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Police: shooter dead after opening fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School — A gunman believed to have opened fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Friday morning is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to two law-enforcement sources. — Police have not released details …
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KOMO News:
2 DEAD, 4 CRITICALLY INJURED IN SHOOTING AT MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL — MARYSVILLE, Wash. - A student opened fire Friday morning at Marysville Pilchuck High School, killing one student and critically injuring at least four others before fatally shooting himself, police and witnesses said.
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Georgia Senate race statistical tie — (CNN) — Democrat Michelle Nunn has a slight 47%-44% edge over Republican David Perdue in the Georgia race for an open Senate seat, according to a new CNN/ORC International survey released Friday. — The three-point margin falls within …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Ballot dispute in Georgia heads to courts — and could be a factor in state's close Senate race — With an increasingly competitive and closely-watched Senate race on the line, an Atlanta courtroom will be the focus of a key voting rights dispute Friday that could make it harder for Democrats …
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Daily Kos and Right Wing Watch
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Dems have Georgia momentum — HIAWASSEE, Ga. — Georgia Democrats believe they're close to ending more than a decade of losses — and with it, potentially save Senate control for their party. — Democrat Michelle Nunn has jumped into a narrow lead in recent polling of the state's open Senate race …
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Daniel Malloy / Political Insider blog:
Exclusive AJC poll: Nathan Deal opens small lead, Senate race in virtual tie — Gov. Nathan Deal and Senate candidate David Perdue in July. (AJC/Greg Bluestein) — An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows Gov. Nathan Deal opening up a small lead over Democrat Jason Carter …
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National Review
David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
How Independents Could Seize Control of the Senate
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Washington Monthly
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Tracker Fail: Dems Miss Insulin Pump In Video Of Perdue Signing Young Woman — “No pictures on this,” David Purdue jokes, as campaign staffers hold up signs in front of the camera. Update: another angle on the video suggests American Bridge didn't capture the whole scene.
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Alex Roarty / National Journal:
Could the ‘Perfect’ Campaign Lose? — Kay Hagan is trying to prove months of good work can withstand a national climate that's threatening other Dems. Republicans are confident she can't. — RALEIGH, N.C.—It took Kay Hagan 10 minutes to cover everything she wanted to say about public education.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Gains in Key Senate Races as Gender Gap Narrows
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National Review, Washington Post, The Hugh Hewitt Show, ABC News and The Federalist
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola — A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea became the first person in the city to test positive for the virus Thursday, setting off a search for anyone who might have come into contact with him.
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Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Dallas nurse treated for Ebola at NIH now ‘virus free’
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Outside the Beltway
Faith Karimi / CNN:
NYC mayor: Ebola ‘no cause for alarm’
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Talking Points Memo and ImmigrationProf Blog
Jessica Robinson / Boise State Public Radio:
Coeur d'Alene Says Hitching Post Is Exempt From Gay Rights Law … The city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, said a for-profit wedding chapel owned by two ministers doesn't have to perform same-sex marriages. — The city has been embroiled in controversy ever since the owners of the Hitching Post sued the city.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Fox News Is Too Negative For Jeb Bush — No stranger to taking on his party's most conservative voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is now calling out the bastion of conservative media. — CNN's Peter Hamby reported that during a speech Thursday night at a South Carolina fundraiser …
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New York Post:
Islam convert shot dead after ax attack on NYPD cops — The scene of Thursday afternoon's violence on Jamaica Avenue in Queens. — A hatchet-swinging psycho with Islamic militant leanings turned a busy Queens street corner into a scene of bloody chaos Thursday, chopping a rookie cop …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Plutocrats Against Democracy — It's always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn't their intention. So we should be grateful to Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong, for blurting out the real reason pro-democracy demonstrators can't get what they want …
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Hullabaloo and BillMoyers.com
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Should Stop Lecturing Americans About Their Ebola Concerns — Like 98 percent of Americans, I've heard the news about Ebola. I've even followed the news with interest for months, taking seriously the media claims that this was a serious outbreak that had potential to become even more serious.
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Weekly Standard and alicublog
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
The Spectacular Implosion Of The GOP's Senate Hopes In Oregon — Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley really did not want to run against Monica Wehby. — She had the résumé of a formidable challenger: a pediatric neurosurgeon, a pro-choice mom in socially liberal Oregon …
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BuzzFeed
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
On Race and Voter ID, John Roberts Wants It Both Ways — Once, the chief justice said the only way to stop discriminating on race was to stop discrimination on race. Now his tune isn't so clear. — “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in 2007 …
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The Huffington Post and Prairie Weather
Mark Binelli / Rolling Stone:
The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster — Extremist Republicans turned their government into a lab experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation — The Republican party headquarters in Wichita, Kansas …
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