Morning Edition

Lisa Patterson was a mom, who worked with her husband in the family's hardwood flooring business in Los Angeles. The couple, married for 30 years, often visited Las Vegan to have fun.

President Trump arrives in a city where investigators are hard at work reconstructing Sunday night's mass shooting. Trump says gun laws will be talked about "as time goes by."

Jessica Gomes and Aaron Bairos were born on the same day in the same hospital. Their paths crossed in high school and also in a driver's ed class. They got married last month.

An NPR editor mistakenly posted on NPR's Facebook page about a baby and a cat. It went viral, after people said it was something happy to read about after recent bad news.

It's hard to get an exact number of the people shot during the massacre in Las Vegas, especially because of the enormous number of victims.

The French-Cuban twins of Ibeyi are back with Ash, a new record that confronts themes of womanhood, racism and faith.

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Folks are beginning to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Maria, and for Puerto Rico's plena musicians, it means rebuilding a sense of culture and community.

President Trump is traveling to Las Vegas Wednesday after Sunday's mass shooting. Also, Democrats are pushing for measures related to gun control, and Theresa May's conservative party is in disarray.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is announcing the winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.

We talk with a security consultant about the dangers inherent in large public spaces and how security experts are hoping to find signs to help stop future attackers.

John Phippen was 56 years old, a handsome guy with gray hair and a mustache. He was at the music festival with his son Travis, an emergency medical technician, when they were both shot.

In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the inevitable gun control debate has resurfaced. Rachel Martin talks with NRA member Chris Buskirk of the conservative site American Greatness.

Among the Las Vegas shooting victims were two from Alaska: Adrian Murfitt was a commercial fisherman and Dorene Anderson was a stay-at-home mom and a hockey fan.

Law enforcement confirms the Las Vegas shooter had multiple rifles equipped with devices to enable guns to fire very quickly, as well as spy cameras to watch for approaching police.

Commentator Mike Pesca talks about President Trump's attack on NFL players who kneel during the national anthem and his claim about the NFL rapidly losing viewers.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to her Conservative Party's annual conference on Wednesday, trying to retain her job despite a barely-disguised bid for the leadership by her foreign secretary.

We talk with a father who's spending time at the bedside of his daughter in the hospital after she was shot at Sunday's concert.

The State Department is ordering the Cuban embassy in Washington to downsize, expelling 15 Cuban officials. They have 7 days to leave.

NPR's Rachel Martin gets an update from Nevada Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on the investigation and prospects for a new gun control debate after Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas.

One person the president is not scheduled to meet is Carmen Yulín Cruz — the Puerto Rican mayor who has been locked in a public feud with Trump over his administration's hurricane response.