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Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump's data firm — An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump. — The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump's campaign …
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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 …
Ben Shapiro / The Hill:
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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Politico, Breitbart and Daily Wire
CA Commercial:
A Statement from the Board of Directors — The Board of Cambridge Analytica has announced today that it has suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation. — In the view of the Board, Mr. Nix's recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Video's Release
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Video's Release
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Cambridge Analytica Says It Won The Election For Trump. Here's What It's Actually Talking About.
Cambridge Analytica Says It Won The Election For Trump. Here's What It's Actually Talking About.
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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
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YouTube:
Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm
Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm
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Mashable, KTLA and Balloon Juice
Mother Jones:
Here's a Photo of Cambridge Analytica's CEO With the Russian Ambassador to the UK
Here's a Photo of Cambridge Analytica's CEO With the Russian Ambassador to the UK
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Channel 4 News, New York Times, The Atlantic, Fortune and NBC News
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Cambridge Analytica Has Suspended Its CEO As States Demand Facebook Hand Over Information
Cambridge Analytica Has Suspended Its CEO As States Demand Facebook Hand Over Information
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Lawfare, patribotics, Vox, The Guardian and The Verge
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney:
Where in the world is Mark Zuckerberg? Frustrated Facebook execs are asking
Where in the world is Mark Zuckerberg? Frustrated Facebook execs are asking
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
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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Wall Street Journal:
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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New Republic, New York Daily News, Raw Story, WQAD-TV, IJR and Joe.My.God.
Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine” — “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues. “Now I am ashamed.” — A retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News contributor quit Tuesday …
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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 …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Flake warns Trump of impeachment ‘remedy’ if Mueller probe is halted … Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of President Trump's most prominent Senate critics, told The Washington Post in an interview on Tuesday that he would support impeachment proceedings against Trump if the president ends …
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Wall Street would freak out if Trump fired Mueller
Wall Street would freak out if Trump fired Mueller
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CNN, The Daily Beast and The Hill
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
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.
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 …
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
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.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
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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The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
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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mccain.senate.gov:
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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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
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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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.
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John Lippert / Bloomberg:
Toyota Pauses Robot-Car Program Citing Drivers' Emotional Toll — Toyota Motor Corp. has halted tests of its “Chauffeur” autonomous driving system on U.S. public roads after a Uber Technologies Inc. vehicle operating in autonomous mode under the supervision of a human safety driver struck …
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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 …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Farenthold weighs resigning from Congress — Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold is considering stepping down from Congress before the end of his term, according to multiple Republican sources with direct knowledge of private party conversations. — Farenthold already announced …