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More slaughter in America:  A gunman burst into Sunday services in the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas and killed several people.  One local official told the MSNBC network that as many as 24 people were killed, although that is not verified.  CNN later put teh unofficial death toll at 27.  Yet other reports said children were among the dead.  The gunman fled, and police chased him to another town and killed him, the exact circumstances of that confrontation still hazy.  The FBI joined the local investigation in this very tiny town - the nearest hospital is 30 miles away in San Antonio.

Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has close business ties to members of Russian President Vladimir Putin inner circle and family, despite the fact the Wall street billionaire had claimed to divest most of his holdings to take the job in the Trump White House.  This is coming out of the "Paradise Papers", a leak of some 13.4 million documents from Appleby, a Bermuda lawfirm that reputedly helps very wealthy people hide their money from their governments.  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the ABC reports Ross continues to hold a stake in a shipping company that has a multi-million-dollar deal with a Russian firm part-owned by Putin cronies currently subject to US sanctions.  

Oh - and Donald Trump says he "probably will" meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his 12-day four of Asia.

The Paradise Papers leak was first reported in the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zietung, an ICIJ member, and quickly blew up around the world.  Familiar names appearing in the coordinated reports from ICIJ members include James Packer, U2 singer Bono (aka Paul Hewson), Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, the aforementioned Wilbur Ross, and the UK Royal Family.  The ICIJ just won a Pulitzer Prize for last year's big scoop on the Panama Papers, a similar investigation which cost some politicians their jobs in various places around the world.  This one, the Paradise Papers, looks much, much bigger.. so watch for a lot of stuff coming out this week!  Journo-gasm!

The revelations about Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross came out after US network NBC News exclusively reported that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has enough evidence to file charges against former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and his son, as part of the probe into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election.  Flynn is a retired military general - he was sacked as NSA just 24 days into the job because of his Russian ties.  Mueller is also reportedly looking at Flynn for his lobbying work for Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey - specifically, trying to convince the US to deport Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Erdogan blames for orchestrating a coup to overthrow him.

Are Trump's fingerprints on the crackdown in Saudi Arabia over the weekend?  Several members of the Saudi royals were arrested by the oil kingdom's new anti-corruption body, which is headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - he's the young guy who said he wants to move the country to a more moderate practice of Islam and open new economic opportunities.  But one of those detained was billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire with investments in Twitter and Apple.  He's also gotten into several Twitter fueds with Trump over the past few years, especially over Trump's scapegoating of Muslims. 

Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his deputies have turned themselves in to Belgian prosecutors after Spain issued European Arrest warrants.  Puigdemont and cronies fled to Belgium after Madrid imposed direct rule on Catalonia because of the independence referendum which was ruled illegal by Spanish courts.  The Belgians could decide later today if or how to proceed on extradition.

Chilean police conducting a drug raid arrested a fugitive former state security agent who had been sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.  Reimer Kohlitz had been on the run since being convicted two years ago of the murders of two left-wing activists in 1984 - just two of the thousands of people murdered by the US-backed regime.