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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.
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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
New York Times:   Las Vegas Gunman Chased Gambling's Payouts and Perks
David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump, avoiding talk of gun policy, tells Las Vegas shooting survivors: ‘We will endure the pain together’
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 …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Bob Corker just told the world what he really thinks of Donald Trump  —  (CNN)Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker suggested Wednesday that Gens.  John Kelly and James Mattis as well Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are the “people that help separate our country from chaos,” …
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.
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Today Tillerson Tried To Kill The “Rexit” Rumors Once And For All
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sen. Bob Corker's extraordinarily dim portrayal of the Trump administration
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 anti-abortion 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 …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Embattled GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire
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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Charlotte Alter / TIME:   They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don't Want More Gun Control
Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
Why gun violence research has been shut down for 20 years
Alexander Bisley / Vox:
Former Australian leader on passing gun control: “The results speak for themselves.”
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.
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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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 …
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Steve King employs family as year-round campaign staff, an unusual approach in Congress  —  U.S. Rep. Steve King employs his son and daughter-in-law as full-time campaign staffers, and has paid them more than $805,000 since 2004, records show.  —  Although typically legal …
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
The Republican Party Isn't Cracking Up.  It's Getting Even Stronger.  —  Roy Moore and other Bannonite extremists won't doom the GOP.  —  Roy Moore's victory in Alabama's Republican primary last week puts him in position to become the state's next junior senator and also a major embarrassment to the GOP.
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 …
Associated Press:
NKorean workers prep seafood going to US stores, restaurants  —  https://apnews.com/8b493b7df6e147e98d19 f3abb5ca090a  —  Link copied!  —  HUNCHUN, China (AP) — The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Mother Jones
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 …
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.
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
TMZ.com:
Younger Brother of Mass Murderer Stephen Paddock Has Long Rap Sheet, Criminal Threats, Arson  —  The younger brother of Stephen Paddock has a rap sheet of a hardened criminal ... light-years different from the brother who slaughtered dozens of innocent people.
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
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Russia Needed Help Targeting U.S. Voters, Two Ex-CIA Chiefs Say  —  Two former heads of the Central Intelligence Agency said Russia probably didn't have the ability to microtarget U.S. voters and districts in the 2016 presidential campaign on its own, meaning some sort of assistance would have been necessary.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Takes a First Step Toward Scrapping Obama's Global Warming Policy
Discussion: New York Magazine
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Report: Biden to write foreword for memoir by transgender activist
Discussion: Star Tribune and The Daily Caller
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
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Just Suffered a Court Defeat
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bannon Backs Grimm, an Ex-Felon, in Challenge to G.O.P. Incumbent
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Robb / USA Today:
The path to Trump 2020 is paved with Democrats' racist accusations
Discussion: Instapundit
Connor Sheets / The Guardian:
Too poor to vote: how Alabama's ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Discussion: CBS13
CNN:
Roy Moore's Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia's anti-gay laws
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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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Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
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