Hospital Worker Who Handled Ebola Samples Is on Cruise Ship  —  A Dallas health care worker who handled clinical specimens from an Ebola-infected patient is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, with the worker self-quarantined and being monitored for signs of infection, the State Department said in a statement.

Biden's Son Hunter Discharged From Navy Reserve After Failing Cocaine Test  —  Lawyer Pursued Military Service Relatively Late as a Public-Affairs Officer  —  WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden 's son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine …

Republican Joni Ernst Admits Why Republicans Really Hate Obamacare  —  Another secret recording.  —  Shares  —  Conservatives have made a series of specific predictions about the effects of Obamacare — overall costs would rise, insurers would flee the exchanges, premiums would go up, the ranks of the uninsured would not even fall.

First on CNN: Obama will name Ron Klain as Ebola Czar  —  (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)  —  Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain his “Ebola czar,” knowledgeable sources tell CNN.  —  The president on Thursday signaled his openness to the idea …

Why a travel ban wouldn't work  —  The political momentum for a travel ban on West African nations continued to swell Thursday, but health and transportation experts were uniform in saying it wouldn't stem the spread of Ebola — and could do more harm than good.

Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK  —  Demonstrators demand a travel ban outside the White House on Oct. 16 to stop the spread of the Ebola virus.  —  A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight …

Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity from the Survey of Consumer Finances  —  The distribution of income and wealth in the United States has been widening more or less steadily for several decades, to a greater extent than in most advanced countries.1 This trend paused during …

Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq's Real WMD  —  There's one man, some Republicans say, who kept the public from learning about the chemical shells littered around Iraq.  He was Bush's most important political adviser.  —  Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration …

How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties  —  In August, Tom Steyer and seven campaign advisers sat in a small conference room in Coral Gables, Fla., trying to figure out how to save the world.  Steyer, who is 57, has a fortune of roughly $1.5 billion …

What Markets Will  —  In the Middle Ages, the call for a crusade to conquer the Holy Land was met with cries of “Deus vult!”  — God wills it.  But did the crusaders really know what God wanted?  Given how the venture turned out, apparently not.  —  Now, that was a long time ago, and …

How Older Voters Will Decide Your Future  —  Older voters are the electorate's fast growing demographic - and a major reason Republicans can win big in 2016.  —  The political impact of shifting demographics is a hot topic.  Judging from the coverage, it would be easy to assume …

Arizona Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules  —  Judge also refuses to put his ruling on hold during any possible appeal.  —  Following an appeals court ruling allowing Idaho same-sex couples to marry, a federal judge also struck down Arizona's ban on same-sex couples' marriages.

Islamic State training pilots to fly in three jets: Syria monitor  —  (Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air.

Protocol Theatre  —  Thomas Frieden has now got his Protocol Ali routine down pat: … Gotcha.  You can't get Ebola on a bus or a plane, you can only give it.  Good to know.  Thanks, Doc.  —  The Centers for Disease Control is one of those elite federal agencies that people hitherto assumed was …