* For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, the pro-Russian Communist Party failed to win the votes needed to enter parliament. * Latin America has the highest concentration of compulsory-voting states—a policy suppressed elsewhere for fear of union power. * Following controversial Ebola quarantine of health worker
* New York City has an Ebola patient; officials tracing every contact he made, including while bowling in Williamsburg. * Health workers in Texas use Tabasco during training for its tingling properties, to say if they've been contaminated. * Confessions of an Ebola thrillist. * Some US hospitals considering whether to withhold
* Shooter in Ottawa kills a soldier in what the PM calls a "terrorist" act—the suspect was recently designated a "high-risk traveler." * Canada's CBC News covered the shootings in a way US news no longer can: with respect and care for the facts.
* ISIS claims to have received a US weapons drop meant for Kurdish fighters. * Reports indicate ISIS struggles to meet basic needs of residents, who are kept in line by fear of reprisals. * Political scientists fail to understand why countries sign human rights treaties they have no intention of following. * After
* Ebola would be more dangerous if it were less deadly—it kills its host too quickly to be effectively contagious. * "Nurse Being Treated for Ebola Impressed With Health Workers' New Gear." * Putin's land grab may be part of his vision of Novorossiya, a new Russia
* Officials declare dozens of people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan are now no longer at risk of Ebola. * High school dropouts with wealthy backgrounds tend to earn as much as college grads with poorer backgrounds. * Many, if not most, individual American households possess next to nothing. * PBS debuts
* Obama possibly to name a "czar" to manage the government’s response to Ebola, which has so far infected three people in the US. * Dallas worker who handled the Ebola patient's lab samples is on a Caribbean cruise—now quarantined and not showing any signs. * Infectious
* Dallas County Commissioners set to declare a "state of disaster" after two cases of Ebola. * America's most dire threat at present is a "hugely overhyped fear" of Ebola and the Islamic State. * ISIS loots important historical sites, including some from the Bronze Age, in
* World Health Organization warns that West Africa could see 10,000 Ebola cases per week by the end of the year. * Second health care worker in Texas has Ebola; nurses accuse hospital of sloppy protocols. * Spain has the world's highest concentration of elevators, thanks to the Spanish Civil
* 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—
