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Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.
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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.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim — If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim ... If only he had shouted “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire on all those concertgoers in Las Vegas ... If only he had been a member of ISIS ... If only we had a picture of him posing with a Quran in one hand and his semiautomatic rifle in another ...
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Washington Post:
New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock — Marilou Danley, the longtime girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman, returned to the United States Tuesday night and was met at the Los Angeles airport by FBI agents, according to the Associated Press.
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning
The Daily Beast:
Las Vegas Gunman May Have First Planned to Attack Chance the Rapper and Lorde Concert
Las Vegas Gunman May Have First Planned to Attack Chance the Rapper and Lorde Concert
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NBC News:
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week
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New York Times:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Casino Gunman, Returns to U.S.
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Casino Gunman, Returns to U.S.
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ProPublica:
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud — New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz. — In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump's two eldest children …
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Puerto Rico's Debt May Need to Be ‘Wiped Out’ — ‘We are going to work something out,’ president says on Fox — Trump visited island earlier Tuesday to survey storm damage — President Donald Trump suggested that the government debt accumulated by bankrupt Puerto Rico …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Says US Will Have To ‘Wipe’ Out Puerto Rico's Debt (VIDEO) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he will have to wipe out Puerto Rico's debt as the island rebuilds from the destruction caused by two hurricanes. — “We are going to work something out.
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Few approve of Trump's Puerto Rico response — Americans are more likely to approve than disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling hurricane relief in Florida and Texas, but it's a different story when it comes to Puerto Rico. — According to a new poll …
Leslie Shaffer / CNBC:
Trump says Puerto Rico's debt will have to be wiped out
Trump says Puerto Rico's debt will have to be wiped out
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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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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.
Washington Post:
Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor police as they approached
Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor police as they approached
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Republican senator blames the culture of “sanctuary cities” for mass shootings
Republican senator blames the culture of “sanctuary cities” for mass shootings
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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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Bloomberg:
Facebook Fought for Years to Avoid Political Ad Disclosure Rules — In 2011, company said FEC shouldn't stand in way of innovation — Russian meddling prompts calls for political ad transparency — Facebook Inc. is pledging greater transparency about who's behind election-related ads online.
Tony Romm / Recode:
Twitter and Facebook haven't stopped Russia-backed RT from advertising on their websites
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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Politico:
The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets
The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets
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New York Times:
Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee's Error, Former C.E.O. Says — WASHINGTON — The Equifax data breach, which exposed the sensitive personal information of nearly 146 million Americans, happened because of a mistake by a single employee, the credit reporting company's former chief executive told members of Congress on Tuesday.
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO's Congressional Hearing
6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO's Congressional Hearing
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
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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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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
More GOP senators willing to tell Trump to take a hike — There's a growing faction inside the Senate Republican Conference, and it looks like bad news for Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump: The devil-may-care caucus. — Unbeholden to Republican orthodoxy and freed from the burdens …
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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New York Times:
Mattis Contradicts Trump on Iran Deal Ahead of Crucial Deadline — WASHINGTON — Days before President Trump has to make a critical decision on whether to hold up the Iran nuclear deal, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis openly split with him on abandoning the agreement, the second senior member …
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