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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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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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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Las Vegas survivors furious as YouTube promotes clips calling shooting a hoax
Las Vegas survivors furious as YouTube promotes clips calling shooting a hoax
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CNN:
Sources: Vegas killer paid cash for property and privacy
Sources: Vegas killer paid cash for property and privacy
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Las Vegas shooter booked hotel overlooking Lollapalooza, visited other music festivals
Las Vegas shooter booked hotel overlooking Lollapalooza, visited other music festivals
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Raw Story
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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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns — Imagine there has been a horrible case of child abuse in your neighborhood. A large family with 10 children had parents who brutally beat their kids, and two died. In reacting to that horrendous news, there's a knock at your 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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Blood Pact With the N.R.A.
Blood Pact With the N.R.A.
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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’
White House Aides Wanted Rex Tillerson to Resign for Calling Trump a ‘F**king Moron’
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Circus
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Circus
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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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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
The Justice Department Is Investigating Harvard's Admissions Practices
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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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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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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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Secret Service claims there are no Mar-a-Lago visitor logs — A Secret Service official said there are no logs for President Trump's visitors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Politico reported. — The official said in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Secret Service: No visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago
Secret Service: No visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago
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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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Political 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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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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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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Washington Post:
Three Trump Cabinet members attended mining lobbyist meeting at Trump International Hotel — Three members of President Trump's Cabinet attended the meeting of a major mining lobbying group at a Washington hotel owned by the president himself, according to a schedule of the event obtained by The Washington Post.
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John Annese / New York Daily News:
Manager at Bronx McDonald's arrested for allegedly selling cocaine with fast food — Want fries with that coke? — The night shift manager at a Bronx McDonald's has been busted for serving up cocaine with fast food, prosecutors said Wednesday — Frank Guerrero, 26 …
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