Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed at least 59 people in Las Vegas, was a gambler who did not have a violent streak, his brother said. "He was a guy who had money. He went on cruises and gambled," Eric Paddock said, adding that his brother was a multimillionaire with investments in real estate. Eric Paddock said his brother had little interest in politics or religion and that "he was nice to my kids when they went out to Vegas." Stephen Paddock was living in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, with his partner, Marilou Danley, 62, who was overseas when the shooting happened. He had previously lived in Reno, Nevada, and Melbourne, Florida. Stephen Paddock’s father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a bank robber who, in 1969, escaped from jail where he was serving a 20-year sentence. Authorities have yet to figure out what the shooter's motivations were. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the shooting, but there are no signs that Stephen Paddock was affiliated with the terrorist group. – NPR Police found 23 firearms in the hotel room from which Stephen Paddock committed the bloodiest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Officers have not revealed whether any of the weapons were automatic, but there are reasons to believe that Paddock used an automatic rifle because of the sound of the gunfire captured in several recordings. One of the weapons has been identified as an AK-47. According to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, the weapons’ calibers range from .223, which is associated with semiautomatic rifles, to .308, which is used in game hunting rifles. According to gun shop owners, Paddock bought some of the firearms legally. – WAPO Workers in Catalonia are on strike today to protest a police crackdown against a referendum on the region’s independence from Spain. Protesters rallied in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, where shops and universities were closed and transport companies provided limited services. "This is a protest against police violence and maintaining momentum after Sunday," said protester Victor Noguer, 27, a firefighter. According to the regional government, almost 900 people were injured on Sunday in clashes with police. The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, said that some 400 officers were injured in the clashes. It had previously declared the referendum unconstitutional and sent thousands of police officers to Catalonia to prevent the vote from taking place. Only about 42 percent of people cast votes on Sunday, and pro-independence groups blame the low turnout on the police crackdown. According to a poll commissioned by the Catalan government released in July, Catalans are divided: 41 percent are in favor of independence and 49 percent are against. – CNBC Three U.S. scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting gravitational waves. In the 1980s, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne proposed building the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to detect gravitational waves – ripples in the surface of the universe that were first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity. In 2015, the scientists published a study explaining how they used LIGO to detect gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. Weiss has been awarded half of the 9 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million) prize, while the other two scientists will share the other half. After the announcement, Weiss said: "I view this more as a thing that recognizes the work of about 1,000 people. I hate to tell you but it’s as long as 40 years of people thinking about this, trying to make a detection … and slowly but surely getting the technology together to do it." – NPR Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner received hundreds of White House emails on an account to which their household staff also had access, according to a report from Politico. The emails sent to that account contained travel documents, schedules and some White House "materials," Politico said, ...
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed at least 59 people in Las Vegas, was a gambler who did not have a violent streak, his brother said. "He was a guy who had money. He went on cruises and gambled," Eric Paddock said, adding that his brother was a multimillionaire with investments in real estate. Eric Paddock said his brother had little interest in politics or religion and that "he was nice to my kids when they went out to Vegas." Stephen Paddock was living in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, with his partner, Marilou Danley, 62, who was overseas when the shooting happened. He had previously lived in Reno, Nevada, and Melbourne, Florida. Stephen Paddock’s father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a bank robber who, in 1969, escaped from jail where he was serving a 20-year sentence. Authorities have yet to figure out what the shooter's motivations were. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the shooting, but there are no signs that Stephen Paddock was affiliated with the terrorist group. – NPR Police found 23 firearms in the hotel room from which Stephen Paddock committed the bloodiest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Officers have not revealed whether any of the weapons were automatic, but there are reasons to believe that Paddock used an automatic rifle because of the sound of the gunfire captured in several recordings. One of the weapons has been identified as an AK-47. According to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, the weapons’ calibers range from .223, which is associated with semiautomatic rifles, to .308, which is used in game hunting rifles. According to gun shop owners, Paddock bought some of the firearms legally. – WAPO Workers in Catalonia are on strike today to protest a police crackdown against a referendum on the region’s independence from Spain. Protesters rallied in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, where shops and universities were closed and transport companies provided limited services. "This is a protest against police violence and maintaining momentum after Sunday," said protester Victor Noguer, 27, a firefighter. According to the regional government, almost 900 people were injured on Sunday in clashes with police. The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, said that some 400 officers were injured in the clashes. It had previously declared the referendum unconstitutional and sent thousands of police officers to Catalonia to prevent the vote from taking place. Only about 42 percent of people cast votes on Sunday, and pro-independence groups blame the low turnout on the police crackdown. According to a poll commissioned by the Catalan government released in July, Catalans are divided: 41 percent are in favor of independence and 49 percent are against. – CNBC Three U.S. scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting gravitational waves. In the 1980s, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne proposed building the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to detect gravitational waves – ripples in the surface of the universe that were first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity. In 2015, the scientists published a study explaining how they used LIGO to detect gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. Weiss has been awarded half of the 9 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million) prize, while the other two scientists will share the other half. After the announcement, Weiss said: "I view this more as a thing that recognizes the work of about 1,000 people. I hate to tell you but it’s as long as 40 years of people thinking about this, trying to make a detection … and slowly but surely getting the technology together to do it." – NPR Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner received hundreds of White House emails on an account to which their household staff also had access, according to a report from Politico. The emails sent to that account contained travel documents, schedules and some White House "materials," Politico said, citing three sources familiar with the matter. Most of the emails were sent by the couple’s aides in the White House, including Ivanka Trump’s assistant, Bridges Lamar. Using a private email account carries a security risk, experts say. "Even if there’s not any classified information sent, that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t sensitive," said James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. – POLITICO In a company blog post, Facebook said that some 3,000 ads linked to Russian operatives were seen by around 10 million Americans. "Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights," Facebook’s vice president of policy and communications wrote in the post. About 44 percent of the ads ran before the election and the rest after the vote. Facebook has handed over the ads to lawmakers an...
