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NBC News:
Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week  —  Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in his live-in girlfriend's home country of the Philippines in the week before he unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon warns: “end of everything” if Trump supports gun controls  —  President Trump may say he's a defender of gun ownership rights, but with all the gun control pressure he'll be under after Las Vegas, how do we know he'll resist it — especially after the debt limit deal with Chuck Schumer …
Associated Press:
Gunman had ‘bump-stock’ device that could speed fire  —  https://apnews.com/e74a33083fb84b1b94c1 ce3da986fd4f  —  Link copied!  —  The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas had two “bump-stocks” that could have converted semi-automatic firearms …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
He was shot helping people during the Las Vegas shooting.  His heroics helped his photo go viral.  —  LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Smith is likely to spend the rest of his life with a bullet lodged in the left side of his neck, a never-ending reminder of America's deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
New York Times:
477 Days.  521 Mass Shootings.  Zero Action From Congress.  —  Each colored square represents  —  a day in which at least one mass  —  shooting took place.  —  A gunman opens fire in an Orlando nightclub, leaving 49 dead and many wounded.  It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history - until Sunday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John Haltiwanger / Newsweek:
White men have committed more mass shootings than any other group  —  The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was shocking in its scale — but it wasn't a surprise that it was committed by a white male.  —  Statistics show that since 1982, the majority of mass shootings — 54 percent …
Steve Israel / New York Times:
Nothing Will Change After the Las Vegas Shooting  —  WASHINGTON — In the wake of one the deadliest mass shootings in our nation's history, perhaps the most asked question by Americans is, “Will anything change?”  The simple answer is no. The more vital question is, “Why not?”
CNN:
Las Vegas massacre: More weapons found, but no motive
Michelle Ghoussoub / CBC News:
3 Canadians among dozens killed in Las Vegas mass shooting
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
AUTOMATIC RIFLES ARE BANNED. HERE'S HOW THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTER COULD HAVE GOTTEN ONE
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
MSNBC's Mika: No Republican lawmakers would appear on ‘Morning Joe’ to discuss the Las Vegas massacre
Discussion: twitchy.com
Rebekah Entralg / ThinkProgress:
The Las Vegas shooter exploited a gun law loophole
Discussion: The Atlantic, RedState and Joe.My.God.
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Fan fury as three Kansas City Chiefs players sit or kneel during the national anthem hours …
Discussion: IJR and Washington Post
Ronn Blitzer / LawNewz:
LawNewz Guest and Young Attorney Jennifer Irvine Killed in Las Vegas Shooting
Eliza Barclay / Vox:
Puerto Rico hasn't updated the Hurricane Maria death toll in 6 days  —  The outdated death count is a sign the government is broken.  —  Twelve days ago, Hurricane Maria trashed Puerto Rico, demolishing its already weak power, communications, and transportation infrastructure.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump says Puerto Rico officials should be ‘proud’ more haven't died like in Katrina  —  President Trump on Tuesday told Puerto Rico officials they should feel “very proud” they haven't lost thousands of lives like in “a real catastrophe like Katrina,” while adding that the devastated island territory …
Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn't a “real catastrophe” like Katrina  —  And it's “throwing our budget a little out of whack.”  —  President Donald Trump met with local leaders and federal responders shortly after landing at an Air Force base in Carolina, Puerto Rico …
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump focuses on optics in Puerto Rican visit
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump leaves San Juan's mayor out of praise for Puerto Rico leaders
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan asked White House to reconsider ousting Price  —  Speaker Paul Ryan last week urged the White House to reconsider ousting Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, his longtime friend who had come under fire for often using a taxpayer-funded private jet for travel, according to two people with knowledge of the call.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
The GOP Tax Plan Is Already Hitting Speed Bumps  —  Corker questions whether GOP has fortitude for tax overhaul  —  Republicans split on whether tax plan can add to the deficit  —  The White House is showing “softness” on ending a $1.3 trillion federal tax deduction filers get for their state …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
This Is What a Real Middle-Class Tax Cut Would Look Like
Discussion: CNBC, TheStreet and New York Times
Greg Farrell / Bloomberg:
Mueller Tasks an Adviser With Getting Ahead of Pre-Emptive Pardons  —  Dreeben defended more than 100 U.S. cases to Supreme Court  —  Criminal law expert could bulletproof Mueller team's work  —  U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a distinctly modern problem.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence's chief of staff floats ‘purge’ of anti-Trump Republicans to wealthy donors  —  Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff railed against congressional leaders in closed-door remarks to wealthy donors and called for a “purge” if GOP lawmakers don't quickly rally behind President Donald Trump's agenda.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
HALEY REPRIMANDED FOR HATCH ACT VIOLATION  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington, D.C.—Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley violated the Hatch Act by retweeting a political message endorsing candidate Ralph Norman, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ruled based on a complaint filed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Nikki Haley hit for Hatch Act violation over Trump retweet
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Hedge fund billionaire flew top Mnuchin aide on private jet to Palm Beach  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's top aide flew on a hedge fund billionaire's private jet to Palm Beach several months ago, people familiar with the trip said, the latest example of senior Trump administration …
Discussion: CNBC and The First Street Journal
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court eyes partisan gerrymandering  —  The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with a case that has the potential to halt or even reverse an increasingly common phenomenon of American political life: Republicans' ability to tilt the political playing field in their favor through the tedious task of redrawing district lines.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
This Supreme Court Case Could Radically Reshape Politics
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ releases overruled memos finding it illegal for presidents to appoint relatives  —  The Justice Department has released a series of recently overruled legal memos concluding that presidents cannot appoint their relatives to the White House staff or presidential commissions, even to unpaid posts.
Discussion: The Week
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Andrea Peterson / Politico:
Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account
Alison R. Parker / Shareblue:
“Pro-life” GOP votes on new abortion ban after kicking 9 million kids off health insurance  —  The supposedly “pro-life” Republican House is too focused on denying women access to health care to bother protecting health care for kids.  —  When conservatives talk about being “pro-life,” one has to wonder just what lives they mean.
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Hilary Golston / WJBK-TV:
Pregnant woman threatened and called racial slur: video
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
The press, branded the ‘enemy’ by Trump, increasingly trusted by the public: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: Daily Wire
Daniel Rivero / Splinter:
This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors
Rosanne Cash / New York Times:
Country Musicians, Stand Up to the N.R.A.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
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Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Louvre Pulls Sculpture, Saying It Was Sexually Explicit
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
A Very Strange Night Launching Anthony Scaramucci's New Media Project
Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
‘I cannot express how wrong I was’: Country guitarist changes mind on gun control after Vegas
 

 
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