1. A city scrambles to address an Ebola outbreak, now the third-largest recorded and spreading rapidly.

2. Senate Republicans question a potential peace deal with Iran amid economic struggles exacerbated by war.

3. Advances in deep learning, including reinforcement learning and convolutional neural networks, are reshaping technology.

4. The Supreme Court faces tension as big decisions loom under Trump's administration.

5. Space exploration sees progress with SpaceX's Starship V3 and the induction of spacewalkers into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

6. Global issues like shark finning in China, US-Iran propaganda battles, and South Korea-Japan cooperation highlight ongoing challenges.