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 Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient being treated at a hospital in Dallas, is now listed in critical condition, according to hospital officials. Health officials were looking at around 50 people while coming in contact with him, closely monitoring 9 of them. Doctor David Lakey is Commissioner 1 of State Services. He says Ebola so far hasn't spread to anyone else. 

"We have no more cases and we're very happy about that the patient that has been identified is in an intensive care unit, getting medical care right now by a very caring and compassionate 2 team."
But Lakey says its team is making contingency 3 plans for possible additional cases of Ebola. 
 
A Federal judge is ordering the Obama administration to unseal video footage of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay being forced fed. NPR's Elizabeth Wen Johnson reports the courses the government failed to provide a basis for denying the Public First Mend by rights of access. 
Jihadist Abu Wa'el Dhiab has been in Guantanamo since 2002. According to record documents, the Syrian citizen has been in a long-term hunger strike and the government began force feeding him last year. When Dhiab sought to make it stop, the government released 28 videos of the procedures to Dhiab's attorney. A number of news outlets 4, including NPR, suited to have videos made public. But the government refused, citing concerns about national security and the risk to military personnel. But in an opinion issue Friday, US District Judge Gladys Kessler called the government justifications 5 wiggling and speculative 6, and ordered that videos be released. Elizabeth Wen Johnson, NPR News. 
 
Ukrainian troops and Pro-Russian separatists are trading fire again in and around the eastern city of Donetsk. Katenson Mogen reports the fighting is intensifying 7 despite the existence of ceasefire. 
A formal ceasefire has not done much to stage off new rounds of fighting in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, while civilians 8 are getting caught in crossfire 9 between Ukrainian troops and Russian separates. The fighting has centered around the region's airport, a strategic prize. According to Ukrainian military, a dozen separatists died in that fight on Friday. But dozens more have been killed and wounded in a greater conflict, including one representative of the international committee of the Red Cross, who was killed by a missile on Thursday. The deadly eruptions 10 continue despite the existence of ceasefire agreement that has been placed in early September. International observers and negotiators are now concerned that ceasefire may not hold. For NPR News, I'm Katenson Mogen in Moscow. 
 
The parents of 26-year-old Peter Kassig pleading for his release from so-called Islamic State militants 11. He was kidnapped a year ago in Syria on a humanitarian 12 mission with non-profit he founded. ISIS is threatening to behead him. 
 
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A worldwide gathering 13 of Roman Catholic Bishop 14, known as synod, starts tomorrow at Vatican. The theme is the family, and as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, issues raised and led up to the event could turn the Synod into a showdown over the direction of Pope Francis papacy. 
A head of theme is Vatican issued a questionnaire seeking input 15 from clergy 16 and lay people. The result showed the vast majority of Catholics reject church teaching on sex and contraception as intrusive 17 and irrelevant 18. Now Pope Francis wants to open a frank discussion on all hot button issues. But the public feud 19 has an already broken out of the Pope's favorite the alogen. German Cardinal 20 Walter Kasper. For his suggestions, that divorce and remarry Catholics might reserve communion. His most vocal 21 critics is American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke had the Vatican supreme 22 court who accuse Kasper of misunderstanding basic church teaching on the permanence of marriage bond. The two-week Synod is just phase one. The real decision would take a year from now into another Bishop assemble. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome. 
 
General Motor is now in its 31st recall. This time involves just over 60,000 vehicles from 3 categories. Today the recall is on Pontiac G8s from 2008 and 2009, and Chevrolet Caprices police cars between 2011 and 2013. GM says the car's ignition key could accidentally get knocked out the "run" position, shutting off the engine and airbags. Another recall covers 10,000 Cadillac CTS-Vs sedans from 2004 through 2007 and 2006 to 2007 model STS-Vs. Company says a fuel pump module 23 electric terminal could overheat.