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5:05 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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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 …
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
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
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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
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
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
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.
Discussion: IJR
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
How Schumer Held Democrats Together Through a Health Care Maelstrom
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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
 
 
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