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Published
October 24, 2014

Injured Secret Service K9 dogs cleared to work again

The dogs were hurt in a confrontation with a White House intruder Wednesday.
Published
October 24, 2014

New federal ‘SWAT’ teams formed to handle Ebola cases

The units are ready to go to any U.S. city that reports an incidence of the virus.
Published
October 24, 2014

Ebola Developments

Recovered journalist back home PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island. Ashoka Mukpo contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. The 33-year-old was released from the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit Wednesday and flew back to […]
Published
October 24, 2014

Chlorine gas attack suspected in Iraq

Islamic State fighters are believed to have used the banned agent in three ineffective attacks so far.
Published
October 24, 2014

Nation/World Dispatches

WASHINGTON Detainee in Afghanistan likely to be tried in Virginia The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial in Virginia, U.S. officials said Thursday. The move would mark the first time a military detainee from Afghanistan was brought to the U.S. for trial, and it represents the Obama […]

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Published
October 24, 2014

Ebola expands with a case in Mali reported

The patient is a 2-year-old girl visiting Mali from Guinea, where the crisis in Africa started last December.
Published
October 23, 2014

New York officials confirm city’s first Ebola case

A Doctors Without Borders physician who treated Ebola patients in West Africa tests positive for the virus. The mayor says 'New Yorkers have no reason to be alarmed.'
Published
October 23, 2014

Man resembling fugitive fears mistaken shooting

He's been stopped and questioned more than 20 times, once at gunpoint, during the hunt for a suspected cop killer in Pennsylvania.
Published
October 23, 2014

Zuckerberg charms Chinese, face to face

Visiting a country where Facebook is banned, he chats in Mandarin with students at a Beijing university where he is a new advisory board member.
Published
October 23, 2014

Pennsylvania town can keep Jim Thorpe’s body

The famed athlete's surviving sons had been fighting to move the body to American Indian land in Oklahoma, where he was born.