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Lots of disagreement on possible Ebola travel ban 10/17/2014 07:20pm • The Associated Press There's little agreement on possible travel restrictions on persons coming from African nations afflicted by Ebola:President Barack Obama:"A travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting that involve screening passengers who are coming from We Obama names Ebola 'czar' as precautions expand 10/17/2014 07:04pm • UPDATE - Friday - 10/17/2014, 10:35 a.m. ET President Obama will name former White House staffer Ron Klain as Ebola czar, CBS News reports. EARLIER - Friday - 10/17/2014, 10:17 a.m. ET JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama turned to a trusted adviser to lead Cruz has no doubt he will return from knee injury 10/17/2014 07:00pm • TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz has no doubts that he will recover from a serious injury to his right knee and return to football next season.Speaking to the media for the first time since tearing the patella tendon and undergoing Colts donate $10,000 in honor of Still's daughter 10/17/2014 06:50pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Colts owner Jim Irsay is donating $10,000 to Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center in support of the 4-year-old daughter of Bengals defensive lineman Devon Still.Leah Still was diagnosed with cancer four months ago. Her father told reporters that doctors removed the en Column: Finally, an inspiring story from sports 10/17/2014 06:00pm • PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Jillion Potter thinks about it all the time. The Rio Olympics. The dream of climbing the podium with the rest of the U.S. rugby team to have a medal draped around her neck."There's no doubt in my mind it's still possible," she says toward the end of a phone call Frid Saints' Graham expects to be game-day decision 10/17/2014 05:50pm • BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Saints tight end Jimmy Graham said Friday he expects his playing status in Detroit to be decided by coach Sean Payton on Sunday, shortly before the game.Graham has returned to practice on a limited basis this week despite a shoulder injury that kno UN health agency: Ebola outbreak over in Senegal 10/17/2014 05:18pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency officially declared an end Friday to the Ebola outbreak in Senegal, a rare bit of good news amid the public outcry and fear over the deadly disease that remains out of control in three West African countries.The World Health Organi 1st Dallas nurse with Ebola in fair condition 10/17/2014 03:00pm • JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital has been sitting up and eating and has her iPad after being moved to a specialized isolation unit near Washington, officials said Friday.Dr. Anthony Fauci Ebola fears prompt big responses around globe 10/17/2014 01:58pm • The Associated Press Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluid, such as getting an infected person's blood or vomit into the eyes or through a cut in the skin, not through the air, experts say. And people infected with Ebola aren't contagious until they start showing symptoms, s Medical examiner: Rivers died of low blood oxygen 10/17/2014 12:02pm • COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Rivers died of brain damage from low blood oxygen during a medical procedure to check out voice changes and reflux, the medical examiner's office ruled Thursday.The comedian, who was 81, died Sept. 4 after she'd been hospitalized for about a week w Mother charged in trash bin disposal of newborn 10/17/2014 11:30am • EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An 18-year old woman has been arrested for allegedly disposing of her dead newborn boy in a trash bin in Connecticut.Police arrested Geralyz Sotomayor-Cruz on Thursday on charges of manslaughter, risk of injury to a minor and concealment of a delivery. Police say they fo Attorney denied hearing delay appears with baby 10/17/2014 10:10am • KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- An immigration judge in Atlanta denied an attorney's request to delay a hearing that fell during her six-week maternity leave and then scolded her in front of a packed courtroom when she showed up with her 4-week-old strapped to her chest and the infant AP Photos: Training hospital workers for Ebola 10/17/2014 09:42am • CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- With hospital workers increasingly in the spotlight of concern over the spread of the Ebola virus, a Chicago hospital held a training session Thursday for a team of medical professionals with expertise in intensive care and infection control.Rush Un StoryBots create bedtime story featuring our child 10/17/2014 08:24am • Data Doctors 2 suspected Ebola cases in Spain test negative 10/17/2014 08:23am • MADRID (AP) -- Two of four people suspected of having Ebola and admitted to hospitals in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests, officials said Friday.The government's Ebola monitoring committee said on its official Twitter account that the two were a person who arrived on an Air Franc