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Top eight stories for today including President Joe Biden nominated a slew of diverse candidates to fill vacant seats on federal district and circuit courts; The second day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial for the death of George Floyd kicked off with tense, emotional testimony; World leaders issued a call for an international treaty to prevent and fight future pandemics, and more.

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1.) Keeping to a promise to diversify the halls of government from the White House on down, President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated a slew of candidates to fill vacant seats on federal district and circuit courts.

President Joe Biden walks off after a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

2.) In oral arguments on Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court attempted to decide whether all 8,815 plaintiffs in a class action are entitled to monetary damages for being falsely flagged as a suspected terrorist or drug trafficker.

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jack Rodgers/Courthouse News)

3.) President Joe Biden signed a bill Tuesday giving small businesses another 90 days to receive federal assistance for their payrolls.

President Joe Biden visits Smith Flooring, Inc., in Chester, Pa., Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Regional

4.) The second day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial for the death of George Floyd kicked off with a morning of tense, emotional testimony from some of those who watched Floyd’s fatal arrest from the street.

In this image from video, witness Donald Williams wipes his eyes as he answers questions, as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

5.) Special prosecutors set up to prosecute the sexual abuse of people with special needs unconstitutionally usurped the jurisdiction of local district attorneys, New York’s high court ruled on Tuesday.

The Halpern House in Manorville, New York, is one of 35 supervised residence communities that the Independent Group Home Living Program operates throughout Suffolk County. (IGHA image via Courthouse News)

International

6.) World leaders and the World Health Organization called Tuesday for an international treaty to prevent a repeat of the coronavirus pandemic, a disaster that’s killed about 3 million people, ravaged the world’s economy and shred global trust.

European Council President Charles Michel, displayed in screens, speaks during an online joint press conference with Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

7.) The political and scientific conflict between the United States and China over the origins of the coronavirus ravaging the world deepened on Tuesday after the World Health Organization issued a long-awaited report into what an international team of experts discovered about the virus during a trip to Wuhan.

Statues along a street are seen with masks placed on them as a WHO mission team visits Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Feb. 9, 2021. A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is "extremely unlikely," according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

8.) Europe’s human rights court on Tuesday said there was no basis to a Maltese businessman’s complaints that he was unfairly held in prison on charges he orchestrated the assassination of an investigative journalist.

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, forensic police work on the main road in Bidnija, Malta, which leads to the house of Daphne Caruana Galizia, looking for evidence on the blast that killed the investigative journalist. Maltese authorities say a man arrested in a money-laundering case claims to have information identifying the mastermind behind the car-bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

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