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Tough road ahead for Obama after Republicans seize Senate

BY STEVE HOLLAND AND JOHN WHITESIDES (Reuters) - Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the U.S. Senate on…

Canada imposes visa ban on three Ebola-hit countries

(Reuters) - Canada will stop issuing visas to people from the three West African nations where Ebola is widespread, the…

Third victim in Washington state school shooting rampage dies

BY ERIC M. JOHNSON (Reuters) - A girl shot during a rampage at a Washington state high school last week…

Test flight of Virgin Galactic spaceship ends in fatal crash in California

(Reuters) - A passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday…

Bike-riding nurse defies Ebola quarantine

BY JOSEPH AX AND JEFF MASON (Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative…

U.S. CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined

(Reuters) - Federal health officials on Monday revamped guidelines for doctors and nurses returning home to the United States from…

Washington school shooting suspect left unhappy tweets

BY BILL RIGBY (Reuters) - A high school student believed to have shot to death a classmate and wounded four others…

Police seek motive in fatal Washington state school shooting

(Reuters) - Authorities in Washington state worked on Saturday to find out what led a popular high school student to…

Doctor with Ebola in Manhattan hospital after return from Guinea

(Reuters) - A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York…

New York tests doctor who was in West Africa for Ebola

(Reuters) - A physician with Doctors without Borders who returned from West Africa recently and developed potential symptoms was being…

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