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First Ebola case confirmed in Scotland

By Joshua Barajas

A healthcare worker, who was returning from Sierra Leone after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, tested positive for the disease, Scottish officials confirmed Monday. It is the country’s first confirmed Ebola patient.

Republicans cite rise of ISIS, Democrats point to Ferguson fallout as top stories of 2014, poll finds

By Jennifer Agiesta and Emily Swanson, Associated Press

Americans are slightly more likely than they were a year ago to believe that the current year was better than the last for the United States— 30 percent say so this year, while 25 percent said so in 2013. On…

CDC scientist possibly exposed to Ebola virus

By News Desk

Several scientists may have been exposed to the Ebola virus at a Centers for Disease Control lab in Atlanta, the Washington Post reported. The Washington Post report said that as many as 12 scientists were potentially exposed when a…

iPhone cases featuring stolen, grisly war photos appear for sale on Amazon

By Joshua Barajas

"Who wants to buy a picture with a dead child on it," said Tomas van Houtryve, a National Geographic photographer, who recently surfaced several unauthorized Amazon phone case sales in a series of posts on Instagram.

Getting ‘to zero’ in the fight against Ebola

By PBS News Hour

This year’s Ebola outbreak has claimed the lives of more than 6,800 people, according to the World Health Organization. “If you leave a single case untreated and then if you let that transmission continue, it could explode again,” Dr. Jim…

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Ebola fighters are TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’

By Justin Scuiletti

Doctors in hazmat suits, nurses in scrubs, scientists in lab coats, aid workers in plain clothes -- the people responsible for waging war against the Ebola virus come in many different uniforms across the globe. In 2014, they are…

With schools closed in Liberia, education nonprofit joins Ebola battle

By Larisa Epatko

The nonprofit More Than Me helps girls in Liberia’s West Point slum get an education and stay off the streets. But when Ebola hit last summer, the organization shifted gears to assist in the fight.

House leaders move on plan to fund government past next week

By Erica Werner, Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sidestepping immigration hardliners, House Republican leaders are moving to make a deal with Democrats to pass a spending bill that would keep the government running past next week.

‘Ebola treatment centers’ now in place at 35 U.S. hospitals

By Jason Kane

Dozens of hospitals throughout the United States are “prepared, trained and ready” to treat patients with Ebola, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.