Amber Vinson, one of two Texas nurses who tested positive for Ebola after treating an infected patient, is free of the virus and was discharged Tuesday from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.
Ebola-free nurse Amber Vinson to leave Atlanta hospital Amber Vinson, one of two Texas nurses to contract Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, will be released Tuesday from Emory University Hospi…tal in Atlanta, officials said. Vinson, 29, was admitted to the hospital’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and was declared free of the deadly virus last week.
Over the weekend, a strange and revealing episode of political theater surfaced. An American nurse named Kaci Hickox, who had just returned to the United States from West Africa where she had been working with Doctors Without Borders to help patients ...
On Monday, a day after he told Fox News he had “no second thoughts” about his decision to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had just returned from West Africa, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reverse…d course and announced that he was allowing Kaci Hickox to return to her home in Maine. Hickox had recently returned from a trip in Sierra Leone where she had been treating Ebola patients. She was forced to be contained in a tent outside a New Jersey...
A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lied to the FBI during its investigation into the deadly 2013 attack, a jury ruled Tuesday.
JUST IN: The jury has found Robel Phillipos, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, guilty on both counts of lying to investigators. Phillipos has also been found guilty of imp…eding a terrorist investigation by making false statements. http://trib.al/7nrzZe0 With this verdict, Phillipos faces a maximum of 16 years in prison. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 29.
Lava Flow Threatens Pahoa, Hawaii - 26 photos - http://goo.gl/pI0Rwf - On June 27, a new lava flow emerged from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano, flowing to the northeast at a rate varying from 2 meters per hour up to 15 me…ters per hour. In the months since, the "June 27 breakout" lava flow has crossed more than 12 miles and now threatens the small town of Pahoa. The molten rock has already claimed acres of forest, several roads and small farm buildings, and ...
TOKYO - North Korea is embarking on a full-scale campaign to neutralize allegations of human rights atrocities, apparently alarmed that snowballing international pressure will lead its top officials - including Kim Jong Un - to be charged with crimes ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - More than 5,000 additional health care workers are needed to fight Ebola in the three most affected countries in West Africa, the president of the World Bank said Tuesday.
As the World Economic Forum's 2014 Global Gender Gap report reveals how far the world still is from achieving gender parity, I believe that one of the most important places to advocate change is right at the top: boards of directors.
LONDON - A British hostage of the Islamic State has been shown in a video, apparently made in the beleaguered Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border, depicting him as a combat correspondent and forecasting that the town is about to fall to ...
Ukrainian voters have elected pro-European parliamentarians, but that doesn't mean more integration with the West will be automatically achieved. Ukraine successfully conducted elections on Sunday… despite fighting between Russian-backed separatists in its Eastern provinces and a Russian-annexed Crimea. http://ow.ly/DtGFC
Compared with the past two midterms, a smaller share of Americans are following the election closely or are certain to vote, with Republicans holding an edge among the likely electorate - similar to in 2010.
New DSCC Ad Renews Education Attacks on Thom Tillis - Hagan is a North Carolina Democrat. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Photo) The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is up with a new ad Tuesday att…acking Republican Thom Tillis on education. Polls show a tied race between Tillis and Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. Republicans need to gain six seats to take control of the Senate, and the party has targeted the Tar Heel State as one of them. The DSCC’s ad...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer confidence rebounded strongly in October, hitting a seven-year high as solid job gains raised expectations for economic growth.
Forget sales associates, or even personal shoppers. The shopping assistant of the future is a human-sized, multilingual robot, and it will be rolling down the aisles of a California store just in time for the holidays.
Pfizer Inc. Celebrex medication sits in a pharmacy in Princeton, Illinois. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. Pfizer Inc. (PFE:US), the biggest U.S.
APPLE CEO TIM COOK has used the week of Halloween to admit that the real reason for the demise of the iPod 'Classic' was that Apple could no longer get the parts.
This morning the folks at WSJ have released a few key points in their interview series that took place last night with Tim Cook. The CEO of Apple spoke up about the launch of Apple Pay in several rega…rds. He spoke about the Apple Watch. He even spoke…
YouTube is seeking to generate more revenue, so it's working on a big change: a paid-subscription business model. WSJ's Brian Fitzgerald and Simon Constable discuss.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was present at Re/code's Code Mobile conference, where she spoke about the upcoming music streaming service from Google. The new service will offer offline playback and …other functionality in line with competitor platforms, but will handle videos as well.… #android
Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year and as many as one-third of those people will become victims of fraud, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday in a new report ...
With all the Nexuses and Galaxies and Motos and HTC Ones out there, the Droid lineup of phones can get lost in the shuffle. The new Droid Turbo, developed in a partnership between Verizon and Motorola, wants to steal back some of the spotlight with some ...
It was the annual Halloween celebration for Week 7 of "Dancing With the Stars," complete with Len Goodman returning from Europe, stepping out of a coffin during the opening number.
On to the next rumor, please. Kylie Jenner took to Twitter to respond to those that have criticized the size of her lips after she shared several recent photos accentuating her noticeably larger pout.
GRAPEVINE, Texas - On a hat rack just outside the Bluebonnet Room, a dozen white ball caps hung Monday afternoon, each emblazoned with the name of a member of the College Football Playoff selection committee.
Police obtained CCTV footage on Monday from officials at Mile High Stadium in Denver to look for clues into the ongoing investigation of a man who vanished during halftime at the Broncos-Chargers game last Thursday.
Even as the NCAA touts new data Tuesday showing increases in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for college athletes, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he is concerned about the independent report last week that detailed nearly two decades of ...
Jonathan Quick and Tanner Pearson have been a big part of the Kings' hot start. (USATSI) If there's been any Stanley Cup hangover in Los Angeles, the Kings got it out of their system in the first two games.
Ten brands of baby wipes sold at Walgreens, Sam's Club and other stores nationwide are being voluntarily recalled due to possible bacteria contamination, the company announced Monday.
GENEVA Oct 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland's drug regulator said on Tuesday it had approved the testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline on healthy volunteers, some of whom will be travelling to West Africa as medical staff.
