ABOUT THE SHOOTER. Updating coverage: After the shooting and killing of at least 50 people and the wounding of more than 400 others at a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas, details on the person responsible are emerging.
■ Police believe he committed suicide after firing the fatal shots from his 32nd floor hotel room; they found at least 10 guns there.
■ Video: President Trump addresses the nation.
■ One concertgoer who says she hid in a sewer: “It was a horror show.”
■ The victims included at least two on-duty cops.
■ It’s now the deadliest shooting in modern American history—and they’re getting much deadlier.
■ Predictably, online hoaxes spread quickly.
■ … And gun stocks rose.
■ Journalist and TV creator David Simon (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street) on Twitter: “Today marks the first, fresh day of being told now isn’t the time to discuss gun control.”
■ Advice to journalists covering mass shootings.
■ Chicago cops are expanding their use of gunshot-detection tech.
■ A Republican bill in Wisconsin would let felons and people subject to domestic abuse restraining orders own antique guns.
■ The Onion posts a timeless piece again: "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."
‘BIGOTRY, BASELESS CONSPIRACY, AND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE OF EGO.’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg says Trump’s tweets about Puerto Rico expose “the three legs of Trump’s world.”
■ Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez, who has a condo in Puerto Rico: “FEMA is not going to be enough.”
■ But, hey—Trump dedicated a golf trophy to hurricane victims.
■ Undermining his Secretary of State on North Korea, Trump tweeted: “I told Rex Tillerson … he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man ... Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!”
■ Rat complaints are on the rise in Chicago’s densest neighborhoods.
■ A Chicago suburb that was once a tourist magnet is struggling to escape its newer reputation as a “ghost town.”
‘I WILL NOT BE A STADIUM PATRIOT.’ On Facebook, columnist Mike Royko’s son resurrects his dad’s 1972 piece ridiculing sports events’ national anthem traditions.
■ The NFL’s political struggles Sunday included boos in Baltimore and a pledge in Indianapolis: “This is just the beginning.”
■ A Texas high school coach kicked two players off his team for taking a knee and raising a fist.
ADIOS, FREE CLICK. Google’s ending its policy of demanding publishers offer at least the first three articles free each day as a condition for appearing in search results.
■ Facebook is set to give Congress 3,000 ads linked to Russians. (Corrected number.)
■ Cher—yes, that Cher—is suing a major stockholder of the Tribune’s parent, Tronc, accusing him of stock sale fraud.
■ Their research has guided insight into humans’ alertness, sleep patterns, blood pressure, hormones, body temperature and appetite.
‘IT WAS PRETTY RIDICULOUS THAT HE … WAS POSITIONED AS THE SAVIOR OF JAZZ IN … LA LA LAND.’ The Trib’s Nina Metz reviews the Saturday Night Live premiere and gives a thumb up to Ryan Gosling’s monologue—but not much else.
■ Preview of tonight’s new X-Men series on Fox: “If you’re told to decide between Marvel’s Inhumans and The Gifted, choose The Gifted.”
