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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Lawyer: It's Time to End the Mueller Probe … President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down the Mueller probe. — Reached for comment by email about the firing …
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McCabe: Trump's ‘Ongoing War’ On FBI Led to My Firing … Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a late-night statement Friday that he had fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, following an investigation by the Justice Department inspector general that found McCabe had …
New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, a Target of Trump's F.B.I. Scorn, Is Fired Over Candor Questions — WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director and a frequent target of President Trump's scorn, was fired Friday after the Justice Department rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend.
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Washington Post:
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired just before retiring. Former deputy director became lightning rod for Clinton email and Russia probes. — McCabe, who had stepped down from his post earlier this year but remained an FBI employee, had been accused by the Justice Department's inspector general …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
McCabe's Firing Chips Away at the Justice Department's Independence — Andrew McCabe, a former acting and deputy FBI director who had drawn the ire of President Trump, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday evening, a decision that raises troubling questions about the independence …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired a little more than 24 hours before he could retire … Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire. — Sessions announced the decision in a statement …
CNN:
READ: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's statement on his firing — (CNN)Statement by Andrew McCabe: — I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Lawyers Up
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Lawyers Up
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CNN:
Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired
Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired
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CNN:
Embattled former FBI deputy says he ‘never misled’ Justice investigators
Embattled former FBI deputy says he ‘never misled’ Justice investigators
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
In his own words: McCabe claims firing part of ‘ongoing assault’ on Russia probe
In his own words: McCabe claims firing part of ‘ongoing assault’ on Russia probe
Fox News:
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Former FBI deputy director fired just days before retirement to kick in
Former FBI deputy director fired just days before retirement to kick in
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's fiery statement about Sessions's decision to fire him
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's fiery statement about Sessions's decision to fire him
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Eline Gordts / HuffPost:
Read Andrew McCabe's Response To Being Fired Two Days Before His Retirement
Read Andrew McCabe's Response To Being Fired Two Days Before His Retirement
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
DO NOT PUBLISH - Jeff Sessions Fires The Former No. 2 At The FBI Two Days Before His Scheduled Retirement
DO NOT PUBLISH - Jeff Sessions Fires The Former No. 2 At The FBI Two Days Before His Scheduled Retirement
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New York Times:
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions — LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem. — The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer …
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The Guardian:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach — Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters … The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team …
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Paul Grewal / Facebook:
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook — We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook. Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision and why.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook bans Trump campaign's data analytics firm for taking user data … SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is suspending the Trump-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network, Facebook said late Friday.
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Axios:
John Kelly's day from hell — White House Chief of Staff John Kelly started yesterday with prescient bravado. — What we're hearing... The retired four-star Marine general told about 20 West Wing officials — including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster — in the 8 a.m. senior staff meeting …
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John Kelly: Rex Tillerson Was on the Toilet When I Told Him He'd Be Getting Fired … Reporters gathered at the White House on Friday were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared a very embarrassing story about outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Washington Post:
Trump attorney accuses Stormy Daniels of violating nondisclosure agreement 20 times, claims right to seek $20 million in damages — Attorney Michael Cohen made the claim in papers filed in federal court Friday. Cohen formed a limited liability corporation to strike the nondisclosure agreement …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Daniels' lawyer says some alleged incidents took place during Trump presidency
Daniels' lawyer says some alleged incidents took place during Trump presidency
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miamiherald:
‘My little girl was trapped’: FIU student Alexa Duran died in bridge collapse, dad says — Florida International University student Alexa Duran was driving her gray Toyota SUV under a pedestrian bridge in front of the university on Thursday when it collapsed, trapping her car beneath the rubble.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Engineer of Florida Bridge Reported Cracks Days Before Collapse
Engineer of Florida Bridge Reported Cracks Days Before Collapse
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Mueller's Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards — Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable. — These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's failure …
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The Intercept:
Democrats Want to Subpoena Apple to Find Out When Key Administration Officials Downloaded Encrypted Messaging Apps — On Wednesday, House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a memo laying out the steps they would have taken had they been in charge of the Trump-Russia investigation …
BBC:
Russia spy poisoning: 23 UK diplomats expelled from Moscow — Russia is to expel 23 British diplomats in a row over the nerve agent attack on an-ex spy and his daughter in the UK. — The Russian foreign ministry said the UK staff would be expelled from Moscow within a week in response …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Russia expels 23 British diplomats
Russia expels 23 British diplomats
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions — GJH Global Ministries, which made its website private after inquiries by the Guardian, does not appear to have a clear purpose … One of the top officials in Donald Trump's housing department runs …
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:
In California's rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state — The two young, blond women in figure-flattering ball gowns hoisted whiskey and shotguns. — An auctioneer rattled off bids. Above the stage in the banquet hall hung a green flag for the 51st state of Jefferson …