-class airfare was initiated following unpleasant interactions with other travelers. In one incident, someone yelled a profanity as he walked through the airport.
The EPA administrator has come under intense scrutiny for ethics issues and outsized spending. Among the concerns: massive raises for two of closest aides and his rental of a Capitol Hill condo tied to a lobbyist who represents fossil fuel clients.
At least three congressional Republicans and a chorus of Democrats have called for Pruitt’s ouster. But President Donald Trump is so far standing by him.
A review of Pruitt’s ethical conduct by White House officials is underway, adding to probes by congressional oversight committees and EPA’s inspector general.
Pruitt, 49, was closely aligned with the oil and gas industry as Oklahoma’s state attorney general before being tapped by Trump. Trump has praised Pruitt’s relentless efforts to scrap, delay or rewrite Obama-era environmental regulations. He also has championed budget cuts and staff reductions at the agency so deep that even Republican budget hawks in Congress refused to implement them.
EPA’s press office has refused to disclose the cost of Pruitt’s security or the size of his protective detail, saying doing so could imperil his personal safety.
But other sources within EPA and documents released through public information requests help provide a window into the ballooning costs.
In his first three months in office, before pricey overseas trips to Italy and Morocco, the price tag for Pruitt’s security detail hit more than $832,000, according to EPA documents released through a public information request.
Nearly three dozen EPA security and law enforcement agents were assigned to Pruitt, according to a summary of six weeks of weekly schedules obtained by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
Those schedules show multiple EPA security agents accompanied Pruitt on a family vacation to California that featured a day at Disneyland and a New Year’s Day football game where his home state Oklahoma Sooners were playing in the Rose Bowl. Multiple agents also accompanied Pruitt to a baseball game at the University of Kentucky and at his house outside Tulsa, during which no official EPA events were scheduled.
On weekend trips home for Sooners football games, when taxpayers weren’t paying for his ticket, the EPA official said Pruitt flew coach. He sometimes used a companion pass obtained with frequent flyer miles accumulated by Ken Wagner, a former law partner whom Pruitt hired as a senior adviser at EPA at a salary of more than $172,000. Taxpayers still covered the airfare for the administrator’s security detail.
Pruitt’s predecessor, Gina McCarthy, had a security detail that numbered about a half dozen, less than a third the size of Pruitt’s. She flew coach and was not accompanied by security during her off hours, like on weekend trips home to Boston.
Pruitt was accompanied by nine aides and a security detail during a trip to Italy in June that cost more than $120,000. He visited the U.S. Embassy in Rome and took a private tour of the Vatican before briefly attending a meeting of G-7 environmental ministers in Bologna.
Private Italian security guards hired by Perrotta helped arrange an expansive motorcade for Pruitt and his entourage, according to the EPA official with direct knowledge of the trip. The source described the Italian additions as personal friends of Perrotta, who joined Pruitt and his EPA staff for an hours-long dinner at an upscale restaurant.
Perrotta’s biography, on the website of his company, Sequoia Security Group, says that during his earlier stint with the Secret Service he worked with the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian finance police.
The EPA spent nearly $9,000 last year on increased counter-surveillance precautions for Pruitt, including hiring a private contractor to sweep his office for hidden listening devices and installing sophisticated biometric locks for the doors. The payment for the bug sweep went to a vice president at Perrotta’s security company.
The EPA official who spoke to AP said Perrotta also arranged the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth for Pruitt’s office.
At least five EPA officials were placed on leave, reassigned or demoted after pushing back against spending requests such as a $100,000-a-month private jet membership, a bulletproof vehicle and $70,000 for furniture such as a bulletproof desk for the armed security officer always stationed inside the administrator’s office suite.
Those purchases were not approved. But Pruitt got an ornate refurbished desk comparable in grandeur to the one in the Oval Office.
Among the officials who faced consequences for resisting such spending was EPA Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Kevin Chmielewski, a former Trump campaign staffer who was placed on unpaid administrative leave this year.
The prior head of Pruitt’s security detail, Eric Weese, was demoted last year after he refused Pruitt’s demand to use the lights and sirens on his government-owned SUV to get him through Washington traffic to the airport and dinner reservations.
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Related: From HuffPost
Jim Carrey is not letting up. The actor/comedian/artist unveiled a new painting, and this one takes on Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the agency had approved a pipeline project while Pruitt was renting a room from the wife of a lobbyist representing the pipeline’s owner.
