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Texas Department of State Health Services Mobile:
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.
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Holly Yan / CNN:
2nd health care worker tests positive for Ebola at Dallas hospital — (CNN) — A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday — casting further doubt on the hospital's ability to handle Ebola and protect employees.
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Associated Press:
OFFICIAL: 2ND WORKER IN ISOLATION WITH 90 MINUTES — DALLAS (AP) — A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday.
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Ebola Test Is Positive in Second Texas Health Worker — DALLAS — Three days after a nurse who treated a Liberian man with Ebola contracted the virus, a second worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for the virus in preliminary tests, state and federal health officials said Wednesday morning.
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Washington Post:
Dallas hospital learned its Ebola protocols while struggling to save mortally ill patient
Dallas hospital learned its Ebola protocols while struggling to save mortally ill patient
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Washington Monthly, Hot Air, New York Times, The Lonely Conservative and Gawker
Los Angeles Times:
Nurses at Dallas hospital describe poor safety measures with Ebola victim
Nurses at Dallas hospital describe poor safety measures with Ebola victim
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Patterico's Pontifications
Washington Post:
Keeping an even keel at home on Ebola
Keeping an even keel at home on Ebola
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New York Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon and Rush Limbaugh
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Dallas Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Says She's ‘Doing Well’
Dallas Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Says She's ‘Doing Well’
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ABC News and FOX News Radio
C.J. Chivers / New York Times:
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.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Might Be Skewed Against Democrats — Or Republicans — This year's Senate election is close. Republicans have the clearer path to a majority, but it's a treacherous one. Republicans are favored in Iowa and Colorado, for example, but not by much.
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Washington Post, Booman Tribune and PJ Media
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WXIA-TV:
Exclusive Poll: Nunn leads Senate race by 3% — ATLANTA — For the first time, Michelle Nunn leads the race for Georgia's Senate seat. In an exclusive 11Alive poll conducted by Survey USA, Democrat Michelle Nunn leads likely voters 48% to Republican David Perdue's 45%.
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Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Weekly Standard and Politico
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Gardner leads Udall in Colorado Senate race
Gardner leads Udall in Colorado Senate race
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Firedoglake, Weekly Standard, Fox News and Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Democratic Party just hit a 30-year low — The Democratic Party is held in worse regard than at any point in the past 30 years, according to a new poll. — The poll, from the Washington Post and ABC News, shows 39 percent of Americans now have a favorable impression of the blue team …
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Townhall.com, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trouble Looms for Obama, Democrats with Election Day 2014 Approaching — Barack Obama and his political party are heading into the midterm elections in trouble. The president's 40 percent job approval rating in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the lowest of his career …
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Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon
Washington Post:
Poll shows Obama approval low, GOP enthusiasm higher than Democrats' — Americans look to November and beyond with dissatisfaction about the state of the country and the political leadership in Washington. Two in three say the country is seriously off-track, and more than 6 in 10 …
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Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:
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 …
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Katherine Driessen / Houston Chronicle:
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 …
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National Review, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Washington Post, American Thinker and RedState
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
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Hit & Run, Allen B. West, Truth Revolt, The Federalist, The Hugh Hewitt Show and adfmedia.org
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Stay Open — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a federal appeals court ruling that was forcing many abortion clinics in Texas to close. — The Supreme Court's order, which was five sentences long, will allow the clinics to remain open while appeals proceed.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court blocks abortion limits in Texas
Court blocks abortion limits in Texas
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Washington Post, Off the Kuff, Election Law Blog, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and RT
Emma Roller / National Journal:
The Improbable Career of Cowboy Poetry Aficionado, Senate Candidate Larry Pressler — The eccentric Larry Pressler is out to prove himself once again. — Larry Pressler, the once-and-maybe-future senator from South Dakota, may be the single most interesting candidate of 2014.
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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Santorum Gearing Up “as If I'm Running” in 2016
Santorum Gearing Up “as If I'm Running” in 2016
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg/DMR Iowa Poll: Without Romney, the GOP Field Is Wide Open for 2016 — There's an appeal to Ben Carson's life before politics, while the poll suggests a tough road for most of the GOP's biggest names. — To understand why the Mitt-Romney-should-run-again camp won't take its marbles and go home …
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Laura Segall / Bloomberg:
Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic
Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic
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Washington Monthly
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
A Pump War? — Is it just my imagination or is there a global oil war underway pitting the United States and Saudi Arabia on one side against Russia and Iran on the other? One can't say for sure whether the American-Saudi oil alliance is deliberate or a coincidence of interests, but …
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JustOneMinute
The Boston Globe:
Rethink Harvard's sexual harassment policy — In July, Harvard University announced a new university-wide policy aimed at preventing sexual harassment and sexual violence based on gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. — The new policy, which applies to all schools within …
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The Daily Caller