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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Putin's Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly — A little more than a year after the Russian effort to interfere in the American presidential election came to light, the diplomatic fallout — an unraveling of the relationship between Moscow and Washington on a scale not seen in decades — is taking its toll.
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Putin, Responding to Sanctions, Expels 755 U.S. Diplomats — Breaking News Alerts — Although the expulsions had been announced on Friday, in response to the new law passed in Congress last week expanding sanctions against Russia, the president's statement was the first to confirm the large number of American diplomats involved.
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Putin cutting U.S. embassy staff in Russia
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New York Times, Washington Post and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions
RT:
Putin: 755 US diplomats to depart Russia, time to show we won't leave anything unanswered
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New York Magazine, The Atlantic, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and ABC News
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia
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IJR and Washington Post
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Ivanka and Jared find their limits in Trump's White House — By one measurement, last week was a good one for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. — President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law had been double-teaming for weeks to persuade him to oust chief of staff Reince Priebus …
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The Daily Caller, The Week, Raw Story and RedState
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
West Wing wonders, can Kelly fix ‘culture problem’? — General John Kelly starts Monday as the new White House Chief of Staff. After getting sworn in first thing in the morning, and sitting through his first cabinet meeting, he'll begin making his rounds in the West Wing.
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The Hill
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Final Humiliation of Reince Priebus — Six years ago, a humble party hack from Kenosha, Wisconsin, took on the thankless job of turning around the Republican Party. As he exits the White House—battered, bruised, and humiliated—Reince Priebus argues he accomplished just what he set out to do.
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Without Priebus, Trump Is a Man Without a Party — Reince Priebus looked battered. It was Monday, October 10—the morning after the final presidential debate—and our eyes met as I boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from St. Louis to Washington, D.C. It had been an extraordinary weekend …
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Raw Story
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
For Trump and Sessions, a warm beginning turned into an icy standoff — They met more than a decade ago, when the genteel junior senator from Alabama invited the brash real estate mogul to testify on Capitol Hill about the renovation of the United Nations. Jeff Sessions was taken by Donald Trump …
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Raw Story
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
'Let's not waste any more time': Chris Wallace slams door on Kellyanne Conway's Russia deflections
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The Week
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Secret donations are helping to boost President Trump's agenda, fights with investigators — If there's one thing that Donald Trump values, it's loyalty. He's placed an emphasis on it throughout his life, and he consistently requires it of those who surround him. Often, his brand of loyalty can be a one-way street.
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Political Wire
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Mulvaney: No other votes until Senate votes again on health care — The Senate should not vote on anything else until it's voted again on repealing Obamacare, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday. — Mulvaney said that “yes,” it's official White House policy that the Senate …
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Business Insider, Political Wire and The Week
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Conway: Trump making decision this week on ObamaCare payments
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The Daily Caller
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Mulvaney: It's White House policy Senate keeps focus on healthcare
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Business Insider, Mediaite and Politico
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that. — Call it the Gawker Effect. — After Jim DeRogatis, the veteran Chicago rock critic, reported for months on a stunning story about R&B singer R. Kelly and the young women said to be under his psychological and sexual control …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Christie gets in face of fan at baseball game — At #Cubs #Brewers game. #ChrisChristie was getting razzed by fans, so he got in the face of one of them. 5:30 on @WISN12News pic.twitter.com/sx8euMgFy2 — Ben Hutchison (@BennyHutch) July 30, 2017 — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Death of a F***ing Salesman — Donald Trump can't close the deal. — A few years ago in New York, Al Pacino starred in a revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and the casting was poignant: In 1992, a much younger and more vigorous Pacino had played the role of hotshot salesman Ricky Roma …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Instapundit
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Disaster: Megyn's Sunday Show's ‘Initial Run’ Pulled After Just Eight Episodes — The initial run of Megyn Kelly's Sunday newsmagazine show will reportedly be taken off the air at least two episodes earlier than scheduled because of her disastrous ratings. — Last week, Sunday Night …
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The Gateway Pundit
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Democrats need these conservatives to win in 2018 — Rep. Kurt Schrader says he's a member of an “endangered” species — the Blue Dogs. — Founded in 1995, the Blue Dogs are a conservative coalition of New Deal Democrats who prize fiscal responsibility and national security as their core mission …
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Instapundit
Fox News:
US, allies prepared to use ‘overwhelming force’ in North Korea, general says — The U.S. and its allies are prepared to use “rapid, lethal and overwhelming force,” if necessary, against North Korea, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces warned Saturday night.
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IJR, CNN, twitchy.com, RT, The Guardian, The Last Tradition, myfox8.com and The Week
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Kevin Collier / Politico:
Hackers descend on Las Vegas to expose voting machine flaws — LAS VEGAS — Election officials and voting machine manufacturers insist that the rites of American democracy are safe from hackers. But people like Carten Schurman need just a few minutes to raise doubts about that claim.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes at competition
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Booman Tribune
Iain Thomson / The Register:
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
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The Daily Caller
Polina Devitt / Reuters:
Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites — MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that prohibits technology that provides access to websites banned in Russia, the government's website showed on Sunday. — The law, already approved by the Duma …
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