Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning:
- Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
- A nurse who treated Thomas Eric Duncan tests positive for Ebola. Oh, and we might have an Ebola vaccine had it not been for budget cuts.
- Evo Morales wins his third term in office as president of Bolivia.
- In Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators clash with protestors opposed to them.
- A high school in Sayerville, New Jersey, cancels football season after allegations that seven players sexually assaulted four of their teammates.
- The Nobel Prize for economics goes to Jean Tirole, probably best known for his work on the ways in which regulators can tame privatized industries.
- Are you ready for Google Doctor?
- Did you watch "The Walking Dead" last night? Here’s a good recap.
- Misty Upham, last seen on the Muckelshoot reservation, has been missing for more than a week.
- Quagga mussels, an invasive species that helps other invasive species, well, invade habitats, may wreak havoc on Britain’s ecology.