Top 8 today

Top eight stories for today including the EU approved a partial ban on Russian oil imports as Ukraine lost ground in the war; The Supreme Court refused to block the deposition of Texas lawmakers in redistricting suits; Left-wing former Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, and more.

National

Lawyer acquitted in case from Trump ‘witch hunt’ probe

A federal jury took less than a day to find a former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer not guilty of making a false statement to the FBI’s general counsel in 2016.

Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse on May 16, 2022, in Washington. Sussmann is accused of making a false statement to the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Verdict watch begins in trial on ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud

A federal jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon at the end of a three-day trial on the fraudulent fundraiser called We Build the Wall started by former President Donald Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon.

A pair of asylum-seeking families from Brazil passes through a gap in a border wall to reach the United States after crossing into Yuma, Ariz., from Mexico in June 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

Regional

Texas lawmakers in redistricting battle can’t block deposition

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block the deposition of Texas lawmakers in redistricting suits.

A Texas state lawmaker looks at maps on display prior to a Senate Redistricting Committee hearing in Austin in 2013. (Eric Gay/AP)

Chauvin’s ‘signature move’ was kneeling on neck, civil rights lawsuits say

Two years after the murder of George Floyd by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the imprisoned former officer and city have been named in a pair of federal excessive force suits alleging that kneeling on Black people’s necks to restrain them was Chauvin’s “signature move” and that his superiors took no action to correct him.

In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing, Friday, June 25, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

International

EU approves partial embargo on Russian oil, Ukraine loses ground in Donbas

With Russian forces close to seizing a new city in eastern Ukraine, the European Union on Tuesday hit Moscow with a partial ban on Russian oil imports and the United States was mulling the delivery of new missile launchers to help Kyiv push the enemy back.

Ukrainian tanks move in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Left-wing Petro wins in Colombia’s first-round presidential election

Left-wing former Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election with 40.3% and will go head-to-head with right-wing populist and former Mayor Rodolfo Hernández in the second round after winning 28.2% of the vote.

Then-presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, left, and his running mate Francia Marquez, with the Historical Pact coalition, stand before supporters on election night in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Maintenance issues at Pemex put environment, workers and residents at risk

Much of the infrastructure of Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex is past its shelf life and in dire need of maintenance, putting workers, the public and the environment at risk of catastrophic accidents, experts and union members said.

A Pemex gas station in Mexico City. The Pemex workers union denounced a lack of maintenance in the state-owned oil company's infrastructure in late May 2022. (Cody Copeland/Courthouse News)

Rights court tosses case against Iceland over wheelchair access

An Icelandic wheelchair racer lost his case over a lack of access to government buildings at Europe’s top rights court on Tuesday.

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