A.M. Links: Ebola Quarantine in Texas, Hong Kong Protestors Attacked, Australia Will Send Troops and Jets to Iraq

• Four relatives of Texas Ebola patient Thomas
  Duncan are
  under quarantine. Public health officials, meanwhile, say
  Duncan may have
  had contact with as many as 100 people.

• Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will send ground troops
  to Iraq and assist in airstrikes
  against ISIS forces.

• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is mulling a
  presidential run in 2016.

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has allowed Texas
  to begin enforcing harsh new restrictions
  on abortion clinics. As a result, all but seven of the state’s
  abortion clinics are expected to close.

• “Protesters occupying one of Hong Kong’s most crowded areas
  
  came under assault on Friday from men seeking to break apart
  their pro-democracy sit-in, tearing down their tents and
  surrounding demonstrators who said their attackers were
  pro-government gangs.”

• A Connecticut man scheduled to appear in court on drug
  possession charges
  was arrested by courthouse officials because he tried to enter
  the court with marijuana in his possession.

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