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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution attempting to block an arms sale between the U.S. and Israel; President Joe Biden is removing sanctions on a controversial Russian pipeline to Germany; California Governor Gavin Newsom inked legislation intended to streamline environmental review for projects over $15 million, and more.

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Top eight stories for today including Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution attempting to block an arms sale between the U.S. and Israel; President Joe Biden is removing sanctions on a controversial Russian pipeline to Germany; California Governor Gavin Newsom inked legislation intended to streamline environmental review for projects over $15 million, and more.

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National

1.) Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution on Thursday attempting to block an arms sale between the U.S. and Israel. He’s a prominent name on a growing list of progressive lawmakers trying to stop the deal.  

Smoke rises in a community in southern Israel after it was struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

2.) In a move seen as shoring up European support for America’s bid to counter the rise of China, U.S. President Joe Biden is removing sanctions on a controversial Russian pipeline to Germany.

In this Jan. 14, 2021, file photo, tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel "Fortuna" in the port of Wismar, Germany. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP)

3.) In a Senate hearing Thursday, experts told lawmakers that more resources need to be poured into forest management by means of restoration, wildfire mitigation and new carbon-sequestration technologies.

Senator Joe Manchin speaks at a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing about carbon sequestration. (Image via Courthouse News)

4.) The House of Representatives on Thursday voted 213-212 to approve $1.9 billion in emergency funding for U.S. Capitol security, almost five months after rioters stormed the building, erected gallows on its lawn and engaged in deadly clashes with police.

The U.S. Capitol is seen as national guard members pass by on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 20, 2021. The House voted to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Regional

5.) Clearing a path for new housing, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday inked legislation intended to streamline environmental review for projects over $15 million.  

A screenshot of California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a signing event for Senate Bill 7 in San Jose. The bill aims to fast-track environmental review for housing projects over $15 million to ease the Golden State's housing crisis.

6.) After an inspection of the Oklahoma park featured in the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King,” federal authorities seized almost 70 big cats because at least one of the cats may be pregnant and cubs born there would be in “grave danger.”

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, one of the tigers living at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park is pictured at the park in Wynnewood, Okla. The animals were moved to a different zoo called, Tiger King-Zoo in Thackerville, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

International

7.) In yet another blow to its beleaguered court system, Poland was told on Thursday that its long-standing practice of allowing the justice minister to move judges between courts to hear cases is a “very troubling” legal regime.

Poland's Supreme Court, a top court that is an element in Poland's conflict over its rule of law standards with the European Union's leaders, photographed in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. The European Union's executive triggered proceedings against Poland on Wednesday which could lead to sanctions, a historic first for the 28-member bloc as it struggles to keep the recalcitrant country on a democratic path. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

8.) Highlighting Norway’s status as one strongly connected to the EU yet not officially a member, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that member states cannot turn away asylum seekers out of hand if Norway has already rejected them.

Sykehustrappa is the Norwegian word for "sick house steps" The sign appears in Longyearbyen, a small coal-mining town on Spitsbergen Island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago known for its views of the Northern Lights. (Pixabay image via CNS)
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