In Carrey’s painting, a pipeline features very prominently:
Jim Carrey:
Jim Carrey: I looked on Trivago. The cheapest room in Washington is a youth hostel with bunkbeds at $81 a night. The $50 room Scott Pruitt got was a bribe from an energy lobbyist. Need your pipeline approved? Do it through Pruitt!
A Key Russian Figure with Connections to Trump and the NRA Faces Sanctions
Alexander Torshin is also reportedly under investigation by the FBI.
By Tim Dickinson April 6, 2018
Alexander Torshin Mario Ruiz/Epa/REX/Shutterstock, Mark Peterson/Redux
Alexander Torshin, the Russian government official Rolling Stone reports is central to a nearly decade-long influence campaign over the NRA, has been hit with sanctions by the United States Treasury Department. Torshin is a lifetime, voting member of the NRA, and the FBI is reportedly investigating whether he illegally funneled money through the organization with the intention to help the 2016 Trump campaign.
Femme fatales, lavish Moscow parties and dark money – how Russia worked the National Rifle Association.
Torshin is among nearly three dozen Russian oligarchs, companies and government officials who were added to the sanctions list Friday by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Torshin is now on the list by authority of an executive order signed in 2014 relating to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and interference in Ukraine. According to the text of the executive order, these sanctions freeze any American-based or -linked assets Torshin may have and bans his travel to the United States. According to Treasury, “U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealings” with the newly sanctioned individuals.
Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, underscored the need for the expanded sanctions in a statement: “The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine… attempting to subvert Western democracies, and malicious cyber activities,” Mnuchin said. “Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government’s destabilizing activities.”
As Rolling Stone‘s investigation reveals, Torshin has been an NRA member since at least 2010, cultivating deep ties to its leadership, including at the NRA’s annual conventions and through NRA delegation visits to Moscow, most recently in December 2015. Through his NRA connections, Torshin sought to broker a meeting between candidate Trump and Vladimir Putin in 2016, later meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. at May 2016 NRA convention.
On the Straits of Mackinac: Waterfront view, apprehensions of disaster
Patty Peek April 6, 2018
(Photo: Keith King, Associated Press)
I am an incredibly blessed woman. I live on the shores of an area known as the Center of the Freshwater World: the Straits of Mackinac, where Lakes Huron intersects with Lake Michigan.
Each day, I look out over the clear blue water and thank my creator. No two days are ever alike on the Straits: The wind changes, the sky changes, the water changes.
One day the surf can be so ferocious that even the biggest freighters are forced to take shelter. On other days, it’s a tranquil mirror reflecting the clouds overhead.
I love these waters. They are vital to shipping, fishing, tourism — and to life itself. I have worked in Sub-Saharan Africa for the last 12 years. I have witnessed the challenges of a lack of access to clean water. I have seen the horrors of extended drought. I have watched women try to gather cups of water from puddles in the road after a rain. I have treated hundreds of children for water born diseases and health problems related to a lack of clean drinking water. When I look out at the Straits, I wonder why I am so lucky to have such a life-giving resource in my front yard.
I also wonder why we are not better stewards of this resource. Why aren’t we doing everything we can do to protect a resource that, honestly, is the most precious thing on Earth?
Waking to the peril
Over the past few years, I have became much more aware of the risk of the oil and gas pipelines running alongside and under our waters.
I have spoken out about the risks of Line 5, the two 20-inch-diameter oil pipelines owned by the Canadian company Enbridge, I have spoken about the difficulty of cleaning up an oil spill on days when the Straits are ice-covered, and not even the Coast Guard will venture out.
I never knew we had other dangers under our waters.
This past Sunday night, the electric transmission cable running under the Straits began to leak dielectric fluid, an an oily substance that may contain a known carcinogen.
The Coast Guard was alerted on Monday. In the meantime, a minimum of 400 gallons, of this substance (and likely much more than that) leaked into the beautiful fresh water of the Straits.
As I write this, on Wednesday, the cable is shut down. But there is no assurance that the leak is totally stopped; there are 4,000-plus gallons of that liquid sitting in those underwater cables, and the site of the leak is not known.
Patty Peek is a registered nurse. She lives in St. Ignace. (Photo: Patty Peek)
Fragility, and peril
Right now, I am staring out my window, looking at the area where I would hope to see massive clean-up efforts. I would love to see a flotilla of ships, skimmers cleaning the waters of the substances, and volunteers combing the beach for birds and other animals that may have been affected.
