When Shooter Is White Male, Note Critics, ‘Terrorist’ Label Put On Hold

Sunday night’s shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival left at least 59 people dead, making it the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Julia Conley
Por Julia Conley
A photo of the alleged shooter, Stephen Paddock, via Twitter.

As law enforcement officials release more information about Stephen Paddock, the suspect in the Las Vegas shooting that killed nearly 60 people and injured more than 500 Sunday night, much of the reporting on his identity has focused on the fact that he is a "local individual" and a "lone wolf"—terminology that critics say has been used to signify

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Las Vegas Gunman Was 64-Year-Old White American: Was He “Radicalized” Or Just Mad?

The motives behind the tragic Las Vegas mass shooting remain unclear. ISIS has claimed responsibility — saying the shooter, a 64-year-old White American, was a convert to Islam. Most media has run with that unsupported claim, but Trump has been uncharacteristically mum.

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Por MintPress News Desk
Police officers and medical personnel stand at the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (gotpap/STAR MAX/IPx)

LAS VEGAS – Last night, what was intended to be a relaxed country music concert abruptly became the scene of what is now being called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay hotel, mowing down scores of concert-goers attending the outdoor music festival on

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Shooter Kills 50, Injures 200 At Las Vegas Concert

The shooting at the sold-out Route 91 Harvest festival was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

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Regina Garcia Cano
Por Sally Ho
Y Regina Garcia Cano
Police stand at the scene of a shooting along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP/John Locher)

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass

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Jeff Sessions’s War On Weed Goes Up In Smoke In Nevada

It turns out the reality of supply, demand and the tax man bites for medical users.

Doug French
Por Doug French
Bryce Tallitsch hangs up a sign for recreational marijuana at the NuLeaf dispensary, June 30, 2017, in Las Vegas. Nevada dispensaries were legally allowed to sell recreational marijuana starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. (AP/John Locher)

(Opinion) -- Thousands lined up to purchase recreational marijuana legally at 12:01 a.m. on July 1. At Euphoria Wellness, with a location in southwest Las Vegas, a crowd of 400 to 500 people were lined up at midnight. Other locations had just as many. Among the first to purchase was state senator Tick Segerblom, who has a strain of weed named

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Nevada Judge Grants Liquor Wholesalers Exclusive Rights To Pot Distribution

The judge agreed with arguments that liquor distributors likely will be shut out of the recreational marijuana business entirely if the department issues licenses to non-alcohol distributors.

Kent Lauer
Por Kent Lauer
Nevada state Sen. Don Gustavson, R-Sparks, smells a sample of marijuana as Christopher Price, a ''budtender'' at the Blum medical marijuana dispensary in Reno, Nev. March 24, 2017. (AP/Scott Sonner)

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A state judge has ruled that liquor wholesalers have the exclusive right to be distributors for the first 18 months of Nevada’s new recreational-marijuana industry, with sales set to begin July 1 under a stepped-up program. Carson City Judge James Wilson Jr. on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting Nevada tax

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Israel, Pakistan To Join Nevada War Games As US Prepares For Large-Scale Space & Cyber Wars

This week’s Red Flag military exercises are part of the military’s attempt to shift ‘its focus to prepare for potential wars against adversaries with advanced weapons.’

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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NEV. -- An F-16 Aggressor takes off from the Nellis flight line during a Red Flag Exercise, March 3, 2010. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is conducted on the 15,000-square-mile Nevada Test and Training Range, north of Las Vegas. (Photo: William Coleman/USAF)

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada --- International war games being fought this week in the Nevada desert suggest the U.S. military is preparing for new, large-scale warfare against powerful enemies. This year marks the 41st year of the Red Flag military exercises, which are considered among the most important training exercises carried out in the

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