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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, KWTX-TV, CNN, Fox News, Breitbart, Yourbasin, The Intellectualist, The Guardian, PJ Media Home, News Breaking, UPI and New York Post
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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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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Splinter and 😍 Heard.Zone
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
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
5 dead in shooting in western Texas; suspect shot, killed: Officials — Five people are dead from a shooting in the Odessa area of western Texas, according to authorities. — The suspect shooter has been shot and killed, the Midland Police Department said. — “There is no active shooter at this time,” Midland police said.
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CNN, KWES, The Guardian, twitchy.com and Mediaite
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
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.
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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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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ginsburg says she is ‘on my way to being very well’ after cancer treatment — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Saturday that her work on the Supreme Court has “kept me going” through four bouts of cancer and that she is “on my way to being very well.” — Ginsburg disclosed on Aug. 23 …
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Talking Points Memo
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
‘I Am on My Way to Being Very Well,’ Justice Ginsburg Tells Thousands of Fans
‘I Am on My Way to Being Very Well,’ Justice Ginsburg Tells Thousands of Fans
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Breitbart, Mother Jones, CNN, NPR, The Guardian and KTLA
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 …
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 and Washington Post
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.
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 …
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.
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Former Marine said he'd ‘slaughter’ antifa. The FBI, using Oregon's new red flag law, took his guns away — Shane Kohfield stood outside the home of Portland's mayor in July wearing body armor and a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, a large knife strapped to one shoulder and a copy …
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Big League Politics
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Testimony: Dad of Alison Grimes left $20K in cash, $25K check in consultant's couch — Lexington businessman Jerry Lundergan left $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 check in the couch of a political consultant's home to pay for work the consultant did for Lundergan's daughter …
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
Calvin TerBeek / Politico:
The Federalist Society Says It's Not an Advocacy Organization. These Documents Show Otherwise. — This past March, when the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies held its 37th annual national gathering for conservative law students, the lineup of speakers and panelists included …
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Raw Story