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RENAUT / ASSOCIATED PRESS A car burns Thursday outside the Burkina Faso
parliament as people protest their then-president. Travel Deals.
Restrictions relaxed for Ebola nurse
THEO RENAUT / ASSOCIATED PRESS A car burns Thursday outside the
Burkina Faso parliament as people protest their then-president.
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A JUDGE WHO
temporarily agreed to quarantine Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who had
treated Ebola patients, ruled yesterday that she did not have to have
her movements restricted.
The state of Maine had won a small, brief victory in its quest to
quarantine Hickox, as Judge Cearles LaVerdiere on Thursday ordered her
to limit her movements and keep a certain distance from members of the
public. This order was to stand until the court issued any additional
guidance, which LaVerdiere did yesterday.
LaVerdiere said that Hickox should continue daily monitoring and coordinate any travel with public-health officials, but said that her movements did not have to be completely restricted.
Limiting her movements to the degree requested by the state is not necessary because Hickox has no symptoms of Ebola, LaVerdiere wrote. He ordered her to alert public-health authorities if any symptoms emerge. Maine Gov. Paul LePage begrudgingly accepted the order yesterday.
Hickox has become the central figure in the debate over how the
government will deal with health-care workers who return from the
Ebola-ravaged part of West Africa. Before being allowed to return to
Maine, she had been under quarantine in New Jersey, which she criticized
during a back-and-forth with Gov. Chris Christie.
LaVerdiere said that Hickox should continue daily monitoring and coordinate any travel with public-health officials, but said that her movements did not have to be completely restricted.
Limiting her movements to the degree requested by the state is not necessary because Hickox has no symptoms of Ebola, LaVerdiere wrote. He ordered her to alert public-health authorities if any symptoms emerge. Maine Gov. Paul LePage begrudgingly accepted the order yesterday.
Prez of Burkina Faso ousted after 27 years
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The president of Burkina Faso stepped down yesterday after protesters stormed parliament and set the building ablaze, ending the 27-year reign of one of Africa's longest-serving rulers.Confusion reigned late yesterday over who was in charge: Gen. Honore Traore quickly announced he was stepping into the vacuum left by departing President Blaise Compaore, but then Col. Yacouba Zida later appeared to be vying for power, announcing borders had been closed and a transitional committee established.
The quick succession of events took many by surprise, since Compaore had long out-maneuvered his adversaries and has in recent years become an important regional mediator. Burkina Faso hosts French special forces is an important ally of both France and the United States in the fight against Islamic militants in West Africa.
Commercial spacecraft explodes in test flight
MOJAVE, Calif. - A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth's atmosphere exploded during a test flight yesterday over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot in the second fiery setback for commercial space travel in less than a week. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo blew apart after being released from a carrier aircraft at high altitude, according to Ken Brown, who witnessed the explosion.One pilot was found dead inside the spacecraft, which fell from the sky about 120 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Another pilot parachuted out and was flown by helicopter to a hospital, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.
British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, has been the front-runner in the fledgling race to send paying civilians beyond the atmosphere to give them the feeling of weightlessness and a spectacular view of Earth below. Branson was flying to Mojave and expected to arrive today, as were investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board.
"Space is hard, and today was a tough day," Virgin Galactic CEO President George Whitesides said. "The future rests, in many ways, on hard, hard days like this."
Don't forget to fall back
WASHINGTON - Most people in the United States are getting an extra hour of sleep this weekend, thanks to the annual shift back to standard time.
The change comes at 2 a.m. Sunday, daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. the second Sunday in March - March 8, 2015.
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