The case to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant

Former President Donald Trump has until Friday afternoon to decide whether to approve a request to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman returns to the campaign trail after suffering a life-threatening stroke. The U.S. women’s national soccer team is one step closer to sealing their equal pay agreement.

🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert, and here's Friday's news.

🌅 Up first: A nude photo of rocker Tommy Lee posted on Instagram was online for nearly four hours – sparking outrage from people calling out a double standard with Meta-owned social media platforms' community guidelines. Read more

Will Trump oppose request to unseal search warrant? He says he won't

Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers have until 3 p.m. ET Friday to decide whether to approve the Justice Department's request to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and related materials. This comes after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice filed a motion to unseal the warrant and property receipt from a search FBI agents conducted Monday at Trump's estate in South Florida. Trump said he will not fight the move.

The case for unsealing: Show the public what the FBI was looking for and what property was seized during the search.

• Trump could block: The decision to unseal ultimately belongs to Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, but Trump and his allies have argued the FBI is targeting him because he is considering running for president again in 2024.
• New info: Trump served subpoena at Mar-a-Lago home two months before the unprecedented FBI search.
• FBI claps back: FBI Director Christopher Wray has denounced threats by Trump's supporters against his agency.

More news to know now:

• ⚫ An armed man who tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office was killed following a standoff with police, authorities say.
• ⚠ The death toll in the Eastern Kentucky flooding hit 39 as water and electricity were restored to residents.
• 🟡 McDonald's will reopen in Ukraine, citing a ''sense of normalcy'' amid war.
• 🔵 A mistrial was declared in the Flint water crisis civil trial after the jury couldn't reach a verdict.
• 🎵 Megan Thee Stallion bares all on her brash, confident second album, ''Traumazine.''

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🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear whether the Trump Mar-a-Lago warrant might be unsealed. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker.

CDC loosens COVID-19 quarantine recommendations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping recommendations that Americans who are not up-to-date on vaccines quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person. The nation's top public health agency also said people who do test positive for the virus but show no symptoms or see symptoms improve quickly can isolate for a shorter period. Read more 

• High-risk area: Face masks are back in some Tennessee counties where transmission is high.
• If you're feeling a vacation: Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises will drop vaccination requirements for select sailings.
• Pandemic fallout: The airline industry is still reeling from the effects of COVID-19. Now thousands of flights for the fall are getting cut.
• Want to be sure you don’t have COVID? The FDA now says you'll need to pass 3 home tests.

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Inflation Reduction Act likely to pass in the House

Congress is expected on Friday to pass a major bill that includes close to $375 billion in spending related to fighting climate change. The bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, will infuse cash, subsidies and tax breaks into various sectors of the economy, all aimed at making green energy much cheaper. It's expected to reduce U.S. carbon emissions around 40% by 2030. The legislation also includes a hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program, new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share and billions left over to pay down federal deficits. Read more 

• How it goes further than the Affordable Care Act: The legislation limits out-of-pocket costs of Medicare recipients at $2,000 a year.
• Millions of people live near Superfund sites. An oil industry tax in the Inflation Reduction Act could pay to clean those up.

Fetterman plans 'raw' remarks in return to Pennsylvania Senate race

Pennsylvania Senate candidate, and the state's lieutenant governor, John Fetterman is expected to open up about his personal health challenges as he officially returns to the campaign trail Friday. The appearance will come more than 90 days after the Democrat suffered a stroke that threatened his life and political prospects in one of the nation's premier Senate contests. Fetterman will address voters Friday evening in Erie County, in the state's northwestern corner. Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has railed against Fetterman's prolonged public absence. Read more

• More politics: Republicans value Iowa caucuses as Democrats are absolutely walking away'' from the state.

ICYMI: Some of our top stories yesterday

• 📰 Vanessa Bryant exited court during a testimony about crash photos shared at a bar after her husband Kobe's death.
• 🟣 What are abortion laws like in Puerto Rico, Guam and other U.S. territories?
• 💕 Keeping sex scenes safe in Hollywood: Amanda Seyfried, more stars talk intimacy coordinators.
• ⚾ Amazon's ''League of Their Own'' is Black, queer – and in no way trying to ''remake the movie.''

$24 million settlement in USWNT's equal pay lawsuit gets preliminary approval by federal judge

The U.S. women’s national soccer team's long fight for equal pay is all but over. A federal judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval to a $24 million settlement in the USWNT’s equal pay lawsuit against U.S. Soccer, declaring it “fair, adequate and reasonable.” A hearing to grant final approval is scheduled for Dec. 5 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. With the new CBA already in effect, official resolution of the equal pay lawsuit is all that is left in the U.S. women’s decades-long and often rancorous fight for equality. Read more

• Equality in sports: A new NBA diversity study found job gains by minorities and women in the league.
• Men's soccer: FIFA moves up start for 2022 World Cup with host nation Qatar to now play Ecuador on Nov. 20.

📷 Photo of the day: See images from 'Lord of the Rings': 'Rings of Power' Season 1 📷

Amazon's "Lord of the Rings" prequel "The Rings of Power" is an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's high-fantasy world and takes place 4,000 years before the events in Peter Jackson's films. Though audiences are familiar with the tale of the One Ring in Jackson's movies, "Rings of Power" will take viewers through a chapter of Middle-earth where there were multiple rings in existence. Read more

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Associated Press contributed reporting.