Las Vegas Strip shooter targeted aviation fuel tanks, source says  —  Fuel tanks near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, were targeted by Strip shooter Stephen Paddock when he fired on concert-goers from his Mandalay Bay room Sunday night.

‘Death spiral’: Tillerson makes nice but may not last long with Trump  —  The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented: A sitting U.S. secretary of state took to the microphone to pledge his fealty to the president — despite his well-documented unhappiness in the job and the growing presumption …

Pro-Life Rep. Tim Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election After Reports Of Urging Abortion  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Congressman Tim Murphy, of Upper St. Clair, has reached a decision about his political future.  —  In a statement to KDKA's Jon Delano, the embattled anti-abortion Republican says he won't seek re-election.

3 Special Forces Troops Are Killed and 2 Wounded in Ambush in Niger  —  WASHINGTON — Three United States Army Special Forces were killed and two were wounded in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday while on a routine patrol with troops they were training from the West African nation, American military officials said.

Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Up for Bombshell New York Times, New Yorker Stories  —  Harvey Weinstein has hired a high-powered team of attorneys to push back on soon-to-be-published bombshell stories from the New York Times and the New Yorker detailing sexual allegations and improper workplace behavior against him.

Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU's Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’  —  Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest …

White House walks back Trump's Puerto Rico comments as Wall Street reels  —  NEW YORK — On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump casually told Geraldo Rivera on Fox News that the United States would have to wipe out $75 billion in debt owed by Puerto Rico to bondholders around the world.

Steve King employs family as year-round campaign staff, an unusual approach in Congress  —  U.S. Rep. Steve King employs his son and daughter-in-law as full-time campaign staffers, and has paid them more than $805,000 since 2004, records show.  —  Although typically legal …

My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This:  —  PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION  —  “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …

Russia Needed Help Targeting U.S. Voters, Two Ex-CIA Chiefs Say  —  Two former heads of the Central Intelligence Agency said Russia probably didn't have the ability to microtarget U.S. voters and districts in the 2016 presidential campaign on its own, meaning some sort of assistance would have been necessary.

The Republican Party Isn't Cracking Up.  It's Getting Even Stronger.  —  Roy Moore and other Bannonite extremists won't doom the GOP.  —  Roy Moore's victory in Alabama's Republican primary last week puts him in position to become the state's next junior senator and also a major embarrassment to the GOP.

‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial …

NKorean workers prep seafood going to US stores, restaurants  —  https://apnews.com/8b493b7df6e147e98d19 f3abb5ca090a  —  Link copied!  —  HUNCHUN, China (AP) — The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government …

How We Found Tom Price's Private Jets  —  The first tip came from a casual conversation with a source back in May: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was using private jets for routine travel, possibly in violation of federal travel rules that allowed such flights only when commercial options weren't available.

They thought they were going to rehab.  They ended up in chicken plants  —  The worst day of Brad McGahey's life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison.  —  McGahey was 23 with dreams of making it big in rodeo, maybe starring in his own reality TV show.

Younger Brother of Mass Murderer Stephen Paddock Has Long Rap Sheet, Criminal Threats, Arson  —  The younger brother of Stephen Paddock has a rap sheet of a hardened criminal ... light-years different from the brother who slaughtered dozens of innocent people.

Man Whose Life Was Saved By Married Lesbian Cop To Speak At National Convention Of Anti-LGBT Haters  —  Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins:  —  There were times when we wondered if House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) would ever speak at VVS again.

Cruz Spokesman Saw Suspicious Twitter Activity in 2016 Campaign  —  Texas Republican drew “torrent of negative comments” when he criticized Trump  —  The former campaign spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz said whenever he criticized Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, his Twitter feed was attacked by trolls of suspicious origin.

Exclusive - Sen. Rand Paul: Cut Taxes For All!  —  I'm in favor of cutting taxes.  I'll take the biggest tax cut we can pass, but I'm also certainly willing to compromise.  I realize not everyone in my caucus wants a big, bold cut like I do.  If all we are talking about is how much to cut taxes …