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Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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.
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Unarmed Security Guard Took On Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock … LAS VEGAS — Jesus Campos had no firearm when he found Stephen Paddock and approached his room on the 32rd floor of Mandalay Bay on Sunday night. — Paddock, who had rigged cameras in the hallway and on the peephole of the door …
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New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre — Top congressional Republicans, who have for decades resisted any legislative limits on guns, signaled on Wednesday that they would be open to banning the firearm accessory that the Las Vegas gunman used to transform his rifles to mimic automatic weapon fire.
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The Trace:
Amid Talk of Banning Bump Stocks for Guns, Retailers Are Selling Out of the Devices
Amid Talk of Banning Bump Stocks for Guns, Retailers Are Selling Out of the Devices
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Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller, ABC News, IJR, Mediaite and Business Insider
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don't Want More Gun Control
Newsweek:
RETRACTED: PADDOCK'S GIRLFRIEND USED TWO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND WAS MARRIED TO TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME
RETRACTED: PADDOCK'S GIRLFRIEND USED TWO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND WAS MARRIED TO TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME
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Washington Post:
Girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman: ‘It never occurred to me ... that he was planning violence’
Girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman: ‘It never occurred to me ... that he was planning violence’
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IJR, The Guardian, TheBlaze, Raw Story, CBS Dallas and New York Times
Stephen L. Miller / Fox News:
The media doesn't understand guns — and doesn't want to
The media doesn't understand guns — and doesn't want to
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Friendly Atheist, Doug Ross, IJR, New York Times and SARAH PALIN
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Top conservative calls for ban on device used by Vegas shooter
Top conservative calls for ban on device used by Vegas shooter
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CNN:
Las Vegas shooter rented room during earlier music festival
Las Vegas shooter rented room during earlier music festival
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Paul Harasim / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Strip shooter prescribed anti-anxiety drug in June
Las Vegas Strip shooter prescribed anti-anxiety drug in June
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LewRockwell, The Root, AOL, Conservative News Today and Daily Wire
CBS Pittsburgh:
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.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Angry GOP donors close their wallets — 'I'm sick and tired of nothing happening,' one contributor says of the party's legislative failures. — Republicans are confronting a growing revolt from their top donors, who are cutting off the party in protest over its inability to get anything done.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Embattled GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire
Embattled GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Roy Moore's disruption of Washington has already begun, and more is on the way
Roy Moore's disruption of Washington has already begun, and more is on the way
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker Tim Murphy to retire at end of term
GOP lawmaker Tim Murphy to retire at end of term
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘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 …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Bob Corker just told the world what he really thinks of Donald Trump
Bob Corker just told the world what he really thinks of Donald Trump
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Repeal the Second Amendment — I have never understood the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment. — From a law-and-order standpoint, more guns means more murder. “States with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides …
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Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Sally Yates, Preet Bharara Stress High Bar for Criminal Charges in Russia Probe — Prosecutors fired by Trump say Special Counsel Robert Mueller has challenging task and may not bring charges — Two of the most high-profile law-enforcement officials fired by President Donald Trump …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
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.
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Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
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.
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Variety:
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.
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
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 …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
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 …
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
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.
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Raw Story
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
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.
Washington Post:
Democrat Northam leads Republican Gillespie in race for Virginia governor, new poll finds — A relatively unified party base gives Democrat Ralph Northam a clear lead over Republican Ed Gillespie heading into the final month of the Virginia governor's race, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll.
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned — NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Grimm hits D.C. amid comeback bid — Former Republican congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm returned to Washington on Wednesday in a bid to win support for his comeback congressional bid. — Among the people whose support Grimm has secured is former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bannon Backs Grimm, an Ex-Felon, in Challenge to G.O.P. Incumbent