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Top eight stories for today including a Senate report found omissions in intelligence, lackluster security planning and botched leadership failed to prevent the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol; Ohio’s attorney general is asking a state court to declare Google a public utility; A United Nations court upheld the war crimes and genocide conviction of a former military leader known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” and more.

/ June 8, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Top eight stories for today including a Senate report found omissions in intelligence, lackluster security planning and botched leadership failed to prevent the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol; Ohio’s attorney general is asking a state court to declare Google a public utility; A United Nations court upheld the war crimes and genocide conviction of a former military leader known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” and more.  

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National

1.) Omissions in intelligence, lackluster security planning and botched leadership failed to prevent the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in January, two Senate committees found Tuesday in what could very well be lawmakers’ last wholly bipartisan effort to probe the events of Jan. 6.

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

2.) Law enforcement officials introduced encryption software as a trojan horse into the international drug trade, netting access to more than 20 million messages in at least three dozen languages.

Proceeds of a police raid known as Operation Trojan Shield in the United States and Operation Ironside in Australia. (Australian Federal Police via Courthouse News)

3.) The chief executive of the pipeline company whose network was taken hostage by an Eastern European hacking group last month told senators Tuesday the exploited system only had a one-factor security code.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount is sworn in before a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing one day after the Justice Department revealed it had recovered the majority of the $4.4 million ransom payment the company made in hopes of getting its system back online, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

4.) Federal environmental regulators on Tuesday finalized protections under the Endangered Species Act for a threatened aquatic salamander and endangered small catfish that dwell only in the streams and rivers of North Carolina.

The Carolina madtom, a type of catfish. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Regional

5.) In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking a state court to declare Google a public utility.

Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

6.) Two new Texas laws seek to weatherize the state’s electricity infrastructure, but some experts say the measures fail to go far enough.

Power lines in Houston, Texas on Feb. 16, 2021, during an unusually heavy winter storm that blanketed much of Texas with snow, knocked out electricity to millions of homes and left many struggling to find clean water. (David J. Phillip/AP)

7.) A federal judge on Tuesday handed down a three-year prison sentence to a Wisconsin pharmacist who admitted to two tampering counts after he was caught trying to spoil coronavirus vaccine doses last year because he believed the vaccine was dangerous.

This Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020 photo shows the Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis. A pharmacist at the suburban Milwaukee medical center deliberately removed hundreds of coronavirus vaccine doses from refrigeration and left them out overnight twice, not just once as officials initially believed, the health system's chief medical officer said Thursday. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

International

8.) Appeals judges on a United Nations court upheld the war crimes and genocide conviction of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Tuesday. 

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic sits in the court room in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, where the United Nations court delivers its verdict in the appeal of Mladic against his convictions for genocide and other crimes and his life sentence for masterminding atrocities throughout the Bosnian war. (Jerry Lampen/Pool via AP)
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