Thursday, October 7 top stories
It is Thursday, October 7. Here are today’s top stories.
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer (NY) announced that there is a deal between Senate Democrats and Republicans to extend the debt ceiling to December 3. This means the country will not experience an economic crisis on October 18 because the U.S. currently owes more than it is allowed to borrow or pay. Senators said they hope to vote today. This is a short-term relief from the stress of the debt limit deadline, but December 3 is not far away.
Pfizer/BioNTech announced they have formally asked the FDA to grant emergency use authorization for their Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Last month Pfizer began submitting its data to the FDA. Pfizer said they did tests on over 2,200 children ages 5 to 11 with a 10-microgram dose of the vaccine, which is a third of the 30-microgram dose that those 12 and older receive. Pfizer said data shows that the vaccine is safe and generated a strong immune response in children. It may take several weeks or months for the FDA to grant emergency use authorization if it determines that the data is good.
On Wednesday night, a federal judge in Austin issued a preliminary injunction to block Texas’ new law that allows anyone to sue an abortion provider if they perform an abortion on someone who is over six weeks pregnant or when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
This order means abortion-related lawsuits cannot be accepted by Texas courts and that abortion providers can perform abortions after six weeks without fear of a lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman made the decision after reviewing a lawsuit against Texas from the Biden Department of Justice that argued the new law violated the U.S. Constitution.
Pittman said that his court would not allow even one more day of “this offensive deprivation of such an important right.”
Texas said it would appeal and ask the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the judge’s decision. This court is conservative leaning and previously allowed the law to go into effect.
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Court documents say a Maryland man is accused of killing his brother, who worked as a pharmacist, and two others because he believed that his brother was killing people with the Covid-19 vaccine.
Police said the suspect, Jeffrey A. Burnham, shot and killed his brother and his sister-in-law a day after killing a friend of his mother’s. This happened on September 29 and 30. After an 18-hour search, Burnham was found and arrested in West Virginia. Police said Burnham confessed to the murders.
His mother said her son exhibited fear and paranoia about the Covid-19 vaccines by telling her that he wanted to confront his brother about the government poisoning people.
A GoFundMe for the victims, Kelly and Brian Robinette, raised over $100,000 to support their two children through this time.
Brian Laundrie, who is the subject of an intense manhunt in Florida in connection to the death of his fiancé Gabby Petito, has not been found. Now his father, Christopher, is helping law enforcement with the search around the Carlton Reserve, a heavily wooded and swampy area. The Laundrie family attorney said the father was asked to point out any favorite trails or spots that Brian may have used. Brian has not been formally accused of murder, but there is a warrant out for his unauthorized use of a credit card after Gabby’s death.
Park officials at the Wupatki National Monument in Arizona said they discovered hundreds of triops, an unique creature that has three eyes and is shaped like a horseshoe crab with a tail. Eggs of triops can remain dormant for decades and they hatch when there is contact with fresh water. After heavy summer rain, there was a “temporary pond” where hundreds of triops surfaced.
A popular name for the creatures is “dinosaur shrimp.” They live only up to 90 days. You can see that they have two main eyes and a third eye behind it that senses light.
That is all the top stories for today. I’ll see you later and stay with the light.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/district-court-judge-blocks-texas-abortion-law
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/health/hfr-pfizer-covid-vaccine-fda-eua/index.html
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kelly-and-brian-robinette-memorial-fund