It’s Political: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have released some tax returns, turning up the heat on Donald Trump do the same. Clinton’s 2015 return reveals that she and her husband Bill hauled in $10.6 million in 2015 and paid $3.6 million in taxes. More than half their income came from speeches and $3 million from Hillary’s book, “Hard Choices.”

Kaine, the Virginia senator, and his wife, Anne Holton, who was Virginia’s secretary of education, reported income of $313,441 for 2015.

The Real Clear Politics average of polls has Clinton leading Trump by 6.3 percent, although NBC News has it at 10 percent.

Trump has been slowly but steadily losing support from people he needs; die-hard Republicans, anti-establishment independents, and Clinton-hating Democrats. He has yet to break 50 percent in any of the big battleground states: Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, or Pennsylvania. He needs them to have a chance. But last night Trump said the only way he could lose in Pennsylvania would be because of voter fraud.

Dear Mr. Speaker: Journalist Kurt Eichenwald has written for Newsweek an open letter to House Speak Paul Ryan asking him to denounce the Republican Party’s candidate. He writes, “I ask you—in the first of a series of open letters to you over the next few weeks about the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his many secrets—to do what you know you must: Condemn your party’s presidential candidate. Condemn Trump as someone who does not represent the values of the Republican Party nor America. Condemn him as a danger to the United States. Condemn him to show that anyone should be disqualified for the presidency if they suggest their supporters should consider murdering public officials to achieve policy goals.”

The Games: US swimmer Katie Ledecky beat her own world record by two seconds and led the field by 11.38 seconds in the 800-meter freestyle. — In a dead heat for second, Michael Phelps shared the silver medal with two other swimmers in the 100-meter butterfly, an event in which he has often struggled. Phelps swims for what is likely to be his last Olympic medal tonight in the 4×100 medley relay, although his team mate Ryan Lochte said he thinks Phelps will appear in 2020 in Tokyo when he’s 35. — After a 1-1 tie, Sweden beat the US women’s soccer team on penalty kicks, ending the Olympics for the Americans. The US’s dislikable goalie Hope Solo called the Swedes “a bunch of cowards” for playing a controlled, defensive game rather than wide-open soccer.

Fasten Seatbelts: A jet Blue flight from Boston to Sacramento hit sudden turbulence, turning the passenger compartment into a human cocktail shaker. The plane landed in South Dakota and all 22 passengers as well as two crew members were sent to the hospital with minor injuries. Alan Lee, a doctor who was a passenger, told The Boston Globe, “I was working on my laptop when the plane suddenly dropped. … I don’t know how far it dropped, but all I recall is my laptop almost hit the ceiling, several other passengers hit their heads, and a bunch of the overhead bins popped open.”  

Crime and Punishment: A federal judge has thrown out the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, 26, who was one of the subjects of the popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” Dassey goes free unless prosecutors decide to try him again.

The 10-part series said Dassey, who was 16 at the time, was wrongly questions by the police without his parents or a lawyer present. He had been convicted of taking part in the murder and sexual assault of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer. The conviction of Dassey’s uncle, Steven Avery, who was the primary subject of the documentary series, still stands.

Criminal Mind: Actor Thomas Gibson appears to have been fired from the hit CBS series “Criminal Minds,” after getting into some kind of fight on the set. Profilers say the unsub is a frustrated lead actor who’s had enough of this crap after 12 years on a cliché-ridden crime series.

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