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12:40 AM ET, September 1, 2019

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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 …
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
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.
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and The Texas Signal
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: VICE, Daily Wire, Slate and Fox News
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.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Hullabaloo
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.
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.
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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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:   In Hong Kong, Playing Tennis With Tear-Gas Grenades
Reuters:   Hong Kong protests turn to chaos amid tear gas and petrol bombs
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,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Splinter
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Hurricane Comey Was a National Disaster
Discussion: Breitbart
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Alabama church posts sign: ‘A black vote for Trump is mental illness’
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Fourth Democratic debate scheduled for mid-October
Discussion: Daily Wire and Axios
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Testimony: Dad of Alison Grimes left $20K in cash, $25K check in consultant's couch
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump trails Democrats by a historically large margin
Discussion: Bloomberg
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BuzzFeed News:
Amazon's Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America's Streets …
Washington Post:
Trump pledged not to use his office to help his business.  Then he pitched his Florida club for the next G-7.
BBC:
Parliament suspension: Thousands protest across the UK
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
Annie Grayer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders teases plan to eliminate billions in medical debt
Manès Weisskircher / Washington Post:
Germany's far-right AfD party might be the big winner in tomorrow's regional elections.  Here's what that means.
Jonathan Marcus / BBC:
Did Donald Trump tweet classified military imagery?
Calvin TerBeek / Politico:
The Federalist Society Says It's Not an Advocacy Organization. These Documents Show Otherwise.
Discussion: Raw Story
Oliver Willis / Shareblue Media:
Don Jr.'s rally to help struggling Kentucky governor bombs when no one shows up
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

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

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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