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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including a spending spree is on tap in California; The World Health Organization told richer countries to delay vaccinating children and donate vaccines to other nations; House lawmakers reached a consensus on the makeup, power and investigative scope of a commission that will investigate the Capitol insurrection, and more.

/ May 14, 2021

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Top eight stories for today including a spending spree is on tap in California; The World Health Organization told richer countries to delay vaccinating children and donate vaccines to other nations; House lawmakers reached a consensus on the makeup, power and investigative scope of a commission that will investigate the Capitol insurrection, and more.

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National

1.) Four months after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, House lawmakers reached a consensus Friday on the makeup, power and investigative scope of a commission that will investigate the event.

A scene from the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, with one man reclining in Speaker Pelosi's office, his feet on the desk. (Justice Department via Courthouse News)

2.) A national landlord group brought its case challenging a federal directive halting residential evictions to the 11th Circuit on Friday, arguing that the order has forced landlords to give unlimited free housing to delinquent tenants without proper legal recourse.

Signs reading “No Job No Rent” hang from the windows of an apartment building in Northwest Washington, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

3.) Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was elected to chair the GOP conference in a 134-46 secret-ballot vote behind closed doors on Friday, replacing Representative Liz Cheney who was ousted from the position earlier this week.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., arrives as House GOP members hold an election for a new chair of the House Republican Conference to replace Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was ousted from the GOP leadership for criticizing former President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 14, 2021. Stefanik is a key Trump ally who was endorsed by Republican leaders. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Regional

4.) After a year of pandemic-induced sweeping budget cuts that ripped billions from schools and popular social programs, a spending spree is on tap in California.

5.) What would you do with 1,000 guitars? Gordon Close, an 81-year-old jazz guitarist on the outskirts of Denver, is sending them to the troops overseas and to disabled veterans at home. He designed the guitars and had them built too.

Gordon Close plays one of his custom-made Harvest Guitars at his music store in Englewood, Colorado. He has sent 900 of them to our troops overseas and to injured veterans at home through his charity, Harvest Guitars for the Troops. (Courthouse News photo/Robert Kahn)

6.) A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a federal jury verdict finding the popular weed killer Roundup caused a Bay Area man’s lymphoma, rejecting manufacturer Monsanto’s argument that federal law prevented it from including a warning on its product label.

7.) The Texas Legislature is looking at whether psychedelic drugs could provide relief to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, file photo, this photo provided by the U.S. Army, paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division walk as they prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, N.C. (Spc. Hubert Delany III/U.S. Army via AP, File)

International

8.) With so much of the world still unvaccinated, the chief of the World Health Organization on Friday told richer countries to delay vaccinating children and donate vaccines to fight a pandemic that is dangerously spreading through Southeast Asia.

Sri Lankan health workers administer Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 as a police officer stands guard in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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