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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

'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.

‘This Week’ Transcript 7-30-17: Tom Price, John Podesta, Sergei Ryabkov  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on July 30, 2017 and it will be updated.  —  MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: President Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price joins me now.