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Top eight stories for today including President Joe Biden kicked off a jam-packed weeklong visit to Europe; California will appeal a ruling overturning the state’s assault weapons ban; An Austrian newspaper whose columnist told readers to leave horseradish on their skin for hours is not liable after one woman got sick, and more.

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National

1.) President Joe Biden started what can be described as a healing tour Thursday as he meets European leaders during a G-7 summit in England and tries to dispel the bad memories of the Trump White House.

FILE - In this June 9, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden listens as first lady Jill Biden speaks to American service members at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. Helping countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic will be at the top of the agenda for the Group of Seven summit when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Biden and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada to the cliff-ringed Carbis Bay beach resort in southwestern England on Friday, June 11. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

2.) The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced two of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, moving the candidates on for consideration before the full Senate.

The U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers)

3.) A decades-high jump in inflation has financial experts staking out sides, though neither extreme expects the Federal Reserve will upend the apple cart with a humming economy on the line.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington on May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

4.) A convicted felon whose priors included one instance of reckless aggravated assault should not have been given an enhanced sentence after he was later caught with a handgun, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jack Rodgers/Courthouse News)

Regional

5.) Days after a federal judge nixed one of California’s most stringent gun laws and simultaneously tempered the prospect of a nationwide ban on assault weapons, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday the state will appeal the contentious ruling.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state will appeal a federal judge's overturning of a 30-year-old ban on assault weapons. (Screenshot)

6.) The wife of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera pleaded guilty on Thursday to aiding her husband in running his global drug empire and helping to plan his intricate 2015 escape from a Mexican prison.

Emma Coronel Aispuro (center) prepares to address reporters on April 17, 2018, after a pretrial hearing for her husband, incarcerated drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. On either side of Coronel are Guzman's attorneys, A. Eduardo Balarezo and William Pupura. (Courthouse News photo/Amanda Ottaway)

International

7.) An international poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center shows foreigners’ views on America and its leadership have grown much more positive since former President Donald Trump left office.

U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive on Air Force One at Cornwall Airport Newquay, near Newquay, England, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, early Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

8.) An Austrian newspaper whose columnist told readers to leave horseradish on their skin for hours is not liable after one woman got sick, the EU’s top court ruled Thursday.

Horseradish at a farm stand at the Naschmarkt in Vienna, Austria. (Image courtesy of Anna reg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Courthouse News)

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