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A bill to make the the District of Columbia the 51st state cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday, but it faces a major obstacle in the Senate’s 60-vote threshold. Still, supporters of the effort believe that the idea of statehood for the District, which has the motto “Taxation without representation,” is…

The attorney general for the District of Columbia today sued Facebook for failing to protect its users’ data and for allowing an app developer to harvest the personal information of millions of users without their permission and sell it to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica. The lawsuit filed by Karl…