“A sharp and sometimes bitter disagreement broke out between President Trump and several G7 leaders over whether to allow Russia back into their club during a welcome dinner on Saturday,” CNN reports. “Trump, as he did in public over the course of the summit, ardently advocated for it… As the

Two U.S. senators said that Russia had denied them visas, NBC News reports. “Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that he had planned to visit Russia as part of an upcoming congressional delegation including Democrats and Republicans. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that he was also denied a visa. Both

“Americans are at each other’s throats. Politically, socially and culturally, we suspect each other’s motives and plain sanity. So certain are we of the other’s intent to do the nation harm, some of us have joined political gangs and assaulted one another, resulting in at least 1 death,” Axios

“President Trump is expected to name John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, to be the next ambassador to Russia, replacing Jon Huntsman Jr. as his liaison to Moscow,” the New York Times reports. “The post of ambassador to Moscow is a prestigious diplomatic position that is challenging

“For the second consecutive weekend, Moscow police conducted mass arrests as Russia’s biggest political crisis in several years continued to escalate and pose a challenge to the Kremlin’s heavy-handed approach toward public dissent,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “More than 600 people were