Texass: The Supreme Court this morning reversed a lower court and decided to let Texas go ahead and apply its strict voter ID law in the November election. Voters will be required to show government-issued photo identification.

The court gave no written opinion, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in a dissent that the law is “one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.” Voter ID laws have proved to reduce voting among the poor and minorities. This is not the final word. The Texas case will likely make its way back to the Supreme Court for a full up or down vote.

Outbreak: President Obama named his Ebola “Czar” yesterday to handle the US response to the disease; Ron Klain is a Washington guy who has been Chief of Staff for vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden. The NY Times describes him as “a seasoned Democratic crisis-response operative.” He has no medical or public health background.

The NY Times reports that while being calm and reassuring in public, Obama is privately seething over his government’s apparent fumbling of the Ebola situation.

What Goes Down: The Dow Jones bounced back by 263 points yesterday. What seemed dire straits on Wednesday was an opportunity on Friday. Some traders say they expect a bumpy ride to continue.

Gunbeat: Michael Dunn, the Florida man convicted of murder after firing his gun into a car and killing a teenager in 2012, has been sentenced to life in prison. Dunn said, “I was in fear for my life, and I did what I felt I had to do. Still, I am mortified I took a life, whether it was justified or not.” The incident began in a dispute over loud music in a Jacksonville parking lot and Dunn said he fired his gun because he saw 17-year-old Jordan Davis holding a shotgun. No shotgun was ever found.

Heavy Weather: Hurricane Gonzalo made landfall in Bermuda last night, cutting power to nearly everyone in the British territory. The Category 3 storm brought winds of 115 mph and a storm surge of 10 feet.

The Obit Page: Tim Hauser, the singer who founded the long popular vocal group Manhattan Transfer, died of cardiac arrest at age 72. Hauser was working as a cab driver in 1972 when Transfer hit it with a four-part harmony that mixed styles of gospel, blues, doo-wop, and jazz. The group has had the same four performers since 1972.

Top Secret: A secret US military spacecraft craft that spent 674 days in orbit landed yesterday at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. The X-37Bspacecraft, which looks like a smaller version of the retired Space Shuttle, performed “risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies,” according to the Pentagon. In other words, they aren’t telling what the hell it was doing up there.

Ebolhysteria: Pentagon police officers yesterday closed down traffic around one of the building’s parking lots after a woman threw up and said she had recently been to Africa. The woman had been aboard a shuttle bus going to a Marine change of command ceremony and the other passengers were later put in quarantine. The woman, who works for a Pentagon subcontractor called Total Spectrum, was later found not to have Ebola. Her boss said, “The only thing she’s guilty of is throwing up.”

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