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• 2nd Texas nurse with Ebola identified
• Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way'
• Senators who opposed 'czars' now want one for Ebola
• New Texas nurse with Ebola had slight fever on airliner
• Libyan al Qaeda suspect seeks to toss statements in U.S. case
• After decades in prison, man freed at NY prosecutor's request
• US stocks sink in turbulent day of trade
• US war on Islamic State finally gets a name
• Ann Romney's new ammunition in fight against MS
• Report: U.S. troops injured by abandoned Iraqi chemical weapons
• Trooper kills box-cutter wielding man on Ct. tour bus
• At soccer match, drone flight causes near-international incident
• North, South Korea hold high-level military talks
• Comet landing site picked for European space mission
• Photo exhibition shows 'depravity' of Syria's Assad regime
• Second day of numerous U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria's Kobani
• Is Cory Gardner’s nice-guy persona enough to win in Colorado?
• Record number of black candidates seeking office
• Hong Kong police drag activists away, clear tunnel
• Nurses: No Ebola protocol at Texas hospital
• Feds could have done more in Dallas Ebola case, CDC director says

2nd Texas nurse with Ebola identified Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:00 PM PDT Amber Joy Vinson, 26, contracted virus; CDC says she recently flew on plane.

Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way' Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:10 PM PDT President Obama promises a "much more aggressive" federal government response to Ebola amid growing public fears stoked by a new case in Dallas. And he notes he was fine after having "hugged and kissed not the doctors, but the nurses" who cared for a patient in Georgia.

Senators who opposed 'czars' now want one for Ebola Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:28 PM PDT Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas was one of the first lawmakers to call on the Obama administration to appoint a czar to help coordinate the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis in Africa, along with a cluster of cases at home. The problem? Almost five years earlier to the day, Moran introduced legislation urging Obama to cease the practice of appointing czars. Moran, who was then a congressman running for the U.S. Senate, also sponsored a bill that would prohibit the federal government from using taxpayer money to pay the salaries of such unconfirmed administration officials — which would have effectively ended the practice of appointing them.

New Texas nurse with Ebola had slight fever on airliner Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:29 PM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who contracted Ebola flew on a commercial flight from Ohio to Texas with a slight temperature the day before she was diagnosed, health officials said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about U.S. efforts to control the disease. Chances that other passengers on the plane were infected were very low, but the nurse should not have been traveling on the flight, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters. ...

Libyan al Qaeda suspect seeks to toss statements in U.S. case Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:44 PM PDT By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby told a U.S. judge on Wednesday that statements he made to U.S. interrogators should not be allowed at trial because he felt he had no choice but to talk. The 50-year-old Libyan, who faces charges stemming from the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, testified at a hearing in New York to determine whether the statements he made aboard a U.S. Air Force plane can be used against him in court. ...

After decades in prison, man freed at NY prosecutor's request Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:59 PM PDT By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly three decades into a prison sentence he began as a teenager, a New York man who had been championed by boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter walked free on Wednesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction at a prosecutor's request. David McCallum was 16 years old in 1986 when a jury in Brooklyn found him and Willie Stuckey, Jr. guilty of kidnapping and murdering Nathan Blenner. McCallum, now 45, had been in a state prison ever since. Stuckey, whose conviction was also quashed on Wednesday, died in prison in 2001. ...

US stocks sink in turbulent day of trade Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:05 PM PDT New York (AFP) - US stocks Wednesday finished a turbulent day in the red, rallying somewhat from a huge midday drop spurred by worries over global economic weakness and the Ebola epidemic.

US war on Islamic State finally gets a name Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:15 AM PDT President Obama's war on the so-called Islamic State finally has a name: It's Operation Inherent Resolve. It's not as dramatic as Desert Storm but not as bad as Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL).

Ann Romney's new ammunition in fight against MS Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:49 AM PDT Ann Romney says Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine had her husband Mitt been elected president. In a clear shot at the Obama administration, Romney told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga, "I do not believe there would have been an invasion, of course, in Ukraine. I believe Putin would have known there would've been consequences to that."

Report: U.S. troops injured by abandoned Iraqi chemical weapons Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:53 AM PDT American troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011, but their discoveries were kept secret by the U.S. government, the New York Times reports.

Trooper kills box-cutter wielding man on Ct. tour bus Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:21 AM PDT NORWALK Conn. (Reuters) - A man wielding a box cutter who attacked passengers on a tour bus headed to a Connecticut casino has died after being shot by a state trooper, officials said on Wednesday. The man, whose identity was not released, was arrested late Tuesday after the driver steered the bus into a construction site off a major highway, state police said, and died of his gunshot wound at a hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. ...

At soccer match, drone flight causes near-international incident Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:24 AM PDT BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — It was all about the drone Wednesday — the one that took off from an Orthodox Church in Belgrade and flew over a soccer stadium with a nationalist Albanian banner. It ignited more than a brawl between players and fans — it inflamed years of simmering tensions between Balkan rivals Serbia and Albania.

North, South Korea hold high-level military talks Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:09 AM PDT Seoul (AFP) - North and South Korea held high-level military talks on Wednesday to air grievances over recent exchanges of fire across their land and sea borders, Seoul's defence ministry said.

Comet landing site picked for European space mission Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet.

Photo exhibition shows 'depravity' of Syria's Assad regime Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:07 PM PDT In a chilling and potentially controversial exhibit that opens on Wednesday, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will put on public display for the first time photographs — smuggled out of Syria by a regime defector — that show the emaciated and burned bodies of suspected dissidents believed to have been killed in government detention centers. A director of the museum says the photos are reminiscent of the images from Nazi concentration camps.

Second day of numerous U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria's Kobani Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:01 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The planes struck 16 buildings occupied by Islamic State militants and destroyed several of their fighting positions near Kobani, a Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, it said in a statement on Wednesday. ...

Is Cory Gardner’s nice-guy persona enough to win in Colorado? Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:27 AM PDT If Cory Gardner can't win in Colorado, who can? It's a question that's about more than just one candidate and one state — it's about the future of a Republican party that for the past decade has been pulled increasingly to the right, making truly purple states like Colorado appear blue by default. For as much as the Beltway pundit class talks about President Obama being a drag on down-ballot Democrats nationwide, it's the Republican party brand that could bring down Gardner in Colorado. And if Republicans miss taking back control of the Senate for the third consecutive time because they can't win in a state like Colorado in an off-year election under a president whose popularity has tanked, it won't be because Todd Akin moments — viral gaffes from hyperconservative candidates — took them down. It will be because average, independent voters have come to believe that the GOP is the party of Todd Akins.

Record number of black candidates seeking office Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:40 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that some observers say is a byproduct of Barack Obama's historic presidency.

Hong Kong police drag activists away, clear tunnel Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:54 PM PDT HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drove protesters from an underpass in the dead of night in the worst violence since the street demonstrations for greater democracy began more than two weeks ago.

Nurses: No Ebola protocol at Texas hospital Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:51 AM PDT A nurses' union slams safety conditions at the hospital where a man died from the virus.

Feds could have done more in Dallas Ebola case, CDC director says Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:33 PM PDT Ebola has haunted Dallas for more than two weeks, killing one man and infecting a nurse who was treating him. Now, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden says the nation's health protection agency should have stepped in and taken control when the country's first Ebola case appeared in Dallas.

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