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Defying Russian warnings against U.S. military strikes in Syria, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles "will be coming" in response to Syria's suspected chemical attack that killed at least 40 people. "Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria," Trump tweeted.
Mark Zuckerberg, back for a second day of grilling from lawmakers in Washington after nearly five hours of questions from 44 senators Tuesday about the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal and a wide range of other issues, and faced a tougher crowd from the start. Wednesday, Facebook's CEO went before a House committee - made up of 55 members - and again apologized over the data leak, which may have affected up to 87 million Facebook users.
Paul Ryan will not stand at the congressional US midterm elections in November but says it has nothing to do with Donald Trump's presidency. US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, dealing a blow to the Republican Party just months ahead of pivotal congressional elections, says he will not seek re-election to Congress in November and will relinquish his leadership post at the start of 2019.
The World Health Organization said Wednesday that 500 Syrians who were killed or injured in a shelling attack in Douma showed "signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals." The United Nations agency says it has assessed reports from on-scene partners who examined casualties and fatalities from what many believe was a chemical weapons attack from the Syrian government against its own citizens.
A house hearing examining the company's privacy policies and the role Facebook played as Russians intervened in the 2016 election has begun. Zuckerberg testified for around five hours in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Facebook had access to 87 million people's data after Aleksandr Kogan, a lecturer at Cambridge University, sold the firm information stolen from an app called "thisisyourdigitallife." The app, disguised as a personality test, didn't just take data from people who took the quiz, but also from friends connected with the duped victims.
The Facebook CEO is testifying Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, his second and final hearing this week in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Zuckerberg repeated an apology offered in the previous hearing that Facebook made a "big mistake" by not taking "a broad enough view" of its responsibility.
President Trump wished Rep. Paul Ryan well on Twitter Wednesday, saying that the outgoing speaker of the House has a "legacy of achievement that nobody can question." Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question.
Acreage Holdings, a marijuana investment company, announced Wednesday that the former House Speaker will join its board of advisors. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld will also join the board.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel's investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. Trump is considering more aggressive action to rein in Robert Mueller after the FBI's Monday raids on the offices and temporary home of the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, two anonymous sources tell CNN .
My first trip to the ballpark of the year was by every metric a success, and we're already in midseason form. The first game of the year is always a special trip.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday warned President Trump not to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the man who appointed Mueller to lead the FBI's long-running Trump-Russia probe. A short time earlier, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a news conference he thinks Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation.
Mick Mulvaney's attacks on consumer financial protection are illegal as well as wrong. Donald Trump is ignoring the law Congress wrote to prevent this.
Mick Mulvaney, head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , is due to face lawmakers on Wednesday who want to know why he has dropped cases against payday lenders and pulled back from regulating the market for small-dollar loans. It will be the first opportunity for Democratic lawmakers to publicly grill Mulvaney on his leadership of the bureau created by Congress to stamp out financial abuse after the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
White House lawyers are trying to dissuade U.S. President Donald Trump from seeking to get rid of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as Trump weighs options after the FBI raided his personal attorney's office and home, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday. White House lawyers Ty Cobb and Donald McGahn have been telling Trump that firing Mueller would leave the president vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice and have said that he must have "good cause" to order Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to oust Mueller, the officials said.
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Three Democratic senators on the committee that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency are asking for answers on reports that the agency granted significant raises to two aides and whether Administrator Scott Pruitt lied about his knowledge of the raises in an interview on Fox News. The Atlantic reported last week that Pruitt granted raises to two of his aides at the EPA under a provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act after the White House personnel office denied the raises.
FACEBOOK FOUNDER Mark Zuckerberg has faced a grilling from US senators over the social network's handling of data, though the 33-year-old billionaire seemed to bob and weave his way out of hot water. Zuck was probed be some 40 senators over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook's approach to privacy, its collection and use of data, it's potential monopoly, and its role in the influence of politics.
Thousands of law enforcement officers are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., next month for Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week. The annual mid-May observation pays tribute to America's fallen and wounded police officers.