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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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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.
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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 Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week
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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 …
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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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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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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Trump's Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets — (CNN)President Donald Trump faced a major test on Tuesday as he traveled to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico: Show the American citizens struggling for survival on the island that he understood their plight, sympathized with them and was doing everything …
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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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Trump officials allow Puerto Ricans to use food stamps for fast food
Trump officials allow Puerto Ricans to use food stamps for fast food
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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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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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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 …
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
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
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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 …
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