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Channel 4 News:
Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians — Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory - have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians …
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Bloomberg:
FTC to Probe Facebook for Use of Personal Data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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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Common Dreams and Business Insider
Washington Post:
Facebook's rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica … SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign's data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent.
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Associated Press, Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog and BBC, more at Mediagazer »
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's High-Tech Dirty Tricksters
Trump's High-Tech Dirty Tricksters
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Facebook's Surveillance Machine
Facebook's Surveillance Machine
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Motherboard, more at Mediagazer »
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Social-Media Panic
The Social-Media Panic
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Daily Wire, Mashable, Forbes, Big Think, Media Matters for America, Hudson Institute and ThinkProgress
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal
Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal
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ABC News, Axios and The Daily Beast
Major Garrett / CBS News:
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
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East Bay Times, RedState and TechCrunch
Washington Post:
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx facility, police say … A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into of a series of blasts …
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Schertz Police Department / CBS News:
Package bound for Austin blows up at FedEx building near San Antonio — The San Antonio Texas Fire Department says a package bomb apparently bound for Austin has exploded at a FedEx distribution center in Schertz, Texas, hurting 1 person, a FedEx employee who apparently suffered a non-life-threatening …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook shutdown countdown: Four days, as snow threatens the D.C. region — BREAKING, Washington Post: “A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility overnight, law enforcement officials said early Tuesday. — “The explosion occurred at a FedEx facility in Schertz …
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CNN:
Explosion at FedEx near San Antonio could be linked to Austin blasts, FBI says
Explosion at FedEx near San Antonio could be linked to Austin blasts, FBI says
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New York Times, New York Magazine, Common Dreams, Splinter, WQAD-TV, 105.9 FM and AM 630, KTLA, Mediaite and CBS Pittsburgh
Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at FedEx facility in Schertz
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at FedEx facility in Schertz
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VICE News
Bobby Blanchard / The Texas Tribune:
Fifth Texas package explosion reported outside of San Antonio
Fifth Texas package explosion reported outside of San Antonio
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Common Dreams, The Week, Washington Examiner and Vox
New York Times:
Trump Considers Reshuffling Legal Team as He Takes On Mueller More Aggressively — WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team was poised for a shake-up on Monday, according to two people briefed on the matter, as he openly discussed firing one of his lawyers, another considered resigning and a third …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers have turned over documents to Mueller with hopes of limiting interview scope … President Trump's attorneys have provided the special counsel's office with written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation in hopes of curtailing the scope of a presidential interview …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
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Washington Post, New York Times and bizpacreview.com
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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WTTG-TV, Raw Story, Fox News, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, bizpacreview.com and twitchy.com
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says — (CNN)Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland, is on lockdown after a shooting at the school, St. Mary's County Public Schools said on its website. — “The Sheriff's office is on the scene …
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The Daily Caller, VICE News and The Root
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Maryland authorities investigating shooting at high school
Maryland authorities investigating shooting at high school
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Talking Points Memo, CBS Baltimore, Associated Press, WPIX 11 New York, NBC News, WIS-TV, Joe.My.God. and fox8.com
New York Times:
Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation — Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation, according to current and former employees briefed on the matter.
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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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Shareblue Media and Raw Story
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.
Page Six:
Donald Trump Jr. romanced Aubrey O'Day during marriage to Vanessa — Years before Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Donald Trump Jr., their marriage was rocked when Don Jr. fell in love with a contestant on NBC's “The Celebrity Apprentice.” — Page Six has exclusively learned that Don Jr. …
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East Bay Times and TMZ.com
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Sarah Hearon / Us Weekly:
Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Contestant Aubrey O'Day During Marriage to Vanessa
Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Contestant Aubrey O'Day During Marriage to Vanessa
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Joe.My.God. and The Root
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
One Morning in Baghdad — One morning in October 2003, I was shaken out of bed by an explosion. I was in Baghdad, leading a platoon of Army Rangers as part of a special operations task force that was hunting down the famous “deck of cards”—the last of the Ba'ath Regime loyalists, and Saddam himself.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Senate's Iran Helpers — A Senate coalition tries to hamstring U.S. aid for the Saudis in Yemen. — Saudi Arabia finally has a young leader pushing social and economic reform, fighting Iran's attempt to dominate the Middle East, and even cooperating quietly with Israel.
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Owen Daniels / Axios:
What to expect from Saudi crown prince's Washington visit
What to expect from Saudi crown prince's Washington visit
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The Daily Beast
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Why McConnell hasn't said anything on Trump's Mueller attacks — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has long believed he does not need to respond in real time or react to every controversial tweet or other action by President Donald Trump, according to people close to the senator.
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Samuel Petrequin / Associated Press:
Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims — PARIS (AP) — In the latest judicial setback for the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation that he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
CNN:
Whistleblower: We tested Trump slogans in 2014 - CNN Video — Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the company tested Trump slogans such as “drain the swamp” and “deep state” as early as 2014, before Trump announced a presidential run.
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
'We're Losing the Fight': Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis — CARACAS, Venezuela — His family thought he just had a bad cold, nothing serious. — But Victor Martínez kept getting worse. By mid-January, he lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from tuberculosis.
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Californians fed up with housing costs and taxes are fleeing state in big numbers — More Californians are moving from the Golden State, particularly lower-income residents, although even middle-class residents are saying goodbye. — Census Bureau data show California lost …
Paul Dorian / Vencore Weather:
2:10 PM | *****Mixed precipitation on Tuesday to be followed by a major snowstorm for the I-95 corridor***** — 12Z NAM (12-km) loop of surface forecast maps from hour 21 (5AM Tuesday) to hour 66 (2AM Thursday) in 1-hour increments until hour 24 and then 3-hour increments thereafter.
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