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Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify about claims that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products; The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir; Georgia officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases as the governor lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos  to testify about claims that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products; The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir; Georgia officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases as the governor lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order, and more.

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National

1.) The House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday to testify about an explosive report that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products.

A person wearing a mask jogs past an Amazon Go store, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in downtown Seattle. Amazon.com is expected to announce earnings for the first quarter of 2020 at the close of markets Thursday, a report that is expected to be closely watched due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the company. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

2.) Under normal circumstances, with malpractice suits and doctors’ Hippocratic oaths in mind, hospitals take great lengths to prevent patient infection. During a pandemic, concern over liability is heightened.

In this March 2020 photo provided by the Mount Sinai Health System, members of the hospital's anesthesia department work together during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in New York. Within the institution, where hundreds of COVID-19 patients have been treated, about 20% of the anesthesiology team has been diagnosed with the illness, said Dr. Andrew Leibowitz, chairman of anesthesiology. (Mount Sinai Health System via AP)

3.) Despite coming off one of the best months ever, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 2.5% on Friday.

FILE - In this April 12, 2020, file photo, a sign on the Coney Island boardwalk reminds people to keep their distance in New York. From Cape Cod to California, festivals are being canceled, businesses in tourist havens are looking at empty reservation books, and people who have been cooped up through a dismal spring are worrying summer will bring just more of the same. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

4.) The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir, allowing the product to reach the market without the typically required data supporting its safety and success.

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material. (Gilead Sciences via AP)

Regional

5.) Georgia public health officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, the same day Republican Governor Brian Kemp lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order for most residents.

Waffle House's Tiffany, right, get To Go orders ready as a seated guest enjoys his meal, left, on Monday, April 27, 2020, at The Waffle House in Brookhaven, Ga. Restaurants around metro Atlanta began to reopen dining rooms Monday, April 27, 2020 as restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic are lifted. Restaurants will be allowed to operate with in-person dining as long as they follow a set of 39 guidelines laid out by the state government, which include a requirement that all employees wear masks, a maximum of 10 customers per 500 square feet of floor space and a maximum of six diners per table. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

6.) Officials offered few answers as New York City and the state each tackled the perplexing question Friday of why stay-at-home orders have failed to halt Covid-19 infections.

Patients wear personal protective equipment while maintaining social distancing as they wait in line for a COVID-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be as close as two weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care. Such a surge would overwhelm hospitals, which now have just 3,000 intensive care unit beds statewide. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

International

7.) On International Workers’ Day,, European liberals urged elected officials to protect workers, small businesses and the environment.

Protesters from the communist party-affiliated PAME union wearing masks to protect against coronavirus, march during a May Day rally outside the Greek Parliament, in Athens, on Friday, May 1, 2020. Hundreds of protesters gathered in central Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to mark May Day, despite appeals from the government for May Day marches and commemorations to be postponed until next Saturday, when some lockdown measures will have been lifted. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

8.) Canada will ban assault rifles in the aftermath of one of the country’s deadliest rampages, in which a gunman killed 22 people over two days in Nova Scotia last month.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers prepare to take a suspect into custody at a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia on Sunday April 19, 2020. Canadian police arrested a suspect in an active shooter investigation after earlier saying he may have been driving a vehicle resembling a police car and wearing a police uniform. (Tim Krochak/The Canadian Press via AP)
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