| No Images? Click here  Monday, July 23TRUMP POSTS INCENDIARY IRAN THREAT President Donald Trump has posted a tweet threatening Tehran and warning Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani against using “demented words of violence and death” toward the United States. The all-caps rant concluded: “BE CAUTIOUS.” [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]GOWDY: TRUMP AIDES SHOULD QUIT OVER RUSSIA Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has said that Trump’s advisers should consider resigning if the president continues to publicly disparage the nation’s intelligence community. [HuffPost]U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA NOT GOING ANYWHERE One person who will not be resigning is Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, despite last week’s disastrous press conference featuring Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. In a letter published over the weekend, Huntsman said: “Representatives of our foreign service, civil service, military and intelligence services have neither the time nor inclination to obsess over politics, though the issues of the day are felt by all.” [HuffPost]CARTER PAGE STILL CAN’T GET HIS STORY STRAIGHT Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” to discuss the 400 pages of wiretap warrant applications released Saturday by the Justice Department, former Trump campaign aide Carter Page declined four times to answer whether he had relationships with Russian officials. [HuffPost]HOW A TROLL TOOK DOWN JAMES GUNN Pizzagate conspiracist Mike Cernovich took down movie director James Gunn — and now he’s using a sex tape rumor to go after journalists. [HuffPost]TORONTO SHOOTING LEAVES 2 DEAD At least two people have died and 13 were injured in a shooting in Toronto’s Danforth neighborhood. [HuffPost] ‘WHO IS AMERICA?’ EXPOSES GEORGIA REP. Jason Spencer, a state representative from Georgia, is likely updating his resume after appearing on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” shouting the N-word, flashing his buttocks, and making fun of Chinese people. [HuffPost]THE MYTH OF FREE TRADE Trump’s tariff war is the final act of a broken system that was already coming apart. [HuffPost]TAIWAN ‘VULNERABLE’ TO INVASION Taiwan’s foreign minister has warned that without continuing U.S. military support, the island would be vulnerable to an invasion from Beijing. [CNN]NORTH KOREA WANTS PERMANENT DEAL North Korea wants the U.S. to sign a permanent peace that would ensure the survival of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's regime in return for denuclearization. [CNN]TRUMP HEADS TO IOWA AS TRADE WAR BITES Trump is flying to Iowa this week in a bid to calm farmers dealing with the devastating fallout of his trade war with China. [HuffPost]ISRAELI ACTIVISTS PROTEST SURROGACY BILL Tens of thousands of Israeli activists went on strike across the country Sunday, protesting the exclusion of gay men from a recently passed surrogacy law. [HuffPost]
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