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10:35 AM 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:
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.”
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
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. … BUY OR LICENSE » … “Bleep blorp zip zop gleeb glop.”  —  BUY OR LICENSE » … “Technically sound, but I'd hardly say it adds to the genre.”  —  BUY OR LICENSE »
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and The Verge
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Associated Press:
SEVEN students charged with sex crimes in horrific hazing among football players at New Jersey high school  — Comes after reports that senior students were ‘sticking their finger in the rectums of freshmen players, and then in their mouths’  —  Seven students have been charged with sex crimes …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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?
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Race tightens; Ernst by 1 point  —  Iowa's blitzkrieg U.S. Senate race is now a 1-point contest: Republican Joni Ernst is at 47 percent, and Democrat Bruce Braley is right at her heels at 46 percent with likely voters, a new Iowa Poll shows.  —  As armies of Democratic activists …
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
RT:
Paltrow hosting Obama fundraiser: 'You're so handsome that I can't speak properly'  —  Movie star Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at her Los Angeles home Thursday that raised some eyebrows, created some controversy and led to some major traffic snarls.
 
 
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Discussion: FOX News Radio
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
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Discussion: FOX News Radio
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