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NATALIYA VASILYEVA

ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 30, 2017, 3:15PM

| Updated 4 hours ago.

MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday the United States would have to cut its embassy and consulate staff in Russia by 755 under new sanctions from Moscow.

Russians Foreign Ministry on Friday ordered a reduction by Sept. 1 in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia. It said it is ordering the U.S. Embassy to limit the number of embassy and consular employees in the country to 455 in response to the U.S. Senates approval of a new package of sanctions.

We had hoped that the situation will somehow change, but apparently if it changes, it wont be soon, Putin said in an interview televised on Rossiya 1, explaining why Moscow decided to retaliate. I thought it was the time to show that were not going to leave it without an answer.

Putin said more than 1,000 people are currently employed at the Moscow embassy and three U.S. consulates in Russia. They include both Americans and Russians hired to work in the diplomatic offices.

Russia is open to cooperating with the U.S. on various issues including terrorism and cybercrime but instead it only hears unfounded accusations of meddling in U.S. domestic affairs, the Russian leader said.

Asked about the potential for additional sanctions against Washington, Putin described the reduction in diplomatic staff as painful and said he currently opposes further measures.

We certainly have something to respond with and restrict those areas of joint cooperation that will be painful for the American side but I dont think we need to do it, he said, adding that such steps could also harm Russian interests.

Putin mentioned space and energy as the main areas where Russia and the United States have successfully pursued projects together.

Along with the cap on the size of its diplomatic corps in Russia, the Russian foreign ministry on Friday said it also was closing down a U.S. recreational retreat on the outskirts of Moscow as well as warehouse facilities.

The diplomatic tit-for-tat started under former U.S. President Barack Obama. In response to reports of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Obama ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and shut down two Russian recreational retreats in the U.S.

AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed.

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CLARK MASON

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | July 30, 2017, 5:41PM

| Updated 22 minutes ago.

Northern California is heating up this week with some unseasonably high temperatures that prompted the National Weather Service to issue a hazardous weather outlook for parts of San Francisco Bay and an excessive heat watch in other areas.

The hottest day of the week is forecast to be Tuesday, when the mercury will hit 96 in Santa Rosa; 105 in Cloverdale and perhaps close to 110 in parts of Napa, Lake and Mendocino counties. The excessive heat watch is in effect for those areas through Wednesday, when those highs are expected to dip by just a few degrees. Increasingly warm overnight lows are expected.

It will be very warm starting (Monday). It will last into the week and possibly next weekend, meteorologist Brian Mejia said Sunday, adding that a ridge of high pressure building over Northern California and northeast Nevada is to blame.

Fire danger is always an issue this time of year, but the relative humidity is not projected to be critically low.

It will be dry, but not overwhelmingly dry, he said. Winds are not expected to be really gusty.

Parts of northern Napa County near Lake Berryessa could be flirting with close to 110 degrees on Tuesday, as well as Ukiah and Hopland in Mendocino County, according to the Weather Service. Sacramento could hit 115.

Officials said the heat can lead to stress and exhaustion, especially for the elderly and at-risk populations, as well as those engaging in outdoor activities.

People and pets should never be left inside a parked vehicle.

Even 15 minutes in a hot car can be devastating to a child, Mejia said.

Slight cooling is expected by Thursday, but very warm to hot conditions are forecast to persist through the end of the week.

There will be respite closer to the ocean.

Expect onshore flow to continue, he said. It will be much cooler than inland. The beach and along the coast will be in the 60s to 70s.

You can reach Staff Writer Clark Mason at 707-521-5214 or clark.mason@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter@clarkmas.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 30, 2017, 7:09PM

| Updated 30 minutes ago.

LOS ANGELES A van plowed into a group of people dining on a Los Angeles sidewalk Sunday afternoon, striking and injuring at least eight people.

A witness told the Associated Press the van jumped a curb and careened into a group of people eating outside The Fish Spot restaurant in the citys Mid-Wilshire neighborhood. The vehicle knocked down a white picket fence that served as a barrier between diners and pedestrians on the sidewalk.

Everyone was eating, enjoying life and out of nowhere this van ran them over, Courtney Crump said.

He said several victims were pinned under the van as panicked witnesses rush to pull them out. A man who was the first person struck by van had severe head injuries, Crump said.

I heard loud, agonizing screams. Im shook up, he said.

The victims included a 44-year-old man who suffered critical injuries, three who were seriously hurt and four others who were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said.

An off-duty firefighter with the department was in the crowd and did not sustain major injuries, she said.

The driver came out of the van and appeared disoriented, Crump said. He jumped back into the van, prompting witnesses to hold him until authorities arrived at the scene.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Los Angeles police spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the crash appeared to be an accident, adding that there was no indication the driver intentionally drove into the crowd.