But no — these are the Straits. We have sustained winds of 20 m.p.h, today, and gusts of 30 to 35 m.p.h. Our north shoreline (near the power transmission station) is still ice-covered, and we continue to experience a spring storm that brought 10 inches of snow last night and this morning.
No ships can venture out. No skimmers are employed. I’m sickened to know that beneath that ice and water, there is a potentially lethal, toxic substance that is floating in the water, meandering in the unpredictable currents of the lake. Is it gathering in a pool in front of my house? Is it swirling under the bridge? Is it floating past Mackinac Island or Sturgeon Bay?
What will this mean for the whitefish, lake trout, lake perch, walleye? What will it mean for the waterfowl? What will it mean for the cities and towns that rely on water from the Great Lakes for their drinking water?
So while the news is slowly filtering out from various media sources about what is being done, I see nothing out my window except a disaster in the making.
Is this what we have to look forward to with Pipeline 5 crossing the straights of Mackinac? JH
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Cracked Undersea Pipeline Caused Deadly Oil Spill in Indonesia
Lorraine Chow April 5, 2018Greenpeace Indonesia / Instagram
A burst undersea pipeline owned by Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation Pertamina caused a deadly oil spill on Saturday that left Balikpapan Bay in Borneo “like a gas station.”
The company initially said the disaster had nothing to do with its nearby refinery or undersea pipelines that run across the bay, noting that its own tests on oil spill samples found marine fuel oil used for ships, not crude oil.
But on Wednesday, Pertamina admitted that its crude oil pipeline was indeed the cause. A company manager noted the distribution line was closed immediately after divers detected the leakage on Tuesday. A test on a tenth oil spill sample also confirmed that it was crude. The firm is now calculating the amount of oil leaked into the bay.
The government, however, insists the incident is not Pertamina’s fault. An energy ministry official cast blame on a foreign coal vessel that dropped anchor in the bay and dragged the pipeline 120 meters from its initial location, causing it to crack.
“The pipe was allegedly dragged by an anchor dropped by a vessel, though no vessel was permitted to drop anchor or even pass through the bay,” Djoko Siswanto, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s oil and gas director general, said, according to The Jakarta Post.
Deadly oil spill leaves Indonesian Bay like “A gas station.” Hundreds of locals have reported health issues including difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting from the smell of fuel and black smoke.
The minister did not identify which ship but police investigating the spill have questioned the crew of the Panama-flagged MV Ever Judger.
“So, this was actually the fault of the vessel. […] As there were casualties in the incident, the owner of the vessel could be charged for the crime. But it all still depends on the results of the ongoing investigation,” Djoko said.
Greenpeace Indonesia said Pertamina is responsible for the disaster. On social media, the group condemned the state-run company for the tragedy and charged it with restoring the Balikpapan Bay ecosystem.
“This is why the world has got to start switching to renewable energy and leaving behind the limited fossil energy and destroying our planetary environment and our future,” Greenpeace Indonesia said (via Google Translate).
Indonesia declared a state of emergency on Monday after the spill ignited and killed at least five people in the port city of Balikpapan over the weekend. Hundreds of locals reported health issues including difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting from the smell of fuel and black smoke that emanated from the blaze.
The environment ministry said the oil slick has spread across 13,000 hectares (50 square miles) of Balikpapan’s waters and polluted 60 kilometers (37 miles) of coastal ecosystems, including mangrove wetlands and marine mammal habitats.
Zulficar Mochtar from the marine and fishery ministry said the spill threatens the ecosystem, economy and livelihoods of local fishermen.
“We cannot solve this problem alone, we need to find collective solution. The efforts would be beyond beach cleaning,” Mochtar said on Thursday.
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From left: Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt and Steve Doocy hosting the “Fox & Friends” program last year.Credit: Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Release area of Amherst incident. TransCanada
TransCanada
In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Pruitt has spent millions of dollars in taxpayer funds on unprecedented security precautions that include a full-time detail of 20 armed officers, according to agency sources and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Jim Carrey:
Alexander Torshin Mario Ruiz/Epa/REX/Shutterstock, Mark Peterson/Redux
Femme fatales, lavish Moscow parties and dark money – how Russia worked the National Rifle Association.
(Photo: Keith King, Associated Press)
Patty Peek is a registered nurse. She lives in St. Ignace. (Photo: Patty Peek)
Greenpeace Indonesia / Instagram