The Hill said it over four days ago, “Ebola has become the October surprise of this year’s midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans doing battle over everything from restrictions on travel to the disposal of a victim’s remains.” ABC followed
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” PBS host Tavis Smiley acknowledged the Democratic Party has not given some minority voters the inspiration to turn out to vote in this election cycle. “If you’re black or brown, if you’re —
San Diego State University student Sara Stelzer remained on life support systems on Friday night after the University announced that she had died on Friday morning from bacterial meningitis. According to CBS Los Angeles, University spokesman Greg Block said that Stelzer’s parents
AUSTIN, Texas — As news broke over the past month of the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the United States, a Liberian man named Thomas Eric Duncan, followed by Duncan transmitting the virus to at least two of the
Ebola patients in West Africa are isolated as they recover, but the isolation does not stop there. Villages and communities shun the survivors due to the stigma of the disease. Liberia’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare told citizens to
During today’s segment of The View, co-host Rosie O’Donnell asked police to search John Grisham’s computer for child pornography after he defended curious men who might stumble upon inappropriate videos of children. O’Donnell said she was “horrified” and questioned his
Teresa Romero, the auxiliary nurse in Madrid who contracted Ebola from a patient brought in from Sierra Leone, and her husband, may sue Madrid Sanitation Councilman Javier Rodríguez after the latter hinted that Romero “hid information” about how she contracted
A new poll finds that Americans are unsatisfied with President Obama’s response to the Ebola crisis that is now hitting U.S. shores, and they feel that America could be doing more. A Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted last week found
The White House is making an astonishing claim that the decision to delay the enrollment period for Obamacare until after the election was not political. During the White House Press Briefing today, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl questioned the administration’s
During the 2006 campaign season, President Bush was seen as a drag on Republican candidates. With his approval rating hovering in the low forties, it was considered politically risky to be seen with the president. Despite that, in October of
A U.S. Marine in the Philippines is being held in connection with the death of a transgender woman after finding out she was anatomically male “following a night at a local disco.” According to ABC News, the deceased–Jeffrey Laude–was a
AUSTIN, Texas — In a special video segment for CNN, CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta discussed the protocols for caring for patients infected with Ebola, as recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Texas Christian University
Monday night during a debate with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate of Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes, again refused to answer whether she voted for President Barack Obama by saying “I’m not going to compromise
ABC News says gun control proponent Gabby Giffords is campaigning so diligently for Representative Ron Barber (D-AZ-Dist. 2) that “you’d almost think she’s the one on the ballot.” Giffords is not on the ballot, but her gun control views are. Barber
Experts have reportedly not tested whether Ebola patients can infect others by coughing or sneezing even as one of the top experts on the particular strain of Ebola that has ravaged West Africa believes the virus is “primed” to go
Editor’s Note: ABC News published an astonishing admission today, revealing that President Barack Obama has not attended a single public campaign event for a Democratic candidate as the party heads into a white-hot election season. Just three weeks to go
In an interview that aired on Indianapolis ABC affiliate RTV6 on Sunday, Dr. David Sanders, an associate professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, warned that Ebola could undergo mutations that would make it an airborne virus. Sanders made these
On top of news that a healthcare worker in Texas has now been diagnosed with Ebola, a patient in Boston who had recently been in Liberia is now being watched closely for signs of of the deadly virus. A man
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman declared President Barack Obama to be one the most consequential presidents in modern U.S. history, even more so than his predecessor, Bill Clinton. Partial transcript as follows:
AUSTIN, Texas — As news has spread Sunday about the second Ebola case in Texas, a nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who treated Thomas Eric Duncan before he died earlier this month, questions have arisen about how the deadly disease
AUSTIN, Texas — Dr. Richard Besser, the chief health and medical editor for ABC News, told WFAA-Dallas on Sunday that he found the second Texas Ebola case “very concerning.” As reported by Breitbart Texas, the latest patient diagnosed with Ebola
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said ISIS almost took the Baghdad airport recently. Dempsey explained we deployed Apache helicopters because, “This is a case where you’re not going to wait until they’re climbing over
DALLAS, Texas — Brazoria County is home to Alvin ISD where ABC-13 was among the local TV news outlets that reported on parents outraged by a sixth grade assignment on the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). At
This article was originally published in Mail Online. The mother of a five-year-old girl paralyzed by the enterovirus has spoken out about the hell of watching her young daughter battle the deadly illness. Kinley Galbreath, from Hamilton, has spent the
On his Thursday broadcast, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets of Los Angeles to gauge the public’s attitude toward GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, as ingredients in food. GMOs have been a hot-button issue for some activists, some of
