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6:30 AM ET, October 4, 2017

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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.
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and FOX6Now.com
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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.
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.
David Smith / The Guardian:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning  —  Authorities investigating the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, are preparing to question the girlfriend of gunman Stephen Paddock who has flown back to America after being named …
NBC News:
Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Gambled With at Least $160K in Recent Weeks  —  Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock gambled with at least $160,000 in the past several weeks at Las Vegas casinos, according to senior law enforcement officials.  —  There were 16 Currency Transaction Reports, or CTRs, filed for Paddock in recent weeks.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim
Discussion: Althouse
Khaled Beydoun / Washington Post:
‘Lone wolf’: Our stunning double standard when it comes to race and religion
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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 … Guns and women got Dan Bilzerian where he is today — the so-called “King of Instagram,” with nearly 23 million followers, a mansion full of guns and a hot tub full of women.
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
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 …
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Republican senator blames the culture of “sanctuary cities” for mass shootings
Mike Rowe:
Off The Wall  —  Mike - I live in Las Vegas, and I've seen you here often.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Heather Long / Washington Post:
He was shot helping people during the Las Vegas shooting. His heroics helped his photo go viral.
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Adelsons meet with Trump, discuss Las Vegas shooting
Discussion: The Hill
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
Discussion: Engadget and Political Wire
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:   Senators expected to largely endorse intel report on Russian meddling, sound alarm about next election
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Dr. Sanjay Gupta's dire warning on Puerto Rico
Discussion: Gizmodo and Vox
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump hails ‘incredible’ response in ‘lovely’ trip to storm-torn Puerto Rico
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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Politico:
The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets
Discussion: twitchy.com and Daily Kos
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell swats away talk of gun control
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
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: Instapundit
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
This Is Why The US Voted Against A UN Resolution Condemning The Death Penalty For LGBT People  —  It wasn't just about the provision protecting LGBT people from being killed via the death penalty.  The US just really likes the death penalty.  —  The Trump administration is under fire …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO's Congressional Hearing  —  THE INITIAL DRAMA over Equifax's September data breach has mostly subsided, but the actual damage will play out for years.  And indeed, there turns out to be plenty of spectacle and public controversy left.
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
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 …
Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
Populists are on the March in the South: Bernie-Backed Insurgent Randall Woodfin Defeats Birmingham's Incumbent Mayor  —  Birmingham's Mayor William Bell, first elected in 2010, was supposed to have an easy re-election.  A poll released in early August found that 57 percent of his city's residents thought …
Oath:
Yahoo provides notice to additional users affected by previously disclosed 2013 data theft  —  NEW YORK — Yahoo, now part of Oath, today announced that it is providing notice to additional user accounts affected by an August 2013 data theft previously disclosed by the company on December 14, 2016.
 
 
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George Hunter / Detroit News:
MSP sergeant investigated for tossing evidence
Discussion: The Root and Associated Press
Anna Edney / Bloomberg:
FDA Warns Bakery Company ‘Love’ Is Not an Ingredient in Granola
Discussion: Hit & Run and Gizmodo
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sen. John Thune blames shooting victims for failing to ‘take precautions’ and ‘get small’ to avoid gunfire
Discussion: IJR and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Kennedy's Vote Is in Play on Voting Maps Warped by Politics
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Daniel Rivero / Splinter:
This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors
Discussion: FairWarning and Mother Jones
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan asked White House to reconsider ousting Price
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR
Washington Post:
Hedge fund billionaire flew top Mnuchin aide on private jet to Palm Beach
Discussion: CNBC and The First Street Journal
 

 
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
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Ellen Clegg / What Works:
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