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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including European Union regulators accused tech giant Apple of anticompetitive practices in the music streaming market; Florida lawmakers passed new regulations governing vote-by-mail eligibility and tightened rules around ballot drop boxes; A blockbuster burst of GDP growth and huge corporate earnings did little to spur the bulls on Wall Street this week, and more.

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Top eight stories for today including European Union regulators accused tech giant Apple of anticompetitive practices in the music streaming market; Florida lawmakers passed new regulations governing vote-by-mail eligibility and tightened rules around ballot drop boxes; A blockbuster burst of GDP growth and huge corporate earnings did little to spur the bulls on Wall Street this week, and more.

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National

1.) A blockbuster burst of GDP growth and huge corporate earnings did little to spur the bulls on Wall Street this week, who seemed more inclined to “sell the news” than buy any more of the rumor.

American flags hang outside of the New York Stock Exchange. (Frank Franklin II/AP)

2.) President Joe Biden is expected to restrict travel to India on Tuesday in light of the South Asian country’s spike in Covid-19 caseloads and numerous variants of the disease.

A COVID-19 patient attended by a health worker inside a vehicle at a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. A fire killed 13 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in western India early Friday as an extreme surge in coronavirus infections leaves the nation short of medical care and oxygen. India reported another global record in daily infections for a second straight day Friday, adding 332,730 new cases. The surge already has driven its fragile health systems to the breaking point with understaffed hospitals overflowing with patients and critically short of supplies. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Regional

3.) Echoing voting reform laws adopted by a growing number of Republican-dominated state legislatures, Florida lawmakers passed new regulations governing vote-by-mail eligibility and tightened rules around ballot drop boxes.

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, an election worker stamps a vote-by-mail ballot dropped off by a voter before placing it in an official ballot drop box before at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla. Ballot drop boxes were enormously popular during the 2020 election, with few problems reported. Yet they have drawn the attention of Republican lawmakers in key states who say security concerns warrant new restrictions. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

4.) Texas’ capital city had a public camping ban in place for 23 years before it was repealed in 2019. Austinites are now voting on whether to revive it.

Tents are seen in a homeless encampment on East 7th Street in Austin, Texas, along with a Vote No on Prop B sign. (Courthouse News photo/Madison Venza)

5.) Two-hundred fifty unaccompanied immigrant children from El Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries are set to arrive at a temporary emergency shelter in Los Angeles County on Saturday.

Cots and stuffed animals await unaccompanied immigrant children at a temporary emergency shelter at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles County. Some 250 children will arrive at the facility on May 1, 2021. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)

6.) A crowded field of 23 candidates made their final push Friday on the eve of a special election to replace Texas Congressman Ron Wright, the first sitting member of Congress to die after contracting Covid-19.

Sign supporting various candidates sit outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

International

7.) Opening a new chapter in Europe’s efforts to rein in Big Tech, European Union regulators on Friday accused U.S. tech giant Apple of anticompetitive practices in the music streaming market.

The sun reflects on Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York in June 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

8.) As India suffers a catastrophic wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, the World Health Organization on Friday highlighted South America’s persistently terrible situation as evidence that the pandemic has entered a new horrible phase.

People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. India set another global record in new virus cases Thursday, as millions of people in one state cast votes despite rising infections and the country geared up to open its vaccination rollout to all adults amid snags. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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