memeorandum: Health worker 2nd in US to test positive for Ebola (Nomaan Merchant/Associated Press)

1:35 PM ET, October 12, 2014

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Texas Department of State Health Services Mobile:

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.

Discussion: Fox News, ThinkProgress, Pat Dollard, Washington Post, Scared Monkeys, LewRockwell, The Moderate Voice, Gawker, BizPac Review, NBC News and CNN

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 …

Discussion: Politico

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.

Discussion: Daily Signal and Towleroad News #gay

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 …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller and Liberaland

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

McCain calls for ‘Ebola czar’ — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday called for President Obama to nominate an “Ebola czar” to coordinate the administration's response to the deadly virus. — “I'd like to know who's in charge,” McCain said on CNN's “State of the Union.”

Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola

Discussion: Mediaite and Outside the Beltway

Susan Levine / Politico: Texas reports second Ebola case

Marc Santora / New York Times:
As U.S. Steps Up Fight, J.F.K. Begins Screening Passengers for Ebola

Discussion: Fox News, Dallas Morning News, Israel Matzav, New York Magazine, Pat Dollard, Gawker and Modern Healthcare

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?

Discussion: Washington Monthly and FOX News Radio

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story

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,” …

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.

Discussion: Firedoglake and Marginal REVOLUTION

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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: FOX News Radio

George Packer / New Yorker:
The Holder of Secrets — Laura Poitras's closeup view of Edward Snowden.

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and The Verge

Josh Hicks / Washington Post:

McCain on the Islamic State: 'They're winning, and we're not' — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the United States needs more troops on the ground to assist with airstrikes against the Islamic State, suggesting that ongoing efforts to stop the terrorist organization's advances are falling short.