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» U.S. pledges $212 million in Gaza aid

The money would help rebuild Gaza Strip infrastructure devastated by recent fighting between Hamas and Israel.

» Susan Rice says Iraq must take lead to defeat Islamic State

Rice brushed back criticisms that the Obama administration’s strategy to repel the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, including airstrikes and arming and training Syrian rebels, isn’t enough, saying progress is “not going to happen overnight.

» Michael Barone: Will independent candidates’ support dissipate in Kansas and South Dakota?

In September, Gallup reported, 58 percent of Americans said that a third political party was needed. So maybe it’s not surprising that, when presented with a well-known independent candidate, many voters consider voting for him.

» Unknown ‘breach’ led to latest case of Ebola in Texas

A female worker in Dallas had “extensive contact” on multiple occasions with Thomas Eric Duncan, an Ebola victim who was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a Sunday news conference.

» John McCain says Islamic State is winning

The senator said the United States is losing its battle against the group and must expand its campaign, but stopped short for calling for U.S. ground troops to become directly involved.

» Editorial: An outrageous agency that Congress should abolish now

If you have never heard of FMCS, that is because it does very little with its $50 million annual budget. Its ostensible purpose is to provide voluntary arbitration services in labor disputes, but clearly it doesn’t even do much of that.

» Hugh Hewitt: Obama’s political interests are getting in the way of protecting Kobani from the Islamic State

Why do we not do what is necessary to stop the massacre in Kobani but did so in Benghazi?

» Watchdog: Extendicare reaches record settlement for providing ‘worthless’ nursing services

Between 2007 and 2013, Extendicare performed unnecessary services in 33 facilities, “particularly during the patients’ assessment reference periods, so that it could bill Medicare for those patients at the highest per diem rate possible,” prosecutors said.

» Washington voters to weigh in on state pot taxes

Legalizing marijuana so that it could be taxed and become a source of government revenue was a common argument used by pot activists before the movement gathered serious momentum.

» How to save, and sell, a climate deal

Mitigating the confusion and chaos that has permeated the climate deal talks will be critical when nations head to Paris next year in the latest round of negotiations, said Yvo de Boer, the Dutch diplomat who led the failed Copenhagen negotiations.