Innocuous Inoculation? An Ebola vaccine's clinical trial is on hiatus after four patients began experiencing joint pain symptoms in their hands and feet. The vaccine's human safety trial in Geneva is scheduled to resume January 5.
It's About Time: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is considering how to tastefully apply a "dislike" button because, he said in a Q&A, "there are more sentiments that people want to express."
Capital Idea? The Ohio Senate voted to mask the identities of the the drug companies that supply the drugs to kill prisoners as well as the people who get paid to inject those drugs into prisoners.
Debate on Death: Amid a national debate about euthanasia, French President Francois Hollande said that he supported terminally-ill patients' "right to deep, continuous sedation until death." He stopped short of supporting outright euthanasia, but insisted that the profound, pre-death sedation would be consensual.
Reserving the Right: The U.S. Justice Department announced that growing and selling marijuana on Native American reservations without legal repercussions (even if marijuana remains illegal under state law). In effect, the DOJ will let tribal governments make their own decisions regarding the drug.
A Supposedly Fun Thing They'll Never Do Again: A fire aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean sea killed three people.
