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Losing Dad: A teen finds purpose in grief 10/06/2014 05:58pm • MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Genevieve Liu sits back in bed each night, still thinking of her father before she sleeps. He used to sing the same song to his children at bedtime, often before he'd head to surgery to save the life of someone else's child."I'm leaving on a jet plane Journalist with Ebola arrives at Nebraska hospital 10/06/2014 04:30pm • JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia arrived Monday at a Nebraska hospital where he will be treated for the deadly disease.Ashoka Mukpo, 33, will be kept in a specialized containment unit at the Nebraska Medical Cen Experimental drug provided to Dallas Ebola patient 10/06/2014 04:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- A North Carolina drug maker is providing an experimental antiviral drug to a patient being treated for Ebola in Dallas.That word comes from officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.The drug company, Chimerix Inc., said earlier that doctors it did not identify had received p Stocks lower...Obama meets with bank regulators...NC drug maker offers experimental Ebola drug 10/06/2014 03:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are lower in afternoon trading on Wall Street as concerns about the direction of the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy weighed on investors. The Fed is due to release minutes on Wednesday of its policy meeting last month. Oil prices fell again, dragging the energy sector Across 3 continents, Ebola makes its way to US 10/06/2014 02:46pm • SHARON COHEN Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- His week began thousands of miles away with a frantic bid to save a life.It was Monday, Sept. 15, and Ebola, a terrifying disease, was ravaging West Africa, filling morgues and hospitals to capacity. In Monrovia, Liberia, the virus was about to claim one Parents urged journalist with Ebola not to go 10/06/2014 01:50pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The parents of an American video journalist who contracted Ebola in Liberia say they tried to talk him out of going there last month.But 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo couldn't be dissuaded. He was flown to Omaha on Monday to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center.Mukpo's father, Dr A look at the married couples who have won Nobels 10/06/2014 01:22pm • MALIN RISING Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser are not the first husband-and-wife team to win a Nobel Prize together.Three other couples have shared a Nobel award for their successful collaboration in the sciences, while a Swedish couple won one Nobel Pri Mother with womb transplant says risk paid off 10/06/2014 01:16pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- For the world's first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb -- a medical first -- only a victorious name would do.Which is why his parents named him "Vincent," meaning "to conquer," according to his mother.The 36-year-old Swedish mother learned sh Poll: Americans worry _ can government protect us? 10/06/2014 12:56pm • JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans lack confidence in the government's ability to protect their personal safety and economic security, a sign that their widespread unease about the state of the nation extends far beyond politics, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK po A look at cases before the Supreme Court 10/06/2014 12:50pm • The Associated Press A look at some of the noteworthy cases the Supreme Court will hear this term, which begins Monday:--Mistaken traffic stop: A broken brake light led a North Carolina police officer to pull over a car in which cocaine was later found. Turns out, the state requires only one functi Saudi: Hajj free of Ebola amid protective measures 10/06/2014 12:07pm • MOKHTAR SHEHATA Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's acting health minister said Monday that this year's hajj has been free of Ebola and other contagious diseases because of measures taken by the kingdom to protect more than 2 million pilgrims who took part in the annual Islami Police investigate death of Leesburg baby 10/06/2014 11:26am • WASHINGTON -- Leesburg police are investigating the death of a 10-month-old girl after doctors found what they considered to be suspicious injuries. The baby girl was initially taken to a Loudoun County hospital Friday but was transferred to Children's National Medical Center in D.C. for treatment BB King cancels shows after falling ill in Chicago 10/06/2014 10:50am • CHICAGO (AP) -- Blues guitarist B.B. King has canceled the remaining eight performances of his current tour after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion.King's official website says he fell ill Friday evening during a performance at the House of Blues in Chicago and was evaluated by a docto Ebola victims in Liberia get ‘Gloves for Love' from Reston 10/06/2014 10:45am • Heather Robertson’s obstetrician couldn’t find a single pair of medical gloves in the capital of Liberia. An international development professional and Reston resident, Robertson worked in Monrovia for more than three years and received prenatal care from Dr. Rick Sacra, the Mass Ebola in US: People scared, but outbreak unlikely 10/06/2014 09:58am • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ebola has arrived in the United States and people are frightened.The nation's top infectious diseases expert said it's perfectly normal to feel anxious about a disease that kills so fast and is ravaging parts of West Africa."People who are scared, I sa