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Ebola-wary U.S. seeks some solace in sanitizer

From more frequent use of hand sanitizer to second thoughts about flying, Americans are subtly changing their behaviors in response…

October 15, 2014

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Obama juggles campaign duties with Ebola response

President Barack Obama, second from left, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of…

October 15, 2014

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News media reacted slowly to Ebola crisis

Neither announcement caused much of a stir in newsrooms across the United States. The Associated Press moved a 315-word dispatch…

October 15, 2014

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DETROIT – Two U.S. senators are questioning why the nation’s auto safety regulators are letting car companies recall vehicles only…

October 15, 2014

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Kurds halting ISIS’s advance

Thick smoke rises from a fire following a strike in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and the…

October 15, 2014

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U.S. Ebola concerns grow

2nd nurse diagnosed with disease

October 15, 2014

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Syria-Iraq fight gets a name: ‘Inherent Resolve’

An armored vehicle belonging to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rushes to a bombing site as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic…

October 15, 2014

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FORT WORTH, Texas – The nation’s top-disease fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that an American nurse might not have been infected…

October 14, 2014

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Turkish attacks split anti-ISIS alliance

U.S. urges allies to focus on fighting Islamic State

October 14, 2014

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Will Ebola fever hit Halloween?

Many upset about holiday costumes based on crisis

October 14, 2014

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Game-like slots look like jackpots

Younger gamblers want more than bells

October 14, 2014

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Nurse infected with Ebola says she’s ‘doing well’

A Texas Christian University yearbook photo shows Nina Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who became…

October 14, 2014

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Obama waiting for midterm to name attorney general

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, left, looks on as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder…

October 14, 2014

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Flu season on its way with Ebola-like symptoms

A Protect Environmental in Dallas employee sanitizes his hands outside the apartment of a health-care worker, who treated Ebola patient…

October 13, 2014

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Turkey says no new deal with U.S. on using air base

Syrian Kurd Kiymet Ergun, 56, gestures, in Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, as thick smoke…

October 13, 2014

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FERGUSON, Mo. – Pounding rain and tornado watches didn’t deter hundreds of protesters Monday outside Ferguson police headquarters, where they…

October 13, 2014

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Texas Gov. Perry ordered to be in court Oct. 31

Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes a point as he speaks during a visit to the Galveston National Lab Tuesday in…

October 13, 2014

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Health-care workers monitored after Ebola case

A hazmat worker looks up while finishing up cleaning outside an apartment building of a hospital worker Sunday in Dallas.…

October 13, 2014

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S&P 500 posts its worst three-day drop since 2011

Halliburton, Dow Chemical and Merck & Co. lost at least 4.3 percent to pace declines in energy, commodity and health-care…

October 12, 2014

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GLENDALE, Ariz. – The president of the country’s largest Native American reservation appears to be a supporter of the NFL…

October 12, 2014

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Kurds describe fierce battles on streets of Kobani

Holed up in an industrial area of squat, concrete buildings on Kobani’s eastern edges, the outgunned Kurds could do little…

October 12, 2014

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Kurds halt jihadi advance in Syria

U.S. to train Syrian rebels

October 12, 2014

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Health worker 2nd in U.S. to get Ebola

Unclear how this occurred

October 12, 2014

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Ebola victim’s euthanized dog stokes massive protest in Spain

3 people with virus at hospital

October 11, 2014