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5:15 PM ET, March 20, 2018

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Channel 4 News:
Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump's data firm  —  An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.  —  The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump's campaign …
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Paul Lewis / The Guardian:
‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine  —  Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques - likely affecting hundreds of millions of users - and that Facebook looked the other way … Hundreds of millions of Facebook users …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Video's Release  —  Firm launches independent probe to determine if it engaged in any wrongdoing  —  Cambridge Analytica is suspending its chief executive, Alexander Nix, effective immediately, and is launching an independent investigation …
Discussion: Mediaite
CA Commercial:
A Statement from the Board of Directors  —  The Board of Cambridge Analytica has announced today that it has suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation.  —  In the view of the Board, Mr. Nix's recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 …
Ben Shapiro / The Hill:
What's genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump  —  On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump  —  's data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica.  The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through …
YouTube:
Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session
Mother Jones:
Here's a Photo of Cambridge Analytica's CEO With the Russian Ambassador to the UK
Carol Jordan / CNN:
Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Cambridge Analytica Says It Won The Election For Trump. Here's What They're Actually Talking About.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg:   Cambridge Analytica Boasted of Disappearing Emails in Campaigns
Washington Post:
Cambridge Analytica, data consultant for Trump campaign and others, suspends CEO amid federal probe …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Playboy Model Sues to Break Silence on Trump  —  A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies' efforts during …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Stormy History: The Seven-Year Battle Between the President and the Porn Star  —  Since 2011, Stormy Daniels and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen have battled over her allegations of an affair, a standoff that has now reached the White House  —  The extraordinary legal battle between …
NBC News:
Lie detector test shows Stormy Daniels truthful about Trump affair
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:   Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump's doom
Wall Street Journal:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Buys Lie-Detector Video
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”  —  “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues.  “Now I am ashamed.”  —  A retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News contributor quit Tuesday …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Christine Quinn bashes ‘unqualified lesbian’ Cynthia Nixon  —  Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly-gay supporter of Gov. Cuomo, called Cynthia Nixon an “unqualified lesbian” a day after the actress announced she's going to challenge the governor in a primary.
NBC4 Washington:
2 Students, Gunman Injured in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School  —  “This is the realization of your worst nightmare — that, in a school, that our children could be attacked,” Sheriff Tim Cameron said  —  A student pulled a gun out and shot two other students at a high school …
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says
NBC4 Washington:
Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ben Carson Defends Purchase of $31,000 Dining Set at Congressional Hearing  —  WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, told a House committee on Tuesday he failed to adhere to a $5,000 federal spending cap for the purchase of a $31,000 lavish mahogany dining room set …
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Amy Russo / Mediaite:   Ben Carson Throws Wife Under The Bus Before House Cmte: She's Responsible For $31K Dining Set
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant can sue Trump for defamation  —  President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos — as a Manhattan Supreme Court judge denied him immunity through his job as the nation's commander-in-chief.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rejects Trump bid to dismiss suit from woman alleging sexual advances
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
Trump legal team seeks to add star GOP attorney Theodore B. Olson … President Trump's legal team has reached out to Theodore B. Olson, one of the country's most high-profile and seasoned litigators, to join forces amid mounting challenges in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election …
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Insiders See Democratic House Gains of 30-45 seats  —  Seven and a half months before the midterm elections, the combination of attitudinal and behavioral evidence leads to a single conclusion: The Democrats are very likely to win control of the House in November.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Pew Research Center:   Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters' Party Identification
John Lippert / Bloomberg:
Toyota Pauses Robot-Car Program Citing Drivers' Emotional Toll  —  Toyota Motor Corp. has halted tests of its “Chauffeur” autonomous driving system on U.S. public roads after a Uber Technologies Inc. vehicle operating in autonomous mode under the supervision of a human safety driver struck …
Discussion: The Verge and Engadget
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mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON PRESIDENT TRUMP CONGRATULATING VLADIMIR PUTIN  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on President Trump congratulating Vladimir Putin on his “election” victory:
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP fears another potential electoral disaster  —  National Republicans — on the heels of the Roy Moore and Rick Saccone debacles — worry they're staring down their latest potential midterm election fiasco: coal baron and recent federal prisoner Don Blankenship.
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Wall Street would freak out if Trump fired Mueller  —  Trump takes on Mueller in tweetstorm  —  Wall Street would probably flip out if President Trump tried to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  —  Market analysts warn the stock market would drop sharply, at least at first …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Beast and The Hill
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Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Ryan: I've ‘received assurances’ Mueller won't be fired
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Lobbyist says he was nearly killed by man he hired to investigate Seth Rich's death … As conspiracy theories swirled around the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, lobbyist Jack Burkman took the unusual step of launching his own private investigation.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Right Is Worse Than the Left on Free Speech.  So What?  —  Mari Uyehara has a column arguing that too many columns have been written about free speech on campus.  Uyehara does not endorse the kinds of repressive actions that these columns decry (no-platforming is “a terrible technique …
Discussion: GQ and Crooked Timber
The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders: Russia and Stormy Daniels distract us from real problem of inequality  —  More than a million viewers watch online as Sanders joins likes of Michael Moore and Elizabeth Warren to talk poverty  —  Amana Fontanella-Khan and Lauren Gambino in Washington … Enough about Russia and Stormy Daniels.
Discussion: In These Times and Shakesville
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders' Economic Inequality Town Hall Draws 1.7 Million Live Viewers
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Smithsonian moves Michelle Obama portrait due to ‘high volume of visitors’
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Ex-Playmate Sues Tabloid Publisher for Burying Trump Story
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Scrunchies, Scourge of the 1980s, Are Back
Discussion: thecut
The Nation:
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Discussion: Splinter
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Notes, emails reveal Trump appointees' war to end HHS teen pregnancy program
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
Courier-Journal:
Kentucky Republican candidate suggests shooting Congressman John Yarmuth over NRA stance
Axios:
Trump wants to meet Putin in “not too distant future”
Tennessean.com:
Nashville lawyer who introduced Russian operative to the NRA has ties to Blackburn
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
 

 
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