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Vegas Shooter's Motives Remain Mystery, Trump Sours on Iran Nuclear Deal, ACLU Sues Over Abortion Pill Regs: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.6.2017 9:00 AM

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    The Trump administration is expected to announce a rollback of the Obamacare birth control mandate today and, next week, plans to "decertify" the Iran nuclear deal. He also uttered this possibly ominous, possibly meaningless word-vomit yesterday:

"You know what this represents?" Trump said. "Maybe it's the calm before the storm." Pressed on what "storm," Trump says, "You'll find out"

— Justin Sink (@justinsink) October 5, 2017

  • "In the four days since Stephen Paddock's attack in Las Vegas…what drove him has remained a mystery."
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement is publishing sensitive information about both undocumented immigrants and the people who call to complain about them.
  • The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its regulation of the abortion pill Mifeprex.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.

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