| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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| Good Friday afternoon. FDA advisors have unanimously recommended Johnson & Johnson boosters, a Capitol Police officer is accused of advising a Jan. 6 rioter to delete evidence, and former President Bill Clinton is hospitalized in Southern California. |
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| Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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FDA panel endorses Johnson & Johnson boosters |
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| An FDA advisory panel voted 19-0 this afternoon to recommend boosters of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot Covid vaccine for all Americans who’ve already received a first dose. |
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| The panel endorsed the use of Johnson & Johnson boosters for people 18 years and older, at least two months after the initial, one-shot vaccination. |
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| The decision comes a day after the panel recommended Moderna boosters for adults 65 and up, people 18-64 with other health problems, and those with high-risk jobs. |
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| During today’s discussion, the panel is also examining new data on mixing and matching boosters from different drugmakers. |
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| Johnson & Johnson recipients may be better off getting Pfizer or Moderna’s mRNA boosters, which were shown to have better antibody response, a National Institutes of Health study released earlier this week found. |
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| FDA panel recommends Johnson & Johnson booster for emergency use authorization |
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- The U.S. will lift its travel ban for fully vaccinated visitors from the European Union, the U.K. and other countries beginning Nov. 8.
- The FDA has delayed its decision on authorizing Moderna’s Covid vaccine for 12- to 17-year-olds, to investigate the potential risk of a rare inflammatory heart condition, The Wall Street Journal reported.
- Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die from Covid than vaccinated people in August, new CDC data shows.
- Italy has instituted what some have called the world’s toughest vaccine mandate, requiring all workers to show a “Green Pass” to go to work.
- Roughly 43,000 people in England may have received wrong Covid test results, due to errors at a private laboratory, British health officials said.
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Capitol Police officer charged with obstruction of justice |
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| Officer Michael A. Riley, a 25-year veteran of the force, is accused of telling a man who took part in the riot to delete visual evidence from his Facebook page, the documents show. |
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| “[I']m a capitol police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Riley said in a Facebook direct message, according to the indictment. |
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| “Take down the part about being in the building they are correctly investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charged. Just looking out!” |
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| Riley has been placed on leave, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said. He appeared virtually in federal court today and was released with conditions. |
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Bill Clinton hospitalized with non-Covid infection |
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| Former President Bill Clinton remains hospitalized today in Southern California, for what’s been described as a non-Covid infection. |
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| “On Tuesday evening, President Clinton was admitted to UCI Medical Center to receive treatment,” Clinton’s spokesman said in a statement. |
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| “He is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care.” |
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| A source close to Clinton said he is in intensive care “as a precautionary measure,” and that the original infection was diagnosed as urologic, but then morphed into something broader. |
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U.K. lawmaker stabbed to death while meeting with voters |
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| A British lawmaker was stabbed to death today during a regular meeting with constituents, police said. |
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| David Amess, 69, a Conservative member of Parliament, was attacked at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, about 30 miles east of London, his office said. |
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| A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder, and a knife has been recovered, according to police. |
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| Police have not publicly identified the suspect, and have given no immediate information on the motive. |
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| A U.K. counterterror unit is leading investigation, but they have not yet determined if was a terror attack. |
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| Amess leaves behind a wife and five children. |
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Texas superintendent apologizes for Holocaust firestorm |
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| The superintendent of the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas is apologizing after Nightly News aired a secretly recorded audio tape of a top administrator telling teachers to present an “opposing” view of the Holocaust. |
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| “I express my sincere apology regarding the online article and news story released today,” Supt. Lane Ledbetter wrote in a Facebook post. |
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| “The comments made were in no way to convey that the Holocaust was anything less than a terrible event in history,” Lane wrote. “Additionally, we recognize there are not two sides of the Holocaust.” |
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| Gina Peddy, the district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the remark during a recent training session. |
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| In an audio recording obtained by NBC News, Peddy can be heard advising teachers that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they must also offer a book with an “opposing” view. |
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| Peddy made the comment in reference to a new Texas law requiring teachers to present multiple viewpoints on “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. Peddy did not respond to messages requesting comment. |
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| Ledbetter said in his Facebook post that the bill “does not require an opposing viewpoint on historical facts,” and that the district will “work to add clarity to our expectations for teachers.” |
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| Southlake teachers told to balance Holocaust books with ‘opposing’ view |
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What else we’re watching: |
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- The Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to halt Texas’ abortion law, after a federal appeals panel allowed the law to remain in place.
- Nikolas Cruz will plead guilty to all 17 counts of murder in the 2018 Parkland High School shooting rampage, his attorneys said.
- A suicide bombing attack at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan killed at least 47 people and injured 70, a Taliban official said.
- Hundreds fled a “lava tsunami” on the Spanish resort island of La Palma, where a volcano has been erupting for weeks.
- China launched three astronauts, including one woman, on a historic mission to the country’s new Tiangong space station.
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