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2:45 AM ET, July 23, 2012

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Associated Press:
Shooting suspect gun club membership rejected  —  AURORA, Colo.—The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage displayed behavior that a gun range owner thought was “bizarre,” but it is still unclear if anyone at the university where he studied had any hint of his plans.
Associated Press:
AP Source: Assault rifle jammed in Colo. attack  —  AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The semiautomatic assault rifle used by the gunman in a mass shooting at a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie jammed during the attack, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press …
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
Anne McQuary / WLTX-TV:
Colorado Shooter's Elaborate And Easily Available Arsenal
Discussion: The Raw Story
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Weiner wife under guard  —  Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said.  —  An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann …
Orange County Register:
SATURDAY'S SHOOTING  —  Anaheim's police chief confirmed Sunday the shooting victim on Anna Drive was unarmed.  There were no weapons recovered at the scene that could have belonged to him, Welter said.  —  Welter said he could not immediately confirm how many shots were fired or precisely …
Discussion: L.A. NOW and The Raw Story
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Alan Carter / CBS Los Angeles:
Near Riot Breaks Out After Officer-Involved Shooting In Anaheim  —  ANAHEIM (CBS/AP) — A police shooting that left a man dead led to a near riot Saturday as angry witnesses threw bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and beanbag rounds.  —  The man was shot around 4 p.m. in front …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Angry Anaheim crowd threw bottles at police, set fires on streets
CNN:
Source: Penn State to be hit with fines in excess of $30 million  —  A girl takes a picture at the site where the statue of former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno stood.  It sits empty now after it was removed by workers outside Beaver Stadium on Sunday, July 22.  —  HIDE CAPTION
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CBS News:
NCAA source: “Unprecedented” penalties against Penn State
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Sen. Ron Johnson: 100-round rifle magazine is a ‘basic freedom’  —  Tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says that the right to own high-capacity ammunitions magazines like the 100-round drum that was used to kill at least a dozen people in Colorado last week is a “basic freedom” that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:   Tea Party Senator: Keeping Guns From ‘Demented Individuals’ Will ‘Restrict Our Freedoms’
Jason Alexander / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger  —  I'd like to preface this long tweet by saying that my passion comes from my deepest sympathy and shared sorrow with yesterday's victims and with the utmost respect for the people and the police/fire/medical/political forces of Aurora and all who seek to comfort and aid these victims.
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Evangelical Leaders Blame Liberals, Media For Aurora Shootings, Say Only Christian Victims Will Go To Heaven  —  On the conservative Christian radio show AFA Today, evangelical spokesperson Jerry Newcombe blamed the tragedy of the Aurora shooting on the nation's loss of fear of God and hell.
Discussion: Mario Piperni dot Com
Jgalloway / Political Insider:
A rare word from Zell Miller: ‘I had a late life conversion’  —  Buford, Ga. - There was no mistaking the man who walked through the glass doors of the hotel complex on the shores of Lake Lanier.  —  The trademark shock of white hair remains neatly groomed.  The hawk-like nose still juts out over a tight jaw.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
National Journal Bars Quotations Tweaked by Sources  —  National Journal said it would ban the use of quotations that had been massaged or manipulated by its sources, joining a growing chorus of news organizations that are objecting to a practice that has become increasingly common in political journalism.
NY Daily News:
‘Dark Knight Rises’ shooting: Three heroes died in Aurora taking bullets for their girlfriends  —  In final acts of valor, Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves used their bodies to shield their girlfriends as accused madman James Holmes turned the Aurora cineplex into a shooting gallery.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
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New York Post:
THE VICTIMS: Real movie heroes saved their sweethearts during Colo. ambush
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Helen Lewis Published / New Statesman:
How the media shouldn't cover a mass murder
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Jacques Rogge rejects latest calls
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U.S. Expands Drug Fight in Africa
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Former McCain adviser: Romney taxes complex but not ‘disqualifying’
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Rep. McCarthy says colleagues lack spine to take on the NRA
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hickenlooper: Stricter gun laws would likely not have stopped killer
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