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Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump issued his first-ever veto to block a bill that would have terminated his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border; The justices of the Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether the Virginia Legislature improperly carved up its map to disadvantage black voters; Chilly temperatures and rain didn’t stop teachers from striking in the Netherlands, and more.

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President Donald Trump speaks about border security in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. Trump issued the first veto of his presidency, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

1.) Calling the resolution reckless and dangerous, President Donald Trump issued his first-ever veto Friday to block a bill that would have terminated his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington at an Oct. 3, 2017, rally supporting nonpartisan redistricting. (Photo courtesy of One Virginia 2021)

2.) Beginning a two-week stretch in which gerrymandering returns to the high court, the justices of the Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether the Virginia Legislature improperly carved up its map to disadvantage black voters.

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)

3.) That Paul Manafort committed crimes within Manhattan borders is by now indisputable. What divides experts, however, is whether the new state charges unveiled against the former Trump campaign chair can withstand a double-jeopardy challenge.

Male sage grouses are seen fighting for the attention of females southwest of Rawlins, Wyo., on May 9, 2008. (Jerret Raffety/The Rawlins Daily Times via AP, File)

4.) The Trump administration’s final land-use plans for seven Western states ease restrictions on mining and drilling, which critics say will further encroach on the habitat of an iconic bird species already in decline.

Regional

5.) A divided Seventh Circuit panel reversed an injunction blocking an Indiana law criminalizing the acquisition of aborted fetal tissue, ruling against a university that uses the tissue for research.

New York Attorney General Barbara underwood notes that the Trump Organization made at least five $100,000 grants to groups in Iowa in the days immediately before the Feb. 1, 2016, Iowa caucuses.

6.) Ramping up their criminal case against the Trump Foundation, New York prosecutors said new evidence shows President Trump used foundation money during his 2016 presidential run — a violation of the bar against charities getting involved in political campaigns.

International

Some of the 40,000 teachers on strike across the Netherlands on Friday, March 15, 2019. They want the Dutch government to invest $4.5 billion across the entire education sector, from primary school to university. (Photo courtesy AoB)

7.) Chilly temperatures and rain didn’t stop teachers from striking in the Netherlands on Friday to demand more money from the government for education.

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday after a mass shooting. (AP photo/Mark Baker)

8.) Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” and authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.

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