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Top eight stories for today including the coronavirus pandemic is entering an unruly and violent phase as protests break out around the world; California state and health care workers must verify their vaccination status or undergo routine Covid-19 testing to keep their jobs; The EPA said it will roll back lax wastewater pollution rules for coal-fired power plants, and more.
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1.) In a reversal of a Trump-era policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it will roll back lax wastewater pollution rules for coal-fired power plants issued by the former administration, though the change won t be felt any time soon.
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Top eight stories for today including a federal judge refused to block portions of Georgia’s controversial new voting law; Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for threatening to extort Nike; Authorities have arrested a pair of U.S. citizens who they believe were involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, and more.
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1.) The celebrity attorney who shot to fame by taking on Donald Trump for hush-money payments that spurred a criminal investigation into the former president s business was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison.
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In a federal complaint Monday, a New York state senator and assemblywoman describe being assaulted and pepper-sprayed by police during a Black Lives Matter protest last summer in Brooklyn.
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the highest-ranking black elected official in New York, said the civil rights protests and demonstrations occurring across the country since George Floyd’s death are the result of a nation that has failed to address the historical context of slavery to this day. (Courthouse News photo / Josh Russell)
(CN) Two New York City lawmakers sued police on Monday, saying officers wielded bicycles as a weapon against them, with pepper spray to boot, during a Black Lives Matter protest last year in Brooklyn.