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Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians — An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Consultant and Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix Offered to Blackmail Politicians With Prostitutes
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
Democrats fume over Parscale's limited answers on Russian digital meddling
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New York Times:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Who Has Pushed Theory That Justice Dept. Framed the President — MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Mr. Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
A huge clue about Mueller's endgame — Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump's lawyers. The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This new report on Trump's state of mind should alarm you … THE MORNING PLUM: — We cannot know for sure why President Trump unleashed a volley of attacks over the weekend on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Perhaps he is edging toward an effort to remove him.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP strategist stuns MSNBC host with Trump shocker: ‘He is going to fire Mueller’ and Republicans will do ‘nothing’
Steve Vladeck / Lawfare:
It's Time for Congress to Pass the Mueller Protection Bills
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Under Pressure Over Data Breach — Demands follow report that Cambridge Analytica violated rules — Lawmakers seek more than ‘false reassurance’ on data safety — Government officials in the U.S. and Europe are demanding answers from Facebook Inc. after reports …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Scientist at center of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy speaks — Facebook suspends data firm with Trump ties — The data scientist who gathered information on millions of Americans for Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Facebook is facing an existential crisis
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Facebook:
Pursuing Forensic Audits to Investigate Cambridge Analytica Claims
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Brett Molina / USA Today:
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What we know so far
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney:
Why nobody can tell Mark Zuckerberg what to do at Facebook
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
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Bloomberg:
Uber Halts Autonomous-Car Testing After Fatal Arizona Crash — A self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening, what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving a driverless vehicle. In response, Uber quickly halted its self-driving cars as the incident is investigated.
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New York Times:
Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites — Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping …
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Hillary Clinton:
During an interview last week with an Indian news publication, I was asked about 2016, and whether Trump is the “virus” or a “symptom” of something deeper going on in American society. Like most Americans, people overseas remain shocked and dismayed at what they are witnessing daily.
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Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: What if Trump is right and there is no collusion?
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
What Hope Hicks Knows — The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos. Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in. — On the morning of Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Cynthia Nixon Announces Bid to Run for New York Governor — The actress Cynthia Nixon officially jumped into the race for governor of New York on Monday, setting off what promises to be a tumultuous six months as she challenges Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in this year's Democratic primary.
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Laura Nahmias / Politico:
Cynthia Nixon declares candidacy for New York governor
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Bloomberg:
What Michael Flynn Could Tell the Russia Investigators — The former national security adviser mingled business with government. That could help Robert Mueller look for similar overlaps among Trump insiders. — It started with helping a friend pitch the Pentagon on a smartphone chip …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
The GOP Effort to Block Pennsylvania's New Map Is Dead … A panel of three federal judges decided Monday to throw out a Republican challenge against the newly redrawn district map proposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month. — Shortly thereafter, the United States Supreme Court denied Republicans' request for a stay.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump — His approval rating is perpetually underwater, and the pandemonium surrounding his presidency only grows the longer he's in the job. — But Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump …
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Chad Blair / Honolulu Civil Beat:
Charles Djou: Why I'm Leaving The GOP — Today, after much consideration, I abandon my party because I am unwilling to abandon my principles. I can no longer stand with a Republican Party that is led by a man I firmly believe is taking the party of Lincoln in a direction I fundamentally disagree with …
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Roberto Villalpando / Austin American-Statesman:
LATEST: Police hope home security video yields clues in bombing, chief says — 10:25 a.m. update: Austin police are asking residents in Southwest Austin neighborhood to give investigators any surveillance footage from their homes after a bomb explosion injured two men in the area Sunday night.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Border wall Dreamers deal implodes — The White House and congressional Democrats traded immigration offers futilely over the weekend, according to three sources familiar with the talks, leaving little chance of an immediate deal to protect Dreamers. — The White House on Sunday …
Baxter Oliphant / Pew Research Center:
The Iraq War continues to divide the U.S. public, 15 years after it began — Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the American public is divided over whether using military force was the right decision. — Nearly half (48%) of Americans say the decision …
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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
The Battery Boost We've Been Waiting for Is Only a Few Years Out — Batteries that power our modern world are expected to get a jump in storage capacity of 30% or more — The batteries that power our modern world—from phones to drones to electric cars—will soon experience something …
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Trump Organization's real estate partner in India accused of $147 million fraud … NEW DELHI — A real estate investment company that partnered with the Trump Organization on an office tower project in India has been accused of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $147 million …
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Jason Howerton / IJR:
Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’ — A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would've allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign.
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Henry Meyer / Bloomberg:
Russian Observers Charge Fraud in Putin's Landslide Re-Election — Cameras capture ballot-stuffing in numerous polling stations — Russia election chief says Western pressure united society — Russian election observers denounced what they said were large-scale violations …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump originally planned to put Cohn at CIA, but changed his mind — Before his resignation, the former White House economic adviser discussed alternate roles with the president—who nevertheless decided to give the top spy job to someone else. — Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn reached …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Congressman suggests Second Amendment as means of opposing Trump — A Democratic congressman from Long Island implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander-in-chief doesn't follow the Constitution. — Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork — NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
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