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10:55 PM ET, October 4, 2017

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NBC News:
Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘Death spiral’: Tillerson makes nice but may not last long with Trump  —  The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented: A sitting U.S. secretary of state took to the microphone to pledge his fealty to the president — despite his well-documented unhappiness in the job and the growing presumption …
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Today Tillerson Tried To Kill The “Rexit” Rumors Once And For All  —  The secretary of state disputed a report that he called Trump a “moron” and told reporters he's not leaving Foggy Bottom anytime soon.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sen. Bob Corker's extraordinarily dim portrayal of the Trump administration
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Unarmed Security Guard Took On Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock … LAS VEGAS — Jesus Campos had no firearm when he found Stephen Paddock and approached his room on the 32rd floor of Mandalay Bay on Sunday night.  —  Paddock, who had rigged cameras in the hallway and on the peephole of the door …
Discussion: AOL and IJR
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Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Strip shooter targeted aviation fuel tanks, source says  —  Fuel tanks near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, were targeted by Strip shooter Stephen Paddock when he fired on concert-goers from his Mandalay Bay room Sunday night.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:   Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman's Girlfriend Said She Didn't Know He Planned Harm
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Returns to the Script in Las Vegas
Discussion: IJR
David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump, avoiding talk of gun policy, tells Las Vegas shooting survivors: ‘We will endure the pain together’
Michael Moore:
My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This:  —  PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION  —  “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …
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CNN:
Republicans signal some openness to new gun legislation on ‘bump stocks’
Discussion: WREG-TV
Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
Why gun violence research has been shut down for 20 years
Discussion: Red Alert Politics and NBC News
Alexander Bisley / Vox:
Former Australian leader on passing gun control: “The results speak for themselves.”
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pro-Life Rep. Tim Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election After Reports Of Urging Abortion  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Congressman Tim Murphy, of Upper St. Clair, has reached a decision about his political future.  —  In a statement to KDKA's Jon Delano, the embattled pro-life Republican says he won't seek re-election.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker Tim Murphy to retire at end of term  —  Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term next year after a report that he suggested a woman he was having an affair with get an abortion.  —  In a statement to Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA …
ProPublica:
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud  —  New York prosecutors were preparing a case.  Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.  —  In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump's two eldest children …
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
White House walks back Trump's Puerto Rico comments as Wall Street reels  —  NEW YORK — On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump casually told Geraldo Rivera on Fox News that the United States would have to wipe out $75 billion in debt owed by Puerto Rico to bondholders around the world.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
3 Special Forces Troops Are Killed and 2 Wounded in Ambush in Niger  —  WASHINGTON — Three United States Army Special Forces were killed and two were wounded in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday while on a routine patrol with troops they were training from the West African nation, American military officials said.
Variety:
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Up for Bombshell New York Times, New Yorker Stories  —  Harvey Weinstein has hired a high-powered team of attorneys to push back on soon-to-be-published bombshell stories from the New York Times and the New Yorker detailing sexual allegations and improper workplace behavior against him.
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU's Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’  —  Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial …
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
How We Found Tom Price's Private Jets  —  The first tip came from a casual conversation with a source back in May: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was using private jets for routine travel, possibly in violation of federal travel rules that allowed such flights only when commercial options weren't available.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Report: Biden to write foreword for memoir by transgender activist  —  will write the foreword to an upcoming memoir by transgender activist Sarah McBride.  —  McBride, the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, became the first openly transgender person to speak …
Discussion: Star Tribune and The Daily Caller
Amy Julia Harris / Reveal:
They thought they were going to rehab.  They ended up in chicken plants  —  The worst day of Brad McGahey's life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison.  —  McGahey was 23 with dreams of making it big in rodeo, maybe starring in his own reality TV show.
Discussion: The Lost Ogle and Raw Story
Roll Call:
Cruz Spokesman Saw Suspicious Twitter Activity in 2016 Campaign  —  Texas Republican drew “torrent of negative comments” when he criticized Trump  —  The former campaign spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz said whenever he criticized Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, his Twitter feed was attacked by trolls of suspicious origin.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Robert Robb / USA Today:
The path to Trump 2020 is paved with Democrats' racist accusations  —  White Middle Americans are sick of accusatory identity politics, and if the left doesn't stop, they'll do what needs to be done to stop it.  —  CONNECT  —  Way too early for this kind of stuff, but I had been thinking …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sen. Rand Paul / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Sen. Rand Paul: Cut Taxes For All!
Discussion: Forbes
Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
Flip-Flopping on Free Speech
Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times:
Kim Wall Was Stabbed After Boarding Submarine, Danish Prosecutor Says
Discussion: NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Just Suffered a Court Defeat
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
The Guardian:
May offers the ‘British dream’ but speech turns into a nightmare
Discussion: The Sun, Axios and Crooked Timber
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bannon Backs Grimm, an Ex-Felon, in Challenge to G.O.P. Incumbent
Connor Sheets / The Guardian:
Too poor to vote: how Alabama's ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting
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Alice Speri / The Intercept:
Internal Emails Show ICE Agents Struggling to Substantiate Trump's Lies About Immigrants
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
CNN:
Roy Moore's Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia's anti-gay laws
Discussion: Hullabaloo
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Fighting The Battle for Truth To A Draw
Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing
Statesman Journal:
Ex-Trump adviser Paul Manafort conspired to mislead bankruptcy court, son-in-law charges
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March
 
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