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Top eight stories for today including President Joe Biden is establishing a commission to consider reforms for the U.S. Supreme Court; The Wisconsin Supreme Court left tens of thousands of contested voter registrations on the rolls for now; A week of violence in Northern Ireland is poised to extend into the weekend, and more.

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1.) The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden will sign an executive order establishing a commission to consider reforms for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

2.) Following promising results from its tests in adolescents and younger teenagers, Pfizer has submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand emergency use of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine to people 12 to 15 years old.

Syringes with doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, are shown next to vaccination cards, Saturday, March 13, 2021, on the first day of operations at a mass vaccination site at the Lumen Field Events Center in Seattle, which adjoins the field where the NFL football Seattle Seahawks and the MLS soccer Seattle Sounders play their games. The site, which is the largest civilian-run vaccination site in the country, will operate only a few days a week until city and county officials can get more doses of the vaccine. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

3.) President Joe Biden sent his 2022 federal budget request to Congress on Friday, asking legislators for money to help him prioritize low-income schools, public health programs and climate change-fighting ventures.

FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for the federal budget on Friday, asking for an 8.4% increase in agency operating budgets with substantial gains for Democratic priorities like education, health care, housing and environmental protection. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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4.) The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state elections commission is not bound by state law to quickly purge from the voter rolls the registrations of people who may have moved, leaving tens of thousands of contested registrations on the lists for now.

People line up to vote outside the Greenfield Community Center in Greenfield, Wis., on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020. (Morry Gash/AP)

5.) The labor union whose failed bid to organize the first Amazon fulfillment center in the United States vowed Friday to file objections to the election that showed workers rejected the unionization effort by a wide margin.

The Amazon fulfilment center in Bessemer, Ala., where workers are voting by mail on whether to form a union. If they’re successful, it will be the first Amazon plant to unionize in the United States. (Courthouse News photo/Daniel Jackson)

6.) A California lawmaker teamed up with the Los Angeles district attorney Friday to announce a bill that would reform how juvenile crimes are counted in statewide sentencing practices.

Teenagers head toward the gym at Caddo Juvenile Detention Center in Shreveport in April 2020. (AP Photo/Val Horvath, The Times)

International

7.) A week of violence in Northern Ireland is poised to extend into the weekend, which coincides with the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

Nationalist youths gesture towards a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain's exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

8.) The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen with deaths and infections increasing in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.

FILE - In this April 7, 2021, file photo, people attend the burial of a relative who died from complications related to COVID-19 at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nations around the world set new records Thursday, April 8, for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections, and the disease surged even in some countries that have kept the virus in check. Brazil became just the third country, after the U.S. and Peru, to report a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths exceeding 4,000. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

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