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Top CNS stories for today including a government document filed in federal court shows a Trump administration official tried to block a detained immigrant teenager from getting an abortion even though he knew she got pregnant after being raped; a rare species of porpoises has been pushed to the brink of extinction by federal indifference, environmentalists claim in a federal lawsuit; Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed into law House Bill 214, which prohibits abortions if an unborn fetus has or may have Down syndrome; a federal jury handed a raft of convictions Friday to two former soccer officials from South America charged with corrupting the sports’s international governing body, and more.
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1.) In National news, a government document filed in federal court shows a Trump administration official tried to block a detained immigrant teenager from getting an abortion even though he knew she got pregnant after being raped.
3.) A rare species of porpoises has been pushed to the brink of extinction by federal indifference, environmentalists claim in a federal lawsuit.
5.) Concerned that America has cut safeguards limiting civilian casualties in overseas drone strikes, the American Civil Liberties Union brought a federal complaint Thursday to obtain the Trump administration’s playbook.
8.) In International news, a federal jury handed a raft of convictions Friday to two former soccer officials from South America charged with corrupting the sports’s international governing body.
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