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Top eight stories for today including nearly half of all eligible California residents are at least partly vaccinated; President Biden signed an executive order issuing tough new sanctions on Russia over the SolarWinds hack; The EU’s highest court upheld a bloc-wide ban on pulse fishing, and more.

/ April 15, 2021
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters at a coronavirus vaccination site in Alameda County on April 15, 2021.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including nearly half of all eligible California residents are at least partly vaccinated; President Biden signed an executive order issuing tough new sanctions on Russia over the SolarWinds hack; The EU’s highest court upheld a bloc-wide ban on pulse fishing, and more.

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National

1.) President Joe Biden signed an executive order issuing tough new sanctions on Russia Thursday, officially identifying Russia as the perpetrator behind the hack of Texas-based company SolarWinds discovered in late 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The centre was set up as a line of communication with the whole of Russia for analysing and collecting information, promptly using big data and solving arising problems. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

2.) The prospects for alleviating the drought afflicting a large portion of the American West are not good, according to weather forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

Regional

3.) Greatly outpacing all other states in administering the Covid-19 vaccine, California Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday nearly half of all eligible residents are at least partly vaccinated.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters at a coronavirus vaccination site in Alameda County on April 15, 2021.

4.) Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney rested his case Thursday in the former Minneapolis police officer’s murder trial for the killing of George Floyd after Chauvin himself declined to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incriminating testimony. 

Defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during motions before the court Thursday, April 15, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

5.) Two men convicted under New Jersey’s Anti-Terrorism Act for fire-bombing and vandalizing five Jewish houses of worship nearly a decade ago lost appellate challenges Thursday.

FILE - In this May 19, 2017 file photo a bell a church bell with the inscription "Everything for the fatherland Adolf Hitler" and a swastika is pictured in the town church in Herxheim am Berg, western Germany. The small town in southwestern Germany has decided to keep the church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler ringing, but as a memorial to spark dialogue about violence and injustice, the dpa news agency reported Tuesday Feb.27, 2018. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP, file)

6.) Body-camera video depicting a police shooting in Chicago that left a young teen dead was released to the public on Thursday.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses the videos of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer, during a news conference at City Hall, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Lightfoot urged the public to remain peaceful and reserve judgement until an independent board can complete its investigation into the police shooting of Toledo last month. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

International

7.) Upholding a European Union-wide ban on pulse fishing Thursday, the bloc’s highest court dealt a major blow Thursday to a common fishing practice in the Netherlands where fish are dislodged from their seabeds and then scooped into nets via electrodes that cause muscle spasms.

(Image by Hans Kemperman from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

8.) A magistrate for Europe’s top court on Thursday sided with an outspoken Polish judge who accuses the country’s far-right government of seeking to capture the judiciary by harassing judges it doesn’t like and trying to kick them off the bench.

On Oct. 8, 2018, government opponents with signs reading "Constitution" protest an overhaul of the justice system and the forced early retirement of Supreme Court judges aged 65 and above, before the court's building in Warsaw, Poland. The European Union's top court ordered Poland on Oct. 19, 2018, to immediately suspend the politically charged legal change. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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