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Palm Beach Post:
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says — A former classmate of Omar Mateen's 2006 police academy class said he believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out. — Officials say Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 others at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning.
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Orlando Sentinel:
Witness: Omar Mateen drank alone at Pulse before attack … FORT PIERCE — At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people said Monday that they had seen Omar Mateen there before. — “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself …
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Cyra Master / The Hill:
Orlando shooter's classmate: He was gay — A former classmate of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, believed the 29-year-old killer was gay. — A man who was in the same 2006 police academy class told the Palm Beach Post that Mateen once asked him out romantically …
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Los Angeles Times:
Orlando gunman had used gay dating app and visited LGBT nightclub on other occasions, witnesses say — FBI investigators gather on the morning of June 13 outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) — The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub …
The Daily Caller:
Did FBI Training Material Purge Cause Agency To Drop The Ball On Orlando Shooter? — Could the FBI's purge of training material relating to Islamic terrorism have led to the agency dropping the ball on Florida nightclub shooter Omar Mateen? — Mateen, who called 911 and pledged his allegiance …
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Washington Post:
FBI director: Orlando shooting probe also looks ‘backward’ into agency files on shooter
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Scared Monkeys and New York Times
Alexander Panetta / CJAD 800:
Homicidal homophobe used to hang at Orlando gay hotspot, some regulars recall
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Los Angeles Times:
Editorial Trump smearing Obama with innuendo over Muslims and Orlando is a new low — even for him — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters and the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on May 31. (Jason Szenes / EPA) — The Times Editorial Board
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says he's revoking press credentials for The Washington Post — on Monday said he is revoking the press credentials of The Washington Post, one of the nation's largest newspapers, over its “dishonest reporting.” — The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the announcement …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Bernie Wants — NOTABLES —MEETING OF THE MINDS: After more than 12 months of competing against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination — and on the very last day of the primary season — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will, for the first time all year …
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Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
The four cryptic words Donald Trump can't stop saying
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Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
NARRATIVE FAIL: Orlando Islamic Terrorist Did NOT Use An AR-15 — The anti-gun politimedia wasted no time at all demonizing the most common rifle in the United States as being the real villain of the Islamic terrorist attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando. — Newsweek screamed, “ORLANDO SHOOTING PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON AR-15 RIFLE.”
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New York Times:
Compare These Gun Death Rates: The U.S. Is in a Different World — are about as common as deaths from — in the United States. — deaths per million people — The mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday was appalling in scale: 49 killed in a single attack.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's foreign policy speech revealed a dangerous mix of ignorance and arrogance
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Pastors Praise Orlando Killings Of ‘Vile, Perverted Predators’ (VIDEO) — After 49 people were gunned down in an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, pastors in California and Arizona praised the gunman for massacring “perverted predators” and “pedophiles.”
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Chris W. Cox / USA Today:
Gun laws don't deter terrorists: Opposing view — Destroy radical Islam, not the right of law-abiding Americans to protect themselves. — Americans were shocked and disgusted to learn of another act of terrorism on our soil, this time in Orlando. In the aftermath of this terrorist attack …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Johnson: Gun control ‘part and parcel’ of homeland security
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Nick Gass / Politico:
National poll: Clinton lead grows over Trump — Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump grew over the course of the last week, according to the results of the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday. — In the same week that Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination …
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NBC News:
Clinton Expands Lead Over Trump: Poll
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump's terror response has Republicans fretting anew — Donald Trump's combative anti-terrorism speech Monday flouted the typical post-tragedy script and left Republican insiders fretting that the business mogul is unprepared to play a crucial presidential role: national healer.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Raw Story
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Sad! — These three campaign gurus for Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have had some time to reflect on their loss to The Donald. — And do they ever have stories to tell. … It's been roughly 40 days since Donald Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party …
CNN:
Killer of French police officer, partner, broadcast incident live on Facebook, source says — French killer broadcast live from scene with Facebook — (CNN)The killer of a French police officer and his partner broadcast the scene of the attack live on Facebook Monday night local time …
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Killing of French Police Officer
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why the Gun Debate Probably Gives Donald Trump an Edge — The gun-control debate could hit a sweet spot for Donald Trump. His position has appeal to a group that he needs to gain the White House — less educated white Democrats — without doing much to alienate traditionally Republican voters.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Saudi Arabia Has Funded 20% Of Hillary's Presidential Campaign, Saudi Crown Prince Claims — In what may be the pinnacle of hypocrisy, moments ago Hillary Clinton, while speaking live on national security and addressing the Orlando shooting took some time from her constant bashing …
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Michael Melia / Associated Press:
Congregation Will Ask For No Prison Time For Man Who Shot At Mosque — HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The congregation of a mosque that was shot at by a neighbor will ask for the man to be spared from prison at his sentencing this week, urging forgiveness despite federal prosecutors' call for him to serve time behind bars.
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