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The Clark County sheriff complained that Stephen Paddock's "meticulous" preparation went unnoticed and that photos of the crime scene were published.

Off-duty Las Vegas police officer Charles Hartfield, a youth football coach who was one of 58 killed in Las Vegas, attended the music festival every year.

Miners Working with Congress to Solve Pension Crisis

Strong bipartisan legislation has been introduced in recent congressional sessions to solve the pension crisis currently facing America's mine workers. The Miners Protection Act is a response to a growing insolvency problem with the Mine Workers (UMWA) 1974 Pension Plan. The legislation would protect the pensions of 87,000 current beneficiaries and 20,000 more who have vested for their pensions but have not yet begun drawing them. We've waited too long to see this problem addressed, and Congress should act now.

The pension fund for America's mine workers began as a promise from President Harry Truman in 1946 that America would protect the health and welfare of coal miners, who were vital to the country's safety and growth. In 1974, changes were made to the plan to strengthen these protections. But in recent years, a combination of extremely depressed coal markets, coal company bankruptcies and other factors have caused a significant dropoff in the employer contributions to the fund. In the past two years, contributions to the plan have fallen by more than $100 million, setting up...

Researchers who developed cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that lets us image viruses and tiny cell structures, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.