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2:20 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.
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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 …
Discussion: Politico
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola  —  DALLAS — A health care worker here who helped treat the Liberian man who died last week of the Ebola virus has tested positive for the disease in a preliminary test, state health officials said Sunday.  —  “We knew a second case could be a reality …
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 …
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.
Bill Tomson / Politico:
Ebola threatens chocolate
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberal Values
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
CDC Director: New Ebola Case Shows There Was ‘Clearly a Breach of Protocol’
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Susan Levine / Politico:   Texas reports second Ebola case
CNN:
McCain ISIS “is winning, and we're not”  —  Today on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) join Candy Crowley to discuss the advancement of ISIS in the Anbar Province and Ebola in the US.  —  TEXT HIGHLIGHTS
Discussion: Guardian
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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.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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.”
Josh Hicks / Washington Post:   McCain on the Islamic State: 'They're winning, and we're not'
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
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?
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.
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,” …
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
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George Packer / New Yorker:
The Holder of Secrets  —  Laura Poitras's closeup view of Edward Snowden.
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
 
 
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