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Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

National

1.) Siding with Texas and Louisiana, a federal judge ruled Thursday the Biden administration's new policies limiting deportations violate standards set by Congress.

2.) Three individuals who breached U.S. Capitol security in the Jan. 6 riot — one of them a Texas real estate broker who has publicly waffled between defending her choice to enter the Capitol and regretting it — pleaded guilty to a low-level misdemeanor charge of parading Thursday.

3.) Coming off a July recorded as Earth’s hottest month on record, climatologists predict average temperatures will continue to rise, drying out vegetation and fueling the kind of rapid growth in wildfires already seen in western states this summer.

4.) Charles “Chuck” F. Sams III, who has worked in nonprofit environmental preservation roles for more than 25 years, became the first Native American nominated to lead the National Park Service late Wednesday.

Regional

5.) As cases of Covid-19 infections have spiked in California, so too has State Auditor Elaine Howle’s concern regarding the state’s mismanagement of $71 billion in federal Covid funding.

6.) Environmental activists and organizations applauded the decision of an Alaska federal court to reverse approval of an oil and gas project in Alaska’s Western Arctic.

7.) The state of Texas sued the San Antonio school district and its superintendent Thursday morning after it declared Monday that all staff must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before Oct. 15.

8.) A St. Louis County judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Democratic county executive from implementing a controversial mask mandate designed to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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