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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 …
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Channel 4 News:
Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians  —  Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory - have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians …
Bloomberg:
FTC to Probe Facebook for Use of Personal Data  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says  —  Facebook Inc. is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump.  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission …
CNN:   Whistleblower: We tested Trump slogans in 2014 - CNN Video
Washington Post:
Facebook's rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:   Facebook's Surveillance Machine
Associated Press:   Tillis may have benefited from Facebook data breach
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned by UK lawmakers to give evidence on Cambridge Analytica scandal
Discussion: Engadget
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
Major Garrett / CBS News:
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
Discussion: East Bay Times, RedState and TechCrunch
NBC4 Washington:
Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School  —  Multiple people were injured in a shooting at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning, the St. Mary's sheriff's office confirmed.  —  The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.
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Eric Levenson / CNN:
Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school district says  —  (CNN)Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland, is on lockdown after a shooting at the school, St. Mary's County Public Schools said on its website.  —  “The Sheriff's office is on the scene …
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 …
Stephen Pimpo / WJLA-TV:
3 people reportedly shot at Great Mills HS in Maryland, officials say incident contained  —  The scene at Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, Md., after a shooting there, Tuesday, March 20, 2018.  (The Baynet via CNN Newsource)  —  AA  —  ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CBS Philly and IJR
New York Times:
Trump Considers Reshuffling Legal Team as He Takes On Mueller More Aggressively  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team was poised for a shake-up on Monday, according to two people briefed on the matter, as he openly discussed firing one of his lawyers, another considered resigning and a third …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers have turned over documents to Mueller with hopes of limiting interview scope
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
Washington Post:
Trump shakes up team of lawyers as legal threats mount
Schertz Police Department / CBS News:
Package bound for Austin blows up at FedEx building near San Antonio  —  The San Antonio Texas Fire Department says a package bomb apparently bound for Austin has exploded at a FedEx distribution center in Schertz, Texas, hurting 1 person, a FedEx employee who apparently suffered a non-life-threatening …
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Washington Post:
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx facility, police say … A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into of a series of blasts …
CNN:
Explosion at FedEx near San Antonio could be linked to Austin blasts, FBI says
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.
Sinan Antoon / New York Times:
Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country  —  When I was 12, Saddam Hussein, vice president of Iraq at the time, carried out a huge purge and officially usurped total power.  I was living in Baghdad then, and I developed an intuitive, visceral hatred of the dictator early on.
Discussion: Eschaton
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Matt Ufford / New York Times:   15 Years Ago, I Helped Start a War That Hasn't Ended
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:   One Morning in Baghdad
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 …
Discussion: GQ, Power Line and Hit & Run
New York Times:
Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation  —  Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation, according to current and former employees briefed on the matter.
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.
Page Six:
Donald Trump Jr. romanced Aubrey O'Day during marriage to Vanessa  —  Years before Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Donald Trump Jr., their marriage was rocked when Don Jr. fell in love with a contestant on NBC's “The Celebrity Apprentice.”  —  Page Six has exclusively learned that Don Jr. …
Discussion: The Root, East Bay Times and TMZ.com
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Sarah Hearon / Us Weekly:
Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Contestant Aubrey O'Day During Marriage to Vanessa
Discussion: Splinter, Joe.My.God. and The Root
Jenna McLaughlin / CNN:
A family affair: Susan Pompeo's active role raising debate within the CIA  —  Washington (CNN)Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in agency affairs since he started the job in January 2017 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump's doom  —  It was just a little thing, a scratch, that he failed to treat and gangrene set in and it was killing him.  They were on safari, in Africa, and their truck had broken down and the rescue plane was never going to make it in time.
Discussion: CNN and NewsBusters
 
 
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Roxana Kopetman / Orange County Register:
Los Alamitos votes to opt out of California sanctuary law
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Page Six:
Eddie Scarry releasing book aimed to ‘shred’ ‘Fire and Fury’
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Weinstein Company Files for Bankruptcy and Revokes Nondisclosure Agreements
Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Gov. Bryant expected to pick Cindy Hyde-Smith for Cochran seat
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Parkland shooting suspect's brother skateboarded through the campus to ‘soak it in,’ police say
Discussion: CNN and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
The Senate's Iran Helpers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump and Trade and Zombies
 Earlier Items: 
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As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department
Samuel Petrequin / Associated Press:
Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims
Sara Shepherd / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Man accidentally shoots self while cleaning gun in Lawrence
New York Post:
Is Governor Cuomo losing it?
Discussion: Instapundit
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Californians fed up with housing costs and taxes are fleeing state in big numbers
Paul Dorian / Vencore Weather:
2:10 PM |  *****Mixed precipitation on Tuesday to be followed by a major snowstorm for the I-95 corridor*****
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
The Rothschilds, a pamphlet by ‘Satan’ and conspiracy theories tied to a battle 200 years ago
 

 
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