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4:40 PM ET, July 30, 2017

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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.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 755 U.S. diplomatic mission staff to leave the country in a Sunday interview with a Russian television station.  —  The diplomats must leave the country by Sept. 1, The New York Times reported.
Discussion: Washington Post
RT:
Putin: 755 US diplomats to depart Russia, time to show we won't leave anything unanswered  —  755 American diplomats will have to leave Russia as a result of Washington's own policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an exclusive interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Putin expelling 755 U.S. diplomats from Russia
Discussion: Washington Post
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:   Putin orders cut of 755 personnel at U.S. missions
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions
Discussion: Power Line
Nicki Zink / ABC News:
Russia's retaliation to US actions ‘long, long overdue,’ Kremlin says
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
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 …
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Week
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Sanders: I'm ‘absolutely’ introducing single-payer healthcare bill … (I-Vt.) said Sunday that he will “absolutely” introduce legislation on single-payer healthcare now that the Senate GOP's bill to repeal ObamaCare has failed.  —  “Of course we are, we're tweaking the final points of the bill …
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Mulvaney: It's White House policy Senate keeps focus on healthcare … White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that it's official White House policy that nothing else gets a vote in Congress before healthcare.  —  “Yes,” it's official policy that the Senate stay focused …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
JGoldsmith / Lawfare:
Our Non-Unitary Executive  —  The Trump Presidency is a strange combination of menacing and impotent.  It is also fractured internally like no presidency in American history.  —  The menacing element is plain.  Trump sets everyone on edge with incessant verbal attacks and relentlessly indecorous behavior.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Jeff Sessions: This Time, It's Personal
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Why ‘the Mooch’ Whacked Reince Priebus  —  “This is really a lesson in life,” a source close to the White House told me last Saturday, “Priebus made a mistake with Anthony because he kept his enemies on the outside, not the inside.  Anthony wasn't part of the problem they've been having, so Anthony can look like the solution.”
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Fox News:
Conway still mum on who reports directly to Trump, after Kelly's arrival
Discussion: AOL
David Edwards / Raw Story:
'Let's not waste any more time': Chris Wallace slams door on Kellyanne Conway's Russia deflections  —  Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, on Sunday deflected questions about Attorney General Jeff Sessions by slamming the media over the investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. election.
Discussion: The Week
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Conway: Trump making decision this week on ObamaCare payments
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
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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Reuters:
U.S. flies bombers over Korean peninsula after North Korea missile test  —  SEOUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said China, Japan and South Korea needed …
Discussion: The Week
John Bowden / The Hill:
Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes at competition  —  Hackers at at a competition in Las Vegas were able to successfully breach the software of U.S. voting machines in just 90 minutes on Friday, illuminating glaring security deficiencies in America's election infrastructure.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Iain Thomson / The Register:
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Nather / Axios:
Price hints HHS might weaken individual mandate  —  Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price suggested this morning that he might expand waivers from the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — a step that health insurers have warned against because it could drive up premiums.
Discussion: Politico
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Philip Shenon / Politico:
McCain Once Almost Left the GOP.  What About Now?  —  In the long, tumultuous political career of Senator John McCain, it would have been remembered as a turning point.  It was only rumored at the time.  But the Arizona senator nearly bolted from the Republican Party in 2001.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
How Schumer Held Democrats Together Through a Health Care Maelstrom
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Reuters:
Exclusive: Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans are ready to move on from healthcare reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed on Friday …
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Washington Examiner:   A succession of Republican failures on healthcare
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
U.S. police chiefs blast Trump for endorsing ‘police brutality’  —  Police leaders across the country moved quickly to distance themselves from — or to outright condemn — President Trump's statements about “roughing up” people who've been arrested.  —  The swift public denunciations came …
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Chris Buckley / New York Times:
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CNN:
Venezuela vote underway as Maduro foes vow to boycott
Discussion: The Week
Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign?
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
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