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Sen. Jeff Flake says the Republican Party has "lost its way," and is urging members to turn back to what he calls "traditional conservatism" -- after a particularly contentious week in Washington.

"We've given in to nativism and protectionism. And I think that if we're going to be a governing party in the future and a majority party we've got to go back to traditional conservatism," Flake said Sunday on "Face the Nation."

In his new book, "Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle," the Arizona Republican -- who will likely face challenges in his race for reelection next year -- outlines some of his differences with President Trump.

Flake wasreluctant to endorse Mr. Trumpin the days leading up to the 2016 election, criticizing Mr. Trump for his pivots on immigration, a major issue for the senator whose state shares a border with Mexico.

Since then, Flake has taken a tougher stance on Mr. Trump than some other Republicans, in one case urging the FBI to release any tapes of conversations between Mr. Trump andfired FBI Director James Comey.

Flake writes in his new book, "When we excuse on our side what we attack on the other, then we are hypocrites. If we do that as a practice, then we are corrupt. If we continually accept this conduct as elected officials, then perhaps we shouldn't be elected officials."

Asked whether he believes Republican leaders are complicit in this notion if they don't call out the president, Flake responded, "I do think so."

"The last thing you want to do is wake up every morning and see a tweet... You know, it's tough not to just say, 'I'm not going to respond,'" Flake said. "And we can't respond to everything. But there are times when you have to stand up and say, 'I'm sorry. This is wrong.'"

"There are truths that are self-evident," Flake added. "And you've got to stand up and call -- whether it's the White House or other elected officials -- to task when they're-- they're not doing what they should. And I do think that we bear the responsibility, if we're elected officials, to do that."

Flake said the 24-hour news cycle and impact of social media is, in large part, helping drive the Republican Party apart.

"I think certainly the modern media culture values those who yell the loudest," Flake said. "And so the tougher path is frankly to have the kind of demeanor that some people might call boring."

"But you've got to move ahead and tackle the policy issues," he added. "And the problem is this is very much getting in the way of us solving the problems that we've got to solve."

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LAS VEGAS Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Sunday that Europe can't pretend to be more idealistic on privacy issues than the U.S. while many of its nations try to enact laws limiting encryption.

Hurd is one of a sturdy number of legislators including a bipartisan House Judiciary working group on encryption that opposeslaws allowing law enforcement agencies to access all encrypted datain the United States. Proponents believe access would helppreventand solvecrime, including terrorist-related activities.

Europe likes to act like they take privacy more severely than we do. That is patently false, he toldThe Hill at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.This notion we dont take this seriously in the U.S. is wrong.

Current encryption methods make it impossible for law enforcement to access chat apps or files from criminals in a timely manner, even with a warrant. Various U.S. law enforcement agencies have waged periodic efforts to force manufacturers to provide some form of access.

European nations including Germany and the United Kingdom have either enacted or are poised to enact these types of rules.

The terrorism challenges in Europe are really kind of tough, and they may lead the way and carry some of our water on this, said Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana Boente at the Aspen Security Forum earlier this month.

But cybersecurity experts people who design secure communication systems and those who develop techniques to hack into those systems universally believe that adding "backdoors" into encryption is a substantial national security threat. Adding new entry points into encryption makes its design far more perilous and far more likely for the system to be cracked by hackers or for the keys to be stolen.

We should be making encryption more secure, not less, Hurdsaid.

European Union courts struck down exemptions allowing the U.S. to store European citizens' data on stateside servers based on privacy concerns. But, claimed Hurd, the threats to privacy caused by an encryption rule demonstrated the EU'strue colors when it came to privacy.

Hurd has experience in security issues both as a former CIA agent and as a former security consultant, including a stint at a cybersecurity consultancy.

He said his trip to DEF CON was, in part, to keep his knowledge of cybersecurity from becoming stale.

DEF CON is the pointy end of the spear. These are the folks that are thinking about the real problems, he said.

DEF CON is the last of three cybersecurity conferences held back-to-back to back in Las Vegas each summer. While the other conferencesare targeted tocorporate cybersecurity providers or a more general security audience, DEF CON appeals to iconoclastic, individual researchers often on the bleeding edge of the field.

Being out here gives me perspective on where policy needs to go, Hurdsaid.

Hurd and fellow congressman Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) gave one presentation on Saturday and will give a second on Sunday. Those are two of the five panels being given by current government officials.

I want the people here to know that there are people in government that care about this stuff, Hurdsaid.

He said he had visited a number of DEF CON sub-conferences, known as villages, including ones focusing on hacking voting machines and automobiles, both of which he praised.

Hurd has focused on other cybersecurity issues while in office including IT modernization and workforce shortages. He said he was excited to see children as young as nine at the conference learning to hack and hopefully preparing to fill a widening skills gap of cybersecurity talent.

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