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A reporter in Syria found some revealing documents used by the al-Qaeda faction.


Ebola isn’t going to kill you, or even spread widely in the United States.


The United States is the seventh country with a Ebola patient diagnosed this year, and the only country outside of Africa with a confirmed case.


You can watch the CDC’s press conference announcing the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States here.


The best methods we have to contain Ebola are failing, recruiting health-care personnel to work in West Africa is proving difficult, and the health community is worried about the outbreak spiraling further.




Florida has weird crime and a lot of criminology majors. California has Hollywood and film majors.


Matt Yglesias explains in 45 seconds


With Windows 10, Microsoft is still trying to create an OS that works well for both PCs and tablets. That strategy is unlikely to work.


It’s a binge that will go quickly enough to increase your conversational speed to Gilmore levels, but not so quickly as to push the rate past that which is comprehensible by the human ear.


It’s been bad out there for everyone, but workers under 30 have seen the biggest drops in income.


A broken global-health innovation system is at the root of this and future outbreaks.


Everything you need to know about a big data dump that happened today that will shed light on your doctors’ conflicts of interest.


Some incredible before/after pictures from NASA’s Earth Observatory.


In many states, time’s running out.