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Top eight stories for today including California employers added nearly 105,000 new jobs; The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state law provision allowing police to draw blood from unconscious drivers; Wall Street suffered one of its worst weeks in months, and more.

/ June 18, 2021
A roadside banner beckons potential employees outside Channel Control Merchants LLC, an extreme value retailer and exporter of brand sensitive secondary market inventories, in Hattiesburg, Miss., March 27, 2021. With hopes growing for a strong snapback in hiring this year, Friday, April 2 monthly jobs report will provide crucial insight into whether those sunny expectations will come true. The most optimistic economists are predicting the report could show a cool 1 million jobs were added in March. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including California employers added nearly 105,000 new jobs; The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state law provision allowing police to draw blood from unconscious drivers; Wall Street suffered one of its worst weeks in months, and more.

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National

1.) Markets fell significantly on Friday, intensifying less drastic losses earlier in the week, as investors prepare for longer-term inflation.

American flags hang outside of the New York Stock Exchange. (Frank Franklin II/AP)

2.) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed Friday to draft a statement on the meaning of the sacrament, part of a push by the church’s most conservative members to deny President Joe Biden communion because he supports abortion rights.

Then-President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Regional

3.) California employers added nearly 105,000 new jobs in May, yet weakened pandemic restrictions that allowed much of the hospitality and entertainment industries to fully reopen didn’t make a dent in the state’s unemployment rate.

A roadside banner beckons potential employees outside Channel Control Merchants LLC, an extreme value retailer and exporter of brand sensitive secondary market inventories, in Hattiesburg, Miss., March 27, 2021. With hopes growing for a strong snapback in hiring this year, Friday, April 2 monthly jobs report will provide crucial insight into whether those sunny expectations will come true. The most optimistic economists are predicting the report could show a cool 1 million jobs were added in March. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

4.) Californians can now show proof of their Covid-19 vaccination record digitally thanks to a new online program announced Friday.

Syringes with doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, are shown next to vaccination cards, Saturday, March 13, 2021, on the first day of operations at a mass vaccination site at the Lumen Field Events Center in Seattle, which adjoins the field where the NFL football Seattle Seahawks and the MLS soccer Seattle Sounders play their games. The site, which is the largest civilian-run vaccination site in the country, will operate only a few days a week until city and county officials can get more doses of the vaccine. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

5.) Some Far West Texans share Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s concerns about migrant crossings, but many disagree with his rhetoric and talk of a wall.

The rural Big Bend region of West Texas had zero confirmed coronavirus cases for weeks after the pandemic began. The number has inched into the double digits in recent days. (Courthouse News photo/Travis Bubenik)

6.) The Iowa Supreme Court found a city ordinance barring employers from rejecting applicants with criminal histories conflicts with state law.

The Iowa Judicial Branch building in Des Moines, home of the Iowa Supreme Court and Iowa Court of Appeals. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News)

7.) The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday struck down a state law provision allowing police to draw blood from unconscious drivers and test it for alcohol content without a warrant, finding the practice violates Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.

(Image by Yildiray Yücel Kamanmaz from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

Science

8.) For the 50 million people worldwide who suffer from epilepsy, relief from seizures may be much simpler than medications or surgery. New research in music therapy found listening to Mozart reduced electrical brain waves linked to epilepsy.

(Image by Miss Vine from Pixabay via Courthouse News)
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