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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including a man who worked for a transportation agency in San Jose shot and killed eight of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself; President Biden said U.S. intelligence officials will brief him within 90 days on what they believe is the source of the novel coronavirus; The Hague District Court decamped to an airbase in the southern Netherlands to view the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and more.

Your Wednesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including a man who worked for a transportation agency in San Jose shot and killed eight of his co-workers before turning the gun on himself; President Biden said U.S. intelligence officials will brief him within 90 days on what they believe is the source of the novel coronavirus; The Hague District Court decamped to an airbase in the southern Netherlands to view the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and more.

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National

1.) President Joe Biden said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence officials will brief him within 90 days on what they believe is the source of the novel coronavirus that has killed 3.5 million people around the world, including nearly 600,000 Americans.

A worker wearing protective gear and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside a hospital in Wuhan, China, in February 2021. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

2.) Best known for his turn as Pawnee town official Ron Swanson, the actor and real-life Midwesterner Nick Offerman testified Wednesday at a remote congressional hearing on boosting vaccine confidence

Actor and professional woodworker Nick Offerman testifies remotely at a Wednesday May 26, 2021, congressional hearing on boosting vaccine confidence. (Screenshot of YouTube video via Courthouse News)

3.) Finding “glaring flaws” in a $2 billion deal to resolve future Roundup claims, a federal judge nixed a proposed settlement Wednesday that he found “would accomplish a lot for Monsanto,” but not much for Roundup users.

4.) As the National Park System gears up for what is likely to be its most crowded season, lawmakers are trying to bring congestion and overcrowding relief to the some of the country’s most popular parks. 

(Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News)

Regional

5.) A man who worked for a transportation agency in San Jose, California, shot and killed eight of his co-workers early Wednesday morning before turning the gun on himself. 

This photo provided by KGO-TV/ABC7, shows emergency personnel responding to the scene of a shooting on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 in San Jose, Calif. A Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman said there are multiple fatalities and injuries in a shooting at a rail yard and that the suspect is dead. (KGO-TV/ABC7 via AP)

6.) A federal judge wants to hold Los Angeles leaders on a strict timeline to address the homelessness crisis almost a year after officials agreed to create more shelter space.

Tents, shelters and belongings line a street near downtown Los Angeles. An annual count of the region's homeless population showed a 12% increase for LA County and a 16% increase for the city. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)

International

7.) The Hague District Court decamped to an airbase in the southern Netherlands on Wednesday to view the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is seen at the Gilze-Rijen military airbase in the Netherlands in May 2021. (Molly Quell/Courthouse News)

8.) A decades-old barrier on stem cell research was loosened on Wednesday when an international panel of scientists, ethicists, clinicians and lawyers approved the growing of human embryos for more than two weeks in laboratories.

FILE - In this Friday, March 16, 2012 file photo, a researcher works in a stem cell lab on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. New guidelines released Wednesday, May 26, 2021 remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human embryos longer under limited conditions. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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