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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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CNN:
Las Vegas gunman planned to escape after massacre, sheriff says — (CNN)The gunman in the Las Vegas massacre planned to escape after targeting the country music concert, but instead left behind a note and killed himself, authorities say. — Stephen Paddock led such a secretive life …
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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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CNN:
Sources: Vegas killer paid cash for property and privacy
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Las Vegas survivors furious as YouTube promotes clips calling shooting a hoax
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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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The Daily Beast:
White House Aides Wanted Rex Tillerson to Resign for Calling Trump a ‘F**king Moron’ … As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took to the microphones Wednesday morning to address reports that he had called his boss, President Donald Trump, a “f**king moron,” aides in the White House held out hope that he would offer his resignation.
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Circus
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Bump stocks could be breakthrough on bipartisan gun legislation
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Blood Pact With the N.R.A. — We are once again in the throes of a worn and increasingly fruitless post-massacre protocol that ritualizes our stages of grief and anesthetizes our expectations of action. — On Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, taking a sniper's position on the32nd floor …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Angry GOP donors close their wallets — 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. — Tensions reached a boiling point at a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day.
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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump pushes for Senate intel panel probe of ‘Fake News Networks’ in U.S. — President Donald Trump urged Congress Thursday morning to launch an investigation of the news media, wondering online “why so much of our news is just made up.” — “Why Isn't the Senate Intel Committee looking …
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Russia Needed Help Targeting U.S. Voters, Two Ex-CIA Chiefs Say
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
4 political scientists are tracking whether Trump is damaging American democracy — So far, the story of Trump's presidency is dysfunction, not authoritarianism. — In February 2017, four political scientists formed Bright Line Watch. Their mission was a chilling sign of the times …
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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
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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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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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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights — I don't agree with liberals often, because I'm not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, “We must have a conversation about guns!” I still couldn't agree more.
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Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
What I've learned from North Korea's leaders — Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is founder of the nonprofit Carter Center. — As the world knows, we face the strong possibility of another Korean war, with potentially devastating consequences to the Korean Peninsula …
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Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS — Online retailer would deliver from other merchants' warehouses — Trial program underway on West Coast before national expansion — Amazon.com Inc. is experimenting with a new delivery service intended …
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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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake tries to strike DACA compromise — One of the Senate's most vulnerable incumbents, Jeff Flake of Arizona, wants to break the impasse on protecting young undocumented immigrants by deporting gang members in the United States and beefing up border security, according to a summary obtained by POLITICO.
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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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