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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 …
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.
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and TheBlaze
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 …
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Vegas survivor: Shot in leg or not, I'm standing for my president
Discussion: RedState and Scared Monkeys
New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Unarmed Security Guard Took On Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock
Discussion: The Federalist, twitchy.com, AOL and IJR
New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting: Investigators Grapple With Gunman's ‘Secret Life’
Discussion: The Week
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 …
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:   John Kelly: The Boston native in charge of bringing order to President Trump's White House
The Daily Beast:
White House Aides Wanted Rex Tillerson to Resign for Calling Trump a ‘F**king Moron’
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:   Sessions says civil rights law doesn't protect transgender workers
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Axios, Rewire and Splinter
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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.
Discussion: Politico, WREG-TV and WJHL
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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CNN:
Burr on Trump tweet: Panel will hold media ‘accountable’ on Russia
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Axios and Politico
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Pew Research Center:
1. Partisan divides over political values widen  —  The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger than at any point in Pew Research Center surveys dating back to 1994, a continuation of a steep increase in the ideological divisions between the two parties over more than a decade.
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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
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Ezra Klein / Vox:   4 political scientists are tracking whether Trump is damaging American democracy
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
Discussion: RedState
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?
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Times
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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New York Times:
David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall
Discussion: Splinter and Associated Press
Rachel Leah / Salon:
NYPD cop who assaulted tennis star James Blake is suing him, the city and many, many more
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
David Dayen / The Nation:
Alleged fraud put JPMorgan Chase hundreds of millions of dollars ahead …
Discussion: BillMoyers.com
Mike Pence / Wall Street Journal:
America Will Return to the Moon—and Go Beyond
Discussion: Engadget and The Verge
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Interior Department whistleblower resigns, calling Ryan Zinke's leadership a failure
Discussion: Associated Press and Common Dreams
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake tries to strike DACA compromise
Discussion: ThinkProgress, ABC News and Daily Kos
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights
Discussion: Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
ACA premiums blame game may turn against Republicans
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Washington Post:
Democrat Northam leads Republican Gillespie in race for Virginia governor, new poll finds
Discussion: Political Wire
Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Sally Yates, Preet Bharara Stress High Bar for Criminal Charges in Russia Probe
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
The Republican Party Isn't Cracking Up. It's Getting Even Stronger.
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Steve King employs family as year-round campaign staff, an unusual approach in Congress
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pro-Life Rep. Tim Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election After Reports Of Urging Abortion
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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