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View in your browser     The 10 essential reads you missed this week This week marks one year since Robert Mueller took over the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and a small international event in Great Britain drew U.S. attention on Saturday (Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has ideas for the royal honeymoon). Here's what else happened this week:     GOP split on immigration shows division in party An effort by centrist Republicans to circumvent GOP leadership on immigration legislation is exposing a fervent intraparty split in the GOP, reports Scott Wong and Melanie Zanona.       Why the new Ebola outbreak terrifies public health authorities The U.S. government is preparing its most direct response yet to an Ebola outbreak that has reached a major city in the Congo, reports Reid Wilson.       Companies regret hiring Trump attorney amid PR crisis After it turned out Michael Cohen was paid more than $2 million to provide consulting, access and insight into the Trump administration for blue-chip clients, those companies faced a political nightmare, reports Megan R. Wilson.     Trump administration appears to throw in the towel on infrastructure  “The infrastructure week’s been overtaken by the latest tweet,” a House Democrat told Mallory Shelbourne.     On cable news, the GOP can be more critical of Trump than Democrats Surrogates for President Trump’s former GOP primary competition are still criticizing him daily on cable networks, writes Amie Parnes.     GOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Only a month after Speaker Paul Ryan announced his retirement, he seems to be losing his grip as a leader of the party, report Scott Wong and Melanie Zanona.     Gina Haspel becomes the first female director of the CIA Despite the influential Republican Sen. John McCain urging his colleagues to vote against her, President Trump's nominee wound up getting bipartisan support to become the new head of the CIA, reports Jordain Carney.     Supreme Court opens path to legal sports betting A precedent-shattering decision by the Supreme Court could introduce online sports betting in multiple states as well as new legislation regulating it, Lydia Wheeler and Jordain Carney report.     Democrats try to block Trump's military parade plans Although the Pentagon has begun planning for a military parade as directed by the president, Democrats are now seeking to block those plans through amendments to the annual defense policy bill, reports Rebecca Kheel.     U.S. opens embassy in Jerusalem amid violence President Trump fulfilled one of his key campaign promises on Monday, but moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem inflamed tensions with the Palestinians, reports Jordan Fabian.         © Getty Images: Ivanka Trump and Steven Mnuchin attend opening of U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.

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