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LAS VEGAS — Stephen Paddock was acontradiction: a gambler who took nochances. A man with houses everywherewho did not really live in any of them. Some-one who liked the high life of casinos butdrove a nondescript minivan and dressedcasually, even sloppily, in flip-flops andsweatsuits. He did not use Facebook orTwitter, but spent the past 25 years staringat screens of video poker machines.
Mr. Paddock, a former postal worker andtax auditor, lived an intensely private, unso-cial life that exploded into public view lastweek, when he killed 58 people at a countrymusic festival and then shot himself. Buteven with nationwide scrutiny on his life,the mystery of who he was has only seemedto deepen.
On Friday, a law enforcement official saidMr. Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley,told investigators that he seemed to be de-teriorating in recent months both mentallyand physically. Perhaps his methodical andsystematic mind had turned in a lethal andunpredictable new direction. To the fewpeople who knew him well, it is the onlyplausible explanation.
“I wish I could tell you he was a miserablebastard, that I hate him, that if I could havekilled him myself, I would have,” said EricPaddock, a younger brother. “But I can’t saythat. It’s not who he was. We need to find outwhat happened to him. Something hap-pened to my brother.”
The Las Vegas police believe Mr. Pad-dock may have had a secret life. He hadbeen buying guns since 1982. But somethingseemed to change last October. He went ona shopping spree, adding to his arsenal untillate last month. One of his purchases, ashotgun, came from Dixie Gunworx in St.George, Utah. Chris Michel, the owner, saidMr. Paddock visited the store three times inJanuary and February, making the 40-minute drive from Mesquite, Nev.
Mr. Michel recalled Mr. Paddock sayingthat he was stopping at a number of local
‘I Wish I Could Tell You He Was a Miserable Bastard’
Workers boarded up a window Friday at the Mandalay Bay hotel, where Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting.CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERS
Mr. Paddock,near right, in a
yearbook photofrom his junior
year of highschool, in 1970.
A store inMesquite, Nev.,far right, where
he lived. Mr.Paddock hadbeen buying
guns since 1982.
SETH POPPEL/YEARBOOK LIBRARY
A meticulous,controlling nature
helped the Las Vegasgunman shield his
plans from a close few.
This article is by Sabrina Tavernise,Serge F. Kovaleski and Julie Turkewitz.
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HATAY, Turkey — One is aNASA scientist who was vacation-ing with relatives in Turkey. An-other is a Christian missionarywho has lived in Turkey for 23years. Others include a visitingchemistry professor from Penn-sylvania and his brother, a real es-tate agent.
They are among a dozen Ameri-cans who have been jailed by thegovernment of President RecepTayyip Erdogan and face longprison sentences for allegedlyplaying a part in a failed coup lastyear.
Mr. Erdogan’s crackdown sincethen has swept up tens of thou-sands of Turks — military offi-cials, police officers, judges, jour-nalists and others — in prosecu-tions and purges that are wrench-ing Turkey back to darker eras ithad appeared to have left behind.
And amid deteriorating rela-tions with the United States andEurope, Turkey is also arrestingincreasing numbers of foreign na-tionals. Most, including the Amer-icans, are accused of ties to the Is-lamist cleric Fethullah Gulen, whoTurkey says orchestrated the con-spiracy from his self-imposed ex-ile in Pennsylvania.
American officials have pressed
the Turkish government on cer-tain cases, including through per-sonal appeals by President Trumpand Vice President Mike Pence toMr. Erdogan and a letter signed by78 members of Congress.
But American officials have ap-peared powerless to secure theirrelease, and it has become in-creasingly clear that the detain-ees are potential bargaining chipsin a long-running effort by Turkeyto force the American govern-ment to extradite Mr. Gulen.
Mr. Erdogan himself seemed toconfirm the suspicion last month,when he told a gathering of policeofficers in Ankara that he wouldhand over an American pastor,Andrew Brunson, once the UnitedStates gave him Mr. Gulen.
