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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 …
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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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don't Want More Gun Control
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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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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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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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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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 — (CNN)Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker suggested Wednesday that Gens. John Kelly and James Mattis as well Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are the “people that help separate our country from chaos,” …
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NBC News:
Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence
Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Between the lines on Tillerson
Between the lines on Tillerson
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Today Tillerson Tried To Kill The “Rexit” Rumors Once And For All
Today Tillerson Tried To Kill The “Rexit” Rumors Once And For All
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sen. Bob Corker's extraordinarily dim portrayal of the Trump administration
Sen. Bob Corker's extraordinarily dim portrayal of the Trump administration
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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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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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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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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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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 …
Michael Moore:
My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This: — PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION — “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …
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Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
Why gun violence research has been shut down for 20 years
Why gun violence research has been shut down for 20 years
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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.
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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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, senior advisers to President Donald Trump, were both fined $200 for missing deadlines to submit financial reports required by government ethics rules, according to documents and interviews.
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial …
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Associated Press:
NKorean workers prep seafood going to US stores, restaurants — https://apnews.com/8b493b7df6e147e98d19 f3abb5ca090a — Link copied! — HUNCHUN, China (AP) — The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government …
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
How We Found Tom Price's Private Jets — The first tip came from a casual conversation with a source back in May: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was using private jets for routine travel, possibly in violation of federal travel rules that allowed such flights only when commercial options weren't available.
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Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
Man Whose Life Was Saved By Married Lesbian Cop To Speak At National Convention Of Anti-LGBT Haters — Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: — There were times when we wondered if House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) would ever speak at VVS again.
TMZ.com:
Younger Brother of Mass Murderer Stephen Paddock Has Long Rap Sheet, Criminal Threats, Arson — The younger brother of Stephen Paddock has a rap sheet of a hardened criminal ... light-years different from the brother who slaughtered dozens of innocent people.
Amy Julia Harris / Reveal:
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants — The worst day of Brad McGahey's life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. — McGahey was 23 with dreams of making it big in rodeo, maybe starring in his own reality TV show.
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