For now, the world has to rely on a small, Georgia-based flight company for Ebola evacuations. The air ambulance operation tasked with rescuing U.S. Ebola victims from West Africa was initially slowed by bureaucratic bungling and is now at risk of being overburdened as thousands of American troops

In their responses to the crisis, Christie once again plays yang to the president's yin Somehow, Chris Christie has again managed to make himself the most talked-about Republican in the country on the eve of an election in which he isn't on the ballot. He did it, you'll recall, in the fall of 2012,

The State Department discussed plans to transport non-U.S.citizens infected with Ebola to the United States for medical treatment, but decided to shelve the proposal and insists it was never considered at senior levels. But Congressional Republicans are seizing on an internal State Department memo

US President Barack Obama gives a hug to Dallas nurse Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 October 2014. Nina Pham was released on 24 October from the hospital after being declared Ebola free, Nina was the first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United

Witnesses are sworn in before testifying at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to ''examine the federal government's response to the Ebola virus in the U.S. and the effectiveness of interagency coordination to contain the disease'' on Capitol Hill October 24, 2014.