- The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for determining how our brains help us orient ourselves in space and navigate. Two of the scientists, Norwegian husband and wife May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, are professors at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The other awardee, John O'Keefe, directs a neuroscience center at University College London.
- Mexican troops on Monday continued to guard a mass grave discovered in the Southwestern state of Guerrero over the weekend. The site, which contained 28 bodies, is located in an area where 43 student protesters disappeared after clashing with police in September. Officials said identification of the bodies would take about two weeks.
- The Supreme Court rejected grants of certiorari on five Court of Appeals rulings in favor of same-sex marriage on Monday, letting the decisions stand. The decisions cleared the way for same-sex unions in Wisconsin, Utah, Indiana, Oklahoma and Virginia. The number of states allowing same-sex marriage rose from 19 to 24, along with the District of Columbia.
- Hewlett-Packard, regarded as a foundational institution of Silicon Valley, announced Monday that it will break into two publicly-traded companies. One of them, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will be aimed at business technology. The other, HP Inc., will retain the company's current logo and sell personal computers and printers. Hewlett-Packard's split is expected to be complete by October 2015.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Sunday that Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas, Texas, has taken a turn for the worse and is now in critical condition. Z-Mapp, the experimental drug given to Ebola patients at Emory University Hospital, the CDC said, is no longer available. Hazmat crews sanitized Duncan's apartment on Friday, while his family and those he has been in contact with since his return to the U.S. were kept under close monitoring.
– Compiled by Senior Staff Writer Lydia O'Neal
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