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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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abc7chicago.com and The PJ Tatler
Chelsea J. Carter / CNN:
Witness: Teen gunman shot his friends — (CNN) — The shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School played football and was recently named to the homecoming court. — Freshman Jaylen Fryberg walked into the school's cafeteria …
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Talking Points Memo, KIRO-TV, Mediaite and Refinery29
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
CORRECTED: Dems Miss Insulin Pump In Video Of Perdue Signing Young Woman — “No pictures on this,” David Perdue 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. — View Video ›
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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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 …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Ballot dispute in Georgia heads to courts — and could be a factor in state's close Senate race
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Daily Kos and Right Wing Watch
Daniel Malloy / Political Insider blog:
Exclusive AJC poll: Nathan Deal opens small lead, Senate race in virtual tie
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National Review
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: Dem Challenger Slips And Calls Gov. Nikki Haley A ‘Whore’ (VIDEO) — A spokeswoman for the South Carolina Democratic Party had a hunch why TPM was getting in contact with her on Friday. — “If you take a look at the actual video it's really clear that he got tongue tied …
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Mediaite
Washington Post:
Could non-citizens decide the November election? — Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor …
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: ‘I love ... Elizabeth’ — BOSTON — Hillary Clinton hit Elizabeth Warren country on Friday, repeatedly praising the anti-big banks Massachusetts senator for going after “those who deserve” it, while rallying voters to put embattled Democrat Martha Coakley in the governor's mansion.
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ABC News, Taylor Marsh, The PJ Tatler and Business Insider
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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ThinkProgress, LGBTQ Nation, Good As You, Hit & Run, Washington Post, Joe. My. God., Towleroad News #gay and Althouse
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
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Pro-Orman Republican Owes Candidate Big Money — Senate candidate Greg Orman of Kansas has been accused by Republicans as a Democrat-in-Independent's clothing, which explains why Orman is surrounding himself with Republicans in the final days of his campaign against GOP incumbent Pat Roberts.
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The Daily Caller, protein wisdom and The Lawrence Journal-World
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
How Independents Could Seize Control of the Senate
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Washington Monthly
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Sarah, Bristol & The Recurrence Of The Eternal Victim — As you've likely seen Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have now spoken out about their notorious boozy family brawl, recasting Bristol's attack on the event's host as a morality tale about violence against women and media bias.
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The Moderate Voice
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sarah Palin endorses ... a Democrat?
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Anchorage Daily News, Booman Tribune and CNN
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
Anthony Weiner Still Doesn't Understand How to Use Twitter — It's been three years (only!) since Anthony Weiner's political career went limp because he sent photos of his d**k to random women via social media, and yet he has still not learned how to use Twitter.
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Truth Revolt and The Daily Caller
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
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Friday Cancer Blogging - 24 October 2014 — A few of you have probably cottoned onto the fact that people don't usually spend a week in the hospital for a broken bone, even a backbone. So in the long tradition of releasing bad news on Friday afternoon, here's my first-ever Friday news dump.
Peter Olsen-Phillips / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Revenge of the Democrats: Wealthy liberals top list of super PAC donors in 2014 — One billionaire has spent more than $70 million on the 2014 elections; Image credit: DonkeyHotey, Flickr — In a reversal from 2012, liberal billionaires top the list of biggest super PAC donors with a little …
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Washington Post
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
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
David Carr / New York Times:
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin Promise Washington the Program It Deserves — You both have a reputation for using alcohol to get sources to say things they should not. Should I have brought a bottle of tequila? Mark Halperin: That is an urban legend. It's not like it's never happened …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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