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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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Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Putin cutting U.S. embassy staff in Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin hit back at pending U.S. sanctions against his country on Sunday by ordering a 755-person cut in the U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia. — “I decided that it is time for us to show that we will not leave anything unanswered …
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RT:
Putin: 755 US diplomats to depart Russia, time to show we won't leave anything unanswered
Putin: 755 US diplomats to depart Russia, time to show we won't leave anything unanswered
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The Atlantic, New York Magazine, ABC News, TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions
The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions
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Power Line
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia
Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia
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IJR and Washington Post
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
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Ivanka and Jared find their limits in Trump's White House — The president's daughter and son-in-law continue to hold sway over personnel decisions, but last week's decision on transgender military service was another instance of being overruled on policy. — By one measurement …
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RedState
New York Times:
Republicans Worry That White House Disarray Is Undermining Trump — President Trump and Republicans in Washington have shaken the confidence of their supporters after a punishing and self-inflicted series of setbacks that have angered activists, left allies slack-jawed and reopened old fissures on the right.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump and Scaramucci ‘speak the same language’
Gingrich: Trump and Scaramucci ‘speak the same language’
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Axios, RedState, The Daily Caller, Mashable, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress and The Resurgent, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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Political Wire, Business Insider and The Week
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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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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 …
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The Week
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.
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Conway: Trump making decision this week on ObamaCare payments
Conway: Trump making decision this week on ObamaCare payments
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The Daily Caller and The Week
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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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.
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Iain Thomson / The Register:
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
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The Daily Caller
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
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 …
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.
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