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US adds extra level of airport screening for Ebola 10/10/2014 05:20pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama calls it a "belt and suspenders" approach -- an extra level of screening at five major U.S. airports to try to catch any travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries who may be carrying the disease.About 150 travelers a day will Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment: 10/10/2014 04:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) --US-TERRORISM-WARNINGNEW: US renews global terrorism warningWASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the Islamic State group and its supporters.In a new "w UN envoy: Ebola cases doubling every 3-4 weeks 10/10/2014 03:10pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The number of Ebola cases is probably doubling every three-to-four weeks and without a mass global mobilization "the world will have to live with the Ebola virus forever," the U.N. special envoy on the disease said Friday.David Nabarro told th US man's Ebola joke quickly ends Dominican trip 10/10/2014 02:10pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An apparent joke about having Ebola quickly ended a U.S. man's trip to the Dominican Republic, officials in the Caribbean country said Friday.The man, whose name was not released, was taken off a US Airways flight from Philadelphia by officials and checked f WHO: East Asia faces Ebola risk, but more prepared 10/10/2014 11:30am • TERESA CEROJANO Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- With its bustling trade, travel hubs and armies of migrant workers, East Asia faces the risk of exposure to Ebola but is improving its defenses and may be more ready than other regions to respond if cases are diagnosed, World Health Organi Colorado Senate rivals clash in raucous debate 10/10/2014 09:12am • NICHOLAS RICCARDI PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo) and his Republican challenger, Rep. Cory Gardner, clashed in the most raucous debate yet of their neck-and-neck race Thursday night, arguing over which of them was too extreme to represent the state and angling for the slightest advan Lawmakers approve $700 million to fight Ebola 10/10/2014 07:00am • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairmen of House panels that oversee the Pentagon signed off Thursday on an additional $700 million to pay for the military mission to help fight Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak.Thursday's action by Armed Services Committee Chairman Ho Liberia children orphaned, ostracized by Ebola 10/10/2014 04:06am • KRISTA LARSON Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- First 16-year-old Promise Cooper's mother complained of a hurting head and raging fever, and she died days later on the way to the hospital.The following month, her father developed the same headache and fever. Her baby brother grew listless a UN chief: 20 times more Ebola aid needed 10/10/2014 12:16am • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidents of three Ebola-stricken West African nations made urgent pleas for money, doctors and hospital beds Thursday and representatives of nations gathered for financial meetings promised more help."Our people are dying," said President Ernest Hagel to discuss Ebola with South America leaders 10/09/2014 11:50pm • LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says that he will discuss the growing threat from the Ebola virus with Central and South American leaders when they meet in the coming days.Hagel's comments Thursday came amid concerns expressed by the top Training changes as US troops head to West Africa 10/09/2014 07:09pm • WILL WEISSERT Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Forgoing combat rifles and body armor, U.S. troops preparing to fight Ebola in Liberia were instead stepping gingerly Thursday into white germ-proof suits and pulling on thick, blue rubber gloves and gas masks.About 500 soldiers were doing thre Ebola patient's death renews questions about care 10/09/2014 06:16pm • NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The death of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States renewed questions about his medical care and whether Thomas Eric Duncan's life could have been extended or saved if the Texas hospital where he first sought help had taken him in soone Ebola training focuses on astronaut-like gear 10/09/2014 06:16pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- The serious-faced physicians practice pulling on bulky white suits and helmets that make them look more like astronauts than doctors preparing to fight a deadly enemy. These training sessions at U.S. hospitals on Ebola alert and for health workers hea World's finance officials pledge more Ebola help 10/09/2014 12:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nations gathered at a World Bank meeting in Washington are promising to send more aid quickly to African countries battling Ebola.They're also promising medical evacuations for health care responders who catch the virus.The pledges follow impassioned pleas for help from the presid Arizona storms bring mosquito infestation 10/09/2014 11:56am • TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's barrage of rain storms in recent months has created an unlikely pest infestation for the desert region: mosquitoes.The storms -- including one that began Wednesday -- have established a breeding ground for mosquitoes that some longtime Phoenix re