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IN TODAY
Cosby still
reigns as
the master
of laughs
At 77, Bill Cosby, who has
comedy performances
coming up in Englewood,
Morristown and New York
City, has not lost his touch
in making the audience
laugh.
The entertainer also is
poised to revisit the sitcom
format. What’s the latest on
his announced forthcoming
NBC series?
“This will take a while,”
the comedian warns, and he
launches into what sounds
very much like one of his
comedy routines. / Page 20
IN NEW JERSEY
FBI investigated late
congressman Payne
The late U.S. Rep. Donald Payne
Sr. was scrutinized but never
charged in a federal investigation
in 1988 over allegations that he
accepted campaign contributions
in return for promising to give
someone assistance with Newark
city government, new FBI records
show.
The FBI opened a “preliminary
investigation” and authorized
the use of secret recordings to
gather more information,
records show, but the matter
was closed in 1989. / Page 3
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IN BUSINESS
Apple unveils new
iPads and Macs
Just ahead of the holiday
shopping seasson, Apple Inc. on
Thursday introduced the slimmer
iPad Air 2 as well as a iPad Mini 3.
The iPads have features
including fingerprint security
known as touch ID. Apple also
unveiled a new 27-inch iMac with
a retina display for better
imagery.
“This is the strongest lineup
of products that Apple has ever
had,” Apple CEO Tim Cook
said. / Page 9
Jeff Hulbert of Annapolis, Md., wears a protective suit and mask as he demonstrates outside the White House on Thursday, demanding a halt of
flights from West African nations battling the Ebola virus. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)
THE EBOLA CRISIS
U.S. airport police:
Ban trips from Africa
Group says it will ask Congress to restrict commercial
flights from the stricken region and require medical
personnel and Ebola patients to fly on military planes.
Alliance of Airport Police Officers,
said it was drafting a letter to
members of Congress calling for
A national group representing
the travel ban, along with a
airport police officers, including
those at Newark Liberty and John F. requirement that American
medical personnel and Ebola
Kennedy International, said
patients traveling from the three
Thursday that it was seeking a ban
West African nations — Liberia,
on commercial air travel to the
Guinea and Sierra Leone — be
United States from the three West
flown on military aircraft.
African nations battling the
“We’re calling for a restriction on
outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
flights from these afflicted counA spokesman affiliated with the
organization, the American
tries,” said Bobby Egbert, a
By Steve Strunsky
NJ Advance Media for The Star-Ledger
Inside
Rising fears:
Health officials
try to reassure
nation they can
head off an
outbreak in
U.S. / Page 2
Quarantined:
N.J. health care
union wants
any confirmed
Ebola patients
treated at a
designated
site. / Page 6
SEE EBOLA, PAGE 6
“
(The) trust and credibility of the administration
and government are waning as the American
public loses confidence each day.”
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.)
BUT GOP OPERATIVE SAYS GOVERNOR’S ALL IN
Most of Christie’s kids oppose a run for president
Inside
Radio spat:
Christie spars
with a retired
police officer
over pension
system for
public workers.
/ Page 15
Losing faith:
Poll says barely
a fifth of voters
trust governor
implicitly
anymore. /
Page 17
Today’s
Weather
spokesman for the Port Authority
Police Benevolent Association, a
member of the alliance, whose
officers patrol Newark Liberty and
Kennedy airports.
Newark and JFK are among the
five airports in the United States
singled out by the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
and the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security for enhanced
Ebola screening. Federal officials
say the five airports are the U.S.
points of entry for 94 percent of the
travelers — about 150 a day — from
the three West African countries
where the virus has killed more
than 4,000 people.
On Thursday, federal health
Mostly sunny with a west wind 7 to 10 mph,
and some clouds moving in at night.
High: 72° Low: 54° / Forecast, Page 2
By Claude Brodesser-Akner
and Matt Arco
NJ Advance Media for The Star-Ledger
Will he or won’t he run for
president?
On Wednesday night, Gov.
Chris Christie cracked the
window ever so slightly
— providing some insight into
his “three factors” decisionmaking process by revealing
how his children feel about
their father seeking the
Republican nomination for
president.
But while Christie says he
has not yet made up his mind
about 2016, Steve Schmidt,
who was a senior adviser to
U.S. Sen. John McCain during
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his 2008 presidential campaign, was more sure of
himself: The governor will run.
“Obviously Chris Christie,
the governor of this state, will
be a candidate for president,”
Schmidt told an audience at
Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of
Politics.
As for Christie, he said in a
call-in radio show on New
Jersey 101.5 FM that his wife
Mary Pat Christie and their
four children — Andrew,
Sarah, Patrick and Bridget
— were “tired of the overall
subject, mostly because other
people bring it up, not because
Mary Pat and I do.”
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Gov. Chris Christie, shown on a 2012 Jerusalem trip with
first lady Mary Pat and children Patrick, 11, and Bridget,
8, says three of his four children don’t want him to run
for president. He has yet to decide, he says. (FILE PHOTO)
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