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Texas Patient Tests Positive for Ebola — A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the Ebola patient hospitalized there has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin.
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Expert: US Ebola transmission ‘distressing’ — News early Sunday that an Ebola patient in Dallas transmitted the deadly virus to a healthcare worker is “distressing,” an infectious diseases expert said. — “This is a distressing circumstance,” Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department …
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Health worker 2nd in US to test positive for Ebola — 9 photos — DALLAS (AP) — A Texas health care worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said Sunday.
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Fox News:
CDC director: Second case of Ebola in US result of ‘breach of protocol’ — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a “breach of protocol” caused a health care worker at a Dallas hospital to preliminarily test positive for Ebola. — The health care worker …
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CNN:
Texas healthcare worker tests positive; would mark 1st Ebola transmission in U.S. — (CNN) — A healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, the state's health agency said. — Confirmatory testing will be conducted …
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Bill Tomson / Politico:
Ebola threatens chocolate — Ebola is threatening much of the world's chocolate supply. — Ivory Coast , the world's largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in M&Ms, Butterfingers and Snickers Bars, has shut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
CDC Director: New Ebola Case Shows There Was ‘Clearly a Breach of Protocol’
CDC Director: New Ebola Case Shows There Was ‘Clearly a Breach of Protocol’
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
McCain calls for ‘Ebola czar’
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
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Susan Levine / Politico:
Texas reports second Ebola case
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Bernie Sanders Takes Over Sunday Morning And Shreds John McCain's ISIS Warmongering — Sen. Bernie Sanders knocked John McCain off of his usual Sunday morning warmongering turf by following a typical McCain appearance on CNN State Of The Union with a fact laced shredding of McCain's pro-war propaganda.
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Thomas Frank / Salon:
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over" — “There has not been nearly enough change,” she tells Salon, taking on Obama failures, lobbyists, tuition.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Aurora Snow / The Daily Beast:
Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky Side — They preach abstinence and shame the adult industry, but findings conclude that the more Christian and conservative you are, the more you're into porn. — Do conservatives watch more porn than their liberal counterparts?
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Washington Monthly and FOX News Radio
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
No Smoke, No Mirrors: The Dutch Pension Plan — Imagine a place where pensions were not an ever-deepening quagmire, where the numbers told the whole story and where workers could count on a decent retirement. — Imagine a place where regulators existed to make sure everyone followed the rules.
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Rachel Huggins / The Hill:
Dick Morris: Clinton orchestrated Panetta's ‘hit’ on Obama — Political strategist Dick Morris accused Hillary Clinton of conspiring with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in his stinging critique of President Obama's foreign policy. — “I think Hillary put him up to it,” …
New York Times:
End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba — Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has sought to turn around. He would be smart to take a hard look at Cuba …
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Washington Monthly
David Harding / NY Daily News:
VIDEO: Edward Snowden living in Moscow with U.S. girlfriend: report — The former National Security Agency whistleblower shares a Moscow apartment with Lindsay Mills, says a newly released documentary. — At least one person is still sticking by U.S. government whistleblower Edward Snowden: his longtime girlfriend.
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