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Top CNS stories for today including federal prosecutors unsealed sweeping charges accusing top college coaches, multiple corporate CEOs and even two famous actresses of participating in $25 million admissions-bribery scheme; The British Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union and plunged Great Britain into further uncertainty and chaos as it hurdles toward Brexit; The en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 11-6 that Ohio can withhold funding for public health programs from abortion providers, and more.

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Prospective students tour Georgetown University's campus in Washington in 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

1.) Federal prosecutors unsealed sweeping charges Tuesday accusing top college coaches, multiple corporate CEOs and even two famous actresses of participating in $25 million admissions-bribery scheme.

Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, during a hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

2.) Calling the plan’s suggested cuts to welfare programs malicious and “intended to do harm,” House Democrats gave President Donald Trump’s latest budget proposal a cool reception Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during the opening ceremony for the 29th Winter Universiade games at the Platinum Arena in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Saturday, March 2, 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

3.) In rare bipartisan fashion, Congress overwhelmingly approved four measures critical of Russia on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after President Vladimir Putin moved more troops into the long-annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea.

President Donald Trump talks to the media as he leaves for Dallas to address the National Rifle Association, Friday, May 4, 2018 at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

4.) Looking to provide reporters cover from President Trump’s rhetoric and incessant bashing of the news media, a California Democrat wants to make it a federal crime to assault a working journalist.

Regional

Pro-abortion protesters hold signs as anti-abortion activists rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver on Feb. 11, 2017. On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, two major organizations that promote birth control, including Planned Parenthood, filed lawsuits in federal court seeking to block the Trump administration from shifting national family planning policy in a conservative direction that would stress abstinence and potentially limit counseling for adolescents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

5.) The en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 11-6 Tuesday that Ohio can withhold funding for public health programs from abortion providers, most notably Planned Parenthood.

Protestors carry a sign reading “Justice for E.J.” during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. A police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. of Hueytown while responding to a shooting at the mall on Thanksgiving evening. Police said Bradford was fleeing the scene with a weapon. Hoover police initially told reporters Bradford had shot a teen at the mall, but later retracted the statement. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

6.) Backed by the NAACP and ACLU, the parents of the young black man whom Alabama police shot to death in a shopping mall on Thanksgiving said concerns for officer safety are no reason to withhold video footage and the name of the officer who fired the deadly shots.

International

An anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporter shouts slogans during a protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May faced continued opposition to her European Union divorce deal Tuesday despite announcing what she described as "legally binding" changes in hopes of winning parliamentary support for the agreement. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

7.) The British Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday night and plunged Great Britain into further uncertainty and chaos as it hurdles toward Brexit.

8.) A European Court of Justice magistrate said Tuesday that environmental activists facing charges in France of intentionally damaging containers of the herbicide Roundup can’t claim the EU’s approval process for agrochemicals is flawed as a defense of their criminal case.

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