“New York City’s first Ebola patient is free of the virus and going on home this week, city hospital officials confirmed Monday. “After a rigorous course of treatment and testing, Dr. Craig Spencer – the patient admitted and diagnosed with Ebola Disease Virus at HHC Bellevue Hospital Center – has …

“Long-term marijuana use appears to alter a person’s brain, causing one region associated with addiction to shrink and forcing the rest of the brain to work overtime to compensate, a new study reports. MRI scans revealed that people who use pot for years have a smaller-than-usual orbitofrontal cortex, a region …

“The results are in from the world’s first long-term study into the consumption of violent media and its effect on real-life acts of violence. (If you’re a member of the Australian Christian Lobby, you may want to sit down for a minute.) Not only did the study find zero link …

“Wanting what you can’t have drives many of us crazy, including this group of lesbians who seem to get quite a kick out of dating the ever-elusive straight woman. Mo Welch, the comedian and writer behind “The Plight of Falling for Unavailable Women,” said the first woman she ever dated …

As Dr. Craig Spencer is sent home from the hospital, today is officially “Victory from Ebola Day” in the U.S. But according to the media, you’d never know. » Subscribe to msnbc: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: msnbc is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed …

“It was hard to make out the dinner-table chatter between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinping of China, the dinner’s host, during the Chinese state television broadcast on Monday. There they were, at the official leaders’ dinner of the Asia-Pacific Economic …

“East Ukraine’s rebel stronghold Donetsk was pummelled on Sunday by the heaviest shelling in a month, and the OSCE said it spotted an armoured column of troops without insignia in rebel territory that Kiev said proved Moscow had sent reinforcements. A two-month-old ceasefire to end a war that has killed …

“One of the most significant legislative events of the last Congress was Senate Democrats’ successful attempt to weaken the filibuster. It was the culmination of years of resentment by Democratic senators and the Democratic base, which had been building at least since the stimulus package was subjected to a filibuster …

“Nixon aide, actor, and right-wing commentator Ben Stein has some thoughts about race in America. Stein, you may remember, recently made headlines for his charge that President Obama is attempting to “racialize all politics,” making him “the most racist president there has ever been in America.” (We can safely assume, …

Do you trade Josh Gordon before he plays this season? Which third-tier receivers should you start ahead of the Bears wideouts? And how are the Broncos like a well-dressed lady in a bar down by the docks? Matt Ufford and Nick Stevens break down everything you need to know for …