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Top CNS stories for today including the Canadian government said it will begin formal extradition proceedings against a Huawei executive whom the United States has accused of violating trade sanctions on Iran; The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against six Venezuelan military leaders who played a role in blocking humanitarian aid to the embattled South American nation; Washington state Governor Jay Inslee entered the 2020 presidential race and said he will focus his run on limiting the catastrophic impacts of climate change, and more.

/ March 1, 2019

Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including the Canadian government said it will begin formal extradition proceedings against a Huawei executive whom the United States has accused of violating trade sanctions on Iran; The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against six Venezuelan military leaders who played a role in blocking humanitarian aid to the embattled South American nation; Washington state Governor Jay Inslee entered the 2020 presidential race and said he will focus his run on limiting the catastrophic impacts of climate change, and more.

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National

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou arrives at a parole office with a security guard in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

1.) The Canadian government said Friday it will begin formal extradition proceedings against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, whom the United States has accused of violating trade sanctions on Iran.

This image taken from video shows a fuel tanker, cargo trailers and makeshift fencing blocking the Tienditas International Bridge in an attempt to stop humanitarian aid entering from Colombia, as seen from the outskirts of Cucuta, on Colombia's border with Venezuela on Feb. 6, 2019. Immigration authorities say the Venezuelan National Guard built the roadblock a day earlier. (AP Photo)

2.) Calling Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro an illegitimate former president, the U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions Friday against six military leaders who played a role in blocking humanitarian aid to the embattled South American nation.

3.) Washington state Governor Jay Inslee entered the 2020 presidential race Friday, saying he will focus his run on limiting the catastrophic impacts of climate change and calling for an “all-out climate mobilization.”

Paul Manafort, left, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, walks with this wife, Kathleen Manafort, as they arrive at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., on March 8, 2018. Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking immunity for five potential witnesses in the upcoming trial of Manafort. Mueller's office told a federal judge in Virginia on July 17 that they were seeking to compel the witnesses to testify under condition of immunity. Prosecutors said the witnesses have indicated they won't testify "on the basis of their privilege against self-incrimination." Prosecutors say that if they do testify, they are requesting "use immunity." That means the government couldn't use their statements against them. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

4.) Less than a week before he is sentenced for multiple financial fraud charges, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told a federal judge in Virginia that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recommendation he spend up to 24 years in prison is “clearly disproportionate” to the crimes.  

Regional

A view of Brooklyn high-rises from the southern part of Fort Greene Park. (AMANDA OTTAWAY/Courthouse News Service)

5.) Over a century after Walt Whitman lobbied for its creation on the pages of the Brooklyn Eagle, the future of Fort Greene Park is stirring up community passions — this time in opposition to changes proposed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Morning rush hour traffic makes its way along U.S. 101 near downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

6.) Los Angeles County transit officials voted unanimously to explore a tax on ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft, and advanced plans to study the impact of charging drivers a congestion fee to access certain roadways.

7.) Sidelining a lawsuit over a prison power outage said to have interfered in attorney-client communications, a federal judge ruled Friday that the inmates’ lawyers cannot be a party to the case.

Science

8.) Your friendly neighborhood spider is weaving what may be a viable component for the robotics industry, as a new report released Friday details how a strand of silk has presented researchers with a phenomenal twist on spiders and physics.

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