Permawar: US aircraft yesterday dropped small arms, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters squared off against Islamic State militants in and around the Syrian border town of Kobane. American aircraft have been pounding ISIS militants, but this is the first time the US has given direct military assistance to the Kurds. ISIS has amassed so many fighters and so much equipment, including tanks, in the area of Kobane, that they have presented themselves as a huge target.

World: Sweden’s navy is engaged in an intensive hunt for a Russian submarine believed to be in Swedish waters. The vessel is suspected to be a mini-submarine that could carry a team of special forces. The search began after Sweden intercepted a Russian-language distress call believed to have come from a submarine. Relations between Russia and its neighbors have been strained since the Russian takeover of Crimea. Two Russian fighter jets flew into Swedish airspace last month.

Outbreak: In Dallas, the 21-day quarantine for about 100 people at risk of Ebola has passed.

The chief executive of the company that owns the Texas hospital that bungled the first Ebola case in the US apologized in full-page newspaper ads. The first patient died and two nurses caught the virus.

In an effort to recover his company’s reputation, Barclay Berdan said in the ad that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital “made mistakes in handling this very difficult challenge.” When Liberian citizen Thomas Duncan first showed up at the emergency room he was sent home. “On that visit to the Emergency Department, we did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. For this we are deeply sorry,” Berden said.

Gridiron: Denver quarterback Peyton Manning broke the NFL record for career touchdown passes last night, throwing for his 509^th TD against San Francisco. Green Bay’s retired QB Brett Favre previously held the record. Manning threw one more in the 42-17 win for Denver, making it 510. The 38-year-old QB had spinal fusion surgery three years ago and a lot of people thought that would end his career.

Yellow Light, Redlight: In a city in which the city council has sometimes had a quorum in jail, the Chicago Tribune conducted an investigation into the city’s traffic lights. In particular, how long the yellow lights last. The federal standard is three seconds, but the Tribune found that the city trimmed it to 2.9 seconds. The result was an addition 77,000 tickets spewed out by red light cameras, netting the city nearly $8 million. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has reversed the policy and apologized but has yet to refund the money. As they say in Chicago, “Where’s mine?”

Ebolysteria: A passenger on a Carnival Cruise ship who spent a week in the Ebola quarantine brig has been found not to have the disease. The woman works at Texas health Presbyterian. She and her husband never had a fever, or showed signs of illness, but when rumors threatened to sink the ship, the couple agreed to stay in their room. Belize declined to let the couple go through its airport to fly home and Mexico refused to let any of the passengers get off for a tour of Cozumel. But you know, you just can’t be too safe with this Ebola thing.

> Syracuse University’s journalism school disinvited a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer from coming to the school to speak about covering Ebola in Africa because he had been covering Ebola in Africa. Although the photographer has already cleared the 21-day danger period, the dean said, “at least one student was already worried.”

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