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CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’ — A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night.
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Las Vegas Suspect Likely Used Automatic Rifle in Massacre — Investigators found 18 to 20 firearms in alleged gunman's hotel room — The gunman who authorities said killed at least 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival appears to have used at least one fully automatic rifle …
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Based on the Early Reports, The Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange — Before I begin, let me clearly state two things. First, as I note in the title of this post, my observations are based on early reports, and early reports are often wrong. Second, do not read this post as implying any sort of conspiracy theory of any kind.

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling, country music, lived quiet life before massacre — Before he opened fire late Sunday — killing at least 50 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip — the gunman Stephen Paddock lived a quiet life for years in a small town outside Las Vegas.

Las Vegas concert shooting prompts ESPN to change its mind about airing national anthem — Because of the horrific news of the shooting at a Las Vegas concert, ESPN has reversed course and will broadcast the national anthem that precedes Monday night's game between the Washington Redskins …
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President Trump's full remarks on the deadly Las Vegas shooting — Below are President Donald Trump's full remarks on Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, as delivered from the White House's Diplomatic Room on Oct. 2, 2017. — Thank you. My fellow Americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief.


The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter — Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that's not a typo: more than 500 were injured in one, single incident.
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Mass Murder in Las Vegas — Once again, the big downside of American freedom is on gruesome display. A psychotic gunman in Las Vegas has committed the worst mass murder in U. S. history. — 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who lived in Nevada, began firing from a hotel window about 10pm Pacific time last night.


Here Are All The Hoaxes Being Spread About The Las Vegas Shooting — This post will be updated as more hoaxes surface. — At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip late Sunday night. Police have confirmed that “one suspect is down” …
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CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy — CBS fired a company executive Monday after she criticized some victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting as “Republican gun toters” who did not deserve sympathy. — Hayley Geftman-Gold …
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West Tennessee man killed in mass shooting at Las Vegas concert — A West Tennessee man was one of at least 59 people killed in the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday. — Sonny Melton, 29, was at the Route 91 Harvest festival with his wife, Heather Melton …
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EXCLUSIVE: 'He was just a guy. …
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Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Suspect, Was a Gambler Who Drew Little Attention
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50 dead after shooting on Las Vegas Strip; suspect ID'd
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Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know
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Facebook and Google promote politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter
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Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
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White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago ...’
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Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources

How far-right trolls named the wrong man as the Las Vegas shooter
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Vegas Shooter's Father Was Armed Robber on FBI's Most Wanted List
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Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills More Than 50
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Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’
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Here Are The Actual Federal Laws Regulating Machine Guns In The U.S.
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Gunman Stephen Paddock was an accountant who played $100-a-hand-poker
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CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music …

Bill O'Reilly: Las Vegas shooting ‘the price of freedom’
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WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem
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Las Vegas shooting: Live updates
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CBS Exec Fired for ‘Deeply Unacceptable’ Post About ‘Republican Gun Toters’ After Vegas Shooting
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Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE) — EXCLUSIVE — 1:35 PM PT — Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room. We're told the family has a “do not resuscitate” order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live through the day, but he's still clinging to life.
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Tom Petty, legendary rocker, is dead at 66 — Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed. — The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night.


Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account — White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's private domain, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Hard Questions: Russian Ads Delivered to Congress — What was in the ads you shared with Congress? How many people saw them? — Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.
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Trump's company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators — Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney leaves Capitol Hill on Sept. 19. Cohen was there to appear privately before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Susan Walsh/AP)
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Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts — In the developed world, these levels of gun violence are a uniquely American problem. Here's why. — America is an exceptional country when it comes to guns. It's one of the few countries in which the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected.
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Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill
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Did Manafort Use Trump to Curry Favor With a Putin Ally? — On the evening of April 11, 2016, two weeks after Donald Trump hired the political consultant Paul Manafort to lead his campaign's efforts to wrangle Republican delegates, Manafort emailed his old lieutenant Konstantin Kilimnik …
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