Evening Edition: Investigators seeking motive for shooting turn to gunman’s girlfriend for answers

New details emerge about shooter and his girlfriend; Gunman used modified weapons, tiny cameras to carry out attack

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Top Stories Air Force One lands at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Wednesday with the Mandalay Bay resort in the background. Investigators seeking motive for shooting turn to gunman's girlfriend for answers So far few clues have emerged to help investigators understand 64-year-old Stephen Paddock and the meticulous preparations he made before the moment he smashed a plate-glass window in the 32nd floor of his hotel room and opened fire.  By Mark Berman and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more » New details emerge about shooter and his girlfriend Neighbors in several states where Stephen Paddock owned homes described him as surly, unfriendly and standoffish. By William Wan, Sandhya Somashekhar, Aaron C. Davis and Marwa Eltagouri  •   Read more »   Gunman used modified weapons, tiny cameras to carry out attack The shooter's "bump stock" devices allowed for rapid fire, and a camera hidden on a food cart warned him of approaching police. By Devlin Barrett and Alex Horton  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Analysis: All about bump stocks, the gun accessory used in Vegas There's a tiny window for compromise in Congress on banning the accessory you can buy online to make semiautomatic weapons fire more like machine guns. By Amber Phillips  •   Read more »   Why mass shootings rarely change the paralyzed politics of guns NRA experts say the gun-rights giant has an effective strategy: Lie low. Let the outrage fade. Then "go back to defending freedom." By Marc Fisher  •   Read more »   The lives lost in Las Vegas: Stories of some of the people who were killed in the rampage Read more » She tried to stop her best friend's bleeding. Then she was shot, too. 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By Margaret Sullivan  •   Read more »   Bipartisan group of lawmakers seek to impose new limit on U.S. government spy power Their bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to review Americans' communications in the surveillance database. By Ellen Nakashima  •   Read more »   Doctors thought a woman had cancer — but it was just a reaction to an old tattoo Australian doctors think the woman was having a hypersensitive reaction to the ink from her tattoos. By Lindsey Bever  •   Read more »   Who betrayed Anne Frank? Artificial intelligence could finally solve the mystery. For nearly 75 years, some of the greatest investigative minds have tried to figure out who tipped off the Nazis about Anne Frank and the seven other Jews who were hiding behind a movable bookcase in Amsterdam. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •   Read more »   Why does every error, however small, have to result in a significant comp? Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves. 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