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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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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 …
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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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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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Fox News, Politico, Associated Press and The Texas Signal
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
4 killed, 21 others injured in extended mass shooting in Odessa, Texas: Police — Four people have been shot and killed and 21 others injured 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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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
5 killed, 21 injured in a mass shooting in Odessa, Tex. — At least 5 people were killed and 21 injured after a man opened fire near Odessa, Tex. — The attack began at a traffic stop, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference Saturday evening.
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Political Wire
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.
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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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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Pakistani-born Queens teen's 'ISIS plot to drop bombs into traffic and stab innocent pedestrians TODAY at World's Fair Marina' — The FBI has revealed shocking details of a 19-year-old Queens man's alleged plans to carry out a lone wolf knife and bomb attack on the World's Fair Marina for ISIS.
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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.
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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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
The Trump Associates Benefiting From a Tax Break for Poor Communities
The Trump Associates Benefiting From a Tax Break for Poor Communities
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Raw Story
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
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The 2020 electoral map could be the smallest in years. Here's why. — In a politically divided nation, with attitudes among many voters hardened and resistant to changing, the 2020 general election could be contested on the narrowest electoral terrain in recent memory.
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 …
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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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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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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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Hurricane Comey Was a National Disaster — The bureaucratic rules he flouted are designed to protect the country from people like the FBI chief. — It is time to start reckoning with the consequences of James Comey. — If not for the former FBI chief, the Justice Department likely …
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders teases plan to eliminate billions in medical debt — Sanders defends health care tweak on unions — Florence, South Carolina (CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders announced late Friday that he plans to eliminate billions in medical debt, hinting at a proposal the 2020 presidential …
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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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