Top eight

Your Tuesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

National

1.) Americans living in areas with rising Covid-19 cases should wear face masks indoors in public, even if they're fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Tuesday.

2.) Conservative news network One America News asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive its defamation suit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over six words she uttered on-air in 2019, when reporting that an OAN correspondent moonlighted as a reporter for Kremlin-backed Sputnik News.

3.) As more states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, the plant's federal prohibition makes it difficult to study in the lab.

4.) A little over six months has passed since throngs of violent rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, and on Tuesday a select committee tasked with investigating the attack kicked off its inaugural hearing.

Regional

5.) Facing another summer of catastrophic fish kills, California lawmakers and fisheries managers on Tuesday blamed a Trump-era water policy and climate change for the sizzling water temperatures threatening to erase an entire run of Chinook salmon.

6.) The First Circuit was skeptical Tuesday of a provision in the Maine Constitution that says people who gather signatures for ballot initiatives must be Maine residents who are registered to vote there.

International

7.) Europe’s top rights court on Tuesday tossed out the largest defamation fine in Portugal's history, citing the importance of independent media in a democratic society. 

8.) A Hezbollah-trained sleeper agent who scouted New York City buildings for possible targets of terrorism failed to secure a reversal of his 40-year prison sentence Tuesday.

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