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Top eight stories for today including a federal grand jury brought civil rights charges against the four former police officers involved with the death of George Floyd; Brexit acted as a strong undercurrent as voters went to the polls in regional and local elections in the United Kingdom; Texas Republicans passed a controversial voting reform bill after an all-night legislative session, and more.

/ May 7, 2021
From left: Former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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Top eight stories for today including a federal grand jury brought civil rights charges against the four former police officers involved with the death of George Floyd; Brexit acted as a strong undercurrent as voters went to the polls in regional and local elections in the United Kingdom; Texas Republicans passed a controversial voting reform bill after an all-night legislative session, and more.

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National

1.) A federal grand jury brought civil rights charges early Friday against the four former police officers involved with the death of George Floyd.

From left: Former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

2.) The U.S. economy added only 266,000 jobs last month, marking a sharp slowdown in hiring and raising concerns over the pace of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

A man walks past a now-hiring sign outside a Marc's Store in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. (Tony Dejak/AP)

Regional

3.) Around 3 a.m. Friday morning, the Texas House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 7 on a party-line vote that followed hours of debate and over a dozen amendments being added to the controversial election bill. 

State Rep. Sheryl Cole, D- Austin, clasps hands with Susan Gezana, as Cole entered the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin on Thursday May 6, 2021, to debate House Bill 6, a bill that would create new election-related crimes, boost penalties for existing crimes and raise the profile of partisan poll watchers. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP)

4.) A conservative advocacy organization and Wisconsin clergy sued the state corrections department on Friday over a Covid-19 policy restricting ministers’ access to prisoners, claiming it violates state law.

The Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee, Wis. (Image by sdmsteadtaz from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

5.) Oklahoma officials announced Friday the state will receive a full $2.6 million refund for its stockpile of hydroxychloroquine, months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use authorization for the malaria drug as a Covid-19 treatment due to lack of effectiveness.

FILE - This Monday, April 6, 2020 file photo shows an arrangement of hydroxychloroquine tablets in Las Vegas. According to results released on Thursday, May 7, 2020, a new study finds no evidence of benefit from a malaria drug widely promoted as a treatment for coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 consecutive patients treated at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. (AP Photo/John Locher)

6.) The Massachusetts Supreme Court struggled Friday to figure out when a parent can be called to testify if their child is accused of a crime.

Plexiglas shields the courtroom witness stand in the Southern District of New York's Daniel Moynihan Courthouse — part of a remodel with public health in mind for reopening the courthouse during the coronavirus pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Adam Klasfeld)

International

7.) The historic Brexit decision to leave the European Union acted as a strong undercurrent as voters went to the polls in regional and local elections in the United Kingdom.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for photographers with Jill Mortimer, the winning Conservative Party candidate of the Hartlepool by-election, at Hartlepool Marina, in Hartlepool, north east England, Friday, May 7, 2021. Britain's governing Conservative Party made further inroads in the north of England on Friday, winning a by-election in the post-industrial town of Hartlepool for a parliamentary seat that the main opposition Labour Party had held since its creation in 1974. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

8.) With the coronavirus pandemic in the midst of a new deadly wave, the World Health Organization on Friday praised the United States for supporting a waiver on vaccine patents and approved the use of a Chinese vaccine, important steps in efforts to expand global vaccination.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a medical worker poses with a vial of the Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine in Belgrade, Serbia. A key World Health Organization panel is set on Friday, May 7 to decide whether to authorize emergency of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine. The review by a WHO technical advisory group potentially paves the way for millions of doses of a Sinopharm vaccine to reach needy countries through a U.N.-backed distribution program in the coming weeks or months. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file)
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