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Will Ricciardella / The Daily Caller:
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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Wall Street Journal:
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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David French / National Review:
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.
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Washington Post:
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.
ABC News:
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.
Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News:
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.
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
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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Shaun King / The Intercept:
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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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
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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WSMV-TV:
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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Mary Hui / Washington Post:
CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy
CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy
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Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'He was just a guy. …
EXCLUSIVE: 'He was just a guy. …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Facebook and Google promote politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter
Facebook and Google promote politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know
Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
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New York Times:
Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Suspect, Was a Gambler Who Drew Little Attention
Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Suspect, Was a Gambler Who Drew Little Attention
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’
Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago ...’
White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago ...’
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
When You Politicize Shootings You Make It Harder To Find Solutions
When You Politicize Shootings You Make It Harder To Find Solutions
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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
How far-right trolls named the wrong man as the Las Vegas shooter
How far-right trolls named the wrong man as the Las Vegas shooter
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Vegas Shooter's Father Was Armed Robber on FBI's Most Wanted List
Vegas Shooter's Father Was Armed Robber on FBI's Most Wanted List
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources
Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Here Are The Actual Federal Laws Regulating Machine Guns In The U.S.
Here Are The Actual Federal Laws Regulating Machine Guns In The U.S.
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room
Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem
WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem
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New York Times:
Automatic Weapon May Have Been Involved in Las Vegas Shooting, Audio Suggests
Automatic Weapon May Have Been Involved in Las Vegas Shooting, Audio Suggests
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CNN:
Gunman Stephen Paddock was an accountant who played $100-a-hand-poker
Gunman Stephen Paddock was an accountant who played $100-a-hand-poker
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Bill O'Reilly: Las Vegas shooting ‘the price of freedom’
Bill O'Reilly: Las Vegas shooting ‘the price of freedom’
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music …
CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music …
New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills More Than 50
Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills More Than 50
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TMZ.com:
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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CBS News:
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.
Andrea Peterson / Politico:
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.
Elliot Schrage / Facebook:
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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Washington Post:
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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German Lopez / Vox:
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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill
Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill
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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
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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Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
Canada father prepares lawsuit after province bars kids from riding bus alone — Adrian Crook has criticised British Columbia for weighing in on a ‘parenting decision’ after he tried to teach his oldest children to take public transportation … A Canadian father is preparing …