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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including Europe’s top rights court found that a bulk data collection program in the U.K. violated citizens’ right to privacy; Amazon is accused of crushing its online competition through a policy that removes sellers from the platform if they offer products for less on another website; Moderna announced it would seek regulatory approval to administer its Covid-19 shot to teens, and more.

Your Tuesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including Europe’s top rights court found that a bulk data collection program in the U.K. violated citizens’ right to privacy; Amazon is accused of crushing its online competition through a policy that removes sellers from the platform if they offer products for less on another website; Moderna announced it would seek regulatory approval to administer its Covid-19 shot to teens, and more.

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National

1.) An antitrust complaint filed by the District of Columbia’s attorney general claims Amazon’s online marketplace puts restrictions on sellers that drive up consumer prices.

This April 21, 2020 file photo shows Amazon tractor trailers line up outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center in the Staten Island borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

2.) Moderna announced Tuesday that it would seek regulatory approval to administer its Covid-19 shot to teens between 12 and 17 years old in June.

Volunteers and health care workers carry out a mass vaccination campaign at the former site of a Sears department store in a partnership with San Diego County, the city of Chula Vista and Sharp HealthCare. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)

3.) George Floyd’s murder by a police officer — exactly a year ago Tuesday — sparked a national conversation and proposal for police reform that is still being had today.

Protesters stream through Washington in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police. (Brandi Buchman photo/Courthouse News)

4.) The Justice Department signaled this week that it will carry on the Trump administration‘s gauze of secrecy over the 2019 Russia probe led by former special counsel Robert Mueller. 

Attorney General William Barr speaks during an Oct. 15, 2020, roundtable discussion on Operation Legend, a federal program to help cities combat violent crime in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Regional

5.) An at-home DNA test led a New Jersey woman to accuse her former physician of “medical rape” on Tuesday, saying the man secretly swapped his own sperm in for the anonymous donor she had ordered.

(Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels via Courthouse News)

6.) The U.S. Census Bureau must release 2020 census data to Ohio by Aug. 16, per the terms of a settlement agreement announced Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general in February.

This April 5, 2020, photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

International

7.) Europe’s top rights court found on Tuesday that a bulk data collection program in the United Kingdom violated citizens’ right to privacy

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. (Photo by CherryX from Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News)

8.) Tensions over Belarus escalated on Tuesday with the European Union banning air travel to and from Belarus and the exiled Belarusian opposition leader calling on the United States and European capitals to take stronger actions against Minsk.

Protesters attach paper planes during a demonstration of Belarusians living in Poland and Poles supporting them in front of European Commission office in Warsaw demanding freedom for Belarus opposition activist Raman Protasevich in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May 24, 2021. Western outrage grew and the European Union threatened more sanctions Monday against Belarus over its forced diversion of a passenger jet to the capital of Minsk in order to arrest opposition journalist Raman Protasevich in a dramatic gambit that some said amounted to state terrorism or piracy. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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