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Top eight stories for today including a car rammed into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and hit two police officers, killing one; New CDC guidance stops short of fully clearing vaccinated people for travel; American employers added a whopping 916,000 jobs last month, and more.

/ April 2, 2021
Police officers gather near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including a car rammed into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and hit two police officers, killing one; New CDC guidance stops short of fully clearing vaccinated people for travel; American employers added a whopping 916,000 jobs last month, and more.

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National

1.) A car rammed into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and hit two police officers Friday afternoon, killing one. The suspect is also dead.

U.S. Capitol Police officers stand near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

2.) New guidance from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that it’s safe for fully vaccinated people to travel while masked and taking other precautions. But the agency’s director still does not recommend unnecessary travel. 

A traveler with Global Entry or TSA PreCheck goes through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 26, 2020. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)

3.) American employers added a whopping 916,000 jobs last month, the most since last August, while the unemployment rate fell to 6%.

A roadside banner beckons potential employees outside Channel Control Merchants LLC, an extreme value retailer and exporter of brand sensitive secondary market inventories, in Hattiesburg, Miss., March 27, 2021. With hopes growing for a strong snapback in hiring this year, Friday, April 2 monthly jobs report will provide crucial insight into whether those sunny expectations will come true. The most optimistic economists are predicting the report could show a cool 1 million jobs were added in March. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

4.) “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah pleaded not guilty Friday to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges connected to a nationwide telemarketing scheme that bilked millions from hundreds of victims.

The cast of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." Shah is second from the right. (Credit: Jen Shah's Instagram)

5.) The Second Circuit backed the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday for its use of a photograph of guitar superhero Eddie Van Halen in an online exhibit catalog.

Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York. (Met image via Courthouse News)

Regional

6.) Major League Baseball announced Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s controversial new voting restrictions.

San Francisco Giants' Austin Slater steals second base during the fourth inning of a March 2021 spring training baseball game against the Cleveland Indians in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

7.) Two of Derek Chauvin’s superiors in the Minneapolis Police Department took the stand Friday in his murder trial for the death of George Floyd, describing their handling of the scene at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in the aftermath of Floyd’s deadly arrest and discussing the responsibilities of officers in the course of an arrest. 

In this image from video, witness Lt. Richard Zimmerman of the Minneapolis Police Department, testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Friday, April 2, 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)

8.) Prosecutors have charged the California man accused of killing four people in a mass shooting Wednesday with four counts of murder and two charges of attempted murder of a police officer.

Officials work outside the scene of a shooting, Thursday, April 1, 2021 in Orange, Calif. The gunman who killed four people and wounded a fifth at an office complex knew all the victims either through business or personally, Southern California police said Thursday. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)
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