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 …

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.

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 ›

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 …

McConnell loans his campaign $1.8 million  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is giving his reelection campaign a $1.8 million personal loan to stave off a new round of attack ads from Democrats.  —  A week ago it appeared the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee …

Texas woman threatened with jail after applying for voter ID  —  An Austin, Texas woman told msnbc she was threatened with jail time for having an out-of-state driver's license when she went to apply for a voter identification card so she could vote under the state's controversial ID law.

UPDATED State Supreme Court rejects McDaniel appeal  —  The state Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of Chris McDaniel's lawsuit over his June GOP primary loss to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran.  —  The court ruled four to two, upholding a lower court decision that McDaniel waited too long to file the challenge of his loss.

What happened to that GOP lawsuit?  —  It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven't managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they'd be suing the president.

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.

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.

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 …

The Case for Conservative Realism  —  “We need a foreign policy that recognizes our limits and preserves our might, a common-sense conservative realism of strength and action.”  —  Editor's Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech by Senator Rand Paul delivered in New York City …

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 …

Sun-Times reporters to owners: We want answers  —  Chicago Sun-Times journalists, who watched one of their political reporters resign this week, are asking the newspaper's owners for reassurance that they won't seek to influence editorial content.  —  The request comes in a petition that's also posted on the reporters' union website.

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.

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 …