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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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NBC News:
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week — Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in his live-in girlfriend's home country of the Philippines in the week before he unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials.
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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 Stephen Paddock Gambled With at Least $160K in Recent Weeks — Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock gambled with at least $160,000 in the past several weeks at Las Vegas casinos, according to senior law enforcement officials. — There were 16 Currency Transaction Reports, or CTRs, filed for Paddock in recent weeks.
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New York Times:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Casino Gunman, Returns to U.S.
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Washington Post:
New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock
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New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman's Rifle Had ‘Bump Stock’ to Make It Rapid-Fire Weapon
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Khaled Beydoun / Washington Post:
‘Lone wolf’: Our stunning double standard when it comes to race and religion
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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.
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Washington Post:
Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor police as they approached — LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Las Vegas said Tuesday that the gunman who killed least 59 people at a country music festival “extensively” planned the massacre, placing cameras in his suite …
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Mike Rowe:
Off The Wall — Mike - I live in Las Vegas, and I've seen you here often.
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Rebekah Entralgo / ThinkProgress:
The Las Vegas shooter exploited a gun law loophole
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
He was shot helping people during the Las Vegas shooting. His heroics helped his photo go viral.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell swats away talk of gun control
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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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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 …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Trump officials allow Puerto Ricans to use food stamps for fast food
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NBC News:
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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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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The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets
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Rosanne Cash / New York Times:
Country Musicians, Stand Up to the N.R.A.
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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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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
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Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
This Is Why The US Voted Against A UN Resolution Condemning The Death Penalty For LGBT People — It wasn't just about the provision protecting LGBT people from being killed via the death penalty. The US just really likes the death penalty. — The Trump administration is under fire …
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Stephen Peters / Human Rights Campaign:
Trump Administration Explains Votes Against United Nations Resolution
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Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
Populists are on the March in the South: Bernie-Backed Insurgent Randall Woodfin Defeats Birmingham's Incumbent Mayor — Birmingham's Mayor William Bell, first elected in 2010, was supposed to have an easy re-election. A poll released in early August found that 57 percent of his city's residents thought …
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