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Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, an assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:

A New Jersey based nurse who just returned from West Africa and was forced into isolation because of fears over Ebola, has decided to sue her state. Mandatory quarantine periods for those traveling from countries with high incidents of Ebola have been imposed by New York, and Illinois, in addition to New Jersey. Kaci Hickox has not tested positive for Ebola, nor shown any symptoms. Her lawyer has labeled her 3-week long forced isolation as raising, “serious constitutional and civil liberties issues.” Hickox arrived in New Jersey on Friday from Sierra Leone where she had been treating Ebola patients. Click here for a Reuters article about the story.

Another student has died from Friday’s school shooting in Marysville, Washington. Fourteen year old Gia Soriano died late last night after sustaining injuries from shots fired by her fellow student Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg opened fire on a number of students in the school cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, targeting his close friends and cousins. After killing one student, he turned his gun on himself. Soriano became the third fatality from the incident. The fourteen year old Fryberg did not fit the typical “loner” profile of a school shooter. He was a football player, outgoing and popular, and a member of a prominent family on the Tulalip Indian reservation. Click here for an ABC News article about the story.

And finally, voters in Latin America’s most populous nation, Brazil, went to the polls over the weekend and narrowly re-elected President Dilma Rousseff. With 51.6% of the vote, Rousseff, according to press reports, “struck a conciliatory tone,” saying, “I want to be a much better president than I have been until now.” Rousseff’s tenure, and that of her predecessor Lula da Silva, was marked by corruption scandals, which middle and upper class Brazilians cited in their disapproval. While Brazil’s poor overwhelmingly continued to support her and the Workers Party-led social and economic programs, Rousseff struggled to win votes in wealthier parts of the country. Click here for a Guardian newspaper article about the story.