The Week of July 30, 2017 by CoenM

What COUNTRY officially announced that the US would have to cut the staff of its embassy there by 755 people, in retaliation for the US Congress passing new sanctions against it?

What COUNTRY held an election for a new Constituent Assembly, a "super congress" made up entirely of government backers, which ousted the country's attorney general as one of its first acts?

The first casualty of the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly era was what COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, who lasted less than two weeks on the job before vacating the position so Kelly could have "a clean slate and the ability to build his own team?"

For the first time in its history, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for what US STATE, due to the pending approval of a law that would remove many anti-discrimination protections?

According to a recently-released transcript of a phone call between DOnald Trump and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, Trump described what US STATE as a "drug infested den?"

It wasn't all bad news for Trump this week, as Jim Justice, the governor of what US STATE, announced he was switching from the Democratic to the Republican party?

The United Auto Workers fell short in their latest attempt to unionize an auto plant in the US South, when the vote to unionize what JAPANESE AUTOMAKER's plant in Canton, Mississippi saw nearly 60 percent vote against the union?

A jury in a federal court in Brooklyn found what HEDGE FUND AND PHARMA EXECUTIVE guilty of three counts of securities fraud and conspiracy?

Paul Kagame won election for a third term as president of what AFRICAN NATION, garnering 99 percent of the vote?

Investigators working with special prosecutor Robert Mueller made their first known records request of the White House in asking for documents related to what FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER?

A paper in Nature reported that what GENE EDITING TECHNOLOGY was successful in rewriting the gene that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without creating new errors?

A framework for creating a code governing the disputed South China Sea islands and renewed diplomatic approaches to addressing North Korea's increased missile tests highlighted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the member nations of what REGIONAL ORGANIZATION, meeting in Manila?