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National

1.) With summer recess beckoning, the Senate must embark on a contentious and likely dayslong amendment fight before it can pass a $1 trillion infrastructure package.

2.) Zoom, the video teleconferencing company that became ubiquitous during the pandemic, has settled a lawsuit related to privacy concerns for $85 million.

3.) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies are calling on President Joe Biden to extend the recently expired eviction moratorium through October, but the White House says that power lies with Congress.

4.) An officer with Washington, D.C.'s metro police force who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has died by suicide, becoming the third officer at the Capitol that day to take their own life in the months since the attack.

Regional

5.) Courthouse News filed a First Amendment complaint against the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Court for refusing to restore traditional access to new civil complaints.

6.) Months after agreeing to pause its lawsuit challenging border expulsions that the government says are necessitated by the pandemic, the American Civil Liberties Union resumed its lawsuit to halt the policy on Monday.

Science

7.) Our ancient relatives developed a form of cave art that was likely part of a longstanding tradition before the arrival of modern humans, according to a new study published Monday.

Opinion

8.) Federal judges in two states last week issued groundbreaking First Amendment rulings — on free expression through bologna sandwiches and zoos.

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