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Channel 4 News:
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 …
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 …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session … It's not just that he's silent in public.  Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain the company's role in a widening international scandal over the 2016 election.
Washington Post:
Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data, according to former employee … LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Video's Release
Discussion: The Atlantic and IJR
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney:
Where in the world is Mark Zuckerberg? Frustrated Facebook execs are asking
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Cambridge Analytica Says It Won The Election For Trump. Here's What It's Actually Talking About.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Carol Jordan / CNN:
Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix
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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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Analyst Quits, Calls Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Buys Lie-Detector Video
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Trump's national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin.  He did it anyway. … President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi­mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section …
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 …
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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 …
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Wall Street would freak out if Trump fired Mueller
Discussion: CNN
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.
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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Weekly Standard:   ‘It Would Have Been Like Me Calling Castro’: Republicans Slam Trump for Congratulating Putin
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Armed School Resource Officer Engages Maryland High School Shooter  —  The Great Mills High School student who injured two others Tuesday morning was stopped by the school's armed resource officer.  —  According to St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron, the school resource officer (SRO) …
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says
NBC4 Washington:
2 Students, Gunman Injured in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School
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.
Discussion: CNN and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
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Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:
Trump May Be Deposed in ‘Apprentice’ Groping Lawsuit
Discussion: IJR
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.
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 …
Pew Research Center:
Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters' Party Identification  —  College graduates increasingly align with Democratic Party  —  As the 2018 midterm elections approach, women and especially college graduates have moved toward the Democratic Party.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Insiders See Democratic House Gains of 30-45 seats
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Kris Kobach Just Got Humiliated in Federal Court  —  Judge Julie Robinson was losing patience.  Before the 2016 election, she had ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to restore the right to vote to thousands of Kansans who'd been disenfranchised by a state law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Broward Cop Suspended After Being Caught SLEEPING While Guarding Stoneman Douglas High School
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Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Arthur Allen / Politico:
Trump can execute drug dealers already
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Bing / Cyberscoop:
Kaspersky's ‘Slingshot’ report burned an ISIS-focused intelligence operation
Discussion: Axios
Simon Shuster / TIME:
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Discussion: Axios and RedState
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Hillary Should Just Admit She Hates Half of America
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Melania Trump acknowledges critics at cyberbullying summit
Discussion: thecut
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Staffers At A Top, Bernie-Backed Progressive Firm Have Unionized
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Smithsonian moves Michelle Obama portrait due to ‘high volume of visitors’
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David Biller / Bloomberg:
People Are Ready to Buy Some Guns in the World's Murder Capital
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Scrunchies, Scourge of the 1980s, Are Back
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Courier-Journal:
Kentucky Republican candidate suggests shooting Congressman John Yarmuth over NRA stance
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Right Is Worse Than the Left on Free Speech. So What?
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