said "you bet." A few minutes after she started, I heard some rummaging around in the cupboards, followed by a moan from the kitchen. There was no vanilla extract, and that was an essential ingredient of her recipe. It was too late to go to the market, so I suggested she put the batter in the fridge and we'd pick up the vanilla extract in the morning. A few minutes later, I could smell a cheesecake in the oven. Maybe she had found the vanilla extract? No she hadn't. Instead, she found a container of vanilla frosting, and vanilla extract was one of its main ingredients. She figured out how much vanilla frosting would equal the vanilla extract called for in the cheesecake recipe and used that instead.For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.

An ex-Russian intelligence officer who worked with Paul Manafort and a Russian escort currently locked up in a Thai jail could be key to answering the question of whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia.

On Tuesday night, Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed court documents that raised new questions about contacts between Trump associates and Russia. The memo he submitted related to the impending sentencing of Alex van der Zwaan, a London attorney and Dutch citizen who pleaded guilty to lying to Mueller’s office in November. Van der Zwaan admitted that he misled Mueller’s investigators about his contacts during the fall of 2016 with Rick Gates, Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, and