COVID-19 booster shots, fallen officers to be honored, Dodgers vs. Giants: 5 things to know Thursday
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.
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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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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 evening 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, but his term can be extended as long as he’s considered a danger to society.
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.
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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.
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Contributing: The Associated Press