Article snippet: 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. Contests for secretary of state haven’t gotten this much attention in over a century. The Republican National Committee voted for the East Coast swing state over Las Vegas, the only other finalist. GOP lawmakers backed away from a plan to reinstate stiff penalties on Chinese telecom firm ZTE, handing a win to President Trump. JEFF JACOBY Reversing Roe would throw Republicans into put-up-or-shut-up territory that many of them would be unable to navigate. Paul Heroux, the mayor of Attleboro, appears regularly as a “Middle East expert” on Russia’s government-funded television network. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, announced he would withdraw Ryan Bounds’s nomination after a scheduled vote to confirm him was delayed for nearly an hour, while Republicans came to the realization they did not have the votes needed to carry the nomination. NESTOR RAMOS He’s challenging Joe Kennedy III with no hope of victory, but Gary Rucinski isn’t your typical political also-ran. The group is sending a letter Thursday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, offering high praise for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Political Notebook President Donald Trump says Air Force One is getting a patriotic makeover. <?EM-dummyText [Thi... Link to the full article to read more