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Associated Press
Trump recorded
discussing pay
for Playboy
model
WASHINGTON — Two
months before the 2016 elec-
tion, Donald Trump and his
former lawyer discussed plans
to pay for a former Playboy
model’s story of an alleged
affair, according to a secretly
recorded tape of the conversa-
tion released amid an escalating
feud between the president and
his longtime personal attorney.
The audio recording, surrep-
titiously made by Trump’s for-
mer personal lawyer Michael
Cohen, appears to contradict
the Trump campaign’s later
claim that the president knew
nothing about a media compa-
ny’s purchase of model Karen
McDougal’s story and any
efforts to keep it from becom-
ing public.
The tape captures the soon-
to-be elected president and his
lawyer discussing logistics of
financing and whether to “pay
with cash,” although the sound
is muffled and Trump’s instruc-
tions on that are unclear. Law-
yers for Trump and Cohen are
disputing what was said.
The tape was provided to
CNN on Tuesday by Cohen’s
attorney, Lanny Davis, and sig-
nals a new level of open hostil-
ity between the president and
the man who once described
himself as Trump’s “fixer.”
Cohen, who is under federal
investigation for potential bank
fraud and campaign finance
violations, has shown a grow-
ing willingness to reveal dam-
aging information.
Trump vented on Twitter
today about the release of the
surreptitious tape.
“What kind of a lawyer
would tape a client? So sad!” he
said. “Is this a first, never heard
of it before? Why was the tape
so abruptly terminated (cut)
while I was presumably saying
positive things?”
Trump accuses
China of using
‘vicious’ tactics
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump accused
China today of “vicious” tac-
tics on trade as he prepared
for tough negotiations with
European leaders in an
escalating trade battle among
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Vehicles leave Yosemite Valley as smoke from the Ferguson Fire fills the sky.
Heart of Yosemite to close as
crews battle raging wildfire
LOS ANGELES — Campsites and lodges emptied out after disappointed tourists were
ordered to leave the heart of Yosemite National Park by noon today, as firefighters battled to
contain a huge wildfire just to the west that has threatened the park’s forest and sent up smoke
that obscured grand vistas of waterfalls and sheer granite faces.
Yosemite Valley will be closed until at least Sunday, along with a winding, mountainous,
20-mile stretch of California’s State Route 41 that leads in, park spokesman Scott Gediman
said.
At least a thousand campground and hotel bookings will be canceled — to say nothing of
the impact on day visitors, park workers and small businesses along the highway, Gediman
said. Rangers went to campsites one at a time to inform visitors of the closures. Hotel guests
got phone calls and notes on their doors.
“This is the prime visitor season, so this wasn’t an easy decision to make,” Gediman said.
“This was purely for safety’s sake.”
Officials were quick to point out that Yosemite wasn’t under imminent danger from the Fer-
guson Fire. Authorities decided on the closure to allow crews to perform protective measures
such as burning away brush along roadways without having to deal with traffic in the park that
welcomes 4 million visitors annually.
The last time the 7.5-mile-long valley was closed because of fire was 1990, he said.
Yosemite Valley is the centerpiece of the visitor experience, offering views of landmarks
such as Half Dome, Sentinel Dome, Bridal Veil Fall, El Capitan and Yosemite Falls. The gla-
cial valley has been enveloped by a choking haze of smoke from the Ferguson Fire.
world powers.
Trump tweeted that China
was specifically targeting U.S.
farmers with retaliatory tar-
iffs because “they know I love
& respect” them. His defense
came after his administration
announced a plan to provide
$12 billion in emergency relief
for farmers who have been
slammed by the president’s
trade disputes with China and
other countries.
Addressing the China trade
relationship, Trump wrote
on Twitter, “They are being
vicious in what will be their
failed attempt. We were being
nice — until now!”
Chinese President Xi Jin-
ping said at an international
summit in South Africa that the
world faces “a choice between
cooperation and confronta-
tion,” in remarks that criticized
escalating U.S. tariffs on goods
from China and other major
trading partners. He warned
that those who pursue “eco-
nomic hegemony” will “only
end up hurting themselves.”
The president was meeting
at the White House later today
with European Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker
and other European officials
as their trade dispute threat-
ens to spread to automobile
production.
Trump has placed tariffs on
imported steel and aluminum,
saying they pose a threat to
U.S. national security, an argu-
ment that the European Union
and Canada rejects. He has
also threatened to slap tariffs
on imported cars, trucks and
auto parts, potentially targeting
imports that last year totaled
$335 billion.
The European Union has
warned that it will retaliate
with tariffs on products worth
$20 billion if Trump puts duties
on cars and auto parts from
Europe.
Study: Water is
buried on Mars
NEW YORK — A huge
lake of salty water appears to
be buried deep in Mars, rais-
ing the possibility of finding
life on the red planet, scientists
reported today.
The discovery, based on
observations by a European
spacecraft, generated excite-
ment from experts. Water is
essential to life as we know it,
and scientists have long sought
to prove that the liquid is pres-
ent on Mars.
“If these researchers are
right, this is the first time we’ve
found evidence of a large water
body on Mars,” said Cassie
Stuurman, a geophysicist at the
University of Texas who found
signs of an enormous Martian
ice deposit in 2016.
Scott Hubbard, a professor
of astronautics at Stanford Uni-
versity who served as NASA’s
first Mars program director in
2000, called it “tremendously
exciting.”
“Our mantra back then was
‘follow the water.’ That was the
one phrase that captured every-
thing,” Hubbard said. “So this
discovery, if it stands, is just
thrilling because it’s the culmi-
nation of that philosophy.”
The study, published in the
journal Science, does not deter-
mine how deep the reservoir
actually is. This means that sci-
entists can’t specify whether it’s
an underground pool, an aqui-
fer-like body, or just a layer of
sludge.
the other.
Al-Ikhbariya state-run TV
showed images from several
locations in the province and
its capital where the bombers
blew themselves up. State-run
news agency SANA said 38
people were killed in the sui-
cide bombings and blamed the
Islamic State group. The break-
down of the fatalities from the
attacks was not immediately
known.
Sweida health official Has-
san Omar told The Associated
Press by phone that 90 peo-
ple were killed in the suicide
blasts and subsequent fight-
ing in Sweida, and that 80 peo-
ple were wounded. The Brit-
ain-based Observatory for
Human Rights monitoring
group put the overall death toll
at more than 100.
The rare attacks in Sweida,
populated mainly by Syria’s
minority Druze, came amid
a government offensive else-
where in the country’s south.
Government forces are bat-
tling the IS-linked group near
the frontier with Israeli-occu-
pied Golan Heights and near
the border with Jordan. The
group also has a small presence
on the eastern edge of Sweida
province.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — A
series of suicide bombings and
attacks that sparked fighting
between local armed groups in
southern Syria killed around 90
people today, a local health offi-
cial and activists said, spreading
mayhem in a province that has
been relatively quiet throughout
Syria’s seven-year conflict. The
Islamic State group claimed
responsibility for the carnage.
The coordinated attacks —
the worst in recent months —
had all the hallmarks of IS even
before it claimed responsibil-
ity and were reminiscent of the
group’s horrific assaults over
the past years in Syria, already
ravaged by civil war.
The bombings in the city
of Sweida, including a motor-
cycle bomber who struck at a
busy vegetable market, were
apparently timed to coin-
cide with attacks by a militant
group linked to IS on a num-
ber of villages in the prov-
ince, also called Sweida. It trig-
gered deadly clashes between
pro-government fighters and
residents who picked up weap-
ons to defend their hometowns
on one side, and IS militants on
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