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Wall Street Journal:
Priebus Wasn't the Problem — Trump names a new chief of staff but will he listen to John Kelly?
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: GOP in shock over White House drama — Republicans are in shock this weekend as the chaos around the Trump White House reaches a new intensity. — Recent days have brought a deluge of drama. — Embattled chief of staff Reince Priebus was ousted, in news that broke late Friday afternoon.
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Politico, Raw Story and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Andrew deGrandpre / Washington Post:
John Kelly, Trump's new chief of staff, 'won't suffer idiots and fools' — Twelve days after Donald Trump's election victory, the president-elect asked John Kelly to meet with him at the stately Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to discuss the roles of secretaries of State and Homeland Security.
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Politico, neo-neocon, The Week, Political Wire, ABC News and Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Priebus Wasn't the Problem — Trump names a new chief of staff but will he listen to John Kelly? — FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump congratulates White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus during a swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 22, 2017.
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Hullabaloo
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Anthony Scaramucci Executive Producing HBO Movie While in White House
Anthony Scaramucci Executive Producing HBO Movie While in White House
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Trump Was Reportedly Upset Reince Priebus Didn't Fight Back Against Anthony Scaramucci
Trump Was Reportedly Upset Reince Priebus Didn't Fight Back Against Anthony Scaramucci
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Axios, The Last Tradition, IJR and The Hill
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Inside the end of the Priebus era
Inside the end of the Priebus era
Discussion:
New York Magazine and Talking Points Memo
Dana Schuster / Page Six:
Scaramucci's fed-up wife left him while nine months pregnant — Anthony Scaramucci's wife demanded a divorce three weeks ago, while she was nine months pregnant, sources told The Post. — Deidre Scaramucci, 38, fed up with her three-year marriage to the new White House communication director …
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USA Today, TheBlaze, Conservative News Today, The Root, Raw Story, twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit
Rachael Bade / Politico:
As Trump steams, Senate Republicans consider new repeal effort — Senate Republicans' party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare aren't dead just yet — at least not if President Donald Trump has anything to say about it. — Trump, increasingly impatient with the long-stalled repeal effort …
Discussion:
Politicus USA and Forbes
David Nather / Axios:
Trump may end health subsidy for members of Congress — The other part of President Trump's tweet this morning that will get a lot of attention from members of Congress: he hinted he might overturn an Obama-era rule that allows members of Congress and their staffers to get subsidies …
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan — Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemingly planned to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn't stopped him from leaving the U.S. Monday.
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The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers — There's more than bank fraud going on here. — In Washington, it's never about what they tell you it's about. So take this to the bank: The case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz's mysterious Pakistani IT guy, is not about bank fraud.
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JustOneMinute, Red Alert Politics and New York Times
ExpressVPN:
Apple removes VPN Apps from China App Store — ExpressVPN - Tortola, British Virgin Islands — We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN iOS app was removed from the China App Store. Our preliminary research indicates that all major VPN apps for iOS have been removed.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
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NPR, The Verge, Mashable, Instapundit and Clayton Cramer
IACP Blog:
Statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Police Use of Force — Managing use of force is one of the most difficult challenges faced by law enforcement agencies. The ability of law enforcement officers to enforce the law, protect the public, and guard their own safety …
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New York Times, IJR and The Daily Caller
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump threatens to end ObamaCare payments unless repeal passes — President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed. — “After seven years of ‘talking’ Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country …
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Talking Points Memo, TheStreet, The Daily Caller, STAT, Mediaite, Politicus USA, The Week and The Gateway Pundit
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says G.O.P. Senators ‘Look Like Fools’ After Health Bill's Failure — President Trump on Saturday scolded Congress for looking “like fools” and threatened to cut lawmakers' health insurance in a broadside a day after the Senate refused to pass a bill to repeal the nation's health care law.
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Avik Roy / National Review:
For Conservatives, Health-Care Reform Is Not Optional
For Conservatives, Health-Care Reform Is Not Optional
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bradford-delong.com and CNBC
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia's Villages, and Their Way of Life, Are ‘Melting Away’ — BARUTA, Russia — With its winding dirt lanes framed by lilacs, quaint wooden houses and graceful onion-domed church, the tiny farming hamlet of Baruta was once a veritable postcard of Russian bucolic bliss. — No longer.