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Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump “got up and walked out” of a Wednesday meeting over the government shutdown after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would not approve money for a wall along the southern border; Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is set to step down next month; New Jersey’s high court rejected a challenge against how the NFL apportioned tickets to the 2014 Super Bowl, and more.

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President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, waves to members of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican Policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

1.) President Donald Trump “got up and walked out” of a Wednesday meeting over the government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would not approve money for a wall along the southern border.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. The Justice Department is charging two Chinese citizens with carrying out an extensive hacking campaign to steal data from U.S. companies. An indictment was unsealed Thursday against Zhu Hua and Zhang Shillong. Court papers filed in Manhattan federal court allege the hackers were able to breach the computers of more than 45 entities in 12 states. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

2.) Considered a longtime thorn in the president’s side for having appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is set to step down next month.

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2018, file photo, the U. S. Supreme Court building stands quietly before dawn in Washington. The Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same offense. And yet Terance Gamble is sitting in prison today because he was prosecuted separately by Alabama and the federal government for having a gun after an earlier robbery conviction. he Supreme Court is considering Gamble’s case Thursday, Dec. 6, and the outcome could have a spillover effect on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

3.) An attorney for California’s tax agency on Wednesday told the Supreme Court justices a 1979 decision that allows a state to be sued in another state’s court without its consent has upended the relationship between the states that is central to the “genius” of the Constitution.

4.) New Jersey’s high court rejected a challenge against how the NFL apportioned tickets to the 2014 Super Bowl, making fans compete for just 1 percent of tickets in a public lottery.

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5.) Less than two months after firefighters extinguished a deadly California wildfire deemed the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018, President Trump said Wednesday that he’s nixing emergency aid to thousands left homeless by the fire.

6.) Iowa’s so-called “ag-gag” law that makes it a crime for undercover journalists or animal-rights activists to investigate and report on animal abuse in livestock facilities is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Adults and children stand nearby as United Teachers Los Angeles union president Alex Caputo-Pearl (not shown) talks to reporters outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, following a day of negotiations with the LAUSD on Jan. 7, 2019. Teachers in the nation's second-largest school district will strike this week if there's no settlement in long-running contract negotiations that resumed with the superintendent and the head of the union coming to the table Monday in a last-ditch effort to avert a walkout in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

7.) Hauling the teachers’ union to court ahead of a strike on Thursday, the Los Angeles Unified School District says the planned work stoppage would constitute a breach of contract.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, waves during an inauguration ceremony with his wife Casey and son Mason, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla. Republicans will begin their third decade dominating the state's Capitol. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

8.) Newly inaugurated Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appointed his first justice to the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday, one of three picks that will shift the ideological balance of the court to the right.

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