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CBS7.com:
Midland Police: Suspect taken into custody at Cinergy of Midland, 20 people hurt in active shooting — MIDLAND/ODESSA, Tx. (KOSA) — UPDATE: The City of Midland tells CBS7 that authorities have taken a suspect into custody at the Cinergy of Midland. No other details have been released.
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KWTX-TV, CNN, Townhall, CBS News, Yourbasin, Fox News, Breitbart, The Intellectualist, The Guardian, News Breaking, UPI, PJ Media Home and CBS Pittsburgh
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New York Times:
Texas Shooting Leaves 5 Dead and At Least 21 Injured Near Odessa — The attack began as a traffic stop, the authorities said, and the gunman is dead. — HOUSTON — Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities …
Anna Kaplan / The Daily Beast:
5 Dead, 21 Injured in West Texas Shooting Spree — Police said they shot and killed the gunman outside a mall movie theater. — Five people were killed and more than two dozen were wounded—including three police officers—when a man went on a terrifying shooting rampage in in west Texas on Saturday afternoon.
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Politico and Associated Press
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
At least 1 person dead, 10 injured by active shooter in Odessa and Midland, Texas, police say — Random shootings were reported in both cities, and one shooter carjacked a U.S. Postal Service truck, police said. — Multiple people were shot Saturday afternoon in West Texas …
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Breitbart, Splinter, The Daily Caller, 😍 Heard.Zone and Raw Story
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
5 shot dead in Texas after gunman fired at officer then fled: Police — Five people have been shot and killed by a gunman who opened fire in a series of shootings near Odessa in western Texas, according to authorities. — The suspect has been shot and killed, Midland Police officials said.
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CNN, Raw Story, New York Post, twitchy.com, Mediaite and Balloon Juice
Victor Blanco / KWES:
5 dead, 21 injured in shooting spanning Midland, Odessa — At 5:29 p.m. CDT, Midland police said there was no longer an active shooter situation. — ODESSA, Texas — Five people are dead and 21 injured after a shooting that spanned multiple locations in Midland and Odessa.
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
5 killed, 21 injured in a mass shooting in Odessa, Tex.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Here are 14 reasons I'll vote for any Democrat over Trump — When asked earlier this month whether he could support Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren if one became the Democratic presidential nominee, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was noncommittal.
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Hullabaloo
New York Times:
How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich — NEW ORLEANS — President Trump has portrayed America's cities as wastelands, ravaged by crime and homelessness, infested by rats. — But the Trump administration's signature plan to lift them …
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Mother Jones
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
The Trump Associates Benefiting From a Tax Break for Poor Communities
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
What happened when Trump visited the African American History Museum, according to its founding director — In his upcoming memoir, newly appointed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III describes the private tour he gave President Trump of the National Museum of African American History and Culture …
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Talking Points Memo, Slate, The Root, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo, The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
David Sirota / Bern Notice:
Bernie 2020 Demands Retraction of Inaccurate WashPost “Fact Check” On Medical Bankruptcy — A letter to Washington Post editor Marty Baron details the newspaper's repeated inaccurate criticism of the Vermont senator … Mr. Baron, — I am writing in regards to the Washington Post Fact …
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Breitbart and Common Dreams
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sen. Bernie Sanders teases plan to cancel $81 billion in Americans' medical debt
Sen. Bernie Sanders teases plan to cancel $81 billion in Americans' medical debt
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Common Dreams
Annie Grayer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders teases plan to eliminate billions in medical debt
Megan K. Stack / New Yorker:
Bravery and Nihilism on the Streets of Hong Kong — Peter and his friends were on the move in the streets of Hong Kong. They cut through the sooty midday heat, jostling and joking in skateboarding sneakers, making their way past tattered industrial buildings, printing presses, and garages.
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Ellen Cranley / Business Insider:
Conservative firebrand Tomi Lahren admitted her ‘Freedom’ clothing line is not made in America after backlash — Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren announced Friday that her “Freedom” athleisure line is not made in the United States. — Lahren responded to the widespread backlash a week …
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Splinter
BuzzFeed News:
Amazon's Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America's Streets — But The World's Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame — Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans.
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump trails Democrats by a historically large margin — (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is Siskel & Ebert & the Movies. — Poll of the week: A new national Quinnipiac University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
‘I Am on My Way to Being Very Well,’ Justice Ginsburg Tells Thousands of Fans — WASHINGTON — “How am I feeling?' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked on Saturday, articulating the question on the minds of nervous liberals and many of the 4,000 people who had stood in line for hours …
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Breitbart, CNN, NPR, The Guardian, Mother Jones and KTLA
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ginsburg says she is ‘on my way to being very well’ after cancer treatment
Ginsburg says she is ‘on my way to being very well’ after cancer treatment
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Talking Points Memo
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump wants to cut taxes for rich people yet again — Grover Norquist and Steve Mnuchin (right), two of the key figures behind this change. Alex Wong/Getty Images — Indexing capital gains to inflation, as Trump is considering, would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent.
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Washington Monthly, RealClearMarkets, Slate, Washington Post and Raw Story
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Leslie H. Gelb, 82, Former Diplomat and New York Times Journalist, Dies — He was an editor, columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The Times and served in a variety of government posts. — Leslie H. Gelb, an iconoclastic former American diplomat, journalist …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Fourth Democratic debate scheduled for mid-October — The fourth Democratic presidential primary debate will be held on Oct. 15 and 16 in Ohio, according to a memo the Democratic National Committee sent to presidential campaigns. — The memo, which was obtained by POLITICO, says the second night will only be held if necessary.
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Daily Wire and Axios
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Trump's Twitter War on Spelling — The president's supporters don't mind his linguistic slips, but lexicographers and grammarians worry about the permanent effect on language. — It was late May, and the president of the United States could not seem to get off Twitter. The low IQ-ness of Joe Biden.