Second Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola  —  A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has tested positive for the disease.  —  The health care worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital.

DSCC Goes Dark in Kentucky  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has gone dark in Kentucky, where the party is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  After a significant investment in support of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes …

The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons  —  A controlled detonation of recovered mustard shells near Taji, Iraq, on Aug. 17, 2008.  —  The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.  —  It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq.

City subpoenas pastors' sermons in equal rights ordinance case … Houston's embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in an unusual step, subpoenaed sermons given by local pastors who oppose the law and are tied …

This Independent Candidate Is Proof of How Far to the Right Republicans Have Swung  —  On Monday afternoon, the four candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Dakota participated in a forum in Sioux Falls.  The event itself was unremarkable, with each candidate offering his views …

Klayman: Obama Must Be ‘Taken Alive’ For Bringing Ebola To America To Afflict White People  —  Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit against President Obama for “providing material support and aid to international terrorism and facilitating terrorism” …

‘White boy’ Biden calls tea party ‘crazy’  —  The Many Faces of Joe Biden  —  Washington (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting with black clergy in South Carolina Tuesday, referred to himself as “the only white boy on the east side of Wilmington” as he recalled his days …

Terror threat against feminist Anita Sarkeesian at USU  —  LOGAN — Utah State University plans to move forward with an event featuring a prominent Canadian-American author, blogger and feminist, despite threats of terror, a spokesman said Tuesday evening.  —  The decision came …

Justices Stop Parts of Texas Abortion Law  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America's second most-populous state.  —  In an unsigned order, the justices sided with abortion rights advocates …

Why the Bombing Campaign in Syria Isn't Working Well  —  The U.S. air war in Syria has not gotten off to an encouraging start.  For many observers the principal indicator of that is a lack of setbacks for ISIS, as the group continues to besiege a Kurdish-held town near the Turkish border.

The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate  —  Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her.  She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate …

Piketty on Inequality  —  For the past two years, our expert panelists have been informing the public about the extent to which economists agree or disagree on important public policy issues.  This week, we are delighted to announce that we are expanding the IGM Economic Experts Panel to add ten new distinguished economists.

Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurds, Complicating Fight Against Islamic State  —  ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets struck Kurdish insurgent positions in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, shaking the country's fragile peace process with the Kurds and demonstrating the complexities surrounding …

Metro bus driver quarantined after passenger yells ‘I have Ebola!’  —  A Metro driver has been quarantined and the bus he was operated taken out of service after a masked passenger began yelling, “Don't mess with me, I have Ebola!”  —  Metro officials said they are working …

Amid Broad Worries of an Ebola Outbreak, Two-Thirds Say Government Should Do More  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned about a widespread epidemic of the Ebola virus in the United States, and about as many in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the federal government is not doing enough to prevent it.