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Top CNS stories for today including lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a sympathetic Fourth Circuit panel to reject a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clauses; Search-warrant materials show the FBI suspected that Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen secretly worked on behalf of a foreign government for nearly a year before agents raided his home and office; A federal judge gave a sentence of probation to the woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest family separations at the U.S. border, and more.

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National

1.) Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a sympathetic Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday to reject a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which ban the president from receiving gifts from foreign or state governments while in office without congressional consent.

2.) The FBI suspected that Michael Cohen secretly worked on behalf of a foreign government for nearly a year before agents raided his home and office, according to a Tuesday avalanche of search-warrant materials into the former personal attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump.

3.) In a blow to lengthy immigration detentions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that there is no right to a bond hearing if there is any delay to when an immigration official arrests an alien after his release from jail.

Regional

In this image made from video by PIX11, a person, center, leans against the robes of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, as one of the police officers climbed up on a ladder to stand on a ledge nearby talking the climber into descending in New York, Wednesday, July 4, 2018. (PIX11 via AP)

4.) A federal judge gave a sentence of probation Tuesday to the woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest family separations at the U.S. border.

5.) A Southern California county put the finishing touches on a first-of-its-kind wildlife corridor Tuesday that will protect important pathways for animals to pass between critical habitats and into Los Padres National Forest.

International

An anti-Brexit supporter stands by European and British Union flags placed opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, March 18, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May was making a last-minute push Monday to win support for her European Union divorce deal, warning opponents that failure to approve it would mean a long — and possibly indefinite — delay to Brexit. Parliament has rejected the agreement twice, but May aims to try a third time this week if she can persuade enough lawmakers to change their minds. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

6.) Nearly two years ago – on March 29, 2017 – British Prime Minister Theresa May signed the letter formally withdrawing Great Britain from the European Union. In doing so, she kicked off a two-year negotiating period to define the terms of the historic divorce.

Rescue workers install a screen on the spot where a body was covered with a white blanket following a shooting in Utrecht, Netherlands, Monday, March 18, 2019. Police in the central Dutch city of Utrecht say on Twitter that "multiple" people have been injured as a result of a shooting in a tram in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

7.) In the wake of a shooting on a tram in the Dutch town of Utrecht on Monday, politicians have resumed campaigning for provincial and water board elections set for Wednesday.

A family sits on a bus upon their arrival in Pratica di Mare's military airport, near Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. A group of 51 refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Cameroon, arrived in Italy from Niger, where they had been transferred to after being held in Libyan detention centers. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

8.) The European Court of Justice set a high bar Tuesday for asylum seekers looking to stay in Germany, ruling only the likelihood of extreme poverty – not mere inadequacies in a member state’s social system – would warrant granting the refugees’ request.

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