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| Good morning, Daily Briefing readers! An FDA committee will discuss booster shots for people who got Moderna's or Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. Fallen officers will be honored at a Washington, D.C. vigil, but the names of four officers who died after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6 won't be eligible for engraving. And, the Los Angeles Dodgers will meet the San Francisco Giants one last time to decide the best-of-five National League Division Series. |
| It's Jane, with Thursday's news. |
| 🏗 New this morning: Even before Champlain Towers South saw its first owners, the Florida condo building had been set on a course to rot from the foundation up. Experts say cutting corners on construction often accompanied money laundering. |
| 🚀 "I hope I never recover:" William Shatner, at 90, became the oldest man to blast into space. The "Star Trek" actor got emotional after his history-making Blue Origin flight. |
| 🙅♀️ A record-breaking 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August. Experts stress they're leaving amid demands for higher pay, better conditions and critical support. |
| ⚾️ Former catcher Ray Fosse, who spent 12 years behind the plate for four teams but was perhaps best-known as a player for a vicious collision with Pete Rose in the 1970 All-Star Game, has died. He was 74. |
| 🎸 The Rolling Stones removed their 1971 hit song "Brown Sugar" from their current tour over "conflicts" surrounding lyrics that depict slavery, rape and drugs, guitarist Keith Richards confirmed. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear the latest from Norway where an attacker killed at least five people with a bow and arrow. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| Here's what's happening today: |
FDA experts to discuss boosters for Moderna, J&J COVID-19 vaccines |
| A federal advisory committee is meeting Thursday and Friday to discuss the safety and need for a booster shot for people who received Moderna's or Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. The panel also will hear data on people who got booster shots from a different manufacturer than their original vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month endorsed booster shots for millions of Americans who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after Israeli data suggested protection against infection begins to wane after about six months. The FDA panel will vote on whether to authorize more boosters, but not on mixing vaccines. Assuming the FDA commissioner signs off on the group's recommendations, a CDC committee will consider on Oct. 20 and 21 who should be eligible for boosters, with the shots likely becoming available within a few days. |
Officers who died in the line of duty to be honored in Washington, D.C. |
| Fallen officers will be honored at a vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Thursday. Hundreds of names were engraved there this year, bringing the total of officers memorialized to 22,611, per the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund . But the names of four officers who died by suicide after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6 — U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood and District of Columbia Metropolitan Police officers Jeffrey Smith, Kyle DeFreytag and Gunther Hashida — won't be eligible for engraving on the marbleized limestone regarded as sacred ground for U.S. law enforcement. The Capitol attack, and the suicides that followed, reignited a discussion about what constitutes a job-related death and the policies that some say perpetuate a bias that law enforcement has failed to confront. |
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| ⚽️ The slimmest of margins: Beginning the match down 1-0 only 60 seconds into the game, the U.S. men's national soccer team came back for a critical 2-1 win against Costa Rica. |
| 🍷 Americans drank more, smoked more, exercised less and spent more time in front of a computer or television compared to pre-pandemic levels, a study has found. |
| 🚩🚩🚩 This is why you may have been seeing red flags all over your social media feeds. (A clue: It involves a meme.) |
| 🎣 "They ain't supposed to be here": A fisherman in Kansas caught a prehistoric predator fish that dates back nearly 100 million years – a 4-foot, 6-inch alligator gar. |
 | | Danny Smith II displays a 39.5-pound Alligator Gar, measuring four feet, six inches, which he caught in the Neosho River in southeast Kansas. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks officials say the fish is not native to Kansas and previously have not been documented there. | | Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks | |
Suspect in deadly Norway bow and arrow attack was flagged for radicalization |
| A 37-year-old Danish man is in custody in Norway suspected of a bow and arrow attack Wednesday that left five people dead and two wounded in the small Norwegian town of Kongsberg. Police said Thursday that the man is a Muslim convert who had previously been flagged as having being radicalized. The man is suspected of having shot at people in a number of locations. Several of the victims were in a supermarket, police said. Acting Prime Minister Erna Solberg described the attack as "gruesome." Mass killings are rare in Norway. The country's worst peacetime slaughter was on July 22, 2011, when right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital of Oslo, killing eight people. He then headed to the tiny Utoya Island where he killed another 69 victims. Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum under Norwegian law. |
Dodgers, Giants meet in Game 5 of epic division race |
| The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants know each other all too well. After all, they've been playing each other 131 years, and this year's epic division race wasn't decided until the 162nd game of the regular season. Each team has won 109 games this season, including the postseason. On Thursday night in San Francisco (9:07 p.m. EDT, TBS), they'll meet one last time to decide the best-of-five National League Division Series. The winner will play the Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers send 25-year-old Julio Urias, MLB's only 20-game winner this season, to the mound, while the Giants counter with 24-year-old Logan Webb. |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories Wednesday |
| 💰 Social Security checks will likely be much bigger in 2022. That's bad news for retirees. |
| 🚨 Police in central Florida have arrested the father of a toddler who found a loaded handgun in his "Paw Patrol" backpack and fatally shot his mother while she was on a Zoom call for work. |
| ✈️ Southwest is (quietly) doling out "we're sorry" vouchers to travelers caught in its cancellation chaos. Here's how to get one. |
| 🏈 Jeff Fisher responded to Jon Gruden's claim that Roger Goodell pressured the Rams to draft Michael Sam. |
Half-shredded Banksy up for auction again |
| A Banksy artwork that self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4 million is up for sale again Thursday — at several times the previous price. Auction house Sotheby's said that "Love is in the Bin" will be up for bid in London, with a pre-sale estimate of $5.5 to $8.3 million. It consists of a half-shredded canvas bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. Just as an anonymous buyer made the winning bid in 2018 for what was then known as "Girl With Balloon," a shredder hidden in the frame whirred to life, leaving half the canvas hanging in strips. The buyer decided to go through with the purchase — a decision that would be vindicated if the picture achieves its estimated price. |
📸 Blast off! Star Trek icon William Shatner rockets into space 📸 |
 | | In this still image taken from a Blue Origin video, New Shepard NS-18 mission crew member 'Star Trek' actor, William Shatner, rings the bell before lift off from the West Texas region, 25 miles north of Van Horn. Accompanying Shatner are Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (R rear) and crew members, Planet Labs co-founder, Chris Boshuizen (front) and Blue Origins Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, Audrey Powers (C rear). The fourth member of the crew is Medidata Solutions Co-Founder, Glen de Vries. | | JOSE ROMERO, BLUE ORIGIN/AFP via Getty Images | |
| William Shatner can now say he's gone boldly where no man (his age) has gone before. He's certainly not the first person to visit space, but on Wednesday, the 90-year-old "Star Trek" veteran became the oldest, joining Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for its second human spaceflight. |
| Check out our gallery of photos from the historic event. |
| Contributing: The Associated Press |
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