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A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation Friday, though appearing to let the day’s informal deadline slip as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to pay for it.
- The Justice Department has added two top prosecutors from Washington to the child sex-trafficking investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
- Alec Baldwin said Friday that the killing of a cinematographer who died after Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set was a “tragic accident,” as authorities investigated the shooting.
- In states that cut off the $300 weekly federal supplement for unemployed Americans, the workforce has risen no more than it has in the states that maintained the payment.
- The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.
- A student’s video of a Riverside, California, teacher wearing a faux Native American headdress and dancing in front of her math class has sparked outrage.
- Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday.
- Alex Baldwin discharged a prop gun that killed a crew member on a film he is making.
- Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are slated to discuss who should get extra doses of the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines and whether it’s OK to “mix and match” brands.
- The House is voting Thursday on whether to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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- Republicans are using fears of critical race theory to drive school board recalls and energize conservatives, hoping to lay groundwork for the 2022 midterm elections.
- A salmonella outbreak tied to onions has sickened more than 650 people in 37 states, U.S. health officials said.
- Six decades ago, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement on the windswept northern tip of Newfoundland.
- Senate Democrats crashed once again Wednesday into the seemingly impenetrable Republican wall blocking new voting rights legislation, leaving them with a simple question: Now what?
- Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. The prosecutor's recitation of the details of that devastating day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School brought the people in the courtroom to tears.
- U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.
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- Wanda Denise Distance, a former nurse and celebrity hairstylist, died Oct. 13
- The Ravens’ passing game is no longer stuck in the mud with Tee Martin as the receivers coach and Keith Williams as the pass game specialist, Mike Preston writes.
- Baltimore Police said four teen girls and one male were shot and transported to hospitals for their injuries late Friday night.
- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice promised Western Maryland residents "job opportunity like crazy with the chance to live in paradise, and I mean it!”
- An oversight board for Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming canceled next week’s meeting evaluating her performance amid Cumming waiving her privacy rights and advocating for the meeting to be open to the public.
- Many have profited from the 'HeLa' cells taken at Johns Hopkins but the donor never gave permission nor was she informed or compensated.
