Ebola: An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has contracted Ebola, according to the network. The unidentified man, age 33, was working with medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman and other employees reporting on the Ebola epidemic. The cameraman checked into a clinic and will be flown to the US for treatment. NBC recalled the rest of its news team to spend 21 days in quarantine in the US.

Liberia says it will prosecute its citizen Thomas Duncan, who’s being treated for Ebola in a Dallas hospital, saying he lied on his exit questionnaire. Duncan said none of his relatives were sick, but it’s been revealed that he had taken a sick relative to the hospital in a wheelbarrow before departing to the US.

World: The Turkish Parliament voted yesterday to join the war against the Islamic State. Under the resolution foreign troops also will be able to use Turkish ground as a base for fighting ISIS. The Turkish entry could help the fight, but also complicate it. Turkey is not friendly with the Kurds in northern Iraq, and this puts them on the same side against ISIS. Fighting ISIS helps the Kurds. What Turkey might do and how quickly has not been announced. The country’s Minister Ismet Yilmaz told the Associated Press, “Don’t expect any immediate steps.”

Hong Kong: Protesters have accepted a proposal to have talks with the government, even though Chief Executive CY Leung refuses to step down as demanded. Some scuffles broke out today between protesters and residents tired of have their streets blocked.

Nation: A 16-year-old Long Island high school player collapsed and died after a hard hit in a game Wednesday night, making him the third high school football player to die in a week. Preliminary indications are that Tom Cutinella, a linebacker for Shoreham-Wading, died of a head injury. Two other players died in the past week in Alabama and North Carolina. An average of 12 high school and college football players die every year.

> Thirteen Texas abortion clinics are forced to close immediately after a federal appeals court declined to block the state’s tough new abortion law that requires the clinics to meet the same building and equipment standards as surgical centers. The law was clearly intended to stop abortions, not to protect the safety of women who have them. With the closures, Texas will have only seven abortion clinics in the entire state.

Massive Attack: JP Morgan Chase revealed in a regulatory filing that it was the target of one of the most massive corporate data hacks in history. The bank said hackers compromised 76 million household accounts and seven million small-business accounts in an attack that began in June but was not discovered until July. JP Morgan says it has seen no unusual account activity as a result of the leak, which sounds a lot like the old “company officials say there is no danger to the public.”

High Finance: Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who makes $250,000 to give a speech, told the NY Times that his application to re-finance his mortgage was rejected. The reason: he recently changed jobs.

Getting Real: Life just got very real for one of the former stars of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” Having pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud, Teresa Giudice, 42, got 15 months in prison and her husband, Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, 43, was sentenced to 41 months. They admitted committing fraud to get a $5 million construction loan. Teresa tearfully read a letter to the court saying, “I fully take responsibility for my actions. I need to learn to do things for myself.” She’ll be making her own bed for a while.

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