Manafort Gets Indicted, And Other Stories

It seems that today can be called Manafort Monday.  Justice Department Special Counsel Mueller has indicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates, who also worked for the Trump campaign, on charges including money laundering and making false statements.  In a separate development, George Papadopoulos, who had been a foreign policy advisor to then-candidate Trump, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.  The indictment does not mention President Trump himself.  The charges, from what I can tell, have to do with alleged behavior that occurred before the two defendants worked for the Trump campaign.

Read more at The New York Times, CNN (which has posted the text of the indictment), ABC News, Fox News and The Hill.

In some tangentially related items:

From The Washington Free Beacon, Wolf Blitzer confuses the Greek-descended Georges.

From Twitchy, Ben Shapiro sums up the meaning of the indictments.

From The Daily Caller, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders "brushes off" Papadopoulos's guilty plea.

From Politico, Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta, under investigation by Mueller, steps down from the firm that bears his name.  (via the New York Post)

Here are some completely different things in the news:

Again from Politico, Senator and defendant Robert Menendez (D-NJ) will not get a mistrial.

From CNS News, in Yemen, children are being used as human shields.  (H/T luchadora for the Tweet.  This gets the "terrorism" label because anyone who uses the innocent as human shields is a terrorist.)

From Philly(dot)com, Penn State disciplines two more fraternities.

From Fox News, Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos will reportedly be subpoenaed.

From the Washington Examiner, animal rights activists are getting help from a Trump.  (via The Daily Caller)

From The Daily Signal, according to a sociology professor, America is going "through another sexual revolution", and the "ugly truth" about sex change surgery.

From Legal Insurrection, there's a plan to divide California into three.  (Which of them would fall into the Pacific Ocean if something happens to the San Andreas Fault?)

From the Express, the European Union faces more eurosceptism.

From The Old Continent, the obligation to house migrants is causing a housing crisis in Sweden.

From The Local SE, in Sweden, groups other than migrants "go without".

From Breitbart London, a French court orders the removal of a cross from a statue of Pope John Paul II because the cross is a religious symbol in a public space.  (But a statue of a pope, who has been canonized by the Catholic church is not?)

From the NL Times, a man is attacked with a hammer.

From the Metro, in Britain, a Pakistani Christian is beaten up for having poppies in his car.

From The Guardian, violence at detention centers in Libya causes migrants to return home.

From Russia Today, Spain's foreign minister says that independence is ruled out, but there may be more autonomy for Catalonia.

From Reuters, Singapore bans two foreign Muslim preachers for their "divisive views".

From the Independent, Saudi Arabia will allow women into (three specific) sports venues.

From Qantara, the Turkish parliament has passed a bill, which is opposed by women's right groups, to allow Islamic muftis to register weddings, alongside civil registrars.

From the New York Post, sometimes taking an unpaid break is a good idea.

And from the Mirror, ten weird facts about Halloween.