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Top CNS stories for today including America watching agog as Christine Blasey Ford gave emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her alleged assault in 1982 by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh later delivered his lengthy rebutal; in a batch of five cases taken up for the start of the October term, the Supreme Court agrees to review claims over a fishing trip that turned fatal when public utility workers attempted to raise a downed power line from the Tennessee River, ninety-eight mountain goats are starting over in the peaks of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, after the government flew them there from the Olympic Peninsula; a California landowner scored a major court victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the government wrongly designated 56 acres of its land as critical habitat for the Riverside fairy shrimp; a former West Virginia Supreme Court justice sues the state claiming lawmakers had violated her constitutional rights to free speech and due process; a new study suggests half of the world’s killer whale populations could collapse in the next century due to the buildup of toxic PCBs, and more.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including America watching agog as Christine Blasey Ford gave emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her alleged assault in 1982 by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh later delivered his lengthy rebutal; in a batch of five cases taken up for the start of the October term, the Supreme Court agrees to review claims over a fishing trip that turned fatal when public utility workers attempted to raise a downed power line from the Tennessee River, ninety-eight mountain goats are starting over in the peaks of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, after the government flew them there from the Olympic Peninsula; a California landowner scored a major court victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the government wrongly designated 56 acres of its land as critical habitat for the Riverside fairy shrimp; a former West Virginia Supreme Court justice sues the state claiming lawmakers had violated her constitutional rights to free speech and due process; a new study suggests half of the world’s killer whale populations could collapse in the next century due to the buildup of toxic PCBs, and more.

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National

1.) Concluding a five-hour session at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford gave emotional testimony Thursday about her alleged assault in 1982 by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a night she said has been “seared” into her memory.

2.) Defending its authority to keep underage immigrants from getting abortions, the government urged the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a nationwide injunction.

3.) In a batch of five cases taken up for the start of the October term, the Supreme Court agreed Thursday to review claims over a fishing trip that turned fatal when public utility workers attempted to raise a downed power line from the Tennessee River.

4.) Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petroleum this week signed on to the fight against climate change, joining a coalition of oil companies pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, tacitly rejecting the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulations.

Regional

5.) Ninety-eight mountain goats are starting over in the peaks of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, after the government flew them there from the Olympic Peninsula, in an effort to eradicate the animals from an area where humans introduced them.

6.) California voters’ support for a contentious $52 billion transportation package dubbed the “Gas Tax” is growing with under six weeks before Election Day.

7.) A California landowner scored a major court victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the government wrongly designated 56 acres of its land as critical habitat for the Riverside fairy shrimp.

8.) A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice who resigned in August after being impeached by the state’s House of Delegates, sued the state on Wednesday claiming lawmakers had violated her constitutional rights to free speech and due process.

Science

9.) Half of the world’s killer whale populations could collapse in the next century due to the buildup of toxic PCBs, and widespread chemical contamination means only killer whales living near the Arctic and the Antarctic will be left alive according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science.

International

10.) The thousands of asylum-seekers who cross the Mediterranean Sea each year in dinghies and boats enter a legal, and all-too-often deadly, black hole when they set sail from Africa for Europe, legal scholars say.

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