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Obama switches gears, confronting Ebola head on 10/20/2014 05:10am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama delayed acting on immigration and an attorney general nomination this fall to dodge the politics of the midterm campaign season. But there was one topic he could not push aside -- Ebola.The past week's jarring Ebola developments Cyanide homicide trial likely battle of experts 10/19/2014 07:46pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Nobody had any reason to question why a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher bought more than a half-pound of cyanide with his school-issued credit card, until his neurologist wife suddenly fell ill and died a few days later.Now Dr. Robert Ferran Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa 10/19/2014 01:14pm • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged Lawyer: Baby found dead in home had lived for days 10/17/2014 03:49pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts woman facing charges after the skeletal remains of three babies were found in her squalid home had the babies starting about eight years ago, including one infant she said was born alive and lived for several days, her lawyer said Japan PM sends offerings to war shrine 10/17/2014 03:37pm • MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent religious offerings Friday to a Tokyo shrine honoring the war dead including convicted wartime leaders, as dozens of lawmakers prayed at the site in a ceremony that drew a rebuke from China.The Yasukuni Shrine honor Ex-clinic owner pleads guilty in MLB drug case 10/17/2014 05:30am • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- The former owner of a South Florida anti-aging clinic pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of illegally providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes including high-profile Major League Baseball players, most notably New York Yankees star Alex Ro Study Abroad as an Online Student 10/17/2014 12:00am • As an online student at Drexel University, Kevin Hannon knew traveling abroad was expensive and didn't consider the option a realistic goal. "I didn't think it would be possible," says Hannon, who graduated with a bachelor's of nursing degree from the school in 2013. "I was always jealous of stude McCain appears with Tillis in eastern NC 10/16/2014 05:30pm • GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The U.S. Senate needs Thom Tillis because of leadership skills he exhibited as North Carolina House speaker, John McCain said Thursday while later criticizing colleague Kay Hagan for missing key Armed Service Committee meetings as national s Psychic pleads guilty in duping of timber heir 10/15/2014 09:30pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A psychic has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax charges after authorities said she duped the heir to an Oregon timber fortune of millions of dollars and used some of it to travel with her boyfriend and buy expensive cars.Rachel Lee, 43, entere Putin to focus on Ukraine during trip to Milan 10/15/2014 03:20pm • VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) -- Trying to maneuver out of the worst Russia-West crisis since the Cold War, President Vladimir Putin is unleashing a diplomatic blitz involving a series of meetings with Western leaders during his visit to Italy.Putin's two-day trip to a Europe-Asia Prosecutors say dead babies were found clothed 10/15/2014 02:26am • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer UXBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- They were hidden away in closets just a few feet from where their siblings slept: the skeletal remains of three infants found in a squalid, vermin-infested house.On Tuesday, a judge ordered a Massachusetts woman held on $1 million cash ba Lawsuit: Pastor knew he had AIDS, had affairs 10/14/2014 09:30pm • PHILLIP RAWLS Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- After listening to his sermons for 24 years, parishioners of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church probably thought they knew the Rev. Juan D. McFarland.But from the very pulpit where he preached about God's love and service to the community, Poll: Many insured struggle with medical bills 10/14/2014 05:36pm • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- They have health insurance, but still no peace of mind. Overall, 1 in 4 privately insured adults say they doubt they could pay for a major unexpected illness or injury.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Rese Dealing With Parkinson's Disease-Related Depression 10/14/2014 12:00am • Depression in Parkinson's disease patients is a little like the riddle about the chicken and the egg: Which came first -- the nervous system disorder characterized by impaired movement and slurred speech, or the depression that is both an early symptom of the disease as well as a consequence of it? New Mexico VA leaders got bonuses amid complaints 10/13/2014 03:40pm • SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Five top administrators in the Veterans Affairs' health care system in New Mexico received more than $24,000 in bonuses in 2013 despite complaints from veterans about lapses and delays in care.Documents obtained by The Associated Press t