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Top eight stories for today including Facebook continued its ban of Donald Trump; Spain’s ruling left-wing coalition government suffered a bitter defeat in a Madrid election; The U.S. could see a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases by July, and more.

/ May 5, 2021
President Donald Trump pictured in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Top eight stories for today including Facebook continued its ban of Donald Trump; Spain’s ruling left-wing coalition government suffered a bitter defeat in a Madrid election; The U.S. could see a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases by July, and more.

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National

1.) With approval from its board, Facebook continued its ban of Donald Trump on Wednesday, but the decision says the tech giant has a duty to reassess the indefinite penalty it handed the former U.S. president following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump pictured in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

2.) A federal judge on Wednesday struck down the nationwide halt on evictions, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority to help millions of renting Americans who were pushed out of work with the outbreak of Covid-19. 

Apartments available to rent in Richmond, Va., once considered among the worst cities in the country for evictions, progressive Democrats hope to enshrine covid-related tenant protection laws into the state’s notoriously landlord friendly law books. (Courthouse News photo / Brad Kutner)

3.) The United States could see a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases by July, according to new models released by researchers in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

A guest at the Fraunces Tavern takes his temperature using a mounted thermometer before touring the museum in Lower Manhattan on May 1, 2021. (Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News)

Regional

4.) Twisted up in a modern-day Gordian knot, several justices on the Connecticut Supreme Court worried Wednesday that they could open the door for lawsuits involving lesbians, fat men or cordoned-off pools if they OK women-only sections at gyms.

(Image by David Mark from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

5.) “Nobody has been killed by a breast,” an attorney for a group of women argued before a Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday as he assailed Ocean City, Maryland’s ban on topless women.  

Women participate in Go Topless Day, organized by the Free the Nipple Campaign at Hampton Beach, N.H., on Aug. 26, 2017. The Supreme Court in New Hampshire will hear arguments on Feb. 1, 2018 in the case of three women who are challenging a Laconia ordinance that bans them from going topless. (Ioanna Raptis/Portsmouth Herald via AP, FIle)

6.) Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who was fired and charged with murder after fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks last summer, has been reinstated by the city’s Civil Service Board.

Children take in the burned Wendy's location in Atlanta on Monday, June 15, 2020, outside which Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer Friday night. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

International

7.) Spain’s ruling left-wing coalition government suffered a bitter defeat in an election for Madrid, the capital, after anti-lockdown champion Isabel Diaz Ayuso, a pugnacious 42-year-old rising star on the right, scored a resounding reelection on Tuesday.

Supporters of conservative Madrid president Isabel Diaz Ayuso wave flags outside the popular party headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Madrid residents voted in droves for a new regional assembly in an election that tests the depths of resistance to virus lockdown measures and the divide between left-wing and right-wing parties. Regional President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who called the early election by dissolving her center-right coalition, had set off to broaden her power base and open up to an alliance with the far-right. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

8.) Researchers testing a set of Paris climate accord targets with Antarctic ice models made an alarming discovery: unchecked global warming could push sea levels past a tipping point in just 40 years.

In understanding the impact of climate change on sea-level rise, Greenland’s Helheim Glacier is a possible analog for the future behavior of the much larger glaciers on Antarctica. (Photo courtesy of Knut Christianson)
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