A.M. Links: Senate Seeks to Limit NSA Spying, Boehner Refuses to Impeach Obama, Ebola Outbreak Worsens

• The U.S. Senate is seeking to place major limits on
  NSA surveillance.

• House Speaker John Boehner has
  flatly refused to bring impeachment charges against President
  Barack Obama. “We have no plans to impeach the president. We have
  no future plans,” Boehner declared.

• The U.S. has struck a $700 million dollar deal to sell
  5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq.

• A hospital in Germany has agreed to accept an
  Ebola patient from West Africa after receiving a special
  request to do so from the World Health Organization. To date, the
  current Ebola outbreak has killed more than 670 people.

• “Israel killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school
  in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp on Wednesday, a
  U.N. official said, as Egyptian mediators prepared a revised
  proposal to try to halt more than three weeks of fighting.”

• The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has
  ruled that the McDonald’s Corporation may be held
  jointly liable in labor complaints made against its franchise
  operators. “This decision will have huge implications,” labor
  lawyer Paul Millus
  told The Wall Street Journal. “It could make it
  possible for franchise workers to overcome the obstacle that the
  bargaining unit is limited to workers in single stores, making it
  much easier to unionize.”

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