This is AP News Minute. 8 suspected Cuban migrants were rescued in the waters off Miami. U.S. coastguard cereived reports of an overturned raft in the Biscayne Bay Monday morning. 3 people were rescued by a boater as officials search for 5 more still...
1. The 2nd student is dead following Fridays deadly school shooting in north of Seattle. Officials say 14-year-old Gio Soriano died from her injuries. Three other students remain hospitalized. Two of them are in critical condition. 2. The governors o...
1. New Jersey governor Chris Christie defending his decision to mandate a 21-day quarantine for all health-care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa. Christie appeared on Fox News Sunday as a nurse currently being quarantined in Newark sp...
1. Canadas Prime Minister says Wednesdays shooting inside Parliament and the fatal shooting of a soldier at a war memorial nearby are an act of terrorism. The gunman, 32-year-old Michael Zehaf Bibeau was shot and killed inside parliament by a sergean...
1. Officials in Canada (are) mourning the death of a solider killed Wednesday in the shooting rampage in Ottawa, in and around the country's parliament building. Members of parliament honored the country's sergeant-at-arms credited with fatally shoot...
Tensions remain high around the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa. A Canadian soldier guarding a nearby war memorial was murdered. Then gunfire erupted inside the parliament building. Police report one gunman is dead. The security at government...
1. Video from Islamic State extremists in Syria appears to show fighters seizing at least one cache of US airdropped weapons. Kurdish militiamen were supposed to receive the weapons, including hand grenades, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade la...
The White House confirmed that Jeffery Fowle, one of 3 Americans being held in North Korea has been released and is heading home. U.S. officials say Sweden had helped facilitate his release from Pyongyang. Oscar Pistorius has begun serving a 5-year s...
1. Officials say 43 of 48 people on an original Ebola watch list in Texas have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the virus, and are now in the clear. 2. In a significant shift, Turkeys Foreign Minister announced Monday that they will he...
1. Authorities in Dallas have lifted a quarantine on friends and family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died of Ebola. A quarantine also ended for about a dozen healthcare workers. They went 21 days with no signs of fever meaning they dont have th...
1. Catholic bishops have scrapped their landmark welcomes to gays, showing deep visions at end of the two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families. 2. Health officials in Ohio are monit...
1. The US government is ramping up its response to Ebola crisis after a second Dallas nurse contracted the disease. Ember Vinson was recently cleared by the CDC to take a commercial flight something the CDC now says should not have happened. Shes bee...
A second health care worker in Dallas has diagnosed with Ebola. CDC officials say the nurse will be flown to Atlanta for treatment. She was part of a hospital team in Texas that cared for a Liberian man who died from Ebola last week. Prosecutors call...
1. The Texas nurse infected with Ebola says in a statement that she is doing well. Nina Pham is being treated for Ebola that she contracted while caring for a Liberian man at a Dallas hospital who died from the disease. 2. North Korean state media br...
The Texas health department says a second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital has tested positive for the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a national nurses' union said nurses who were treating an Ebola patient at the hospital worked for...
