Nation: Police early this morning arrested a 22-year-old suspect in the shooting yesterday of four students at a Portland, Ore. high school for troubled kids. They had stopped his car at 1:30 in the morning and found that he had …

Ebola: The surgeon who caught the Ebola virus treating patients in Sierra Leone has died, according to doctors at Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Martin Salia, 44, arrived Saturday in critical condition. Salia was a permanent U.S. resident, who caught Ebola …

Nation: President Obama is getting ready to bypass Congress as early as next week and order an overhaul of the immigration system that will protect five million illegal immigrants from deportation. One big feature will be to allow non-citizen parents …

The China Play: The Obama administration today announced it reached a deal with China to eliminate tariffs on information and technology products ranging from video-game consoles and computer software to medical equipment and semiconductors. It could be the single best …

The Dating Scene: President Obama and Republican leaders appeared in the rubble of the Democratic majority and promised to try to work together … with some cautions. Senate Majority leader-to-be Mitch McConnell, who once said “The single most important thing …

The Ebola virus is the best thing to happen to American politicians in years. Ebola has done what neither war, climate change, nor economic meltdown have accomplished. It has united our politicians in action because Ebola is bad. Ebola threatens …

Spaceship Down: Hopes for space tourism within the next year were dashed yesterday with the crash into the Mojave Desert of SpaceShipTwo, a craft designed to take high-paying customers into sub-orbital space. One pilot was killed and the other seriously …

Nation: After a seven-week manhunt, survivalist Eric Frein was captured yesterday to face charges of murdering a Pennsylvania state trooper. Prosecutors say they will press for the death penalty. Frein, 31, was believed to have been living in the woods …

Dynasty: Pitching ace Madison Bumgarner, who pitched nine innings only three days before, came in as a reliever last night and threw five scoreless innings for San Francisco, winning the Giants’ third World Series championship in five years. San Francisco …

Easing Off: The Federal Reserve today is expected to announce the end of “quantitative easing,” the purchasing of bonds that stimulated the economy all through the Great Recession. The Fed has bought $3.5 trillion worth of securities in the last …