Jon Huntsman resigns as Trump's ambassador to Russia

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is reportedly mulling another run for governor of Utah. Huntsman's resignation is effective Oct. 3, he said in his letter to Trump. The 59-year-old Huntsman is a former Utah governor who left that job in 2009 to serve as ambassador to China.

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