* How Ebola spreads: It's droplet-borne, not airborne, so it's not easy—but not especially hard—to get. * NBC medical correspondent sneaks out of Ebola quarantine to get restaurant takeout in New Jersey. * Nigeria's successful fight against Ebola is due to both medical infrastructure—
* Hundreds of thousands have evacuated their homes, and Japan watches for flash floods and landslides as typhoon reaches land. * Authorities don't know why radiation levels in the water around Fukushima increased 10-fold after a weekend of typhoon-related rain. * In Hong Kong, hundreds of Anti-Occupy protestors
* As hostilities break out between the countries, Pakistani teenager and Indian children's rights activist receive the Nobel peace prize. * Airline cabin cleaners strike at LaGuardia Wednesday night over fears about Ebola. * Following an ease on travel restrictions, more than 22,000 Cubans emigrated to the US in the
* St. Louis police officer shoots and kills teenager whom witnesses claim was unarmed. * There's little evidence airport fever screenings can prevent Ebola's spread—passengers may not show symptoms during travel. * Actually, America does negotiate with terrorists, and the FBI—or a proxy foreign government—will help
* Hourly Amazon workers, who spend up to 25 unpaid minutes being screened for stolen goods—head to the Supreme Court. * Walmart cuts benefits for its 30,000 part-time employees—and didn't even blame Obamacare. * Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling, Ninth Circuit strikes down gay marriage
* Soldier from Wisconsin explains why (anger) and how (plane ticket) he joined Kurdish fighters in Syria to battle ISIS. * Sketches from Raqqa, Syria, a city that's completely under ISIS control. * Obama's "latte salute" notwithstanding, the pejorative term "latte liberal" has lost its
* Roberts Supreme Court faces history-making docket. * California ballot initiative could overturn the state's mandatory sentencing laws, the harshest in the country. * From December 2013 to today, a timeline of Ebola's spread throughout West Africa. * Like Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, nine others who came in
* Dallas Ebola cleanup hampered due to the difficulty in finding people to clean up a contaminated apartment. * Freelance NBC cameraman in Liberia tests positive for Ebola. * Former Chicago police commander, jailed for perjury over torturing 118 black men, released after four years. * On the Secret Service’s failures. * Most "
* Ebola races across Sierra Leone, where the government appears to seriously undercount victims. * Man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas visited the ER last week, only to be sent home. * America's secret weapon against Ebola: Obamacare. * Grand jury convened over Ferguson investigated for misconduct following tweets of "leakage.
* Ebola containment in Nigeria and Senegal appears successful; no new cases have been reported in Nigeria since Aug. 31. * Elon Musk on Mars colonization: "to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen." * Life in Liberia, before and after the Ebola outbreak,
