Rex Tillerson, Aleppo, Donald Trump: Your Evening Briefing

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Good evening. Here’s the latest.

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Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times

1. A Times investigation reveals how Russia aimed the perfect weapon at the U.S. presidential election: cyberattacks honed in elections elsewhere.

Intelligence officials believe an operation to collect information evolved into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump.

Above, the Democratic National Convention’s hacked server on a table in the organization’s basement, next to a reminder of a past breach: a filing cabinet jimmied in the Watergate burglary of its offices in 1972.

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