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7:45 AM ET, October 3, 2017

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Jimmy Kimmel / YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel on Mass Shooting in Las Vegas … After the tragedy in Jimmy's hometown of Las Vegas, he sends love to everyone affected, talks about the major gun violence problem we have in this country, calls out the senators who are in the pocket of the NRA, and asks for common sense and action …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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Wall Street Journal:
Las Vegas Suspect Likely Used Automatic Rifle in Massacre  —  Investigators found 18 to 20 firearms in alleged gunman's hotel room  —  The gunman who authorities said killed at least 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival appears to have used at least one fully automatic rifle …
Shaun King / The Intercept:
The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter  —  Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.  At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded.  No, that's not a typo: more than 500 were injured in one, single incident.
Michael Hopper / VICE News:
What Nevada NRA's chief said when he found out about the massacre  —  Around 7 a.m. Las Vegas local time, VICE News called Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition, the state's NRA affiliate, to discuss gun laws in the state.  Turner was in Phoenix, attending an NRA conference …
Discussion: Politico, Splinter and Raw Story
Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News:
Mass Murder in Las Vegas  —  Once again, the big downside of American freedom is on gruesome display.  A psychotic gunman in Las Vegas has committed the worst mass murder in U. S. history.  —  64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who lived in Nevada, began firing from a hotel window about 10pm Pacific time last night.
ABC News:
President Trump's full remarks on the deadly Las Vegas shooting  —  Below are President Donald Trump's full remarks on Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, as delivered from the White House's Diplomatic Room on Oct. 2, 2017.  —  Thank you.  My fellow Americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief.
WSMV-TV:
West Tennessee man killed in mass shooting at Las Vegas concert  —  A West Tennessee man was one of at least 59 people killed in the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday.  —  Sonny Melton, 29, was at the Route 91 Harvest festival with his wife, Heather Melton …
Will Ricciardella / The Daily Caller:
CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’
David French / National Review:
Based on the Early Reports, The Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Pitch perfect’: CNN scrambles to glorify Trump's Las Vegas speech
Discussion: NewsBusters and Splinter
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room
Discussion: RedState
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources
Discussion: Axios and fox13now.com
Associated Press:
Gunman had ‘bump-stock’ device that could speed fire
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’
Discussion: Mashable and TMZ.com
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know
Discussion: Refinery29, The Daily Caller and Axios
New York Times:
Automatic Weapon May Have Been Involved in Las Vegas Shooting, Audio Suggests
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago ...’
Associated Press:
Trump calls Vegas shooting an ‘act of pure evil’
Discussion: Politico and IJR
CNN:
Las Vegas shooting: What we know
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
In the Wake of the Las Vegas Shooting, There Can Be No Truce with the Second Amendment
New York Times:
Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Suspect, Was a Gambler Who Drew Little Attention
Joe Concha / The Hill:   CBS executive fired after saying Las Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy
TMZ.com:
Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE)  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  1:35 PM PT — Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room.  We're told the family has a “do not resuscitate” order on Tom.  The singer is not expected to live through the day, but he's still clinging to life.
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Rolling Stone:
Report: Tom Petty, Rock Iconoclast Who Led the Heartbreakers, Dead at 66  —  Singer suffered cardiac arrest and was taken off life support at hospital  —  Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, went into full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home Sunday night …
CBS News:
Tom Petty, legendary rocker, is dead at 66  —  Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed.  —  The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night.
Discussion: CBS Boston, Romper, TMZ.com and The Guardian
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty, Heartbreakers frontman who sang ‘Breakdown,’ 'Free Fallin" and other hits, dies at 66
Discussion: Q13 FOX News and RedState
Washington Post:
Russians took a page from corporate America by using Facebook tool to ID and influence voters  —  A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Ben Margot/AP)  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages …
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Elliot Schrage / Facebook:
Hard Questions: Russian Ads Delivered to Congress  —  What was in the ads you shared with Congress?  How many people saw them?  —  Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.
Washington Post:
Russian Facebook ads showed a black woman firing a rifle, amid efforts to stoke racial strife
Andrea Peterson / Politico:
Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account  —  White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's private domain, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. to expel two-thirds of Cuban diplomats amid sonic attack probe  —  WASHINGTON  —  The Trump administration will kick nearly two-thirds of Cuba's embassy personnel out of the United States after months of mysterious attacks targeting American diplomats drove the White House to pull …
Washington Post:
Trump's company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney leaves Capitol Hill on Sept. 19.  Cohen was there to appear privately before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  (Susan Walsh/AP)
New York Times:
E.P.A. Chief's Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home  —  WASHINGTON — For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation's largest coal-burning electric utilities …
 
 
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