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Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica, has been accused of improperly using information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. It denies wrongdoing. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

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Data firm CEO suspended over election boasts

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Gregory Katz Associated PressMarch 20, 2018

FILE - In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The San Jose Mercury News reports Saturday, March 17, 2018 that building permits compiled by Buildzoom show Facebook plans to erect the 465,000 square-foot (43,200 square-meter) building at its campus in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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UK parliament asks Zuckerberg to testify in data misuse case

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Gregory Katz Associated PressMarch 20, 2018

Soldiers wearing protective clothing prepare to lift a tow truck in Hyde Road, Gillingham, Dorset, England as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues Wednesday March 14, 2018. The army cordoned off a road in Dorset on Wednesday as the investigated the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Authorities have cordoned off several sites in and near Salisbury, 90 miles southwest of London as part of their probe.

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US, France, Germany blame Russia for UK nerve agent attack

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Vladimir Isachenkov Associated PressMarch 15, 2018

A general view of the part of the Russian Embassy in Kensington, as pedestrian walk past London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Britain boots 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressMarch 15, 2018

A general view of a part of the Russian Embassy in Kensington, as pedestrian walk past London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town.

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UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressMarch 14, 2018

Military forces work on a van in Winterslow, England, Monday, March 12, 2018, as investigations continue into the nerve-agent poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury, England, on Sunday March 4,2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to update lawmakers Monday on the nerve-agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

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UK leader: Russia ‘highly likely’ behind ex-spy’s poisoning

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressMarch 12, 2018

Personnel in hazmat suits work to secure a tent covering a bench in the Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, England on Thursday March 8, 2018, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found critically ill by exposure to a nerve agent on Sunday. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

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After poisoning of ex-spy, daughter, 21 seek medical treatment

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, Gregory Katz Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressMarch 9, 2018

A police tent is framed by police tape covering the the spot where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found critically ill Sunday following exposure to an "unknown substance" in Salisbury, England, Wednesday, March 7, 2018.

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UK police: Russian ex-spy was attacked with nerve agent

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressMarch 7, 2018

A police officer secures the area as a police tent covers the the spot in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, where former Russian spy double agent Sergei Skripal and his companion were found critically ill Sunday following exposure to an "unknown substance.”

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UK counterterror help inquiry after ex-Russian spy collapses

by Martin Benedyk Associated Press, Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressMarch 6, 2018

Plastic bottles and other plastics including a mop, lie washed up on the foreshore at the site of the ancient and no-longer used Queenhithe dock, a designated scheduled monument which dates back to at least the time of King Alfred the Great who lived from 849 to 899 AD, on the north bank of the River Thames in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. Amid growing evidence of dire amounts of waste in the world’s oceans, conservation is becoming a selling point for firms trying to jump on the...

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Amid flood of plastic, big companies try to clean up image

by Danica Kirka Associated PressFebruary 21, 2018