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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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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 and The Texas Signal
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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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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VICE, Daily Wire, Slate and Fox News
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: U.S. mass killings reach total for all of 2018 — ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a shooting in West Texas (all times local): — A database shows that the West Texas shooting brings the number of mass killings in the U.S. so far this year to 25, which is as many mass killings as in all of 2018.
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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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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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.
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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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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CBS News, Breitbart, Fox News and U.S. Department of Justice
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 …
Washington Post:
Sacklers could hold on to most of personal fortune in proposed Purdue settlement — The Sackler family, which grew into one of the nation's wealthiest dynasties through sales of the widely abused painkiller OxyContin, could emerge from a legal settlement under negotiation …
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
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
The Trump Associates Benefiting From a Tax Break for Poor Communities — Opportunity zones are intended to attract investors to distressed areas, but so far, much of their money is going to create luxury projects. — President Trump has called it “the hottest thing going,” …
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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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