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Steve Mason / ABC News:
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.
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6abc.com, Truth Revolt and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Greg Botelho / CNN:
Nurse may have had symptoms of Ebola longer than first thought — Are you on the front lines of Ebola? We'd like to hear your story. — (CNN) — A nurse with Ebola may have shown symptoms of the virus as many as four days before authorities once indicated, meaning that she might …
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Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Instapundit and Business Insider
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: Ebola vs. civil liberties — Unnervingly, the U.S. public health services remain steps behind the Ebola virus. Contact tracing is what we do, Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden assured the nation. It will stop the epidemic “in its tracks.”
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New York Times:
Keeping Ebola at Bay — The Ebola cases in the United States show that American hospitals and public health officials have much to learn about effective ways to protect health care workers and the public from possible infection. — Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the first hospital put to the test …
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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Mediaite and Business Insider
Rachelle Blidner / NY Daily News:
Ebola patient Nina Pham arrives at Maryland hospital after thanking Texas medical staff in emotional video
Ebola patient Nina Pham arrives at Maryland hospital after thanking Texas medical staff in emotional video
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Liberaland, New York Magazine, 6abc.com and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden's son discharged from Navy after testing positive for cocaine
Biden's son discharged from Navy after testing positive for cocaine
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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.
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Washington Center … and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joni Ernst's hog-castrating ideology, revealed!
Joni Ernst's hog-castrating ideology, revealed!
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses
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Talking Points Memo, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Roll Call and PoliticusUSA
New York Post:
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 …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and Vox Popoli
Jake Tapper / CNN:
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 …
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Business Insider and Mashable
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Blitzer Grills Rick Scott: Why Was Crist's Fan an Issue in the First Place? — Florida Governor Rick Scott appeared on CNN earlier tonight to address “fangate” and why he didn't appear on stage to debate Charlie Crist for several minutes. Wolf Blitzer asked Scott why exactly this was an issue of contention in the first place.
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Washington Post
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
“It's An Object of Gallows Humor for the Staff”
“It's An Object of Gallows Humor for the Staff”
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Raw Story, The Mahablog, his vorpal sword, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, nationalnursesunited.org and Mediaite
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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 …
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
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 …
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American Thinker, American Spectator, Balloon Juice and The Dish
Politico:
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.
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The Federalist and Mediaite
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The Hill:
Ebola, Wall Street stock slide deepen '14 gloom for Dems — The Democrats' midterm prospects took a beating this week as concerns over the Ebola virus and a jittery economy churned up countless grim headlines and darkened an already-dissatisfied national mood.
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Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
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 …
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Power Line, Weekly Standard, Daily Mail, Truth Revolt and CBS Dallas
Sylvia Westall / Reuters:
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.
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New York Magazine, Defense One and Outside the Beltway
Mike Allen / Politico:
Paul: African-American leaders may not yet embrace GOP — Sen. Rand Paul tells POLITICO that the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 could capture one-third or more of the African-American vote by pushing criminal-justice reform, school choice and economic empowerment.
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Washington Times
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
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 …
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Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
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 …