A.M. Links: Additional Ebola Screenings for Flights From West Africa, NATO Has ISIS Plan, Mexican Army Takes Over Town After Mass Grave Found

  • Mexican troops in IgualaThe U.S. is not prepared to ban
    flights from West Africa over
    Ebola
    but will institute additional passenger screening in the
    U.S. and West Africa.
  • Sen.
    Bob Casey
    (D-Pa.) is the latest senator calling for a debate
    and a vote on authorizing the use of military force against ISIS,
    the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. As ISIS tries to seize a
    Syrian town near the Turkish border, Turkey’s foreign minister says

    NATO
    has a plan should ISIS attack the country.
  • Democrats in the
    House of Representatives
    say they’ve been abandoned by labor
    and environmental groups ahead of the midterm elections.
  • The Republican governor of Pennsylvania,
    Tom Corbett
    , who looks headed for defeat in November, wants a
    bill passed that would criminalize behavior by convicts found to
    cause their victims continued “mental anguish.” The bill was
    introduced after Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted of killing a
    Philadelphia cop in 1981, gave a commencement address at a college
    in Vermont.
  • The
    State Department
    says it’s concerned by border skirmishes
    between Pakistan and India.
  • The Mexican army has taken over security in
    Iguala
    after 43 students disappeared and a mass grave was
    found.

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