The headlines are hard to miss: The Las Vegas massacre, in which at least 58 people lost their lives, is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
President Donald Trump hosted his top military brass and their spouses for dinner at the White House on Thursday night. The group posed for a photo. Then this exchange with reporters happened:
One was a man who died shielding his wife from gunfire on their wedding anniversary. Another was a city of Las Vegas employee who died in his boyfriend's arms. And two others were a veteran corrections officer and his girlfriend who died on the trip they had planned for weeks.
A deputy police chief from Texas ran for his life after a shooter opened fire on a crowd at a Las Vegas music festival. As gunfire was clipping at his heels, he stopped and rescued two people in dire need of help. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.
Tropical Storm Nate moved across northeastern Nicaragua on Thursday, en route to Honduras, as early forecast models showed it taking aim this weekend at the central US Gulf Coast, likely as a minor hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.
President Donald Trump called a White House dinner with top military commanders, "the calm before the storm." When a reporter asked what storm, he replied, "you'll see."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
