Friday, October 17, 2014

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Ebola patient Amber Vinson arrives by ambulance at Emory University Hospital on October 15, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Nurse Amber Vinson joins Nina Pham as health workers who have contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Heath Presbyterian Hospital while treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died. - (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Friday News Roundup - Domestic

10 a.m. (ET)

The CDC director faces questions on Capitol Hill about U.S. Ebola preparedness. Courts weigh in on voter ID laws in two states. And a volatile week for the stock market. A panel of journalists joins guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

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Kurdish women, one carrying a child, walk past farm land along the border area, close to the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, in the Turkish Sanliurfa province, opposite the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, where heavy fighting between Islamic State (IS) militants and Kurdish fighters is taking place, on October 16, 2014. Turkey's ruling party said it was optimistic about the prospects for the peace process with Kurdish rebels after a spate of violence raised concern about its viability. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS - (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Friday News Roundup - International

11 a.m. (ET)

The U.N. says the world is failing to contain Ebola in West Africa, stepped-up coalition airstrikes in the battle against ISIS on a Syrian border town and new concerns about sagging global economic growth: Please join us to discuss the week's top international news stories.

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