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‘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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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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Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica — It's set for Tuesday morning — Facebook has scheduled an open meeting to all employees Tuesday to let them ask questions about the unfolding Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal …
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FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
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FTC to Probe Facebook for Use of Personal Data
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Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered
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Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
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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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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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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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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 …


Playbook shutdown countdown: Four days, as snow threatens the D.C. region
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Ryan: I've ‘received assurances’ Mueller won't be fired
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How the attacks on Mueller are putting Trump in greater danger
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.


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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Susan Pompeo's role as ‘first lady of the CIA’ draws critics and defenders … Susan Pompeo, the wife of Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, has taken an unusually active and prominent role at the organization, and has fashioned herself as an unofficial “first lady of the CIA …
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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.


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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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.
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Africa is on the verge of forming the largest free trade area since the World Trade Organization — African leaders are poised to sign a deal that would unite the 55 member countries of the African Union in tariff-free trade across the continent. — According to the African Union …


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.