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Top eight stories for today including California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a sweeping ban of new fracking permits; A CDC advisory panel voted to recommend the continued use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine; The pandemic is entering a new deadly phase as India suffers a catastrophic rise in novel coronavirus infections and deaths, and more.

/ April 23, 2021
Pumpjacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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Top eight stories for today including California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a sweeping ban of new fracking permits; A CDC advisory panel voted to recommend the continued use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine; The pandemic is entering a new deadly phase as India suffers a catastrophic rise in novel coronavirus infections and deaths, and more.

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National

1.) One day after President Joe Biden announced America’s goal to cleave carbon emissions in half by 2030, a bevy of his administration’s envoys joined him Friday in the final day of the White House climate summit to lay out their ambitious plan for achieving that mission.

In this screenshot from a livestream, President Joe Biden speaks Friday, April 23, the final day of the White House climate talks, where he stressed that there is “incredible opportunity” to revitalize the U.S. economy and turn it toward a fully renewable future. (Screenshot courtesy of the White House via Courthouse News)

2.) An independent advisory panel for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to recommend the continued use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after the single-dose jab was put on pause over blood clotting concerns.

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, a vial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is displayed at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y. With the U.S. pause of the vaccine, authorities are weighing whether to resume the shots the way European regulators decided to -- with warnings of a “very rare” risk. New guidance is expected late Friday, April 23, after a government advisory panel deliberates a link between the shot and a handful of vaccine recipients who developed highly unusual blood clots. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

3.) The D.C. Circuit appeared set Friday to reverse a federal ban on electric-shock devices, which are used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior in only one facility in the entire nation: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts. 

(Photo courtesy of Citizens Commission on Human Rights via Courthouse News)

Regional

4.) California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday issued a sweeping ban of new fracking permits, claiming the popular oil extraction method contradicts the state’s future climate change goals and must be phased out.

Pumpjacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

5.) California’s recall free-for-all has officially kicked-off, with former Olympic gold medalist turned reality TV personality — and transgender rights activist — Caitlyn Jenner throwing her hat into the gubernatorial ring.

FILE - Caitlyn Jenner attends the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sept. 7, 2019. Jenner says she will run for governor of California. Jenner says in statement posted Friday, April 23, on Twitter that she has filed initial paperwork to run. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a likely recall election this year. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

6.) Waiving a reading of the new indictment against her, Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Friday at a 9-minute, in-person arraignment related to her alleged support of Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious sex ring.

Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of late British publisher Robert Maxwell, reads a statement on Nov. 7, 1991, expressing her family's gratitude to Spanish authorities after recovery of her father's body. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard, File)

International

7.) The pandemic is entering a new deadly phase as India, the world’s second most populous nation with nearly 1.3 billion people, suffers a catastrophic rise in novel coronavirus infections and deaths.

People stand in a queue to refill oxygen in cylinders in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 23, 2021. India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi on Friday begged on social media for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. India’s underfunded health system is tattering as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set another global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730. (AP Photo)

8.) The technology is near ubiquitous: the thin, plastic lining found in aluminum soda cans. On Thursday, a jury in East Tennessee convicted a chemist who once worked at Coca-Cola of stealing information about that technology for the Chinese government.

A worker drives a forklift at a Swire Coca-Cola Beverages Hubei Limited plant in Wuhan, China, on March 24, 2020. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)
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