| Why Trump’s summit performance rocked Capitol Hill Posted: 17 Jul 2018 02:06 PM PDT ![Why Trump's summit performance rocked Capitol Hill]( "Why Trump's summit performance rocked Capitol Hill") On Day Two, post-Helsinki summit, President Trump sought to ease the shock and awe over his jaw-dropping disavowal of his own intelligence services, saying he misspoke: He does believe their assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Mr. Trump stated Tuesday at a meeting with members of Congress. Never before, in living memory, had an American president stood on foreign soil and sided with a rival foreign leader and against pillars of American government – in this case, the US intelligence community, Justice Department, and FBI.
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| How truth encircles the White House Posted: 17 Jul 2018 12:42 PM PDT ![How truth encircles the White House]( "How truth encircles the White House") Of all the reactions to President Trump's statement on Monday casting doubt on Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election, perhaps the wisest came from his own director of national intelligence, Dan Coats. Maybe it was his temperate response that helped cause the president to later retract his statement and is now worthy of some analysis. Especially worth noting is what Mr. Coats did not do.
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| How humpback whales made a global comeback Posted: 17 Jul 2018 12:23 PM PDT ![How humpback whales made a global comeback]( "How humpback whales made a global comeback") When the Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF) was founded in 1980, its researchers would drive up and down the coast of Hawaii waiting to see a whale. At that time, only a few hundred humpback whales made it to the islands per year. "They're just these gentle giants, and you can really connect with them," says Jens Currie, a PWF senior research analyst in Wailuku, Hawaii.
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| Russia chalks up Trump-Putin summit as success. But is there a hidden cost? Posted: 17 Jul 2018 12:12 PM PDT ![Russia chalks up Trump-Putin summit as success. But is there a hidden cost?]( "Russia chalks up Trump-Putin summit as success. But is there a hidden cost?") The Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin might as well have been two different events held on separate planets, to judge by the overwhelming media and establishment reactions in the United States and Russia. On the other side of the Atlantic, the mood expressed in major newspapers seemed one of near despair over Mr. Trump's perceived kowtowing to Mr. Putin, and refusal Monday to support the US intelligence community's findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Trump's behalf. "Why Won't Donald Trump Speak for America?" asked The New York Times in an angry editorial that accused the US president of being "singularly naive, or deliberately ignorant" in failing to call Russia to account for its alleged wrongdoing.
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