Louisiana state officials wants scientists and medical researchers who have dealt with Ebola patients not to come to the state's annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference next week in New Orleans.

In a private call with donors, House Speaker Thom Tillis's (R-NC) chief strategist, Paul Shumaker, said that the campaign has never found the Republican nominee for Senate leading Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) in internal polling.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the No. 4 Republican in the Senate, on Wednesday said that the GOP should be "realistic" and target specific components of Obamacare if they take control of the Senate, rather than push for a full repeal.

Barrasso noted that President Obama wouldn't support a full repeal, making an attempt pointless.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said during a press conference on Wednesday her Democratic challenger's laughter after he accidentally called her a "whore" last week felt like "a kick in the gut."

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) endorsed Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME) for governor on Wednesday, a few hours after Independent candidate Eliot Cutler, who King had previously endorsed, announced at a strange press conference that he was staying in the race, despite trailing Michaud and Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R).

A Miami Beach, Fla. police officer was caught on film as he launched into a profanity-laden rant at a motorcyclist during an apparent traffic stop, the Miami Herald reported on Wednesday.

The video, uploaded to YouTube on Monday by the motorcyclist, Albert Valdes, showed Miami Beach officer Kenneth MacLeod cursing loudly in his face.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is blaming himself for a flap that led to a song being scrapped from a program honoring Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai.

Malala was in Philadelphia last week to receive the Liberty Medal.

It's crunch time in the midterm elections, and Democrats are pulling out all the stops to hold on to their endangered Senate majority, including reviving the specter of impeachment if they lose control.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will sound the siren in an email set to be sent on Wednesday afternoon to the roughly 1 million members of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a copy of which was viewed in advance by TPM.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices have their first chance this week to decide whether they have the appetite for another major fight over President Barack Obama's health care law.

Some of the same players who mounted the first failed effort to kill the law altogether now want the justices to rule that subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford their premiums under the law are illegal.