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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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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 that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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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 …
New York Times:
A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy — For much of the past week, Facebook has been embroiled in a controversy involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with ties to Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and how the firm improperly obtained and exploited personal data from 50 million Facebook users.
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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
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say
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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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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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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.
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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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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Wall Street Journal:
China to Target Trump's Base in Tariff Response — Beijing prepares to deliver pain to President Trump's support base, including with tariffs targeting agricultural exports — China is preparing to hit back at trade offensives from Washington with tariffs aimed at President Donald Trump's support base …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
‘Trump blew it’: The president missed his best chance yet to get funding for his border wall
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Wall Street Journal:
Charges Have Been Dropped Against Most Turkish Officers in D.C. Clash — Case had caused a rift between the U.S. and Turkey — WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against 11 of 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security team who were accused in connection …
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CBS News:
60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels to be broadcast Sunday — The adult-film star and director describes the affair she says she had with Donald Trump in her first television interview about the alleged relationship — The 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels …
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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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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Police shot at a man 20 times in his back yard, thinking he had a gun. It was a cellphone.
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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump fires back at Biden: He's ‘mentally and physically’ weak — President Donald Trump on Thursday called former Vice President Joe Biden “weak, both mentally and physically,” suggesting he could easily beat up Biden, in response to the former vice president's comment that he would have sought …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Biden says he would ‘beat the hell’ out of Trump if in high school
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Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Rand Paul on last-minute federal budget: ‘A rotten, terrible’ way to govern — WASHINGTON — With Congress teetering on the brink of its third government shutdown in three months, Sen. Rand Paul still hasn't seen the details of a new budget bill that's likely to be 1,000 pages long — and he's not pleased.
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
NYC agency investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings — NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's buildings regulator launched investigations at more than a dozen Kushner Cos. properties Wednesday following an Associated Press report that the real estate developer routinely filed false paperwork claiming …
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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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
GOP-affiliated groups have spent more than $3 million at Trump properties — Republican-affiliated campaigns, committees and outside groups have spent more than $3 million at various Trump properties since just after the 2016 election through last month, with roughly $924,000 coming …
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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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
Republican John Cox inches ahead of Antonio Villaraigosa for second place in California governor's race, new poll finds … Republican businessman John Cox has nudged ahead of former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for second place in California's race for governor …
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Sasse writing book on polarization — Sen. Ben Sasse is writing a book about the polarization of America. — The book is coming together during the 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hours that Sasse devotes to reading and writing most days. — It's going to be titled “Them,” with a subtitle of …
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Washington Post:
Scarred by school shootings — More than 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine, The Washington Post found. — Many are never the same. — 13 dead at Columbine. 26 dead at Sandy Hook. 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
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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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Charlotte Pence says she bought John Oliver's Marlon Bundo book — Charlotte Pence says she's among those picking up a copy of John Oliver's sold-out spoof of her children's book about the vice president's family's pet rabbit. — “I have bought his book,” said the author of “Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President.”
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House leaders' biggest 2018 fear: The lazy Republican — On paper, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) appears to be a shoo-in for reelection. He's served nine terms in what's been a GOP stronghold for decades, hasn't had a serious challenger in years and sits on one of the most powerful committees in Congress.
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