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Scaramucci's firing, Joe Arpaio's conviction, Russia's response to sanctions, and more
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Team in Turmoil: Anthony Scaramucci was fired from his post after just 10 days as the White House communications director, during which he accused then-chief of staff Reince Priebus of leaking information in an expletive-filled interview. A day after the interview, Priebus was forced out and replaced by Homeland-Security Secretary John Kelly, who promptly fired Scaramucci to cap off what may have been, as David Graham writes, the Trump administration’s most chaotic week yet. The firing suggests that Kelly is ready to bring more discipline to the White House, but Trump may not have chosen him with discipline in mind.

Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff known for his hardline immigration policies, for violating orders to stop immigration sweeps based on racial profiling. Elsewhere, some cities have formed teams of prosecutors to reinvestigate old cases in which the defendants .

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