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12:15 PM 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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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.
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.
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.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica
Washington Post:
Facebook's rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Associated Press:   Tillis may have benefited from Facebook data breach
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Facebook stock drops after reports of FTC probe and UK summons of Zuckerberg in data scandal
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:   Facebook's Surveillance Machine
Channel 4 News:
Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Social-Media Panic
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 and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Parkland shooting suspect's brother skateboarded through the campus to ‘soak it in,’ police say
Discussion: CNN and IJR
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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Washington Post:
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the attacks on Mueller are putting Trump in greater danger
Bloomberg:
McConnell Remains Silent About Trump's Attacks on Mueller
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
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 …
Daily Mail:
Parcel filled with ‘nails and shrapnel’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
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.
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
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
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
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.
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Eddie Scarry releasing book aimed to ‘shred’ ‘Fire and Fury’  —  It directly contradicts Michael Wolff's best seller.
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
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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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google Pours $300 Million Into Effort to Aid News Publishers
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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
Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Gov. Bryant expected to pick Cindy Hyde-Smith for Cochran seat
Discussion: Washington Post and Roll Call
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department
Samuel Petrequin / Associated Press:
Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims
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
 

 
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