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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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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.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Facebook's Surveillance Machine — In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon's “Mechanical Turk” platform, an online marketplace where people around the world contract with others to perform various tasks.
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal
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Major Garrett / CBS News:
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Social-Media Panic
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's High-Tech Dirty Tricksters
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BBC:
Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Cambridge Analytica, Trump-Tied Political Firm, Offered to Entrap Politicians
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Facebook:
Pursuing Forensic Audits to Investigate Cambridge Analytica Claims
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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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CNBC:
The Stormy Daniels saga could turn into a big deal for Mueller's Trump probe, experts say
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Raw Story
CNN:
Mueller team gives Trump lawyers more details of what they want to talk to President about
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook shutdown countdown: Four days, as snow threatens the D.C. region
Washington Post:
Trump shakes up team of lawyers as legal threats mount
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New York Times:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Who Has Pushed Theory That Justice Dept. Framed the President
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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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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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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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Sarah Hearon / Us Weekly:
Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Contestant Aubrey O'Day During Marriage to Vanessa
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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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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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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.
New York Post:
Is Governor Cuomo losing it? — Is Gov. Cuomo really that worried by Cynthia Nixon — or has he just lost it? — Even before the “Sex and the City” star announced Monday that she'll primary him this year, Cuomo launched a mad dash for attention. With unfortunate results. — SEE ALSO
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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 …
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.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP fears another potential electoral disaster — The national GOP is flummoxed over what to do about the surging candidacy of coal baron and ex-con Don Blankenship. — National Republicans — on the heels of the Roy Moore and Rick Saccone debacles — worry they're staring …
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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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Outside the Beltway
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Lawsuit accuses celebrity chef Mike Isabella of ‘extraordinary’ sexual harassment … Celebrity chef Mike Isabella, the head of a $30 million culinary empire based in the nation's capital, was sued Monday by a former top manager who claims that Isabella and his partners repeatedly sexually harassed her in the workplace.
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The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris Has Been Shopping a Book and Fueling 2020 Talk … Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a rising star in the Democratic ranks often spoken about as a potential presidential challenger in 2020, shopped a book to a number of New York publishers as recently as a month ago, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Sara Shepherd / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Man accidentally shoots self while cleaning gun in Lawrence — Police responded to an accidental shooting that happened when a man was cleaning his gun over the weekend in Lawrence. — Police were dispatched to the incident in the 1400 block of Westbrooke Street about 11:40 p.m. Saturday …
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