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Top eight stories for today including California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed pulling $12 billion from the state’s burgeoning surplus to create nearly 50,000 new homes for people living on the street; A Senate committee grappled with what the U.S. is doing to restore order in the changing criminal landscape; A Northern Irish high court judge declared British soldiers fatally shot innocent civilians nearly 50 years ago in a West Belfast massacre, and more.

/ May 11, 2021
People are seen in a homeless encampment on Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Top eight stories for today including California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed pulling $12 billion from the state’s burgeoning surplus to create nearly 50,000 new homes for people living on the street; A Senate committee grappled with what the U.S. is doing to restore order in the changing criminal landscape; A Northern Irish high court judge declared British soldiers fatally shot innocent civilians nearly 50 years ago in a West Belfast massacre, and more.

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National

1.) As firearms have gone DIY, a Senate committee grappled Tuesday with what the United States is doing to restore order in the changing criminal landscape.

This screenshot from livestream shows Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison testifying remotely at a hearing Tuesday, May 11, of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Image via Courthouse News)

2.) Marking a big step in the Biden administration’s clean energy goals, federal officials on Tuesday announced the approval of a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.

(Image by shannynkm from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

3.) Shutting down conspiracy theories with aplomb while offering his characteristically blunt assessment of the challenges that still lay in the global war against Covid-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci told members of a Senate health committee that the key lies in greater vaccination rates.

Dr. Anthony Fauci urged members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on Tuesday to keep vaccination rates up in order to bring about a return of pre-pandemic life. (Link courtesy of the committee via Courthouse News)

4.) President Joe Biden heard from a group of state governors Tuesday about how pop-up clinics and prizes are supplementing the data– and community-driven effort to get their citizens vaccinated.

English Norman and her 12-year-old daughter, Jane Ellen Norman, pose for a photo outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Jane Ellen and her 14-year-old brother Owen were vaccinated Tuesday morning, just after U.S. regulators expanded use of Pfizer's COVID-19 shot to those as young as 12. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

Regional

5.) With budget negotiations heating up, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed pulling $12 billion from the state’s burgeoning surplus to create nearly 50,000 new homes for people living on the street.

People are seen in a homeless encampment on Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

6.) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit in state court Tuesday challenging St. Louis County’s measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speaks during a news conference in St. Louis in August 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

International

7.) A Northern Irish high court judge on Tuesday declared that British soldiers fatally shot innocent civilians nearly 50 years ago in a West Belfast massacre that foreshadowed the infamous Bloody Sunday killings that helped ignite a decades-long sectarian conflict known as the Troubles.

Relatives arrive for the inquest into the Ballymurphy shooting, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

8.) A 1,000 euro ($1,200) fine plus a symbolic sum of one euro for leaking secret Luxembourg tax documents did not violate the rights of an ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, Europe’s top rights court found on Tuesday. 

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2013 file photo, a train passes over a stone bridge in Luxembourg. Luxembourg on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 denied claims, made in various international media outlets, that Luxembourg is still a massive tax haven despite European Union legislation to clamp down on it. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
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