Recorded for Your Protection: The audiotape of one conversation between candidate Donald Trump and his lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen has been released and it sounds like Joey Meatballs talking business with Vinnie the Chin. They’re discussing a $150,000 deal to keep a …

Like a Heat Wave: Wildfires pushed by high winds have ripped through resort areas outside Athens, burning hotels and cars and sending residents and tourists fleeing. At least 49 people are reported to have been killed. Authorities found 26 bodies …

All Caps: President Trump was up late last night threatening Iran on Twitter. “To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. …

Par for the Course:   The Justice Department yesterday released the once-secret application for surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI suspected him of working with the Russians. Entire pages of the 400-page document justifying the FBI’s suspicions …

New Yawk Law: President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen secretly taped a telephone conversation two months before the 2016 election in which the two men talked about a payment involving a former Playboy model with whom Trump had …

Duck Disaster: Eleven people are dead and five missing after an amphibious duck boat capsized during a violent storm on a lake in Branson, Mo. Several children are among the dead. Another seven people are in the hospital, two of …

The Americans: A young woman who was a graduate student at American University in Washington was an agent of Russia whose mission was to infiltrate powerful conservative circles, including the National Rifle Association and conservative religious groups, according to charges …

Spin City: Facing critics who call his words in Helsinki “treasonous,” President Trump claims he misspoke when he failed to confirm the assessment of US intelligence that the Russians hacked the US election. “The sentence should have been ‘I don’t …

The Finland Betrayal: With Russian President Vladimir Putin at his side, President Trump yesterday refused to affirm the conclusions of US intelligence and the special counsel’s office that Russia attacked and attempted to steer the 2016 election toward Trump. In …

Friend or Foe: Shortly before meeting Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki today, President Trump said the two would be talking about “everything from trade to military to nuclear.” He didn’t mention last week’s indictment of 12 Russian agents for hacking …