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The Koch brothers' wide-ranging influence is no secret. But rather than focusing on how they spend their money, Christopher Leonard presents a richly reported tale of how they got it.

Someone in New Jersey confessed to stealing ketchup. But the thief wrote that bad luck followed — including a car crash. Heinz offered to pay for repairs if the thief comes forward.

"At some level firing 8chan as a customer is easy," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said. Before the Texas shooting, the suspect is believed to have posted a white nationalist, anti-Hispanic screed.

Mexicans just across the border from El Paso, Texas, see Saturday's shooting there as a terror attack on their people. They've asked for tougher U.S. gun laws.

The attorney for Hennepin County, Minn. announced Monday afternoon that the singer is being charged with hiring a minor for prostitution in an alleged incident that dates back to 2001.

"I want to praise the defendant's grandmother, who saved lives by interrupting this plot," said a federal prosecutor. She was able to persuade her grandson to go to a hospital.

NPR's Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish remember Beatrice N. Warren-Curtis, a 36-year-old woman who was one of nine people killed in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday.

Video games have long been blamed for gun violence in the U.S. — from Columbine to Saturday's mass shooting in El Paso. Scientific studies have shown no connection, so why is the claim still made?

NPR's Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro remember Javier Rodriguez, one of the victims from Saturday's shooting in El Paso.

Chicago saw a high number of shootings this weekend, with seven people killed and dozens more injured by gunfire.