Bad blood: Four feuding leaders  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner.  —  “He's a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner's private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff.

DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase  —  Alex Leary tweeted, “Something happening outside Capitol.  Police running around with guns at ready.”  —  @learyreports via Twitter  —  @MarcSchloss tweeted: “No joke on Capitol Hill as Cops are running with machine guns as reports of shots being fired at Capitol.”

Important Customer Security Announcement  —  Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today.  Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers.  Very recently, Adobe's security team …

G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama …

Chad Henderson Signed Up for Obamacare and Every... Single... Media Outlet Is on It!  —  On October 1, Chad Henderson successfully signed up for a health care exchange as part of the Affordable Care Act.  He was instantly catapulted into the national spotlight as the White House …

Wrong Side of History  —  Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House.  In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials …

Why we won't mint the coin, why we can't just pay off bonds, and other scary debt-ceiling facts  —  Mark A. Patterson is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.  He was chief of staff at the Treasury Department from 2009 until May 2013 where he was deeply involved in the 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations.

Cory Booker's lackluster campaign  —  Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate.  —  But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend …

Worst shutdown in modern U.S. history  —  Editor's note: Ellen Fitzpatrick is a professor of modern American history at the University of New Hampshire.  Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and director of the Scholars Strategy Network.

Jack Lew: U.S. failure to pay bills hurts everyone  —  If Congress does not raise the debt limit soon, seniors, veterans, kids, among others, are at risk.  —  CONNECT  —  It might be hard to believe, but there is a dangerous debate underway in Congress right now over whether the United States …