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10:15 AM ET, October 5, 2017

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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 …
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
Charlotte Alter / TIME:   They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don't Want More Gun Control
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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The Daily Beast:
White House Aides Wanted Rex Tillerson to Resign for Calling Trump a ‘F**king Moron’ … As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took to the microphones Wednesday morning to address reports that he had called his boss, President Donald Trump, a “f**king moron,” aides in the White House held out hope that he would offer his resignation.
Discussion: The Week, Daily Kos and Politico
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Bump stocks could be breakthrough on bipartisan gun legislation
Discussion: Politico, Weekly Standard and USA Today
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Bob Corker just told the world what he really thinks of Donald Trump
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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Blood Pact With the N.R.A.  —  We are once again in the throes of a worn and increasingly fruitless post-massacre protocol that ritualizes our stages of grief and anesthetizes our expectations of action.  —  On Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, taking a sniper's position on the32nd floor …
New York Times:
Republicans Open to Banning ‘Bump Stocks’ Used in Massacre  —  Top congressional Republicans, who have for decades resisted any legislative limits on guns, signaled on Wednesday that they would be open to banning the firearm accessory that the Las Vegas gunman used to transform his rifles to mimic automatic weapon fire.
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.
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:   The Republican Party Isn't Cracking Up. It's Getting Even Stronger.
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Roy Moore's disruption of Washington has already begun, and more is on the way
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Embattled GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker Tim Murphy to retire at end of term
Discussion: Shareblue and New York Times
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business.
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:   How We Found Tom Price's Private Jets
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Stakeout at Dulles Airport launched Politico bombshell on Tom Price's charter-flight scandal
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:   4 political scientists are tracking whether Trump is damaging American democracy
Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:
Sally Yates, Preet Bharara Stress High Bar for Criminal Charges in Russia Probe  —  Prosecutors fired by Trump say Special Counsel Robert Mueller has challenging task and may not bring charges  —  Two of the most high-profile law-enforcement officials fired by President Donald Trump …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources
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
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 »
Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
What I've learned from North Korea's leaders  —  Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is founder of the nonprofit Carter Center.  —  As the world knows, we face the strong possibility of another Korean war, with potentially devastating consequences to the Korean Peninsula …
Discussion: RedState and Business Insider
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights  —  I don't agree with liberals often, because I'm not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, “We must have a conversation about guns!”  I still couldn't agree more.
Discussion: Instapundit
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.
 
 
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Rachel Maddow / Variety:
Rachel Maddow on Why Nicolle Wallace Is Her Favorite Republican
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Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
Russia Appeared To Target Wisconsin's Elections Body Via A Banner Or Popup Ad
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Liberal groups got IRS scrutiny, too, inspector general suggests
Discussion: New York Magazine and TaxProf Blog
Michael Kiefer / USA Today:
Federal judge accepts Joe Arpaio's presidential pardon
Discussion: The Root and Splinter
Tegna / KSDK-TV:
Man arrested for Howard University threats
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump pushes for Senate intel panel probe of ‘Fake News Networks’ in U.S.
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
ACA premiums blame game may turn against Republicans
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Bernie Sanders and Larry David Finding Out That They're Cousins Is Kind of the Best
Philip Rocco / Washington Post:
Justice Roberts said political science is ‘sociological gobbledygook.’ Here's why he said it, and why he's mistaken.
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
Man Whose Life Was Saved By Married Lesbian Cop To Speak At National Convention Of Anti-LGBT Groups
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Russia Needed Help Targeting U.S. Voters, Two Ex-CIA Chiefs Say
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Steve King employs family as year-round campaign staff, an unusual approach in Congress
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
White House walks back Trump's Puerto Rico comments as Wall Street reels
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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