10 things you need to know today: November 14, 2014

As nurses protest against insufficient Ebola training in Oakland, another infected doctor is heading back to the U.S.
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1. Obama prepares executive actions on immigration

President Obama plans to sidestep Congress and use his executive powers to change how immigration laws are enforced, according to administration officials. One of the moves, expected as early as next week, would shield up to five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Republicans, calling the move "executive amnesty," are considering bills to counter Obama's executive actions in the first major test of their power since winning full control of Congress less than two weeks ago.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.