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Top CNS stories for today including the first debate between between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp in the race for Georgia governor being dominated by charges of voter suppression and counterclaims of encouraging illegal voting; President Donald Trump has condemns the sending of suspicious packages and devices that were mailed to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and CNN’s offices in New York; a Ninth Circuit nominee defends his record on legal issues related to Native American tribes; an audit reveals federal agencies remain dazed by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy on immigration; a federal judge in Idaho refuses to block a state law requiring abortion providers to report on “complications” from abortions; a new study finds male humpback whales react to human-generated shipping noise by reducing or ceasing their songs, and more.
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National
1.) The first debate between between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp in the race for Georgia governor was dominated by charges of voter suppression and counterclaims of encouraging illegal voting.
2.) President Donald Trump has condemned the sending of suspicious packages and devices that were mailed to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and CNN’s offices in New York.
3.) One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday defended his record on legal issues related to Native American tribes, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its second nominations hearing during the Senate’s recess ahead of the midterm elections.
4.) President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a new water infrastructure bill into law, authorizing $3.7 billion for scores of new Army Corps of Engineers projects and an addition $4.4 billion for drinking-water projects.
Regional
5.) Politically, states don’t get much more purple than Wisconsin. The fluidity of that red-to-blue gradient is about to be tested in the Nov. 6 midterm election as a seat long held but soon to be vacated by House Speaker Paul Ryan is up for grabs, along with the governorship.
6.) A Republican congressman from Minnesota who won his seat by just 2 percentage points in 2016 faces the same Democratic challenger this year, sparking divisions among neighbors in the suburbs of the Twin Cities.
7.) Even a s a caravan of Central American migrants has become a rallying point for conservative voters, an audit released Wednesday shows that federal agencies remain dazed from the zero-tolerance policy on immigration that the Trump administration rolled out in April.
8.) Churches and the IRS joined forces Wednesday before a sympathetic Seventh Circuit panel to argue that a 65-year-old income tax housing exemption for clergy members does not violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
11.) Wrapping up a nearly three-week trial on corruption in college basketball, a federal jury handed convictions all around Wednesday to a former Adidas executive and two co-defendants.
Science
12.) Male humpback whales react to human-generated shipping noise by reducing or ceasing their songs, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.
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