While the federal government works to contain Ebola in the U.S., states are taking matters into their own hands—and butting heads with the White House and the CDC in the process.

The attempt to contain the spread of Ebola in the United States is becoming political, with governors imposing varying, stringent, and sometimes unclear quarantine rules that are hard to enforce across state lines.

President Barack Obama spoke out against these policies Wednesday, saying, “We don’t want to discourage our health care workers from going to the front lines. They are doing God’s work over there, and they are doing it to keep us safe.”

Here’s your brief on the science and politics of Ebola.

Josh Sundquist has a reputation to uphold.

Each Halloween the Paralympic ski racer-turned-author and motivational speaker goes all out for Halloween, putting his so-called disability (Sundquist lost his leg to bone cancer when he was nine years old) to great effect.

Over the last few years, Sundquist’s gone as a flamingo (one leg up naturally), the leg lamp from A Christmas Story, and a gingerbread man with its leg bitten off. He has posted the entire impressive collection on his Facebook page.

This year he’s opted to get in touch with his inner athlete and what team sport is best known for having just one leg? Foosball. As you can see in the behind-the-scenes video, for his foosball player costume, Sundquist stuck his leg in a box and attached himself to the metal pipes that would connect him to his teammates were he really on a foosball soccer team.

Sundquist holds on to his title of King of Halloween once again.

[H/T Sports Illustrated]

Security experts are pointing fingers at Russian hackers for a cyberattack against the White House that came to light late Tuesday, marking the latest high-profile attacks linked to that country.

The attack doesn’t appear to have caused much harm. There was no evidence that hackers had breached classified networks. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday said the attacks were an “inconvenience,” but attributed ongoing network disruption to the government’s cleanup of the incident rather than the attack itself. So why should we care that unclassified networks at the White House were hacked?

First, experts say the White House attack shows just how wide a net Russian hackers appear to have cast, especially as tensions between the U.S. and Russia have heightened amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The recent hack is just the latest in a slew of attacks attributed to Russian hackers who security researchers have connected to the Russian government — earlier this month, a Russian hacking group reportedly exploited a Microsoft Windows flaw to spy on NATO and the Ukrainian government. Russian hackers were also behind an attack on JPMorgan Chase that compromised customer information linked to 83 million accounts, according to a recent report. If Russian hackers are indeed behind the White House attack, we should be concerned about their possible intent to probe deeper into the White House network.

“The objective of this may have been a test to determine what the security culture is at the White House before targeting more sophisticated networks,” said Armond Caglar, a senior threat specialist at the firm TSC Advantage.

Beyond that, the White House attack shows that even some of the most well-protected institutions are vulnerable, even if the hackers didn’t get ahold of any national security secrets this time around. “On a regular basis, there are bad actors out there who are attempting to achieve intrusions into our system,” a White House official told the Washington Post. “This is a constant battle for the government and our sensitive government computer systems, so it’s always a concern for us that individuals are trying to compromise systems and get access to our networks.”

Attacks on private and public sector entities—including the White House—are now par for the course. Says Adam Golodner, an attorney at Kaye Scholer who practices cybersecurity law: “This is the world in which chief information security officers now live.”

– With reporting from Zeke J. Miller

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Apple Pay competitor CurrentC said Wednesday that hackers have gotten their hands on some users’ information, according to a statement from MCX, the service’s developer. The hackers targeted MCX’s e-mail provider, not the CurrentC app itself.

MCX said that the hackers accessed some e-mail addresses of CurrentC pilot program participants and individuals who had expressed interest in using the free digital wallet. MCX, a joint venture created by major U.S. retailers in part as an effort to avoid paying credit card transaction fees, did not disclose how many individuals were affected, but said many of the stolen e-mails addresses were not of actual users.

“Many of these email addresses are dummy accounts used for testing purposes only. The CurrentC app itself was not affected,” Linda Walsh, a spokeswoman for MCX, said in an e-mail. “We have notified our merchant partners about this incident and directly communicated with each of the individuals whose email addresses were involved.”

The hack targeting CurrentC, which is set for release next year, comes on the heels of news that retail giants CVS and Rite Aid—two members of MCX—will not accept Apple Pay despite at first allowing the service. A leaked in-house memo indicated that the reason may be the two companies’ involvement with CurrentC. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the situation amounted to a “skirmish.”

News of CurrentC’s vulnerability also adds to the less-than-warm reviews of the mobile payment service, which some reviewers say was designed more for the benefit of retailers than for customers. It also boosts the reputation of its competitor Apple Pay, which has championed its customer data security. Apple Pay users registered one million cards on the service in its first three days, Cook said earlier this week.

Hunger Games fans counting down until the premiere of Mockingjay Part 1 got a glimpse at what the upcoming film has in store on Wednesday.

The latest trailer for the third film in the series, which hits theaters Nov. 21, was released showing more of the destruction that heroine Katniss Everdeen, played by Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, will face as she leads a revolution against the leadership in the Capitol.

“I have a message for President Snow,” Lawrence’s Everdeen says, “if we burn, you burn with us.”

Though fans still have about a month until the highly-anticipated movie hits theaters, tickets for the latest installment went on sale Wednesday. The film is based on the last book in the dystopian young adult series, which has been split into two films in the same vein as the Harry Potter and Twilight movies.