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11:20 AM ET, March 20, 2018

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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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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.
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 …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
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 …
CNN:   Whistleblower: We tested Trump slogans in 2014 - CNN Video
Washington Post:
Facebook's rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:   Facebook's Surveillance Machine
Associated Press:   Tillis may have benefited from Facebook data breach
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Social-Media Panic
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned by UK lawmakers to give evidence on Cambridge Analytica scandal
Discussion: Engadget
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
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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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 …
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 …
Stephen Pimpo / WJLA-TV:
3 people reportedly shot at Great Mills HS in Maryland, officials say incident contained
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
Parkland shooting suspect's brother skateboarded through the campus to ‘soak it in,’ police say
Discussion: CNN and IJR
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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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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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers have turned over documents to Mueller with hopes of limiting interview scope
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
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 Ufford / New York Times:
15 Years Ago, I Helped Start a War That Hasn't Ended  —  When I deployed to Iraq in 2003, there was no war.  We had to start it.  —  As a lieutenant in charge of six tanks (four active-duty crews, two reserve), I gave a preinvasion talk to my platoon before rolling out.
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Sinan Antoon / New York Times:
Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country
Discussion: Eschaton
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:   One Morning in Baghdad
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, Crooked Timber, Power Line and Hit & Run
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: CNN and NewsBusters
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. …
Jenna McLaughlin / CNN:
A family affair: Susan Pompeo's active role raising debate within the CIA  —  Washington (CNN)Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in agency affairs since he started the job in January 2017 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Gov. Bryant expected to pick Cindy Hyde-Smith for Cochran seat  —  Cindy Hyde-Smith talks about her office.  Video by Jimmie Gates.  —  CONNECT  —  Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to pick Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to replace Sen. Thad Cochran, many GOP sources say …
Discussion: Washington Post and Roll Call
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.
 
 
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Partisan clashes delay spending bill
Discussion: Axios
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump to boost exports of lethal drones to more U.S. allies
Discussion: Defense One, The Week and WhoWhatWhy
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
What happens the day after Trump pulls out of the Iran deal
Roxana Kopetman / Orange County Register:
Los Alamitos votes to opt out of California sanctuary law
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Page Six:
Eddie Scarry releasing book aimed to ‘shred’ ‘Fire and Fury’
Wall Street Journal:
The Senate's Iran Helpers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump and Trade and Zombies
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As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department
Sara Shepherd / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Man accidentally shoots self while cleaning gun in Lawrence
New York Post:
Is Governor Cuomo losing it?
Discussion: Instapundit
Jackie Valley / The Nevada Independent:
Amodei defends his office's response to a ‘vulgar’ phone call from a student
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Californians fed up with housing costs and taxes are fleeing state in big numbers
Paul Dorian / Vencore Weather:
2:10 PM |  *****Mixed precipitation on Tuesday to be followed by a major snowstorm for the I-95 corridor*****
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 

 
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