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Top CNS stories for today including gamers responding to the mass shooting at video gaming competition in Florida on Sunday calling for more security at esports tournaments; a federal judge strikes down an anti-union push by the Trump administration as unconstitutional; former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unsure whether to mount a defense at his second trial next month; a federal judge extends his order blocking a company from putting instructions on how to make 3D-printed guns on its website, despite permission to do so by U.S. government; Houstonians mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, which dumped 33 trillion gallons of water on their city; immigration lawyers say that Italy would break European laws if it sends refugees it held for days on an Italian coast guard vessel outside of the European Union’s borders; President Donald Trump announces a breakthrough in trade between the U.S. and Mexico, a step that clears the way for Canada to rejoin negotiations to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, and more.

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National

Law enforcement boats patrol the St. Johns River at the scene of a multiple shooting at the Jacksonville Landing Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 in Jacksonville, Fla. A gunman opened fire Sunday during an online video game tournament that was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing multiple people and sending many others to hospitals, authorities said. (Will Dickey/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

1.) The mass shooting at Sunday afternoon video gaming competition that left two dead and nine others wounded has prompted calls from gamers for more security at esports tournaments.

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. pauses during a TV news interview on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain’s family says the Arizona senator has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

2.) U.S. Sen. John McCain, the senior Republican senator from Arizona and two-time presidential candidate who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, died Saturday. He was 81.

In this June 7, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump listens during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Under attack from longtime allies over new tariffs, Trump descends on the annual G-7 meeting of industrialized nations Friday expecting tough trade talks as his go-it-alone policies leave him increasingly isolated. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

3.) An anti-union push by the Trump administration was struck down as unconstitutional on Saturday by a federal judge.

Paul Manafort leaves the federal courthouse in Washington on Feb. 14, 2018. The trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman will open this week with tales of lavish spending on properties and clothing and allegations that the political consultant laundered money through offshore bank accounts. What’s likely to be missing: answers about whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

4.) Already convicted of financial felonies, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unsure whether to mount a defense at his second trial next month.

**5.) ** In a victory for humpback whales and environmentalists, the federal government agreed Friday to establish critical habitat protection for endangered or threatened whales by 2020.

FILE - This May 10, 2013, file photo shows a plastic pistol that was completely made on a 3D-printer at a home in Austin, Texas. A coalition of gun-control groups has filed an appeal in federal court seeking to block a recent Trump administration ruling that will allow the publication of blueprints to build a 3D-printed firearm. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

6.) A federal judge on Monday extended his order blocking a company from putting instructions on how to make 3D-printed guns on its website, despite permission to do so by U.S. government.

Regional

Gaston Kirby, right, and Juan Minutella leave Kirby's flooded Houston home on Sept. 4, 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

7.) A year ago this week, Houstonians anxiously watched as their city — a sprawling mosaic of urban high-rises and residential neighborhoods and home to nearly 5 million people — became a murky sea of rainwater and debris after Hurricane Harvey dumped 33 trillion gallons of water in a week.

8.) The race to replace U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who announced his retirement an entire year before the election, has thrust Arizona to the forefront of national politics ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

International

Migrants disembark from the Italian Coast Guard ship "Diciotti" in the port of Catania, Italy, early Sunday morning, Aug. 26, 2018. Italy’s populist government had not let them leave the ship for ten days after they were rescued in the Mediterranean on Aug. 16, demanding that other European Union countries would take them. Only Ireland did, pledging to take 20, while non-EU Albania will take 20, and Italian Catholic bishops said they would care for about 100. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

9.) Immigration lawyers say that Italy would break European laws if it sends refugees it held for days on an Italian coast guard vessel outside of the European Union’s borders.

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, front left, and Mexican Secretary of Economy Idelfonso Guajardo, front right, walk to the White House on Monday August 27, 2018. President Donald Trump says the prospects are "looking good" for an agreement with Mexico that could set the stage for an overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement. (AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo)

10.) President Donald Trump on Monday announced a breakthrough in trade between the U.S. and Mexico, a step that clears the way for Canada to rejoin negotiations to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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