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Moments after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she had no news on President Donald Trump signaling willingness to consider some measure of gun control, Trump announced he signed a memorandum directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take steps to ban bump stocks. A bump stock, which turns a…

The 51st annual Country Music Association Awards kicked off with a tribute to the victims of last month’s Las Vegas tragedy. Darius Rucker led an all-star group of country superstars in a rendition of his Hootie and the Blowfish hit “Hold My Hand.” On stage with him was a who’s-who of the country world including Keith…

Social video brand NowThis and the National Hockey League are launching Home Team: The Las Vegas Golden Knights, a Facebook Watch series that tracks the debut of the Vegas NHL franchise and its response to the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a country music festival. (See trailer below.) Co-produced by NHL Original…

A backlash has led the Country Music Association to rescind its guidelines telling journalists not to ask about the Las Vegas shooting when interviewing talent at next week’s CMA Awards. “CMA apologizes for the recently distributed restrictions in the CMA Awards media guidelines, which have since been lifted,” the…

Fox News Channel will present a special edition of Hannity tonight in support of the Las Vegas shooting victims. The one-hour program, titled “Vegas Strong: Night of Healing," will include performances by Big & Rich and Rascal Flatts. Host Sean Hannity will participate in the event and interview victims and first…

The death toll in the October 1 Las Vegas shooting stands at 58 but 45 people remain hospitalized and some are in critical condition, says Las Vegas Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo. An emotional and defensive Lombardo told reporters in the room he was "offended" by those who have called his department's investigation…

The gunman behind the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history shot Mandalay Bay Hotel security guard Jesus Campos before opening fire on 22,000 concertgoers across the Strip, police said Monday afternoon. They still have no motive in the shooting that left 58 dead and nearly 500 wounded. The encounter with Campos…

FX said today that the producers of American Horror Story: Cult made “substantial edits” to the episode that airs Tuesday because the opening scene depicts “an occurrence of gun violence that has sadly become all too common in our country.” The move comes a week after 58 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded in a…

Las Vegas police say they still do not have a clear motive as they investigate the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At a Friday afternoon briefing, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said they also are not clear what the gunman planned for the explosives found in his car. They are aware ISIS is claiming the…

CNN's Anderson Cooper will host a special highlighting the lives of 58 victims, killed while attending a country music festival in Las Vegas last Sunday. Las Vegas Lost: Remembering the Victims will air tomorrow night, Friday, Oct. 6 at 9 PM ET. Another 489 were injured in the incident, in which a gunman fired down on…

The National Rifle Association came out of mass-shooting-triggered social media darkness to issue its first statement on the Las Vegas murder of 58 people. The powerful gun lobby called for additional regulations on the device that was used by the shooter, that is designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function…

The morning after Teleprompter Trump got high marks for sticking to script while visiting mass-shooting victims and first responders in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump stepped on that Comforter-in-Chief storyline, launching a Twitter attack on NBC News. Trump denied NBC News’s report his Secretary of State Rex…