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4:15 PM ET, October 12, 2014

Top Items:

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: Pat Dollard, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Scared Monkeys, LewRockwell, Gawker, The Moderate Voice, BizPac Review, RT and CNN

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Patterico's Pontifications

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 …

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Mediaite and Vox Popoli

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

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.”

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

CDC Director: New Ebola Case Shows There Was ‘Clearly a Breach of Protocol’ — CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden told Face the Nation Sunday morning that the emergence of a second ebola case in Dallas showed that “clearly there was a breach in protocol.” — A health worker who had cared …

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Shares — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Trail Blazers Blog

Bill Tomson / Politico:
Ebola threatens chocolate

Discussion: Hot Air and Liberal Values

Byron Tau / Politico:
NIH official: ‘The system worked’ on Ebola

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

CNN:
Texas healthcare worker tests positive; would mark 1st Ebola transmission in U.S.

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

Susan Levine / Politico: Texas reports second Ebola case

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, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story

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

CNN:

ISIS could hold swath from northern Syria to the gates of Baghdad — Baghdad (CNN) — ISIS fighters stand on the verge of victory on two fronts, and poorly equipped local forces do their best to resist. — The Islamist extremists appear set to take a key Syrian town along the Turkish border …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Guardian

CNN:
McCain ISIS “is winning, and we're not”

Discussion: Guardian

Josh Hicks / Washington Post: McCain on the Islamic State: 'They're winning, and we're not'

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

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

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,” …