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A cowardly Las Vegas cop who admitted that he froze in a hallway while responding to the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history has been fired, department officials said. Officer Cordell Hendrex — who was caught on body camera footage waiting in a hallway one floor below a mass shooter at the Mandalay Bay hotel for nearly five minutes on Oct. 1, 2007 – was fired March 20, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Department officials declined further comment on Hendrex’s employment, but a police union president confirmed to the newspaper that the nearly 10-year...

Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday with high-powered rifles, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned... Records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained Tuesday show Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21. A woman who answered the phone at Winkler’s office would not make him available to answer questions and would neither confirm nor deny that Paddock was ever a patient. Paddock purchased the drug — its...

Facebook admitted Monday that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre. The social network said links from Web sites such as “The Gateway Pundit” and others were posted and spread across their site Sunday night. The stories claimed that the shooter was an “anti-Trump” Democrat and displayed pictures of a man who is not identified as a suspect.