People inside the Borderline nightclub in Thousand Oaks—where a gunman opened fire late Wednesday night—were survivors of the Route 91 mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, according to their friends. At least 12 people were killed at the nightclub and officials confirmed the shooter is dead as well. “A lot of people in the Route 91 situation go here,” said Chandler Gunn, 23, who went to the bar after the shooting, knowing some of his friends were inside. “There’s people that live a whole lifetime without seeing this, and then there’s people that have seen it twice.” The Route 91 Harvest music festival was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, when a gunman killed 58 people and wounded hundreds along the Las Vegas Strip. Savannah Stafseth, who was on the patio outside the nightclub when the shooting began Wednesday, said: “All these people after Route 91. It’s not fair.” Carl Edgar said about 20 of his friends were inside the bar during the shooting, adding: “A lot of my friends survived Route 91. If they survived that, they’ll survive this.”

The White House has been accused of using a doctored video made by far-right outlet Infowars to defend its decision Wednesday to revoke CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press credentials. During a disagreement at a press conference, President Trump called Acosta a “rude, terrible person” and began to cut him off, but Acosta did not sit down or relinquish the microphone, even when an intern tried to pull it away. In the original footage, Acosta’s hand appeared to brush her arm and Acosta quickly said: “Pardon me, ma’am.” A 10:30 p.m. tweet by press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, however, shared footage that didn’t have the audio, zoomed in on Acosta’s arms, and had its speed altered—making the brush appear to be more aggressive. “We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass,” Sanders said in her tweet of the video. “We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”

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The customers who fled the massacre at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Ventura County, California, told reporters early Thursday morning that the establishment is “like a family.” Wrapped in emergency blankets, the survivors cried while waiting to hear which of their coworkers and friends might be among the 12 confirmed dead. “Borderline’s a family, we all know each other, we’re all friends,” an unnamed woman told a Los Angeles Times reporter. Reports say a gunman dressed in all black opened fire at the college country-dancing night and opened fire at the young crowd with a semi-automatic handgun.

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Google is planning a major expansion in New York City that would make room for more than 12,000 new workers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Sources cited by the Journal late Wednesday said the company is close to finalizing a deal to buy or lease a 1.3 million-square-foot building in the West Village set for completion in 2022, with additional plans to expand its existing property at Chelsea Market. All together, the expansions would make room for 20,000 staff—potentially pitting the company against Amazon, which could bring approximately 25,000 jobs to the city if it settles on New York for its second headquarters. A year after announcing plans to expand, the Seattle-based retail giant is said to be considering dividing its second headquarters between New York’s Long Island City and Northern Virginia’s Crystal City.

Apple took over the tech world with their launch of AirPods, but the price is a gut check for anyone that wanted to take part in it. But, now you can get wireless, Bluetooth headphones of your own for just $30. These Air Buds promise crisp audio for up to 2.5 hours at a time, plus you can recharge them up to 10 times before you have to plug the case in to pump the juice. Air Buds are sweatproof, ergonomic, and will work to make and answer phone calls on the go. At just $29.99, they're a fraction of what you'd pay for other wireless ear buds, so it's basically a no-brainer. Get Bluetooth 4.2 tech without the bulk of traditional, wired Bluetooth headphones.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive on a technical glitch possible in Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 planes after a Lion Air crash last week killed 189 people. The directive echoes concerns reportedly made by Boeing about the possibility of a certain flight-monitoring system providing faulty data, which in turn could cause the plane to take a dive. The FAA has instructed airlines to make changes to their flight manual procedures to deal with any flawed data from the so-called angle of attack sensor and prevent any loss of control of the plane. The warning is said to be based on preliminary findings from Indonesia’s investigation into the Oct. 29 crash of an almost brand new Boeing 737 MAX 8. The plane crashed into the Java Sea after takeoff from Jakarta. Investigators have so far pinpointed problems with the plane’s sensor and airspeed indicator.

With jury selection completed Wednesday for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s upcoming trial, the reputed drug kingpin has reportedly asked a federal judge for permission to hug his wife once he arrives in court. Guzman’s defense attorneys filed a request Wednesday arguing the alleged cartel leader should be granted “a brief, momentary greeting to include perhaps an embrace” with his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, for the sake of his “mental health.” They say the “humanitarian gesture” is warranted because the alleged drug trafficker was prohibited from having any physical contact with his wife for nearly two years while in solitary confinement, which, the lawyers said “poses negative effect to a person’s sanity.” The judge has yet to decide whether to grant the request. Guzman, 61, is accused of international drug trafficking, conspiring to kill rivals, gun charges, and money laundering. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and faces life in prison if convicted. The trial, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, is expected to last up to four months.

A former Columbia University student claims in a lawsuit that he was too drunk to be held accountable for a sexual assault he allegedly committed, the New York Post reports. The anonymous fraternity brother, who was expelled after the alleged attack, claims only to remember “flashes” of the alleged late 2017 sexual encounter with a woman in her dorm room. In a lawsuit against the university, he admits to imbibing seven drinks in 45 minutes at a Dec. 13 fraternity formal and claims he was showing clear signs of incapacitation before the alleged incident—such as “talking with a German accent and claiming blood ties to Nazis.” The fraternity brother also alleges the woman kissed him, helped him undress, and initiated the sexual encounters that occurred in her dorm room. He also claims that he called his father the next morning after he “felt taken advantage of in his intoxicated state.” Days after the alleged incident, the woman reportedly told school administrators she was attacked. The school reportedly launched a probe into the contradicting claims from both students and found the fraternity brother did not black out and ignored the female’s pleas to stop. The fraternity brother alleges Columbia ignored his “favorable evidence” and “treated him differently than another female victim who’d also blacked out.” The fraternity brother was reportedly expelled in July and was not allowed to graduate. According to the Post, he is suing for his diploma and other damages.

Former Rep. Stephen Stockman (R-TX) was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for orchestrating a scheme to defraud donors and using the money for personal and campaign use, according to a Justice Department press release. Stockman was charged with 23 felonies back in April—including wire fraud, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, and money laundering—after he and his co-defendants solicited $1,250,571.65 in donations from charities and their leaders. Stockman and the others then laundered the money before using it for a personal and campaign expenses. According to the DOJ, Stockman and his co-defendants “used a series of sham nonprofit organizations and dozens of bank accounts” in order to launder the money. In addition to the 10 years in prison, Stockman was ordered to pay $1,014,718.51 in restitution. He will also be under three years of supervised release after his prison sentence. Stockman previously served two terms in the House and lost a Republican Senate primary bid against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in 2014. “At trial, the government proved to the jury that former Congressman Stockman ran his campaign and fraudulent charities to simply enrich himself and defrauded well-meaning donors,” U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick of the Southern District of Texas wrote in the release. “This type of corruption by public officials gives our entire democratic system a black eye.”

The Trump administration issued two final rules on Wednesday that give employers exemptions from covering birth control in their health insurance plans. The Department of Health and Human Services issued one final rule that provides a contraceptive coverage exemption for “entities that object to such coverage based on religious beliefs,” and another rule that provides a “non-religious moral convictions” exemption to nonprofit organizations and small businesses, CNN reports. These two rules reportedly provide exemptions to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act’s mandate that required employer-provided health insurance to cover birth control as a “preventive service.” The new rules finalize interim rules issued last year. According to HHS, the rules will take effect 60 days after they are published in the Federal Register. Last year, HHS claimed that up to 120,000 women working in about 200 entities would be affected by the rules. The Associated Press reports women’s rights groups that sued the administration after the issues its interim rules say they will continue their court battle after Wednesday’s announcement.