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Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday with high-powered rifles, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned... Records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained Tuesday show Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21. A woman who answered the phone at Winkler’s office would not make him available to answer questions and would neither confirm nor deny that Paddock was ever a patient. Paddock purchased the drug — its...

Hillary Clinton never misses a chance to exploit a tragedy for her own personal and political gain. Ever the hypocrite, she urged Americans to “put politics aside.” Then she proceeded to immediately inject politics into the catastrophic shooting in Las Vegas. Clinton knew she could not call for a ban of a weapon already banned by law. The fully automatic weapon allegedly used by gunman, Stephen Paddock, was made illegal under federal law back in 1986. So Clinton invented an ancillary argument that more people would have died if Paddock had used a “silencer.” Survivors were still being treated when...

The Islamic State reinforced its earlier claim of responsibility for the atrocity with another communique Monday night, which named Stephen Paddock "Abu Abdul Bar Al-Amrekini" and said he had carried out surveillance of the concert arena opposite the hotel..... ....various Middle East sources said overnight Monday that he had been in contact with certain quarters in the region, and claimed the FBI has photos recording his visits.......

Facebook admitted Monday that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre. The social network said links from Web sites such as “The Gateway Pundit” and others were posted and spread across their site Sunday night. The stories claimed that the shooter was an “anti-Trump” Democrat and displayed pictures of a man who is not identified as a suspect.