Wednesday's Headlines: Zuckerberg apologizes, promises reform during hours-long Senate grilling over Facebook’s failings
Members of Congress can't possibly regulate Facebook. They don't understand it.; Facebook stores its data in this rural North Carolina town, where the privacy debate is just...
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Facebook's CEO said the company "didn't do enough" to protect its users' privacy or halt the spread of Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, but he pushed back hard against the need for new legislation.
By Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin • Read more »
Residents in Forest City, N.C. — where Facebook's computer servers outnumber the 7,400 residents — are both creeped out to discover how much of their personal data is available and resigned to an online world where the loss of privacy is taken for granted.
Federal prosecutors who conducted raids at the home and office of President Trump's personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, were seeking documents related to two women who received payments in 2016 after alleging affairs with Trump years before: adult-film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
By Ashley Parker, Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig and Matt Zapotosky • Read more »
The interview is significant because it shows how special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is exploring whether the president obstructed justice and keying in on conversations President Trump had with his former FBI director, James B. Comey.
The president has neither a plan nor the appetite to stop Bashar Assad's brutal consolidation of power and the regime's steady destruction of the remaining pockets of rebellion.
Hybels, who with his wife co-founded one of the nation's largest churches and who was a spiritual adviser to President Bill Clinton, was accused of suggestive comments, extended hugs, an unwanted kiss and hotel-room invitations to a staff member, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The administration defended its hiring practices, saying the long waits many veterans face at government facilities are grounds for outsourcing more services.
The order directs federal agencies to strengthen existing requirements and introduce new ones for low-income Americans receiving Medicaid, food stamps, public housing benefits and welfare as part of a broad overhaul of government assistance programs.
The Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76 was headed to the southwestern city of Bechar. Local media showed video of black smoke billowing into the air from the crash site near the Boufarik air base with rescue personnel milling around.
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