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Top CNS stories for today including Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers he expects to be ready to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report within a week; Executives from Facebook and Google faced tough questions during a congressional hearing about efforts to stop the spread of hate on their platforms; The chairmen of five House committees fired off multiple demand letters on the government’s refusal to defend the federal health care law, and more.

Your Tuesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers he expects to be ready to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report within a week; Executives from Facebook and Google faced tough questions during a congressional hearing about efforts to stop the spread of hate on their platforms; The chairmen of five House committees fired off multiple demand letters on the government’s refusal to defend the federal health care law, and more.

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National

In his first appearance on Capitol Hill since taking office, and amid intense speculation over his review of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, Attorney General William Barr arrives at a House Appropriations subcommittee on April 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

1.) Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers Tuesday he expects to be ready to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report within a week.

2.) Since 2008, hazardous materials that can be recycled have been excluded from federal waste-disposal rules. An Earthjustice attorney fought Tuesday to vacate this exemption.

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018, file photo, a man using a mobile phone walks past Google offices in New York. Executives from Google and Facebook are facing Congress Tuesday, April 8, 2019, to answer questions about their role in the hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

3.) Reports of hate crimes and online messaging promoting white nationalism are on the rise and executives from Facebook and Google faced tough questions Tuesday from lawmakers about efforts to stop the spread of hate on their platforms.

The White House is seen behind security barriers in Washington on March 24, 2019. A White House official turned whistleblower says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted access to classified information despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds including concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

4.) Before grilling the attorney general about it in person Tuesday, the chairmen of five House committees fired off multiple demand letters on the government’s refusal to defend the federal health care law. 

Regional

5.) The Judicial Council of California inefficiently ran a program that assigned retired judges to fill in for shorthanded trial courts, the state auditor found in a report released Tuesday.

A woman, right, who identified herself as Ester, passes a group of boys, Tuesday in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Ester says that she does not believe that the measles vaccination is safe. The city health department ordered all ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in a neighborhood of Brooklyn on Monday to exclude unvaccinated students from classes during the current measles outbreak. In issuing the order, the health department said that any yeshiva in Williamsburg that does not comply will face fines and possible closure.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

6.) An Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn faces a mandatory vaccination order after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday, responding to a measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds.

Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor leaves the Hennepin County Government Center after the first day of trial in Minneapolis on Monday, April 1, 2019. Noor is charged in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who was killed after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

7.) Jurors heard opening arguments Tuesday in the murder trial of a former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape in an alley near her home, with his defense attorney arguing he feared an ambush.

International

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2015, file photo, a man walks by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The European Court of Justice rejected efforts by Hungary and Slovakia on Sept. 6, 2017, to stay out of a European Union scheme to relocate refugees. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

8.) European Union lawmakers greenlighted an overhaul at the European Court of Justice on Tuesday, aimed at reducing the number of “repeater” cases filed in a court that has for years struggled to make a dent in its docket backlog.

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