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Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump bowing to pressure Monday and condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “criminals and thugs” in the wake of a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend; the White House announced a new inquiry into Chinese trade practices, including its alleged theft of U.S. companies’ intellectual property; new large-scale research shows that global warming has shifted the timing of floods across Europe, highlighting the current and ongoing effects of climate change, and more.
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1.) In National news President Donald Trump bowed to tremendous pressure Monday and condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “criminals and thugs” in the wake of a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
2.) Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday said that a fatal attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, in which a driver plowed into a crowd protesting a rally of white supremacists, meets the legal definition of domestic terrorism.
3.) President Donald Trump on Monday announced a new inquiry into Chinese trade practices, including its alleged theft of U.S. companies’ intellectual property.
4.) In Regional news The fight between traditional newspapers, cable TV and internet took a serious turn Friday in Anchorage, where a cable company filed eviction papers on Alaska’s biggest newspaper, the Alaska Dispatch News.
5.) Attorneys for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman failed to win a federal judge’s sympathy Monday in complaining about the prosecution’s effort to keep taxpayer-funded counsel off limits to the Sinaloa drug lord while also threatening to seize any money he would spend on a private defense team.
6.) Auctioned two years ago for $16 million, British painter Francis Bacon’s “Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer” lies at the heart of a new legal battle in Manhattan.
8.) In International news new large-scale research shows that global warming has shifted the timing of floods across Europe, highlighting the current and ongoing effects of climate change.
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