RUSSIA PROBE HAS COST $6.7M SO FAR

The special counsel investigation into possible coordination between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election has cost more than $6.7 million so far, according to a financial report released Tuesday.

Of the overall price tag, only about $3.2 million was spent directly by the special counsel’s office. An additional $3.5 million was paid out by the Justice Department to support the investigation.

Senate confirms Nielsen to head Homeland Security.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Deputy White House chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Senators approved Nielsen’s nomination, 62-37 on Tuesday. Nielsen, 45, is a former DHS official who is considered a protege of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former DHS secretary.

National Enquirer editor accused of sexual misconduct.

The top editor for the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and other major gossip publications openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, discussed female employees’ sex lives and forced women to watch or listen to pornographic material, former employees told The Associated Press.

The behavior by Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media Inc., occurred while he was running the company’s Los Angeles office, according to men and women who worked there.

Romania’s ex-king Michael, who ruled during World War II, dies at 96.

Former Romanian King Michael I, who was forced to abdicate by Communists in the aftermath of World War II, died Tuesday. He was 96.

Michael, who played a pivotal role in Romania’s switch to the Allied cause after a coup in 1944, spent decades in exile working as a chicken farmer and aircraft pilot. He finally got his citizenship back in 1997, eight years after the collapse of Communism.

Michael’s death leaves only two people alive who headed their nations during the war — former King Simeon II of Bulgaria, and the Dalai Lama of Tibet; both were children at the time.

Model in Britain’s sexand-spy Profumo scandal dies at 75.

Christine Keeler, the central figure in the sexand-espionage Profumo scandal that rocked Cold War Britain, has died at 75. Born in 1943, Keeler was a model and nightclub dancer in 1963 when she had an affair with British War Secretary John Profumo. When it emerged that Keeler had also slept with a Soviet naval attache, the collision of sex, wealth and national security issues caused a sensation and helped topple the Conservative government.