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Top eight stories for today including the president called for a government study of whether the last administration had a legitimate basis to outlaw TikTok; A pair of Maine laws designed to help people repair their credit after experiencing problems that weren’t their fault left the First Circuit stumped at oral arguments; The EU’s second-highest court annulled an extension of financial sanctions against the former president of Ukraine, and more.

/ June 9, 2021
Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Top eight stories for today including the president called for a government study of whether the last administration had a legitimate basis to outlaw TikTok; A pair of Maine laws designed to help people repair their credit after experiencing problems that weren’t their fault left the First Circuit stumped at oral arguments; The EU’s second-highest court annulled an extension of financial sanctions against the former president of Ukraine, and more.

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National

1.) Revoking a Trump-era ban, President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday that directs federal officials to investigate his predecessor’s claim that China’s TikTok and WeChat pose a threat to American data security.

Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

2.) The same former judge who oversaw the review of files from the now-disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen has been charged with looking through the devices seized from Rudy Giuliani’s home and office, as part of a criminal investigation into the erstwhile Trump attorney’s dealings in Ukraine. 

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, former federal judge Barbara Jones address a news conference at the offices of the New York Archdiocese in New York. Jones was formally appointed Wednesday, June 9, 2021, to ensure attorney-client privilege is protected in the examination of multiple electronic devices seized from Rudy Giuliani. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken appointed Jones as “special master” after the late-April raids on ex-President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

3.) The Biden administration announced plans Wednesday to reverse a Trump-era rule that cut back on the number of waterways and wetlands under federal protection and left tens of thousands of miles of waterways vulnerable to pollution and development. 

(Image courtesy of Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation via Courthouse News)

Regional

4.) A pair of Maine laws designed to help people repair their credit after experiencing problems that weren’t their fault left the First Circuit stumped at oral arguments Wednesday.

(Graphic courtesy of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau via Courthouse News)

5.) A divided Eighth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed an injunction that prohibits Missouri from implementing a strict abortion law that includes a ban on the procedure for fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome.

Anti-abortion advocates gather outside the Planned Parenthood clinic Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in St. Louis. A judge is considering whether the clinic, Missouri's only abortion provider, can remain open. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

International

6.) The European Union’s General Court on Wednesday told the bloc’s executive branch to take a closer look at the legality of not charging Scandinavians deposit fees and a related tax on drinks bought at German border stores.

Vehicles queue at the border crossing in Krusaa, Denmark, on June 15. (Claus Fisker/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

7.) The EU’s second-highest court annulled a 2019 extension of financial sanctions against the former president of Ukraine on Wednesday. 

Former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych gestures as he speaks at a March 2, 2018, news conference in Moscow. A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former president Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

8.) Ryanair persuaded the EU’s second-highest court Wednesday that a Covid-19 bailout package for a German charter flight operator ran afoul of the bloc’s rules. 

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 file photo, a Ryanair airplane approaching landing at Lisbon airport flies past the Monument to the Heroes of the Peninsular War, in the foreground. A top European Union court dealt another blow to Ryanair on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 and rejected the low-cost carrier's arguments that the aid Sweden, Denmark and Finland gave two other airlines to get through the COVID-19 crisis was illegal. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)
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