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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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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Jimmy Kimmel / YouTube:
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 …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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.
Associated Press:
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
Steve Israel / New York Times:
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?”
New York Times:
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.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump faces political danger in visit to Puerto Rico
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:   ‘An Act of Pure Evil’
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Pitch perfect’: CNN scrambles to glorify Trump's Las Vegas speech
Discussion: NewsBusters and Splinter
ABC News:
President Trump's full remarks on the deadly Las Vegas shooting
Mary Hui / Washington Post:
CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy
David French / National Review:
Based on the Early Reports, The Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange
Will Ricciardella / The Daily Caller:
CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room
Discussion: RedState
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:   Federal watchdog opens probe into travel by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources
Washington Post:
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling, country music, lived quiet life before massacre
New York Times:
Automatic Weapon May Have Been Involved in Las Vegas Shooting, Audio Suggests
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’
Discussion: Mashable and TMZ.com
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.
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty, Heartbreakers frontman who sang ‘Breakdown,’ 'Free Fallin" and other hits, dies at 66
Discussion: Q13 FOX News and RedState
Washington Post:
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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Elliot Schrage / Facebook:
Hard Questions: Russian Ads Delivered to Congress
Washington Post:
Russian Facebook ads showed a black woman firing a rifle, amid efforts to stoke racial strife
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.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
This Is What a Real Middle-Class Tax Cut Would Look Like  —  If one takes the White House's word for it, tax reform is all about a single goal—helping the middle class, not the rich.  —  Gary Cohn, the White House's chief economic adviser, says the president's tax cut is “purely aimed at middle-class families.”
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:   The GOP Tax Plan Is Already Hitting Speed Bumps
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
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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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump administration backs 20-week abortion ban
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
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 …
Greg Farrell / Bloomberg:
Mueller Tasks an Adviser With Getting Ahead of Pre-Emptive Pardons  —  Dreeben defended more than 100 U.S. cases to Supreme Court  —  Criminal law expert could bulletproof Mueller team's work  —  U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a distinctly modern problem.
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
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.
 
 
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