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| Good morning, Daily Briefing readers! What appears to be human remains along with personal items believed to belong to Brian Laundrie have been found in a Florida park. The House is poised to hold former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt. A CDC committee is set to vote on whether to allow Moderna and J&J vaccine booster shots. And, today is equal pay day for Hispanic American women. |
| It's Steve and Jane with Thursday's news. |
| 😷 New this morning: Children sick with COVID-19 flooded hospitals this fall. Could winter be worse? In an Iowa children's hospital, a weary staff contends with a crush of kids sick with COVID -19 and other illnesses — with no end in sight. |
| 🚨 Authorities made a breakthrough in the search for Brian Laundrie, potentially ending the hunt for the missing fiance of murdered blogger Gabby Petito. |
| 🧅 Throw away onions if you don't know where they're from: The CDC has linked fresh whole onions to a mysterious salmonella outbreak. |
| 💉 "We wanted to provide a lot of flexibility": More Americans would be eligible for booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines and could get any brand of vaccine they choose, the FDA authorized. |
| 🥵 Public health threat: New research finds that the number of Americans exposed to heatwaves continues to grow, with 2020 marking the second highest level of dangerous exposure since 1986. |
| 🚙 Waiting for Elio: Elio Motors promised a next-gen, 84 mpg car and got millions in deposits. But where are the cars? |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear about equal pay day for Hispanic American women. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| Here's what's happening today: |
House to vote on holding Bannon in contempt |
| The House will vote Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt for defying a subpoena from the panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was reportedly talking to Trump in the days leading up to Jan. 6, encouraging him to focus on the electoral process – when lawmakers were meeting to count the Electoral College votes to confirm the victory of now-President Joe Biden. The Jan. 6 committee, co-chaired by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., voted unanimously Tuesday to hold Bannon in Congressional contempt. Bannon served in Trump's first campaign for president, then as White House chief strategist for the first few months of the Trump presidency until he left in August 2017. |
CDC panel to review FDA's decision on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots |
| The Advisory Committee on Vaccine Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to vote Thursday on whether to allow booster shots for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines. The vote will come after the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) authorization of both for certain populations on Wednesday. The federal committee will discuss whether to recommend a third shot after the two-dose series of Moderna and a second shot after the "one and done" J&J vaccine. A bigger question is whether the committee will recommend that people be allowed to mix and match booster doses. The FDA also gave its approval for people to receive additional doses from manufacturers other than their initial shots. |
What else people are reading: |
| 🚊 A woman was raped on a Philadelphia train and witnesses did nothing. Why? asks USA TODAY Opinion contributor Catherine A. Sanderson. |
| 🚔 Multiple task forces recovered eight missing and endangered children and arrested 18 sex offenders in Louisiana as part of a two-month investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service announced. |
| 🚀 $1,000,000,000,000? Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire. However, it won't be from his electric vehicle company Tesla. Instead, it'll likely be from his fledgling space startup SpaceX. |
| 🗣 Truth Social: Former President Donald Trump announced plans to launch his own social media platform, after he was banned from several other social media sites. |
| 🔵 The University of Kentucky community is searching for answers a day after Thomas "Lofton" Hazelwood, an 18-year-old freshman, died at a fraternity house on the school's Lexington campus. |
 | | Thomas 'Lofton' Hazelwood | | Provided photo | |
Biden holds CNN town hall to pitch agenda as deadlines loom |
| President Joe Biden will take center stage in Baltimore and on CNN Thursday as he looks to sharpen his pitch on his multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure and social spending plans, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda that Democrats are scrambling to strike a deal on before the month's end. Biden will participate in a 90-minute town hall on CNN to field questions on a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill focused on rebuilding roads and bridges and Democrats' larger economic package to expand the social safety net and tackle the climate crisis. The public forum comes at a pivotal moment for Biden, who is working behind the scenes to satisfy progressive and moderate Democrats jockeying over the final price tag of the social spending package. |
Newsmakers in their own words: Congressmen clash on Capitol Hill |
 | | Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2021 | | Getty Images photo; USA TODAY graphic | |
| Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., traded verbal jabs Wednesday during a House Rules Committee meeting on a resolution recommending that the House hold former President Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt after he denied a congressional subpoena. |
| Gaetz criticized the panel and other lawmakers for focusing on Bannon instead of supply chain shortages, immigration and other issues. He also criticized the handling of electoral fraud cases stemming from the 2020 presidential election by many courts, and Raskin continued to press his fellow lawmaker on evidence for such fraud. |
Also happening on Thursday: |
| 🏈 NFL's "Thursday Night Football": With former No. 1 draft pick Baker Mayfield nursing a left shoulder injury, backup quarterback Case Keenum will start for the 3-3 Cleveland Browns when they host the 3-3 Denver Broncos (8:20 p.m. ET, Fox and NFL Network). |
| 🌮 Free fast food: Participating Taco Bell restaurants nationwide are giving away free Toasted Breakfast Burritos from 7 to 11 a.m. local time, while supplies last. A purchase is not needed to get the free burrito in restaurants or at the drive-thru. |
| 👩 Unique sculpture graces New York harbor: A grand opening ceremony will be held along the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey, for a towering sculpture of a woman's head that can be seen across the water in Manhattan. The enormous structure by artist Jaume Plensa, called "Water's Soul," is 80 feet tall and features a woman with her pointed finger over her mouth. |
 | | "Water's Soul" by Spanish Artist Jaume Plensa is under construction on Oct. 8, 2021 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Standing 80-feet, the piece is the artist's tallest public sculpture to date and overlooks the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan. | | ANGELA WEISS, AFP via Getty Images | |
Equal pay day for Hispanic American women |
| Thursday is equal pay day for Hispanic American women . On Oct. 21-22, the average Hispanic woman's pay for 2020 combined with her 2021 pay now equals $67,629 – the average non-Hispanic white man's 2020 pay. Women are overrepresented in many of the country's lowest-paying jobs or those paying less than $12 an hour, according to a 2018 study. But Latinas face the greatest disparity. The gap between white men and Latinas could narrow by a few cents in the coming year, according to the National Women's Law Center. But that's not good news for Hispanic women. It's estimated the pay gap will likely close because Latinas haven't returned to some of the lowest-paying jobs. |
'Dune' out in theaters and on HBO Max |
| Director Denis Villeneuve's visually arresting, big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic novel hits theaters and begins streaming on HBO Max Thursday evening. "Dune" follows a sensitive space prince named Paul Atreides ( Timothée Chalamet), whose dad (Oscar Isaac) is caught in a war over the deadly planet Arrakis, which is abundant in a precious resource known as Spice. The all-star cast also includes Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa and Rebecca Ferguson. "It's a relatable story of a young person having to fight for what's right and what's good," Chalamet said. "That's especially relevant today, with my generation and the ones coming up fighting for what they believe in so strongly." |
 | | From left, Rebecca Ferguson stars as Lady Jessica, Zendaya is Chani, Javier Bardem plays Stilgar and Timothée Chalamet is Paul Atreides in the sci-fi epic "Dune." | | Chiabella James | |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories Wednesday |
| 🚉 "Angry and disgusted": A man was charged with raping a woman on a train outside of Philadelphia as fellow passengers watched, held up phones and did nothing to intervene, police said. |
| 🛳 "World cruise of world cruises": Around the world in 80 days? What about 274 nights on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while visiting more than 150 destinations? |
| ⚾️ Boston Red Sox fans were left wondering if they should have been on the other side of a 9-2 loss in Game 4 of the ALCS based on Nathan Eovaldi's 1-2 pitch to Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro. |
📸 Photo of the day: Atlanta Braves' Adam Duvall makes a terrific catch 📸 |
 | | NLCS Game 4: Braves center fielder Adam Duvall makes a catch against the wall to rob Dodgers' Gavin Lux in the second inning. | | Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports | |
| The Atlanta Braves have been firing on all cylinders during the National League Championship Series against the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers, getting terrific pitching, hits in bunches and great defense, including this amazing catch from Adam Duvall off the bat of the Dodgers' Gavin Lux during Game 4 Wednesday night. |
| The Braves pulled away from the Dodgers and won Game 4 9-2 in front of a stunned sellout crowd of 53,025 at Dodger Stadium. The Braves now lead the series 3-1 and they can clinch their first berth in the World Series since 1999 Thursday. |
| Head here to see more photos from MLB's 2021 American and National League Championship series. |
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