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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started. — Up-and-coming country star Luke Combs had just started his set on the smaller of the two festival stages when Kody Robertson, an auto parts salesman from Columbus, Ohio, squeezed in at the end of the bar next to Michelle Vo …
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Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor police as they approached — LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Las Vegas said Tuesday that the gunman who killed least 59 people at a country music festival “extensively” planned the massacre, placing cameras in his suite …
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Mike Rowe:
Off The Wall — Mike - I live in Las Vegas, and I've seen you here often. Once, in the lobby at Mandalay Bay. We're all shattered here, obviously. A comforting word from you would go a long way... Molly Carr — Hi Molly — I'm not surprised you saw me at the Mandalay.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Republican senator blames the culture of “sanctuary cities” for mass shootings
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
He was shot helping people during the Las Vegas shooting. His heroics helped his photo go viral.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon warns: “end of everything” if Trump supports gun controls
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Rebekah Entralgo / ThinkProgress:
The Las Vegas shooter exploited a gun law loophole
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell swats away talk of gun control
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Khaled Beydoun / Washington Post:
‘Lone wolf’: Our stunning double standard when it comes to race and religion
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What a macho, gun-packing Instagram star did when he was caught in the Las Vegas shooting
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Jimmy Kimmel / YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel on Mass Shooting in Las Vegas
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
MSNBC's Mika: No Republican lawmakers would appear on ‘Morning Joe’ to discuss the Las Vegas massacre
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Michelle Ghoussoub / CBC News:
3 Canadians among dozens killed in Las Vegas mass shooting
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NBC News:
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week — Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in his live-in girlfriend's home country of the Philippines in the week before he unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials.
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Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
At his local Starbucks, Las Vegas shooter remembered for berating his girlfriend — The workers behind the counter at the Starbucks inside the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, Nev., winced whenever Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, lined up for their usual beverages.
The Daily Beast:
Las Vegas Gunman May Have First Planned to Attack Chance the Rapper and Lorde Concert … LAS VEGAS—The gunman who murdered at least 59 people at a country-music concert on Sunday might have originally targeted another Las Vegas music festival held the previous weekend, according to a senior law enforcement source.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Trump's Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets — (CNN)President Donald Trump faced a major test on Tuesday as he traveled to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico: Show the American citizens struggling for survival on the island that he understood their plight, sympathized with them and was doing everything …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Trump officials allow Puerto Ricans to use food stamps for fast food
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Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn't a “real catastrophe” like Katrina
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Omaya Sosa Pascual / miamiherald:
Hurricane Maria: government official acknowledges there are more deaths in Puerto Rico
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Oxfam America:
Statement by Oxfam America President Abby Maxman regarding Puerto Rico Hurricane Response
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
‘Incredible.’ ‘Great.’ ‘Unbelievable.’ In storm-torn Puerto Rico, Trump focuses on the positive
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CNN:
Exclusive: Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin — (CNN)A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Tony Romm / Recode:
Twitter and Facebook haven't stopped Russia-backed RT from advertising on their websites
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Leah Libresco / Washington Post:
I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise. — Leah Libresco is a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site. She is the author of “Arriving at Amen.” — Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me.
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Rosanne Cash / New York Times:
Country Musicians, Stand Up to the N.R.A. — I've been a gun-control activist for 20 years. Every time I speak out on the need for stricter gun laws, I get a new profusion of threats. There's always plenty of the garden-variety “your dad would be ashamed of you” sexist nonsense …
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Jim Himes / Washington Post:
Why I boycotted Congress's latest empty moment of silence for gun victims
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Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
GOP Congressman Met in Moscow With Kremlin-Linked Lawyer at Center of Russia Investigation — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met in Moscow with Natalia Veselnitskaya two months before she met with Donald Trump Jr. — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Kelly won't let Rohrabacher talk to Trump: report — is blocking a pro-Russia congressman from meeting with President Trump, according to a new report. — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told Business Insider on Tuesday that Kelly and other top Trump aides are actively blocking …
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Brad Heath / USA Today:
Exclusive: Jared Kushner's personal email moved to Trump Organization computers amid public scrutiny — President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump moved their personal email accounts to computers run by the Trump Organization as public scrutiny intensified over their use …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case — Toward the end of the Supreme Court's argument in Gill v. Whitford, about the future of partisan gerrymandering, there was a revealing moment about the place of the newest Justice in the esteem of at least one of his peers.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence's chief of staff floats ‘purge’ of anti-Trump Republicans to wealthy donors — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff railed against congressional leaders in closed-door remarks to wealthy donors and called for a “purge” if GOP lawmakers don't quickly rally behind President Donald Trump's agenda.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sen. John Thune blames shooting victims for failing to ‘take precautions’ and ‘get small’ to avoid gunfire — Sen. John Thune (R-SD) on Tuesday responded to calls for increased gun control after the massacre in Las Vegas by telling reporters that shooting victims had a responsibility to protect themselves from gunfire.
New York Times:
Kennedy's Vote Is in Play on Voting Maps Warped by Politics — WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has long been troubled by extreme partisan gerrymandering, where the party in power draws voting districts to give itself a lopsided advantage in elections.
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Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: Gerrymandering has broken our democracy. The Supreme Court should help fix it.
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax — The IRS will pay Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud under a no-bid contract issued last week, even as lawmakers lash the embattled company about a massive security breach …
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