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Mark Zuckerberg:
I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue. — We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.
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Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to face questions in CNN interview exclusive — Zuckerberg's mentor: Crisis could destroy Facebook — Five days after a data scandal first upended Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to give a rare interview with CNN. — Zuckerberg will sit down with CNN's Laurie Segall …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say — Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis, sources say … The data analytics firm that worked on the Donald Trump election campaign was offered material …
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Recode:
Mark Zuckerberg says he's ‘open’ to testifying to Congress, fixes will cost ‘many millions’ and he ‘feels really bad’ — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Mark Zuckerberg Talks to WIRED About Facebook's Privacy Problem — FOR THE PAST four days, Facebook has been taken to the woodshed by critics, the stock market, and regulators after it was reported that the data-science firm Cambridge Analytica obtained the data of 50 million Facebook users.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Special Counsel studies Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytics, sources say — As questions have mounted about data firm Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of Facebook data from up to 50 million user profiles, it has not only caught the eye of Congressional investigators …
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New York Times:
A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes
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The Intercept:
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket” — Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President's Daily Brief …
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New York Times:
How a Witness for Mueller and a Republican Donor Influenced the White House for Gulf Rulers — A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Mueller probe witness who met Jared Kushner and was ‘best friends’ with Steve Bannon flees the country after being revealed as a pedophile — Robert Mueller co-operating witness George Nader has fled the United States for the United Arab Emirates, DailyMail.com reveals
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say — Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Defends Congratulating Putin: ‘Getting Along ... Is A Good Thing’ — In the wake of a report that he ignored his national security team's advice not to congratulate Russian president Vladimir Putin on Putin's recent re-election, President Donald Trump defended the exchange Wednesday.
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New York Times:
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Russia? — The former C.I.A. director John Brennan pulled no punches on Wednesday when he was asked why President Trump had congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his victory in a rigged election, even after Mr. Trump's national security staff warned him not to.
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Washington Post:
Trump's remark to Putin that they could meet soon caught White House advisers by surprise … President Trump's senior advisers were thrown when he told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that he expected to meet with him soon, as briefings before the call to Moscow included …
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Chief of C.I.A. Suggests Putin May Have Compromising Information on Trump
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Ex-CIA boss says Russians could have personal dirt on Trump
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Political Wire and Politicus USA
Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Kelly furious over leak of warning to Trump to not congratulate Putin
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Kellyanne Conway Edges Toward Accepting the Job of Communications Director — Kellyanne Conway is moving closer to accepting President Donald Trump's offer for her to succeed Hope Hicks as White House communications director, if only on an interim basis, according to multiple sources who have spoken with her.
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Washington Post:
Congressional negotiators reach deal on $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead of Friday government shutdown deadline
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding
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BuzzFeed:
Here's What We Know About The Austin Package Bomber — Mark Anthony Conditt from Pflugerville, Texas, has been identified as the package bomber who rocked Austin. He died when he detonated an explosive during a confrontation with police on Wednesday. — Authorities on Wednesday identified …
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New York Times:
The Austin Bombing Suspect: Who Was Mark Conditt?
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Los Angeles Times:
Austin bomber had a list of future targets and a room in his home to manufacture bombs
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Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Austin serial bomber may have other devices ‘out there,’ cops uncover ‘treasure trove of information’
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CNN:
Mueller team so far has indicated 4 main areas it wants to ask the President about — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump's lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
A conservative commentator revolts against Fox News — Ralph Peters is about as far removed from a liberal “snowflake” as you can imagine. A retired Army lieutenant colonel and prolific (and gifted) novelist, he is to the right of right. He has advocated a first strike on North Korea.
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Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Unarmed black man shot to death in own backyard after police mistake cell phone for weapon — Sacramento police fatally shot a 22-year-old black man holding a cell phone that was mistaken for a weapon. — Stephon Clark was in the backyard of the home he shared with his grandparents …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Elected to lead, not to proofread’: Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump's White House … President Trump boasted during the campaign that he has the “best words.” If the past 14 months in the White House are an indication, he and his team also have the worst spelling.
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Jane Coaston / Vox:
Watch: Tucker Carlson rails against America's demographic changes — “This is more change than human beings are designed to digest,” he said. “How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?” — On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep: The ‘Deep State’ is Responsible for Ordering Ben Carson's Dining Set … Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) appeared to blame the nefarious “Deep State” for ordering a costly dining set for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson. — During a recent appearance on Talk!
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Harry Pettit / Daily Mail:
Underwater ‘fountain’ of magma is found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano sparking fears a deadly eruption is on the way — By , HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE — An underwater ‘fountain’ of magma has been found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano, heightening fears that a major eruption is on the way.
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