- Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about George Will’s stupidity
- Voice Deity Jim Ward joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at11am ET / 8am PT for Maximum Mookage
- The second American missionary to contract Ebola in West Africa left Liberia early Tuesday en route to the United States, authorities said. Nancy Writebol, 59, from Charlotte, N.C., will be treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
- A man who visited West Africa last month and is at a New York City hospital being tested for possible Ebola likely doesn’t have it, doctors said Monday.
- A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas meant to last at least three days and end nearly a month of fighting went into effect in the Gaza Strip Tuesday. The truce came ahead of talks in Cairo aimed at brokering a deal that would prevent future cross-border violence.
- The government said Monday it will soon close three emergency shelters it established at U.S. military bases to temporarily house children caught crossing the Mexican border alone. It said fewer children were being caught and other shelters will be adequate.
- James Brady, the spokesman for former President Ronald Reagan who was shot during a 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, has died at the age of 73, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence confirmed.
