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Russian Relations: The Treasury Department today announced new sanctions in response to Russian cyberattacks. President Trump also acknowledged that “it looks like” the Kremlin is to blame for the recent nerve-agent attack on a former spy in Britain—a muted response compared with the U.K.’s retaliatory expulsion of Russian officials identified as intelligence operatives. Meanwhile, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly subpoenaed records from the Trump Organization as part of his far-reaching Russia investigation. What, Adam Serwer asks, is Mueller looking for?

The Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb’s narrow victory in this week’s special election for a According to Trump, the key to that victory was that Lamb For example, he joined the GOP in —who might lose her role if other Democrats follow Lamb’s lead.

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