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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Doctors Without Borders is warning that the world is "losing the battle" to contain the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The group's president says her organization is completely overwhelmed as it treats Ebola patients in four West African countries and is calling on countries with biological disaster response capacity to respond with civilian and military medical personnel.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron is welcoming the decision by prosecutors to withdraw an arrest warrant for a couple who took their 5-year-old son out of the country in hopes of getting a new type of radiation therapy for his brain tumor. The warrant led to the couple's arrest in Spain. Cameron says it's important that the boy "gets treatment and the love of his family.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police reports indicate a 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed a shooting range instructor with an Uzi in Arizona last week said the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder. The girl made the comments after the shooting. Her family did not realize that the instructor had been hit until one of his colleagues ran over. Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the 32 teens who slipped under a fence and out of a Nashville youth detention center last night could face escape charges. Nine of the teens remain on the run. The Tennessee Department of Children's Services says the teens overwhelmed staff members at the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center and kicked out a metal panel under a window to get out of the building, before lifting a weak portion of the chain-link fence. Some of the 23 who have been recaptured were turned in by their parents.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal jury has begun deliberating the public corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen. The McDonnells are charged with doing special favors for the former CEO of dietary supplements maker in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans. During the five-week trial, Bob McDonnell testified he did nothing more than extend routine political courtesies to Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams. Maureen McDonnell did not testify.
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