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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.
Washington Post:
The ATF-approved ‘goofy little doodad’ used by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock  —  As President Obama's first year in office drew to a close, he addressed the nation after a mass shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, saying the country must do everything it can to prevent future gun violence.
New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Investigators Looking for Mystery Woman Seen With Vegas Shooter
Discussion: IJR, AOL and bet.com
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:
Las Vegas Shooting: Investigators Grapple With Gunman's ‘Secret Life’
Discussion: The Hill
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  But in a new memo, the attorney general rescinded the policy.
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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Trump Just Asked A Court To Dismiss A Lawsuit Against His Transgender Military Ban  —  “That challenge is premature several times over,” lawyers for the president said in a court brief.  —  Trump administration lawyers argued in court late Wednesday night that it's too soon for federal courts …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Towleroad
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Sessions says civil rights law doesn't protect transgender workers
Discussion: The Week
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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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns
New York Times:
Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein  —  Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting.  Instead, he had her sent up to his room …
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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?
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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Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
John Kelly: The Boston native in charge of bringing order to President Trump's White House
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
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, Political Wire, Rewire and Splinter
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Marsha Blackburn / YouTube:
Why I'm Running  —  The United States Senate...It's totally …
Discussion: Politico, WREG-TV and WJHL
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
Discussion: Axios
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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Pew Research Center:   1. Partisan divides over political values widen
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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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
NRA bans bump stocks at its own firing range
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
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
 
 
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Dave Gershgorn / Quartz:
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Chao used government planes seven times when cheaper flights would not work
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
After Charlottesville, A.C.L.U. Braces for the Next Alt-Right Case
New York Times:
David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall
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Rachel Leah / Salon:
NYPD cop who assaulted tennis star James Blake is suing him, the city and many, many more
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David Dayen / The Nation:
Alleged fraud put JPMorgan Chase hundreds of millions of dollars ahead …
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Three Trump Cabinet members attended mining lobbyist meeting at Trump International Hotel
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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
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
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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