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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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Belizean:
Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast — Reports tonight are that two individuals possibly infected with the Ebola virus are in Belizean waters. Local TV station Channel 7 monitored in the capital City Of Belmopan tonight, reported having credible reports …
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Washington Post:
Cruise ship carrying quarantined Texas hospital worker denied entry by Mexico — The cruise ship carrying a Texas health-care worker who “may have” handled lab specimens from Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan is headed back to the United States after Mexican authorities refused …
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New York Times:
Keeping Ebola at Bay
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Gene Sloan / USA Today:
Worker who may have handled Ebola specimen on cruise
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Greg Botelho / CNN:
Nurse may have had symptoms of Ebola longer than first thought
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Associated Press:
Rand Paul Contradicts Experts, Says Ebola Is ‘Incredibly’ Contagious
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Rachelle Blidner / NY Daily News:
Ebola patient Nina Pham arrives at Maryland hospital after thanking Texas medical staff in emotional video
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: Ebola vs. civil liberties
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texas Restricts Movements of Hospital Workers Who Treated Ebola Victim
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John Bacon / USA Today:
Nurse with Ebola: 'I'm doing really well'
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
First on CNN: Obama will name Ron Klain as Ebola Czar — 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 to have one individual coordinating the entire federal response …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Ron Klain is a great choice for Ebola czar — Something I learned during the first two years of the Obama administration, when the staff infighting was at its worst: if you wanted to get somebody to say something nice, ask them about Ron Klain. — Klain entered the administration as Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff.
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David McCabe / The Hill:
GOP blasts Obama Ebola czar pick
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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
No one at the helm on Ebola — The spread of Ebola in America …
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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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Why a travel ban wouldn't work
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The Hill:
List: Lawmakers backing travel ban
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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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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.
Luke Brinker / Salon:
This may be the worst race-baiting campaign ad since Willie Horton — Fighting to save an embattled congressman, GOP tries to spook voters with menacing images of a black convict — The National Republican Campaign Committee unveiled a race-baiting ad Friday linking the Democratic candidate …
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
New GOP ad tries to tie Brad Ashford to felon who went on Omaha killing spree
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
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 …
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Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
This conservative cause is the GOP's worst nightmare — DENVER - There is one word that has defined the Colorado Senate race and it's a word that Republican Rep. Cory Gardner and other GOP candidates across the country are tired of hearing. The word is Personhood.
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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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Steven Beutler / The New Republic:
An infectious-disease specialist says the time for half-measures is over — Over the last several months, scientists at the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization have done an excellent job of educating the public about Ebola. They have provided a great deal …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Not Following the Midterms? You're Missing All the Fun — I have a confession: I think this is a great election. It's way better than 2012. All around, it might be the best general election in a decade. — There are a dozen competitive and close Senate contests and, for good measure …
Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
In a Louisiana Race for Congress, Edwin Edwards Can't Wait — Edwin Edwards is trying to live up to and live down his reputation. — The former congressman, four-term governor and one-time federal inmate is running for Congress in Louisiana's sixth district, trying to win the wide-open race …
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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