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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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USA Today:
Las Vegas shooter booked rooms facing Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock booked rooms in a Chicago hotel facing the Lollapalooza music festival in August, a law enforcement official told USA TODAY on Thursday.
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TMZ.com:
Stephen Paddock Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Vegas Massacre — Stephen Paddock — Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Massacre — EXCLUSIVE — Stephen Paddock had his sights set on Lollapalooza in Chicago and even booked 2 rooms in a hotel …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Top House Republicans open to legislation regulating ‘bump stocks’
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Vegas survivor: Shot in leg or not, I'm standing for my president
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CNN:
Hero who saved 30 people reunited with officer who saved his own life
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New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Unarmed Security Guard Took On Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Las Vegas survivors furious as YouTube promotes clips calling shooting a hoax
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Washington Post:
The ATF-approved ‘goofy little doodad’ used by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock
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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Jeff Sessions Just Reversed A Policy That Protects Transgender Workers From Discrimination — The Justice Department under Obama decreed that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned transgender discrimination in the workplace. But in a new memo, the attorney general rescinded the policy.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Justice Department Is Investigating Harvard's Admissions Practices
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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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Melissa Quinn / Associated Press:
Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin forge ‘suicide pact’ in the event Trump wants one of them gone: Report … Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reportedly have forged a “suicide pact” in which all three members of President Trump's Cabinet …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense — The breach, considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate U.S. networks — WASHINGTON—Hackers working for the Russian government stole details of how the U.S. penetrates …
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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Tennessean.com:
Exclusive: U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn launches U.S. Senate bid — Marsha Blackburn announces she is running for U.S. Senate — NASHVILLE — U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is entering the 2018 U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker, ending a week's worth of speculation …
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Marsha Blackburn / YouTube:
Why I'm Running — The United States Senate...It's totally dysfunctional and it's enough to drive you nuts. And that's why I've decided to do something about it. — I'm Marsha Blackburn. I'm a hard core, card carrying Tennessee conservative. I'm politically incorrect, and proud of it.
Pew Research Center:
The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider — Sharp shifts among Democrats on aid to needy, race, immigration — The divisions between Republicans and Democrats on fundamental political values - on government, race, immigration, national security, environmental protection and other areas …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Grassley: ‘No way of avoiding’ public hearing for Trump Jr — Grassley requests that Trump Jr. testify — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley signaled Thursday that Donald Trump Jr. will ultimately have to testify publicly before his panel, something Democrats have been demanding for weeks.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Top House Democrat: 'I think it's time' for Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn to go — A senior House Democrat said Thursday that it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team to prepare to step down and make way for the next generation of lawmakers in her caucus.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House plans to demand immigration cuts in exchange for DACA fix
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Axios
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Russian propaganda may have been shared hundreds of millions of times, new research says — Facebook has said ads bought by Russian operatives reached 10 million of its users. — But does that include everyone reached by the information operation? Couldn't the Russians also have created simple …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Secret Service: No visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago — There are no visitor logs or other system of tracking those who visited President Donald Trump at his winter retreat known as Mar-a-Lago, a Secret Service official confirmed Wednesday. — Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Secret Service claims there are no Mar-a-Lago visitor logs
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Bright Line Watch:
The Health of American Democracy: Comparing Perceptions of Experts and the American Public — Given widespread concern about the possible erosion of democracy in the United States, Bright Line Watch has conducted expert surveys since early 2017 asking thousands of professional …
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Brendan Nyhan
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Inside North Korea, and Feeling the Drums of War — PYONGYANG, North Korea — To fly into North Korea on an old Russian aircraft is to step into an alternate universe, one in which “the Supreme Leader” defeats craven American imperialists, in which triplets are taken from parents to be raised by the state …
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Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
What I've learned from North Korea's leaders
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Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Battling N.Y. Times, New Yorker Over Potentially Explosive Stories (Exclusive) — The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight planned articles that are said to be about his personal behavior. — Is The New York Times about to expose damaging information on Harvey Weinstein?
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Dan Abrams / Mediaite:
Hate for Megyn Kelly is Everything That's Wrong With America Today — Let me be clear at the outset, I don't know if Megyn Kelly's new NBC show will succeed. After all, it's LESS THAN two weeks old so how can anyone really know. — I have always liked Megyn personally and more importantly …
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