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed at least 59 people in Las Vegas, was a gambler who did not have a violent streak, his brother said. "He was a guy who had money. He went on cruises and gambled," Eric Paddock said, adding that his brother was a multimillionaire with investments in real estate. Eric Paddock said his brother had little interest in politics or religion and that "he was nice to my kids when they went out to Vegas." Stephen Paddock was living in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, with his partner, Marilou Danley, 62, who was overseas when the shooting happened. He had previously lived in Reno, Nevada, and Melbourne, Florida. Stephen Paddock’s father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a bank robber who, in 1969, escaped from jail where he was serving a 20-year sentence. Authorities have yet to figure out what the shooter's motivations were. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the shooting, but there are no signs that Stephen Paddock was affiliated with the terrorist group. – NPR
Police found 23 firearms in the hotel room from which Stephen Paddock committed the bloodiest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Officers have not revealed whether any of the weapons were automatic, but there are reasons to believe that Paddock used an automatic rifle because of the sound of the gunfire captured in several recordings. One of the weapons has been identified as an AK-47. According to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, the weapons’ calibers range from .223, which is associated with semiautomatic rifles, to .308, which is used in game hunting rifles. According to gun shop owners, Paddock bought some of the firearms legally. – WAPO
Workers in Catalonia are on strike today to protest a police crackdown against a referendum on the region’s independence from Spain. Protesters rallied in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, where shops and universities were closed and transport companies provided limited services. "This is a protest against police violence and maintaining momentum after Sunday," said protester Victor Noguer, 27, a firefighter. According to the regional government, almost 900 people were injured on Sunday in clashes with police. The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, said that some 400 officers were injured in the clashes. It had previously declared the referendum unconstitutional and sent thousands of police officers to Catalonia to prevent the vote from taking place. Only about 42 percent of people cast votes on Sunday, and pro-independence groups blame the low turnout on the police crackdown. According to a poll commissioned by the Catalan government released in July, Catalans are divided: 41 percent are in favor of independence and 49 percent are against. – CNBC
Three U.S. scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting gravitational waves. In the 1980s, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne proposed building the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to detect gravitational waves – ripples in the surface of the universe that were first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity. In 2015, the scientists published a study explaining how they used LIGO to detect gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. Weiss has been awarded half of the 9 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million) prize, while the other two scientists will share the other half. After the announcement, Weiss said: "I view this more as a thing that recognizes the work of about 1,000 people. I hate to tell you but it’s as long as 40 years of people thinking about this, trying to make a detection … and slowly but surely getting the technology together to do it." – NPR
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner received hundreds of White House emails on an account to which their household staff also had access, according to a report from Politico. The emails sent to that account contained travel documents, schedules and some White House "materials," Politico said, citing three sources familiar with the matter. Most of the emails were sent by the couple’s aides in the White House, including Ivanka Trump’s assistant, Bridges Lamar. Using a private email account carries a security risk, experts say. "Even if there’s not any classified information sent, that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t sensitive," said James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. – POLITICO
In a company blog post, Facebook said that some 3,000 ads linked to Russian operatives were seen by around 10 million Americans. "Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights," Facebook’s vice president of policy and communications wrote in the post. About 44 percent of the ads ran before the election and the rest after the vote. Facebook has handed over the ads to lawmakers an...