Biden Apologizes for Latest Gaffe, Supreme Court Turns Away Gay Marriage Appeals, Voters Poised to Send Obama a Bronx Cheer: P.M. Links

Joe Biden
apologized to the United Arab Emirates and Turkey for saying
they were the “biggest problem” in dealing with ISIS. His
political standing would probably take a hit from the latest
gaffe if everybody didn’t already know he’s an idiot.
With the Supreme Court
declining to hear appeals of rulings on gay marriage, the
expanded institution becomes settled law in several states—and a
matter of continuing legal uncertainty in others.
Americans are lining up to
send a Bronx cheer toward the White House at the polls,
according to Gallup. The numbers suggest a repeat of the 2006
midterm elections, but with the parties reversed.
The White House’s war on leakers is based in President Obama’s
hatred of the press,
says James Risen, a New York Times reporter who
potentially faces jail time for refusing to reveal sources.
A Chicago man was
busted by the feds after telling his parents he planned to go
to Syria to join ISIS. Couldn’t just get a tattoo, eh, buddy?
A nurse treating an Ebola patient in Madrid contracted the
disease, in the first known case of transmission outside
Africa.
And if Ebola doesn’t do it for you, enterovirus D68 has people
worried after it
killed a preschooler in New Jersey and was linked to
respiratory ailments and paralysis in others.