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Financial Times:
Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé — Cambridge Analytica, the data firm alleged to have used the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge in its work for Donald Trump's election campaign, is trying to stop the broadcast …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Facebook investigating employee's links to Cambridge Analytica — Social media giants grilled on ‘fake news’ — Facebook told CNN it is looking into ties between one of its current employees and Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
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Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Facebook may have violated FTC privacy deal, say former federal officials, triggering risk of massive fines … Two former federal officials who crafted the landmark consent decree governing how Facebook handles user privacy say the company may have violated that decree when it shared information …
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Axios, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Facebook is facing its biggest test ever — and its lack of leadership could sink the company — Facebook's reaction to a year of scandal has vacillated between defensive cluelessness and aloof silence. — Users are getting the message that information they post on Facebook can be used …
New York Times:
Facebook's Role in Data Misuse Sets Off a Storm on Two Continents
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The Guardian, The Atlantic, Politico, Mediaite and ThinkProgress, more at Techmeme »
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Massachusetts AG to investigate Facebook, Cambridge Analytica
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CNNMoney, BostonGlobe.com, Mashable, KTLA, The Guardian, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Recode, Althouse, Refinery29 and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
How your Facebook ‘likes’ helped Trump steal the 2016 election | Will Bunch
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Spectator USA, Althouse and The Guardian
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Newly Emboldened, Trump Says What He Really Feels — For months, President Trump's legal advisers implored him to avoid so much as mentioning the name of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, in his tweets, and to do nothing to provoke him or suggest his investigation is not proper.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people …
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The Week, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Shareblue Media, New York Magazine, Mediaite, ThinkProgress and Booman Tribune
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly … On Saturday, Donald Trump did something he'd never done before, something his closest advisers had warned him not to do: He tweeted Robert Mueller's name. — But what seemed like a frantic, even panicked, bit of late-night lashing-out is actually a sign of things to come.
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Graham: Trump firing Mueller would be ‘the beginning of the end of his presidency’
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NPR, The Week, Mother Jones, IJR, Politico, ABC News and WPIX 11 New York
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gowdy to Trump: ‘When you are innocent ... act like it’
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The Hill, Axios, Realtime Politics, CANNONFIRE, Breitbart, The Week, Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon and WPIX 11 New York
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements. They're supposed to last beyond his presidency. … Back in April 2016, when the notion of Donald Trump in the White House still seemed fanciful, The Post's Robert Costa and Bob Woodward sat down with Trump, and Costa, at one point …
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The Hill, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, RedState and Mediaite
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
What Hope Hicks Knows — The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos. Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in. — On the morning of Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week …
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The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ … A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather. — D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. …
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IJR, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Daily Wire and Reason
Kevin McCullough / Townhall.com:
The Coming Collusion Bloodbath — The firing of Andrew McCabe, the discovery of his “private notes,” the ill-tempered response by other Obama loyalists and a yet to be disclosed Inspector General's report on an investigation that began before Donald Trump had come to office are all pieces …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Trump's error-filled tweetstorm about the Mueller probe
Elizabeth Bauer / Forbes:
No, Andrew McCabe Isn't “Losing His Pension”
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CNN, twitchy.com, bizpacreview.com, Vox, RedState and Outside the Beltway
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Firing McCabe Is Just the Start
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bizpacreview.com, Washington Free Beacon and CBS Los Angeles
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump said Mueller's team has ‘13 hardened Democrats.’ Here are the facts.
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American Greatness, Breitbart, Al Jazeera English, Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Timothy Meads / Townhall.com:
Sen. Graham: It's ‘Beginning of End’ for Trump Presidency If Mueller Is Fired
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The Hill, Fox News, France 24 and Washington Monthly
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false documents with NYC — NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, Mother Jones, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story and The Mahablog
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Two injured in explosion in Austin, police say … Austin police are investigating an explosion on the city's southwest side that caused multiple injuries, authorities said Sunday night. — Two men in their 20s were injured in the explosion on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Dr. …
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Dakin Andone / CNN:
Austin bombs were ‘meant to send a message,’ authorities believe — Deadly package bombs were left on doorsteps — (CNN)Authorities continue to chase hundreds of leads in an effort to find the person responsible for three package bombs that have rocked Austin, Texas, this month, killing two and injuring two others.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside Apple's Secret Plan to Develop and Build its Own Screens — The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California — Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology — Apple Inc. is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Says His Name Was ‘Never Mentioned.’ It Was. 136 Times. — ALBANY — Shortly after last week's conviction of Joseph Percoco, once one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's closest friends and aides, on charges of soliciting and accepting more than $300,000 in bribes, the governor was asked whether …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
White House tweaks plan to seek death penalty as part of opioid response — President Donald Trump's plan to fight the opioid epidemic will call for the death penalty in some cases, White House officials said Sunday, scaling back the administration's plan to punish drug dealers.
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Washington Post, Axios and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Russian liberal candidate comes distant fourth — MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Russia's presidential election (all times local): — Ksenia Sobchak, a liberal challenger in Russia's presidential election who is a distant fourth in the early vote count, says she's satisfied with her campaign.
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Axios and Political Wire
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Marc Bennetts / Politico:
Putin claims victory in presidential vote
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One America News Network and Raw Story
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