“They say, ‘Give us this certainpastor,’” he said, recounting hismeeting with American officials.“You have another pastor in yourhands; give him to us,” he railed.
If Mr. Gulen were handed over,
Americans Held Prisoner by Politics in TurkeyBy CARLOTTA GALL
Kubra Golge and her son in Hatay, Turkey. Her husband wasamong dozens of Americans jailed by Turkey after a failed coup.
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WASHINGTON — WhiteHouse officials once debated ascorched-earth strategy of pub-licly criticizing and undercuttingRobert S. Mueller III, the specialcounsel investigating Russian ef-forts to disrupt last year’s elec-tion. Now, President Trump’s law-yers are pursuing a differentcourse: cooperating with the spe-cial counsel in the hope that Mr.Mueller will declare in the comingmonths that Mr. Trump is not atarget of the Russia inquiry.
Mr. Trump has long sought sucha public declaration. He fired hisF.B.I. director, James B. Comey, inMay after Mr. Comey refused tosay openly that Mr. Trump wasnot under investigation.
The president’s legal team isworking swiftly to respond to re-quests from Mr. Mueller foremails, documents and memos,and will make White House offi-cials available for interviews.Once Mr. Mueller has combed
White HouseTries CivilityWith Mueller
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WASHINGTON — It started asa scrappy grass-roots protestmovement against PresidentTrump, but now the so-called re-sistance is attracting six- and sev-en-figure checks from major liber-al donors, posing an insurgentchallenge to some of the left’smost venerable institutions — andthe Democratic Party itself.
The jockeying between groups,donors and operatives for cashand turf is occurring mostly be-hind the scenes. But it has grownacrimonious at times, with up-starts complaining they are beingboxed out by a liberal establish-ment that they say enables thesort of Democratic timidity thatpaved the way for the Trump pres-idency.
The tug of war — more than thelingering squabbles between sup-porters of Hillary Clinton and Sen-ator Bernie Sanders of Vermont —foreshadows a once-in-a-genera-tion reorganization of the Ameri-can left that could dictate the tac-tics and ideology of the Democrat-ic Party for years to come. If thenewcomers prevail, they couldpull the party further to the left,leading it to embrace policy posi-tions like those advocated by Mr.Sanders, including single-payerhealth care and free tuition at pub-lic colleges.
The upending of the left comesamid a broader realignment inAmerican politics, with the Re-publican Party establishment alsocontending with a rising rebellion,driven by pro-Trump populists.
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BATTLING TRUMP, LIBERALS DESCENDINTO TUG OF WAR
A BIG-MONEY STRUGGLE
Challenge From UpstartsThreatens to Reshape
Democratic Party
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
SOFIA, Bulgaria — While theembassies of most countries pro-mote the interests of companiesback home, North Korea’s are inbusiness for themselves.
A series of tough sanctions bythe United Nations and an execu-tive order recently signed byPresident Trump have sought toeconomically isolate the nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un.But Pyongyang has held on to anarray of profit-making ventures,
some of which operate in theroughly 40 embassies of the her-mit kingdom.
Many of these enterprises arehard to trace, but at least one isimpossible to miss. For years,neighbors have complained aboutthe noise coming from a large,fenced-in building here in a south-ern section of Bulgaria’s capitalcity. It hosts parties a few times aweek, many of them capped offwith a late-night flurry of fire-works, shot from the roof.
“It isn’t loud now,” one neighbor,Bonka Nikolova, said as a paradeof wedding guests filed into thebuilding. “But if they paid for fire-works, there will be fireworks.”
Ms. Nikolova has called the po-lice, but there isn’t much they cando. The building, filled with gildedhalls that can be rented for events,enjoys a kind of diplomatic immu-nity courtesy of its owner: thegovernment of North Korea.
North Korean embassies havespent decades running cash-rais-ing schemes, nearly all of them il-licit under current internationallaw. Diplomats and their under-
North Korean Embassies Host Proms and Sell Cows for Cash
By DAVID SEGAL
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