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Top eight stories for today including the Senate broke for the long holiday weekend without a deal to create a commission studying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol; An Iowa jury found a Mexican immigrant guilty of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of college student Mollie Tibbetts; Germany and France made historic gestures seeking forgiveness in Africa, and more.

/ May 28, 2021
Gladys Sicknick, center, mother of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died from injuries sustained during the Jan. 6 mob attack on Congress, leaves a meeting with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin after advocating for creation of an independent commission to investigate the assault, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. She is escorted by Harry Dunn, left, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced the rioters on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Top eight stories for today including the Senate broke for the long holiday weekend without a deal to create a commission studying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol; An Iowa jury found a Mexican immigrant guilty of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of college student Mollie Tibbetts; Germany and France made historic gestures seeking forgiveness in Africa, and more.

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National

1.) More than a dozen hours of Senate debate on calls for a commission to investigate the causes of the Jan. 6 insurrection stretched overnight only to break Friday afternoon with lawmakers unable to muster a filibuster-proof majority.

Gladys Sicknick, center, mother of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died from injuries sustained during the Jan. 6 mob attack on Congress, leaves a meeting with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin after advocating for creation of an independent commission to investigate the assault, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. She is escorted by Harry Dunn, left, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced the rioters on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

2.) Last summer, a court in the United Kingdom found that actor Johnny Depp was not defamed by a British newspaper’s article describing him as a “wife beater.” Now an attorney for Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, wants a Virginia judge to embrace those findings in a separate defamation case unfolding in the U.S.

Actor Johnny Depp arrives at the High Court in London for a hearing in his libel case against the publishers of The Sun and its executive editor, Dan Wootton. (Aaron Chown/PA Wire)

3.) The Biden administration on Friday released its $6 trillion budget proposal, a package that pits the president’s push to revamp the nation’s infrastructure and social programs against a ballooning national debt.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive to speak at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Va., on Friday, May 28, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

4.) With inflation concerns and labor shortages on the one hand, and dropping unemployment and rising GDP on the other, investors slow-walked their way to a winning week on Wall Street.

(Barbara Leonard/Courthouse News Service)

5.) One year after the murder of George Floyd sharpened demands in America for police reforms, a Trump-appointed judge held arguments Friday afternoon on one of the early protests that brought the issue into somewhat improbable relief.

Tear gas billows Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House as demonstrators gather in Lafayette Park to protest the death of George Floyd.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Regional

6.) As the president seeks to spend billions to fix the nation’s aging roads and bridges, a long-running project along North Carolina’s Outer Banks illustrates the complexities of transportation infrastructure.

The Marc Basnight Bridge sprawls out from the Outer Banks mainland into the Oregon Inlet. (Brad Kutner/Courthouse News)

7.) An Iowa jury on Friday found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder for the 2018 stabbing death of college student Mollie Tibbetts.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera watches as the jury enters the courtroom before announcing the verdict in his trial, Friday, May 28, 2021, at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa. A jury found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. (Charlie Neibergall, pool/AP)

International

8.) This week, Germany and France made historic gestures seeking forgiveness in Africa after Berlin acknowledged its former colonial empire committed genocide in Namibia and Paris took responsibility for its role in not doing more to stop the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and France's President Emmanuel Macron inspect the guard of honor at the presidential palace in Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 27, 2021. (Nicholas Garriga/AP)
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