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F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’ - The New York Times


Fact Check: What Mark Zuckerberg Said About Facebook, Privacy and Russia - The New York Times

A live blog of Zuckerberg's testimony.

Zuckerberg testimony: Facebook CEO grilled by Congress over data misuse – as it happened | Technology | The Guardian

Resetera thread with a little summary:
F.B.I. Raids Office, Hotel, and Home of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Cohen. Update: Cohen worried. | ResetEra

 
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The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen's lawyer, who called the search "completely inappropriate and unnecessary." The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller's investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York. "Today the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients," said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. "I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller."Click to expand...
Live stream of Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress (2:15pm ET) | ResetEra

 
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Should start in a few minutes. A few live streaming links:SenateWSJWiredCBS newsVerge - blog updatesLink.
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Zuckerberg will spend two days answering lawmakers' questions about the powerful social network he helped create more than a decade ago, and whether the company is doing enough to protect users' privacy. It's the first time Zuckerberg will personally sit for questions from Congress, instead of sending a deputy.Click to expand...
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Zuckerberg is set to testify in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday. He'll appear at a joint hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday, starting at 2:15 p.m. ET. The Facebook CEO will then testify in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, beginning at 10 a.m. ET. The hearings were scheduled to address Facebook's use and protection of user data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.Click to expand...
Plus some other news here:

Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December | ResetEra

 
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In early December, President Trump, furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told advisers in no uncertain terms that Mr. Mueller's investigation had to be shut down. The president's anger was fueled by reports that the subpoenas were for obtaining information about his business dealings with Deutsche Bank, according to interviews with eight White House officials, people close to the president and others familiar with the episode. To Mr. Trump, the subpoenas suggested that Mr. Mueller had expanded the investigation in a way that crossed the "red line" he had set last year in an interview with The New York Times. In the hours that followed Mr. Trump's initial anger over the Deutsche Bank reports, his lawyers and advisers worked quickly to learn about the subpoenas, and ultimately were told by Mr. Mueller's office that the reports were not accurate, leading the president to back down. Mr. Trump's quick conclusion that the erroneous news reports warranted firing Mr. Mueller is also an insight Mr. Trump's state of mind about the special counsel. Despite assurances from leading Republicans like Speaker Paul D. Ryan that the president has not thought about firing Mr. Mueller, the December episode was the second time Mr. Trump is now known to have considered taking that step. The other instance was in June, when the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, threatened to quit unless Mr. Trump stopped trying to get him to fire Mr. Mueller. The December episode, which has never been publicly reported, has new resonance following the disclosure on Monday that F.B.I. agents had carried out search warrants at the office and hotel room of Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. In that action, the Justice Department seems to have walked directly up to -- if not crossed -- Mr. Trump's red line by examining something that seems unrelated to Russia. More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-sought-to-fire-mueller-in-december.htmlClick to expand...
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Wanna know if Cambridge Analytica has your data? You can see it here | ResetEra

 
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I think this interests people. Facebook has made a website that shows of if you or friends of you (and with that, you, too again) were scanned by Cambridge Analytica. Just look up at https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476?ref=shareable That website shows of, in which way your data was collected. I am luckily clean and nobody of my friends had their data stolen, too. Also, there is right now the testification of Mark Zuckerberg going on, you can check it out here:  
Sheriff of America's Deadliest Police Force Caught Admitting Killing Suspects Is 'Better | ResetEra

 
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Sheriff of America's Deadliest Police Force Caught on Camera Admitting Killing Suspects Is 'Better Financially' Title got cut off
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Although Kern County had a population of 875,000 people in 2015, its law enforcement officers were responsible for more deaths than any other county in America that year, according to the Guardian. During that year, Kern County deputies and Bakersfield, Calif., police killed 1.5 people for every 100,000 residents, more than three times the rate of Los Angeles County and 10 times the rate of the New York Police Department in 2015.Click to expand...
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"You know what happens when a guy makes a bad shooting and somebody kills them?" Youngblood explained. "Three million bucks and the family goes away after a long back and forth." "When a deputy shoots someone in the streets, which way do you think is better financially--to cripple them or kill them--for the county?" Youngblood asked. When someone replied, "Kill them," Youngblood responded, "Absolutely. Because if they're crippled we get to take care of them for life. And that cost goes way up."Click to expand...
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