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9:25 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 at a traffic stop, the authorities said, and the gunman is dead.  —  HOUSTON — Five people were killed and at least 21 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities …
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
51 People Died in Mass Shootings in August Alone in the U.S.  —  So far this year, there have been at least 38 shootings with three or more fatalities, data shows.  —  The month of August ended as it began: with a shooting rampage and a significant death toll.
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.
Washington Post:
5 killed, 21 injured in a mass shooting in Odessa, Tex.  —  Five people were killed and 21 were injured in the West Texas cities of Odessa and Midland after a gunman fled a traffic stop, hijacked a mail truck and opened fire indiscriminately on officers and civilians as he sped down Interstate 20 and Highway 191, police said.
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: Associated Press, Fox News and Politico
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.
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.
Anna Gronewold / Politico:
N.Y. Republicans rush to challenge indicted incumbent Collins in deep red district  —  ALBANY — A potentially bitter conflict is brewing among Republicans in New York's reddest congressional district, where incumbent Republican Rep. Chris Collins' indictment on insider trading charges …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Eddy Wax / Politico:
German president asks for Polish forgiveness at World War II commemoration  —  Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his counterpart Andrzej Duda marked the 80th anniversary of the war's outbreak on Sunday.  —  German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked for Poland's forgiveness as he marked …
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.
Discussion: CBS News, Breitbart and Fox News
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 …
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
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
In Hong Kong, Playing Tennis With Tear-Gas Grenades  —  “If we die, well, we were going to die anyway.”  —  HONG KONG - President Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists.  —  Yet even when chaos reigns during clashes …
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Megan K. Stack / New Yorker:   Bravery and Nihilism on the Streets of Hong Kong
 
 
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
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Trump wants to cut taxes for rich people yet again
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump trails Democrats by a historically large margin
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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