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6:30 PM ET, October 12, 2014

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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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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 …
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.
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
CDC Director: New Ebola Case Shows There Was ‘Clearly a Breach of Protocol’
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Byron Tau / Politico:
NIH official: ‘The system worked’ on Ebola
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Bill Tomson / Politico:
Ebola threatens chocolate
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberal Values
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Health worker 2nd in US to test positive for Ebola
Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Shares  —  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:   McCain calls for ‘Ebola czar’
Susan Levine / Politico:   Second Ebola case tests health-care readiness
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.
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.
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 …
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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'
NY Daily News:
Stasi: Tea Party and fears of an Ebola outbreak go hand in hand  —  It's another bad week for the NYPD; paparazzi need to leave mentally ill Amanda Bynes alone; what was Stephen Collins' ex-wife thinking when she stayed with a perv?  —  According to a new national poll, the more educated you are …
T.S. Jarmusz / Gillette News Record:
Disgruntled employee steals train  —  A jaunt on a stolen train Thursday ended in a crash and possible federal felony charges for the 22-year-old driver.  —  Derek Skyler Brux was charged Friday with reckless endangering, felony destruction of property and felony destruction …
Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story
James Risen / New York Times:
Investigation Into Missing Iraqi Cash Ended in Lebanon Bunker  —  WASHINGTON — Not long after American forces defeated the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein in 2003, caravans of trucks began to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on a regular basis, unloading an unusual cargo — pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills.
Discussion: Guardian and Prairie Weather
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.
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?
Mike Stanton / New York Times:
Good Buddy, Bad Buddy  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — THE biggest story in Rhode Island this fall isn't the potential election on Nov. 4 of the state's first female governor, Gina M. Raimondo, a Democrat, or its first Asian-American governor, Allan Fung, a Republican.
 
 
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