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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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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 …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump's doom — It was just a little thing, a scratch, that he failed to treat and gangrene set in and it was killing him. They were on safari, in Africa, and their truck had broken down and the rescue plane was never going to make it in time.
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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 …
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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 …
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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica
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Washington Post:
FTC opens investigation into Facebook after Cambridge Analytica scrapes millions of users' personal information
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Mother Jones:
Here's a Photo of Cambridge Analytica's CEO With the Russian Ambassador to the UK
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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 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook shutdown countdown: Four days, as snow threatens the D.C. region
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
White House: Firing Mueller would not be ‘the most productive step forward’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the attacks on Mueller are putting Trump in greater danger
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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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NBC4 Washington:
Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School — Multiple people were injured in a shooting at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning, the St. Mary's sheriff's office confirmed. — The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Axios:
Trump wants to meet Putin in “not too distant future” — In an Oval Office meeting with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday, President Trump said he wants to meet Vladimir Putin in the “not too distant future” to discuss the “arms race” and North Korea, reports the AP.
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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.
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Reuters:
Fifth device explodes in Texas; White House sees no link to terrorism — AUSTIN/SCHERTZ, Texas (Reuters) - A package bomb blew up at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio on Tuesday, hastening investigators to seek the public's help in determining if there is any link to four homemade bombs …
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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:
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Ryan: I've ‘received assurances’ Mueller won't be fired
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