Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning: 

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defends the mandatory quarantine of Kaci Hickox, a nurse suspected of having been infected with Ebola.  

• The second Dallas-area nurse infected with Ebola is now free of the virus. 

• Authorities in Mexico arrest four people suspected of abducting and likely killing 43 students–but not the local mayor who allegedly ordered the hit. 

• Fuel prices–along with pretty much everything else–are skyrocketing in Syria.

• Meanwhile, British war photographer and IS hostage John Cantlie is now the apparent new face of a new IS propaganda video. 

• Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano threatens to destroy homes as smoke starts to take its toll on local residents. 

• Alibaba founder, and one of China’s richest men, Jack Ma says he doesn’t actually shop online. 

• Are you ready to pay to subscribe to YouTube? 

• The rate of babies born with symptoms on the spectrum of fetal alcohol symptom disorder in the U.S. is much higher than expected, at up to nearly 5 percent of all births. 

• Global warming also makes it colder and snowier in the winter.