Release of transcripts

WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee voted to release 53 transcripts of closed-door interviews it conducted, including with Donald Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in its probe into Russian election interference.

But Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff of California, protested that Republicans who control the panel wouldn’t vote to set a specific timeline for the release, once the transcripts go through a declassification process with intelligence agencies and are scrubbed for personal information.

“They’re trying to bury them as long as they can” while making a pre-election show of transparency, Mr. Schiff said. Democrats also wanted transcripts sent to special counsel Robert Mueller, asserting that some of the witnesses appeared to give false testimony. Mr. Schiff said Republicans rejected that, too.

NEW YORK — Facebook reported a major security breach in which 50 million user accounts were accessed by unknown attackers.

The attackers gained the ability to “seize control” of those accounts, Facebook said, by stealing digital keys the company uses to keep people logged in. Facebook has logged out owners of the 50 million affected accounts — plus another 40 million who were vulnerable to the attack. Users don’t need to change their Facebook passwords, it said.

Facebook said it doesn’t know who was behind the attacks or where they’re based. In a call with reporters on Friday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that attackers would have had the ability to view private messages or post on someone’s account, but there’s no sign that they did.

“We do not yet know if any of the accounts were actually misused,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.

Facebook shares fell $4.38, or 2.6 percent, to close at