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Top CNS stories for today including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler subpoenaed the Justice Department for an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; The en banc Ninth Circuit ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to decide by mid-July whether to ban a widely used pesticide that the agency’s own scientists have said is harmful to childhood development; A riot against police broke out in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry and a 29-year-old journalist covering the unrest was shot to death, and more.

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1.) Following through on an oft-repeated threat, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler subpoenaed the Justice Department on Friday for an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

2.) The en banc Ninth Circuit ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to decide by mid-July whether to ban a widely used pesticide that the agency’s own scientists have said is harmful to childhood development.

3.) A former runner to an NBA agent headed to trial next week in the college hoops scandal lost his bid Friday to have two big-name coaches take the stand.

Regional

Louise Turpin, far left, and her husband David, third from left, pleaded guilty to torturing their 12 children and several other charges in Riverside County Superior Court on Feb. 22, 2019. (Nathan Solis/CNS)

4.) A husband and wife who chained, tortured and starved their children for several years in their suburban Southern California home were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday, but not before hearing their children still pray for them.

Girls play in a yeshiva schoolyard on April 9, 2019, in the Williamsburg section of New York. 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)

5.) A judge has blocked New York from using public funds to force secular education goals, like learning how to read and write in English, on ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools.

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Johanna Morrow plays the didgeridoo during a memorial service for Justine Damond in Minneapolis. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has convened a grand jury in the July 2017 police shooting of Damond by Minneapolis Officer Mohamed Noor. Freeman said previously he would no longer use grand juries in police shootings, and would decide those cases himself. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, File)

6.) The former partner of an ex-Minnesota police officer on trial for killing an unarmed Australian woman testified that the use of deadly force was premature in the circumstances they faced.

FILE - In this March 14, 2019 file photograph, a Planned Parenthood supporter hosts an abortion rights button on her hat during a rally on the steps of the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, Mississippi senators passed the final version of a bill that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

7.) A federal judge blocked Utah from enforcing a recently passed ban on abortions after 18 weeks, a law the Salt Lake City District Attorney’s office said it cannot legally enforce.

International

A car burns after petrol bombs were thrown at police in the Creggan area of Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

8.) A riot against police broke out Thursday night in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry, long a center of sectarian conflict, and a 29-year-old journalist covering the unrest was shot to death, authorities said.

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