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Top CNS stories for today including Democrats could end up mired in a long, contentious internal battle over U.S. support of Israel as President Donald Trump continues to suggest they are against Jewish people; The 10th Circuit ruled that one Salt Lake City man will be able to keep his bump stock when the Trump administration's ban on the rapid-fire gun attachments goes into effect next week; Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature asked a state appeals court to immediately put back into place laws that were passed during a lame-duck session, and more.

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Top CNS stories for today including Democrats could end up mired in a long, contentious internal battle over U.S. support of Israel as President Donald Trump continues to suggest they are against Jewish people; The 10th Circuit ruled that one Salt Lake City man will be able to keep his bump stock when the Trump administration's ban on the rapid-fire gun attachments goes into effect next week; Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature asked a state appeals court to immediately put back into place laws that were passed during a lame-duck session, and more.

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National

1.) Democrats could end up mired in a long, contentious internal battle over U.S. support of Israel as President Donald Trump throws his support behind the country’s control of a disputed territory and continues to suggest Democrats are against Jewish people.

FILE - This March 12, 2010 file photo shows deer seeking foliage in retreating snow in grasslands near Miles City, Mont. This area is typical of other grasslands and similar tracts that are included in a policy by acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who is ordering federal land managers to give more consideration to public access concerns when selling or trading public land. The executive Thursday, March 21, 2019 order comes amid longstanding complaints that millions of acres of state and federal land in the American West can be reached only through private property or small slivers of public land. (Steve Allison/Miles City Star via AP, File)

2.) Future public-land sales will involve consideration, for the first time, of public access for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities, the secretary of the interior announced.

A bump stock is attached to a semiautomatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah, in 2017. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

3.) The 10th Circuit ruled that one Salt Lake City man will be able to keep his bump stock when the Trump administration's ban on the rapid-fire gun attachments goes into effect next week.

Regional

Opponents of an extraordinary session bill submitted by Wisconsin Republican legislators hold "Stop Lame Duck" signs at a rally outside the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

4.) Wasting no time, a coalition of Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature asked a state appeals court Friday to immediately put back into place laws blocked Thursday that were passed during a lame-duck session and aimed at limiting the powers of the new Democratic governor and attorney general.

5.) Can any dealer in a local market be sued by someone who is harmed by another person’s use of illegal drugs? Not without proof they were the one who sold them, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled.

6.) Settling a lawsuit over independent adoption and foster care agencies that won’t work with gay couples, Michigan on Friday became the first state in the nation to bar such organizations from receiving state tax dollars.

A plume of smoke rises from a petrochemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company on March 18, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. The large fire at the Houston-area petrochemicals terminal burned for another two days. Air quality around the facility initially tested within normal guidelines. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

7.) Schools around a Houston-area petrochemical storage plant releasing hazardous levels of benzene fumes remain closed Friday, despite the lifting of a shelter-in-place order Thursday afternoon.

International

British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after addressing a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, March 22, 2019. Worn down by three years of indecision in London, EU leaders on Thursday were grudgingly leaning toward giving the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

8.) Isolated at home and abroad, British Prime Minister Theresa May was laboring against the odds Friday to win backers in Parliament for her unloved Brexit deal — to a timetable dictated by the European Union.

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