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5:45 PM ET, October 22, 2014

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Dean Beeby / CBC News:
Parliament Hill attack: 1 gunman dead after soldier shot at National War Memorial  —  Police sources tell CBC there is more than 1 suspect, downtown remains in lockdown … Parliament Hill has come under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial …
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CNN:
One shooter dead in Canada  —  The Canadian government has informed the United States that one shooter is dead in Ottawa, a senior U.S. official said.  So far, there is “no indication the shooter has ties to violent Islamic extremism,” but it is still extremely early in the investigation, the source said.
Globe and Mail:
Attack on Ottawa: Police in pursuit of multiple shooters
BBC:
Ottawa lockdown after shootings
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and abc7chicago.com
Ottawa Police Service:
Shooting incidents in Ottawa today: ongoing investigation
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NPR and Mashable
msn:
Ottawa police say male suspect in attack and soldier are dead
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Washington Post:
Evidence supports officer's account of shooting in Ferguson  —  Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown after they fought for control of the officer's gun and after Brown moved toward Wilson as they faced off in the street, according to interviews …
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Official autopsy shows Michael Brown had close-range wound to his hand, marijuana in system  —  • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087 and Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129  —  ST. LOUIS COUNTY  • The official autopsy on Michael Brown shows …
Anchorage Daily News:
Young rattles Wasilla High students with ‘hurtful’ remark about suicide  —  WASILLA — At a Wasilla High School assembly Tuesday morning, U.S. Rep. Don Young didn't temper his notoriously abrasive personality for his young audience.  —  Numerous witnesses say Young, 81 …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:   GOP Rep. Gives Profane Speech To High Schoolers On Bull Sex And Suicide
John Fund / National Review:
James O'Keefe Strikes Again  —  Many liberals are adamant there is no threat of voter fraud that justifies efforts to improve the integrity of elections.  “There is no real concrete evidence of voter fraud,” tweeted Donna Brazile, former acting chair of the Democratic National Committee, this week.
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Senate Democratic Officials Start Lashing Out at White House  —  “The ineptitude of the White House political operation has sunk from annoying to embarrassing,” said one Democratic Senate strategist.  —  The relationship between the White House and Senate Democrats hit a new low Tuesday evening …
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Investigators: Secret Service Use ‘Problematic’
Discussion: Hot Air
Manu Raju / Politico:
Exclusive: DSCC going back up with ads for Alison Lundergan Grimes in Ky.  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee plans to go back on the air in Kentucky after the party has been encouraged by new polls suggesting the race against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is within reach.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems going back into Kentucky
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Is Martha Coakley About To Blow Another Major Race In Massachusetts?  —  National Democrats are haunted by memories of Martha Coakley's unforced stumbles and missteps in 2010, which cost them a U.S. Senate seat in one of the country's bluest states.  —  Four laters later …
Discussion: WBUR and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Asma Khalid / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Baker Edges Ahead Of Coakley
JD Heyman / People.com:
Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'  —  Renée Zellweger has responded to Internet chatter about her appearance.  In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, the Oscar winner says she looks different because she is healthier and happier than ever - and she's fine with people taking notice.
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
BP Oil Spill 'Didn't Ruin The Gulf,' Says Politico Article Written By BP  —  An oil slick sits on the surface of the water a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, July 17, 2010.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Dave Martin
Discussion: Politico
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Geoff Morrell / Politico:
No, BP Didn't Ruin the Gulf
NorthJersey.com:
Christie says GOP gubernatorial candidates need to win so they control ‘voting mechanisms’  —  Governor Christie pushed further into the contentious debate over voting rights than ever before, saying Tuesday that Republicans need to win gubernatorial races this year so that they're the ones controlling …
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Bill Hutchinson / NY Daily News:
Gov. Christie slams low-pay woes: 'I'm tired of hearing about minimum wage'
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Casey Mattox / The Federalist:
California Orders Churches To Fund Abortions—Or Else  —  For the past four years, the Obama administration and its friends on the Left were careful to claim that they still strongly support religious liberty while arguing that Hobby Lobby's Green family, Conestoga Wood Specialties' Hahn family, and others like them must lose.
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Author Wants Southern States To Secede Over Gay Rights, Name New Country ‘Reagan’  —  Conservative columnist and former Reagan administration aide Douglas MacKinnon is out with a new book calling for Southern states to secede...again.  —  While speaking yesterday with Janet Mefferd about his book …
Discussion: Liberaland, Joe. My. God. and Raw Story
Dave McKinney / Dave McKinney's blog:
Why I left  —  Dear Mr. Ferro:  —  I've worked for almost two decades at the Chicago Sun-Times because it had a soul.  —  The home of eight Pulitzer Prizes, this newspaper once set up a tavern to expose graft at City Hall and later listened to a grieving mother who wanted justice …
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Why Voters Are So Totally Checked Out  —  So much for polls: “Walmart moms” in two states with hard-fought Senate elections say they'll make up their minds the night before Election Day.  —  Senate races remain stubbornly tight in key states with a number of voters unable to make up their minds …
UK - The Huffington Post:
Edward Snowden Should Be Charged With Murder, Says Congressman Mike Rogers  —  Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the extent of American and British surveillance programmes, should be charged with murder, according to a senior United States congressman.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did Ed Gillespie dance with a dictator?  —  This ad from Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) attacks the lobbying career of his Republican challenger, Ed Gillespie.  (Mark Warner for Virginia via YouTube)  —  “His firm even lobbied for five foreign governments, including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes.”
 
 
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Sam Wang / The New Republic:
A bright spot emerges ahead of the midterms
Crp Comm / OpenSecrets.org:
Election to Cost Nearly $4 Billion, CRP Projects, Topping Previous Midterms
David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
Scott Brown Warns that ISIS Could Cross the Border, then Tells Chuck Todd He Never Said That
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Would Stronger Parties Mean Less Polarization?
Joe Dolinsky / Philly.com:
Corbett in Phila. signs ‘Mumia bill’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The PJ Tatler
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Dark Money and Our Looming Oligarchy
Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair:
Did Israel Avert a Hamas Massacre?
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
How Monica Lewinsky Could Complicate Hillary Clinton's Likely 2016 Bid
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Tea Partyers fall in line
David Remnick / New Yorker:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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