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Jimmy Kimmel on Mass Shooting in Las Vegas … After the tragedy in Jimmy's hometown of Las Vegas, he sends love to everyone affected, talks about the major gun violence problem we have in this country, calls out the senators who are in the pocket of the NRA, and asks for common sense and action …
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The Last Tradition
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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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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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Bannon warns: “end of everything” if Trump supports gun controls — President Trump may say he's a defender of gun ownership rights, but with all the gun control pressure he'll be under after Las Vegas, how do we know he'll resist it — especially after the debt limit deal with Chuck Schumer …
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Gunman had ‘bump-stock’ device that could speed fire — https://apnews.com/e74a33083fb84b1b94c1 ce3da986fd4f — Link copied! — The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas had two “bump-stocks” that could have converted semi-automatic firearms …
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New York Magazine

What Nevada NRA's chief said when he found out about the massacre — Around 7 a.m. Las Vegas local time, VICE News called Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition, the state's NRA affiliate, to discuss gun laws in the state. Turner was in Phoenix, attending an NRA conference …

CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’
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Based on the Early Reports, The Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange

‘Pitch perfect’: CNN scrambles to glorify Trump's Las Vegas speech
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Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know
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Mass shootings are an American problem. There's an American solution.
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West Tennessee man killed in mass shooting at Las Vegas concert
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Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room
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CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy
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Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources
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Trump faces political danger in visit to Puerto Rico
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Las Vegas concert shooting prompts ESPN to change its mind about airing national anthem
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Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’

When You Politicize Shootings You Make It Harder To Find Solutions
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U.S. Senator Chris Murphy …, Daily Wire, NewsBusters, Slate and CNBC

Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill
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WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem
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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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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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Report: Tom Petty, Rock Iconoclast Who Led the Heartbreakers, Dead at 66 — Singer suffered cardiac arrest and was taken off life support at hospital — Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, went into full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home Sunday night …
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Tom Petty, Heartbreakers frontman who sang ‘Breakdown,’ 'Free Fallin" and other hits, dies at 66
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Russians took a page from corporate America by using Facebook tool to ID and influence voters — A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Ben Margot/AP) — SAN FRANCISCO — Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages …
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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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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.


E.P.A. Chief's Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home — WASHINGTON — For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation's largest coal-burning electric utilities …

Nothing Will Change After the Las Vegas Shooting — WASHINGTON — In the wake of one the deadliest mass shootings in our nation's history, perhaps the most asked question by Americans is, “Will anything change?” The simple answer is no. The more vital question is, “Why not?”
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House to vote on abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on legislation that would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for instances where the life of the mother is at risk and in cases involving rape or incest.
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Trump administration backs 20-week abortion ban
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Laurene Powell Jobs is buying a big stake in Wizards, Capitals sports empire — Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis and Emerson Collective President Laurene Powell Jobs watch the Mystics playoff game courtside at Capital One Arena in September. Powell Jobs is buying a big stake in Monumental.


U.S. to expel two-thirds of Cuban diplomats amid sonic attack probe — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will kick nearly two-thirds of Cuba's embassy personnel out of the United States after months of mysterious attacks targeting American diplomats drove the White House to pull …


477 Days. 521 Mass Shootings. Zero Action From Congress. — Each colored square represents — a day in which at least one mass — shooting took place. — A gunman opens fire in an Orlando nightclub, leaving 49 dead and many wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history - until Sunday.