| CDC director: We could have done more in Ebola case Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:58 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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| U.S. Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion restrictions Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:47 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked certain restrictions on abortion contained in a Texas state law that abortion rights groups said would have forced all but a handful of clinics to shut down in the state of 26 million people. The high court granted a request filed by abortion rights groups that puts on hold parts of a federal appeals court decision that had allowed the law to go into effect. The brief court order said that requirements that clinics have certain hospital-like settings for surgeries could not go into effect pending appeal. ...
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| Appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:47 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
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| 1 dead as Gonzalo strengthens, aims for Bermuda Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:38 PM PDT  PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — Hurricane Gonzalo grew into a major Category 3 storm Tuesday and is expected to strengthen further as it heads toward Bermuda after killing a man in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten, authorities said.
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| Bill Clinton to the rescue Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:33 AM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Democrats are again enlisting their favorite political son to fend off a Republican drive to claim a U.S. Senate seat and other top offices, announcing Tuesday that former President Bill Clinton will return to the state to campaign for the second time this month.
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| Voters are punishing Obama for this one economic failure Posted:  Voters are punishing Obama for this one economic failure
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| Update on Texas nurse who contracted Ebola Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:03 PM PDT  "I am blessed by the support of family and friends," says statement from Nina Pham, 26.
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| Major casualty in Baghdad car bomb blast Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:58 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Shi'ite Muslim member of Iraq's parliament was killed in a car bomb attack at a checkpoint entrance to the Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a parliamentary media official and police. Police and medics said Ahmed Al-Khafaji, also a member of the Shi'ite Badr political party, was among 25 people killed in the blast on the edge of Kadhimiya, home to the Shi'ite shrine of Imam Kahdim. Khafaji is also a former deputy interior minister, his party said. The death toll was earlier reported to be 18. ...
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| U.S. sets up rapid-response Ebola team; Dallas nurse improves Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT  By Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - The United States is establishing a rapid-response team to help hospitals "within hours" whenever there is a case of Ebola, the top doctor leading the fight against the deadly virus said on Tuesday. Prospects for a quick end to the contagion fell as the World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that three impoverished countries in West Africa - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - could produce as many as 10,000 new cases per week by early December. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. ...
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| Idaho governor says he will not appeal gay marriage ruling Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:12 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Idaho's Republican governor said on Tuesday he would not challenge a federal appeals court ruling that made gay marriage legal in the state, removing any remaining uncertainty over the future for same-sex couples. Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter said he continued to believe the federal courts were wrong to abandon what he called the sanctity of "traditional" marriage, and he accused them of undermining the will of Idaho voters and states' rights. "But we are a civil society that respects the rule of law," he said in a brief statement. ...
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| Chris Christie says he would 'rather die than be in the United States Senate' Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:42 AM PDT  The New Jersey governor says he may run for office again once his time as governor is up — just not in the state of New Jersey.
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| For sublet, urgently: House where Adolf Hitler was born Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT  Vienna (AFP) - Austria's interior ministry is appealing to other government departments to take over the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, amid a long-running debate over what should become of the building.
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| Ebola epidemic still spreading in W. Africa Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:32 PM PDT WHO says virus still active in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia; total death toll 4,447 from a total of 8,914 cases. |
