Top eight today

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

National

1.) A Capitol rioter caught watching conspiracy videos in his garage not even a month after a judge let him go home must return to jail, the court ruled Thursday. 

2.) Prosecutors have upped the ante in the case against former suburban Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, charging her with first-degree manslaughter for the killing of Daunte Wright, an unarmed biracial man.

Regional

3.) Firefighters clawed back some containment of the Caldor Fire burning south of Lake Tahoe even as thousands of evacuees remain barred from their homes and the blaze churns into Nevada.

4.) A 131-year-old statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee can now be removed by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam following a pair of orders issued by the state’s highest court Thursday morning. 

5.) Historic rainfall flooded New York City streets Wednesday night, paralyzing public transportation in the metropolitan area and leaving more than two dozen dead down the coast by Thursday.

International

6.) The European Union’s top court sided with the bloc's executive body over labor unions on Thursday in a dispute over protections for public-sector workers. 

7.) WhatsApp must pay a $266 million fine after trampling the European Union's data-privacy directives.

8.) An Algerian national whose relationship with a French woman formed the basis for his residency permit lost the right to stay in Belgium after moving out to escape domestic violence, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday. 

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