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Analysis: GOP has avoided talking about Trump and white nationalism; Police probe whether shooter's sister was target in rampage

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Trump decries bigotry, stops short of calling for new gun laws President Trump focused on combating mental illness over new gun-control measures in remarks delivered from the White House. "Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger. Not the gun," he said. By John Wagner · Read more Analysis: GOP has avoided talking about Trump and white nationalism Republicans discussed video games, homelessness and social media. By Amber Phillips · Read more   Dayton, Ohio Police probe whether shooter's sister was target in rampage A motive remains unclear in the shooting that killed nine, authorities say. By Arelis Hernández and Tim Craig · Read more   El Paso, Texas Death toll rises to 22 as investigation into rampage continues Two more victims died, police said, in the attack that is being described as domestic terrorism. By Mark Berman · Read more   Post Reports | Listen Now After mass shootings, Trump condemns white supremacy. Critics say he inspires it. Mark Berman tracks the mass shootings that happened over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. Plus, Philip Rucker on President Trump's response to the tragedies. And Andrew Freedman on last month's record-breaking heat. By The Washington Post · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT Analysis The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting Public mass shootings account for a tiny fraction of the country's gun deaths, but they are uniquely terrifying. The Post has been tracking more than 50 years of such shootings. By Bonnie Berkowitz, Denise Lu and Chris Alcantara · Read more   Obama calls on country to reject words 'of any of our leaders' that feed fear and hatred In a statement, former president Barack Obama said such language has been at the root of most human tragedy, from slavery to the Holocaust to the Rwandan genocide. By Felicia Sonmez · Read more   A defiant 8chan vowed to fight on, saying its 'heartbeat is strong.' Then a tech firm knocked it offline. Abandoned by a key partner for its "lawlessness" in the aftermath of mass shootings, the anonymous message board vowed to stay online, even as its posters threatened more bloodshed. By Drew Harwell · Read more   'Do something!': Ohio governor drowned out by angry chants at Dayton shooting vigil What started as just a smattering of voices morphed into a chant that reverberated around the street in Dayton, Ohio, near the site of the weekend's second mass shooting. By Allyson Chiu · Read more   BREAKING NEWS Wall Street just chalked up its worst day of 2019. Here's who won, who lost and why. A massive selloff fueled by the U.S.-China trade war sent all three major U.S. indexes plummeting about 3 percent. By Taylor Telford and Thomas Heath · Read more   America's two largest newspaper chains, GateHouse and Gannett, announce merger The deal would combine under a single company hundreds of daily newspapers across the country. By Jonathan O'Connell and Paul Farhi · Read more   Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump's critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison The former strip club worker had pleaded guilty to mailing inoperative pipe bombs in the days leading up to last fall's midterm elections. By Philip Bump and Devlin Barrett · Read more   Rep. Marchant calls it quits, becomes the 12th House Republican to retire Kenny Marchant's retirement leaves open a third Texas House seat and is a blow to the party's hopes of retaking the chamber in 2020. By Mike DeBonis · Read more   Review New iPads make a strong back-to-school appeal. I'm still not sold. Apple's iPadOS software update lets fingers do many complicated computer tasks. But students deserve a device that does it all. By Geoffrey Fowler · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT Recommended for you Get the Morning Mix newsletter A fresh mix of unexpected stories that will be the talk of the morning, delivered every weekday. Sign Up

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