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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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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.
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 …
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says  —  Facebook Inc. is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump.  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission …
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Facebook's Surveillance Machine
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
Associated Press:   Tillis may have benefited from Facebook data breach
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and The Daily Beast
Major Garrett / CBS News:
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
Discussion: East Bay Times, RedState and TechCrunch
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
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
CNN:
Mueller team gives Trump lawyers more details of what they want to talk to President about
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
CNBC:
The Stormy Daniels saga could turn into a big deal for Mueller's Trump probe, experts say
Discussion: Raw Story
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  —  (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 and CBS Philly
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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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 …
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 …
Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at FedEx facility in Schertz
Discussion: VICE News
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.
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.
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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Sinan Antoon / New York Times:
Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country
Discussion: Eschaton
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
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. …
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.
Discussion: CBS Miami
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CNN:
Republicans say Congress doesn't need to pass law protecting Mueller
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.
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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Washington Post:
Parkland shooting suspect's brother skateboarded through the campus to ‘soak it in,’ police say
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The Daily Beast:
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
First lady to hold first public event on cyberbullying
Jackie Valley / The Nevada Independent:
Amodei defends his office's response to a ‘vulgar’ phone call from a student
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Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Californians fed up with housing costs and taxes are fleeing state in big numbers
Paul Dorian / Vencore Weather:
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Discussion: Outside the Beltway
The Intercept:
Before He Was FBI Director, Chris Wray Supervised an Investigation That Found Erik Prince Likely Broke U.S. Law
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Lawsuit accuses celebrity chef Mike Isabella of ‘extraordinary’ sexual harassment
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