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A Spanish nurse who treated a

missionary from Sierra Leone for
Ebola at a Madrid hospital last
month has tested positive for the
virus in the first reported incident
of transmission of the deadly
disease outside Africa, Spain's
health minister said Monday.


In the first known case of Ebola
transmission outside of Africa, a
nurse in Spain has contracted the
deadly virus after caring for a sick
priest who had been flown back
from West Africa for treatment,
Spanish health minister Ana Mato
said at a news conference
Monday.
A Spanish nurse who helped care
for two priests infected with
Ebola has tested positive for the
virus, the first person known to
have contracted Ebola outside
West Africa in the current
epidemic.
Spanish health officials on
Monday said that a Spanish nurse
who treated a priest repatriated
to Madrid with Ebola last month,
and who died of the disease, had
also been infected.


Ferguson Police Chief Tom
Jackson apologized to the family
of Michael Brown, an unarmed
teenager who was killed by a
Ferguson police officer, triggering
an angry response from the
public.


Thomas Jackson, the police chief
of Ferguson, Mo., apologized
Thursday to the parents of
Michael Brown more than six
weeks after the black teenager
was killed by a white police officer
in a shooting that ignited protests
and sometimes violent clashes
with authorities in the small St.
Louis suburb.
Nearly seven weeks after the
shooting death of unarmed black
18-year-old Michael Brown by a
white officer in Ferguson, Mo.,
the citys police chief issued an
apology to Browns family
Thursday, saying he was deeply
sorry for their loss.
FERGUSON, Mo. Police Chief Thomas
Jackson apologized to the family of
Michael Brown and to protesters in a
video released Thursday.

The Supreme Court refused to get
involved in the national debate
over same-sex marriage Monday,
bringing the number of states
where gays and lesbians can
marry to 30.




WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court unexpectedly cleared the
way Monday for a dramatic
expansion of gay marriage in the
United States and may have
signaled that its only a matter of
time before same-sex couples can
marry in all 50 states.
Just 12 years ago, it was illegal for gays
and lesbians to marry anywhere in the
U.S.

But onday, the drive to legalize same-
sex marriage which began some two
decades ago as a seemingly far-fetched
quest neared final victory as the
Supreme Court cleared the way for
gays and lesbians to marry in 11
additional states, bringing the total to
30 plus the District of Columbia.
Since the Supreme Court struck
down the worst parts of the
Defense of Marriage Act in United
States v. Windsor last year, lower
courts have been using the logic
of the ruling to sweep away state
bans on same-sex marriage. On
Monday, the Supreme Court
declined to second-guess the
appeals courts that have
pronounced so far, allowing their
pro-marriage rulings to be
implemented across every state
those courts cover. The justices'
non-intervention is a win for
fairness.


Of the three issues i have covered, I decided to chose an international issue, an issue dealing with the supreme court, and a national issue that
has some impact on our culture. On the issue of Ebola, all of the newspapers i chose had a neutral response. This is most likely because the Ebola
virus is not anywhere close to the areas that any of the newspapers cover and Ebola does not affect any of their readers personally. When it
comes to the issue of Ferguson, newspapers who have a lot of racial tension (Baltimore, Des Moines) have taken a more neutral lead to the story
of the police chief apologizing to the victim's family. There aim in doing this is to try and not create any more racial tension in their respective
areas. The major newspapers ( LA Times, The Washington Post) have taken a critical take on the situation by pointing out the time that has
passed from the incident to the apology. The third issue is a national controversy with multiple areas having separate opinions. With Gay
marriage, more rural areas have been opposed to it, while more urban areas have been leading the charge for gay marriage. Des Moines kept a
neutral lead, not trying to upset it's readers, while the more urban newspapers all wrote about how this marks the beginning of the end for
states without gay marriage. Big market newspapers tend to take more of a liberal route with their leads while smaller newspapers tend to make
their leads more critical or neutral depending on the opinions of their readers.