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Top CNS stories for today including the justices of the Supreme Court appeared conflicted over whether the map for Virginia’s House of Delegates was racially gerrymandered; Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke raised a record-breaking $6.1 million online in the 24 hours after launching his presidential run; France’s capital was rocked by another round of violent mass demonstrations over the weekend, and more.

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Top CNS stories for today including the justices of the Supreme Court appeared conflicted over whether the map for Virginia’s House of Delegates was racially gerrymandered; Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke raised a record-breaking $6.1 million online in the 24 hours after launching his presidential run; France’s capital was rocked by another round of violent mass demonstrations over the weekend, and more.

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National

Virginia voters persuaded a federal judge in 2017 that 11 of the 12 election districts pictured in this 2011 map were racially gerrymandered by Republican lawmakers. (Image via Virginia’s Public Access Project)

1.) In their second look at Virginia election districts, the justices of the Supreme Court appeared conflicted Monday over whether the map for the state’s House of Delegates was racially gerrymandered.

(AP file photo/Eric Gay)

2.) Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke raised $6.1 million online in the 24 hours after launching his presidential run, setting a new record for first-day fundraising totals among his 2020 Democratic rivals.

Lee Boyd Malvo enters a courtroom in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2003. (Photo by Davis Turner/AP)

3.) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a teen who carried out sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., in 2002 should be resentenced.

4.) A case going before the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday centers on the so-called emoluments clauses, which prohibit the president from receiving gifts from foreign or state governments or officials while in office without congressional consent.

Regional

In this Sept. 25, 2018 photo, a worker holds a marijuana plant leaf in a massive tomato greenhouse being renovated to grow pot in Delta, British Columbia, that is operated by Pure Sunfarms, a joint venture between tomato grower Village Farms International, and a licensed medical marijuana producer, Emerald Health Therapeutics. On Oct. 17, 2018, Canada will become the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

5.) Recent polls show that 84 percent of voting Texans believe the state should legalize marijuana for some uses, but an outright repeal of the prohibition against the drug is unlikely to happen anytime soon in the state.

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)

6.) The Supreme Court took up a challenge Monday over whether Kansas can prosecute undocumented workers who used other people’s Social Security numbers on everything from tax documents to apartment leases. 

International

Bystanders take snapshots of the burned restaurant Le Fouquet's on the Champs Elysees the day after it was vandalized and set on fire during the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations by the yellow vests, in Paris on Sunday. (AP photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

7.) France’s capital was rocked by another round of violent mass demonstrations over the weekend as police clashed with protesters and throngs ransacked luxury Champs-Elysees stores and a historic restaurant.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the troops during the 82nd anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Duterte said Wednesday that his country is withdrawing its ratification of a world treaty that created the International Criminal Court, where he’s facing a possible complaint for crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

8.) The Philippines officially withdrew from the International Criminal Court on Sunday, a year after its president called the United Nations court’s investigation of his drug war a politically motivated witch hunt.

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