Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Voter ID Law For Nov. Election Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Voter ID Law For Nov. Election With three justices dissenting, the high court's ruling effectively blocks a lower federal court decision declaring the law restrictive and unconstitutional. Read this story The Ebola Survivors Who Can't Go Home They beat the deadly virus, but transportation back home is hard to come by. So they're living in an abandoned hospital ward, hoping someday to resume the life they had before Ebola struck. Read this story Universities To Speakers Who've Visited West Africa: En Garde! Fears of Ebola — not always justified — have caused organizers in Africa and the United States to cancel or reschedule events they worry may lead to spread of the disease. Read this story Once A Year, Farmers Go Back To Picking Corn By Hand — For Fun Farmers across the Midwest harvest billions of bushels of corn nowadays using giant machines called combines. But a contest keeps a more primitive corn-picking technique alive: human hands. Read this story Drop In Unemployment Raises Debate On Optimal Rate Now that unemployment has slipped below 6 percent, there's renewed interest in what the Federal Reserve's target for joblessness should be. Some economists worry that inflation will resurface. Read this story more news stories

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