Michael Cohen secretly taped Trump discussing payment to Playboy model

The FBI seized the recording during a raid on Cohen?s office amid an investigation into Cohen?s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about President Trump before the 2016 election.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_17R84L.jpg US divide over Russia policy increasing

As President Trump signaled that he wanted a more constructive relationship with Moscow, following a policy of isolating Russia has grown more difficult.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/finn,bryce2.jpg Two more Delaware men arraigned for murder of Haverhill teen

Thomas Warner, Kenneth Pitts, and Nicholas Mondato are being held without bail for allegedly shooting Bryce Finn at his home in Haverhill.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/lobsters.jpg Lobster prices plummet after tariffs take effect

Shore prices ? what dealers pay lobstermen for their catch ? have dropped to about $3.75 a pound, compared with $5 about two weeks ago.

The Fine Print

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Chin071918JackieMoquin-Vaudo_Biz1.jpg A few extra zeroes causes a big headache

Somehow, instead of paying $182.36 and $92.60 via her online account to Comcast and T-Mobile, Jackie Moquin-Vaudo paid $18,236 and $9,260.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_FedCourt_01.jpg Judge denies gay Ugandan woman?s plea for release, stay of removal

Federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV said the decision of whether to stay the removal of the woman rests with immigration authorities.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed-18321.jpg ?Kill cops? vandalism investigated in Southbridge

The vandalized sign was found at a soccer field on West Street.

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The incident happened early Sunday morning, police said.

TECH LAB

For US cybersecurity, it?s Code Red

The director of national intelligence is warning that weaknesses in US cybersecurity could be setting us up for a high-tech replay of Sept. 11, 2001.

Mallory Cunningham, left, Santino Tomasetti, center, and Aubrey Reece attended a candlelight vigil in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks in Branson, Mo on Friday. One of the company's duck boats capsized Thursday night resulting in over a dozen deaths on Table Rock Lake.

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Hundreds mourn victims of Missouri duck boat accident

With 17 people dead, it was the deadliest accident of its kind in nearly two decades.

People prayed outside Ride the Ducks, an amphibious tour operator involved in Thursday's duck boat accident in Branson, Mo.

Driver of Mo. duck boat had served at R.I. church

Bob Williams was among the 17 people killed when a vessel packed with tourists capsized and sank in Branson.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_072018_21funeral_6890x.jpg Weymouth police sergeant laid to rest

Thousands of mourners gathered in Hanover to pay their respects to a fallen Weymouth sergeant who was killed in the line of duty.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/PlusStateTrooper-15156-15465.jpg State trooper admits getting free guns, cooperates in probe

The criminal probe focuses on whether former troopers violated the law by receiving complimentary guns after negotiating a deal with a firearms dealer.

This Mass. mayor moonlights as a ?Middle East expert? on Russian state TV

Paul Heroux, the mayor of Attleboro, appears regularly as a ?Middle East expert? on Russia?s government-funded television network.

RED SOX 1, TIGERS 0

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1002948264.jpg Red Sox shut out Tigers to start the season?s second half

David Price pitched a scoreless 6? innings, Steve Pearce had an RBI double, and Craig Kimbrel closed it out in the ninth.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_beidgework4_met.jpg Trouble ahead: Commonwealth Avenue bridge replacement project to begin next week

This summer?s replacement of the westbound side of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge will force some travelers to change their routes.

A boat that will be placed in the Seaport arrived in Boston. The site (above) is under construction but the park, in memory of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombings, is expected to be finished soon.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

With new Martin?s Park, plans for more ferries, things are happening on the waterfront

Not everything on the Boston waterfront is fraught with friction. Here?s a roundup of what?s progressing along.

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James Gunn was fired Friday because of old tweets that recently emerged in which he joked about subjects like pedophilia and rape.

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Hader said he made the thoughtless mistakes when he was a teenager.

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Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Marcus Smart says, ?Boston loves me, I love Boston?

He called the restricted free agent period frustrating, yet amazing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/3b5841312eab488a9e8d2b0bf2f7d96d-3b5841312eab488a9e8d2b0bf2f7d96d-0.jpg James Harrison says Bill Belichick is a better coach than Mike Tomlin

The former Steeler and Patriot said the biggest difference in the coaching styles is discipline.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/Boston/Content/Enterprise/Images/peets-2345.jpg Peet?s on Beacon Hill will reopen once permitting is completed

Four Peet?s Coffee shops in Massachusetts closed this month, but the company says one location will reopen soon.

Phillip Camp, owner of the Vermont Standard, surveyed the damage at the newspaper?s office, which was devastated by fire on Monday.

Erin Clark for The Boston Globe

After devastating fire, Vermont town rallies around 165-year-old weekly newspaper

On Friday, when the Vermont Standard hit the stands, one day late, it repaid the show of generosity with a banner headline. It read simply: ?Thank You.?

TALKING SHOP

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Chin071218SeaportStoresTalkingShop_Biz18.jpg Retail getting a foothold in Seaport

How far away is the Seaport from becoming a retail destination? 

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/08/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/AFP_14M8H2.jpg On Gisele?s birthday, Tom Brady wants her to know he loves her a lot. Awww

The Patriots quarterback celebrated the supermodel?s 38th with a photo of a kiss on the beach.

@LARGE | Michael Andor Brodeur

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/HG_NANETTE_180120_BK_0458.jpg ?Nanette,? Sacha Baron Cohen, and the limits of laughter

Coming to comedy in unfunny times.

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Here are some of our travel-tested favorites.

Ideas | Beth Wolfensberger Singer

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/sqsinger-1614.jpg Proper parenting revisited with Amy Vanderbilt

Test your parenting instincts against tips from Vanderbilt?s 1952 masterwork.

Ty Burr

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/gigli%204-683275.jpg You want bad movies? We?ll give you some really bad movies

An ode to the pleasures of panning a bad movie.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_bostonview7_landmark.jpg Beacon Hill hits the home stretch, but work remains

Some good proposals could fall by the wayside before the end of the legislative session, July 31.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/africa%20hero.jpg For refugees in Kenya, an education in hope

The Kakuma Refugee Camp is a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict. A New Hampshire university has made it the focus of its global plans.

Newsletters

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A convenient digest of the top political news of the past week, delivered every Saturday. Sign up now.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Atul-1024x576.jpg Atul Gawande?s first task as health CEO: a listening tour

He?ll travel across the country to meet employees he will serve through an Amazon-backed health care venture.

Globe event

Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Nation & World

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