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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE in the US ELECTION Donald Trump could accept that Russia interfered in the election...

It looks as if Pope Francis, unlike Donald Trump, doesn't have to pay people to cheer for him. Here he's seen on arrival in Turin yesterday. "[I]t is clear that this pope is very courageous. He is not a politician. He is not a diplomat. He is someone...

From Ian: Matti Friedman: Book Review Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel In my favourite piece here Wilf recounts a conversation with a Lebanese colleague, a Christian, who tells her, ‘We miss you’, meaning not that he misses her...

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com) Happy Saturday! Obama alumnus Brent Colburn asked that we include this in celebration of his birthday: Today “is World Autism Awareness Day, and in...

In Steve Bannon vs. Pope Francis?, E.J. Dionne Jr. at The Washington Post points out that Bannon is hot for a religious Crusade, yes, with a capital “C,” and perhaps doesn’t think Pope Francis is up to the job: Stephen K. Bannon disrupted American politics...