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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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CNN:
Las Vegas gunman planned to escape after massacre, sheriff says  —  (CNN)The gunman in the Las Vegas massacre planned to escape after targeting the country music concert, but instead left behind a note and killed himself, authorities say.  —  Stephen Paddock led such a secretive life …
USA Today:
Las Vegas shooter booked rooms facing Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August  —  Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock booked rooms in a Chicago hotel facing the Lollapalooza music festival in August, a law enforcement official told USA TODAY on Thursday.
Discussion: TheBlaze and Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Stephen Paddock Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Vegas Massacre  —  Stephen Paddock — Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Massacre  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Stephen Paddock had his sights set on Lollapalooza in Chicago and even booked 2 rooms in a hotel …
Discussion: Fox News Insider and CBS Dallas
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Top House Republicans open to legislation regulating ‘bump stocks’  —  Top House Republicans said they will consider restricting “bump stocks,” the firearm accessory used to accelerate gunfire in the Las Vegas massacre, opening the door to heightened regulation in response to the tragedy.
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: twitchy.com, The Federalist, AOL and IJR
New York Times:   Las Vegas Gunman Chased Gambling's Payouts and Perks
New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting: Investigators Grapple With Gunman's ‘Secret Life’
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
Clues few and elusive for motive of Las Vegas gunman
Discussion: Associated Press
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Las Vegas shooter booked hotel overlooking Lollapalooza, visited other music festivals
Discussion: Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Repeal the Second Amendment  —  I have never understood the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment.  —  From a law-and-order standpoint, more guns means more murder.  “States with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides …
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns  —  Imagine there has been a horrible case of child abuse in your neighborhood.  A large family with 10 children had parents who brutally beat their kids, and two died.  In reacting to that horrendous news, there's a knock at your door.
Discussion: IJR, Vox and The Federalist
New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre
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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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Jeff Sessions Just Reversed A Policy That Protects Transgender Workers From Discrimination  —  The Justice Department under Obama decreed that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned transgender discrimination in the workplace.  But in a new memo, the attorney general rescinded the policy.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Vox
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Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Battling N.Y. Times, New Yorker Over Potentially Explosive Stories (Exclusive)  —  The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight planned articles that are said to be about his personal behavior.  —  Is The New York Times about to expose damaging information on Harvey Weinstein?
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Bright Line Watch:
The Health of American Democracy: Comparing Perceptions of Experts and the American Public  —  Given wide­spread concern about the possible erosion of democracy in the United States, Bright Line Watch has conducted expert surveys since early 2017 asking thousands of pro­fes­sion­al …
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
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Ezra Klein / Vox:   4 political scientists are tracking whether Trump is damaging American democracy
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Secret Service claims there are no Mar-a-Lago visitor logs  —  A Secret Service official said there are no logs for President Trump's visitors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Politico reported.  —  The official said in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) …
Discussion: RedState
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Secret Service: No visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Angry GOP donors close their wallets  —  Republicans are confronting a growing revolt from their top donors, who are cutting off the party in protest over its inability to get anything done.  —  Tensions reached a boiling point at a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day.
Washington Post:
Democrat Northam leads Republican Gillespie in race for Virginia governor, new poll finds  —  A relatively unified party base gives Democrat Ralph Northam a clear lead over Republican Ed Gillespie heading into the final month of the Virginia governor's race, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll.
Discussion: Political Wire
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
John Kelly: The Boston native in charge of bringing order to President Trump's White House  —  WASHINGTON — General John F. Kelly needed to deal with Al Qaeda, urgently.  It was 2008, and insurgents were operating with near impunity in the territory between two US commands.
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.
Mike Pence / Wall Street Journal:
America Will Return to the Moon—and Go Beyond  —  The U.S. is falling behind in the final frontier.  The National Space Council will help remedy that.  —  Sixty years ago this week, the Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite into orbit, changing the course of history.
Discussion: Engadget and The Verge
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS  —  Online retailer would deliver from other merchants' warehouses  —  Trial program underway on West Coast before national expansion  —  Amazon.com Inc. is experimenting with a new delivery service intended …
Discussion: AOL, more at Techmeme »
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.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake tries to strike DACA compromise  —  One of the Senate's most vulnerable incumbents, Jeff Flake of Arizona, wants to break the impasse on protecting young undocumented immigrants by deporting gang members in the United States and beefing up border security, according to a summary obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
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David Dayen / The Nation:
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Pew Research Center:
The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider
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Washington Post:
Three Trump Cabinet members attended mining lobbyist meeting at Trump International Hotel
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John Annese / New York Daily News:
Manager at Bronx McDonald's arrested for allegedly selling cocaine with fast food
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Interior Department whistleblower resigns, calling Ryan Zinke's leadership a failure
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Rachel Maddow / Variety:
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Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
The Republican Party Isn't Cracking Up. It's Getting Even Stronger.
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Steve King employs family as year-round campaign staff, an unusual approach in Congress
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned