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Takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries and what they mean for November

Voters in four states went to the polls on Tuesday to choose their parties’ candidates. The biggest event was in Maine, where Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner had made scandalous headlines in the past weeks. But in South Carolina, Nevada, and North Dakota, results for governor and congressional races are also coming in. Lisa Desjardins reports.

How the loss of USAID has weakened the fight against Ebola

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is escalating quickly. There are growing warnings that, without a stronger response, this Ebola outbreak could become one of the deadliest. William Brangham takes a closer look with Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International. In 2014, he ran USAID’s foreign disaster assistance when Ebola broke out in Africa.

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