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Top CNS stories for today including Senator Lindsey Graham said material covered by executive privilege in the report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections will likely be kept under wraps; Attorney Michael Avenatti received a one-two punch from federal prosecutors on both coasts accusing him of extortion and fraud; A mystery company fighting a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller failed to lodge its challenge with the U.S. Supreme Court, and more.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks during a Monday news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

1.) Predicting that the public will not see the full report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, Senator Lindsey Graham noted Monday that material covered by executive privilege will likely be kept under wraps.

Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, arrives to court in New York, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Lawyers for President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, his personal attorney, appear again before a judge in New York as part of an ongoing legal tussle about attorney client privilege and records seized from Cohen by the FBI. Among the issues to be discussed: Whether Avenatti will get a formal role in the case. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

2.) Less than a year after his representation of Stormy Daniels signaled the downfall of the president’s personal fixer, attorney Michael Avenatti received a one-two punch from federal prosecutors on both coasts Monday.

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)

3.) A mystery company fighting a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller failed Monday to lodge its challenge with the U.S. Supreme Court.

4.) In a case involving a publisher sued for faxing an advertisement to a chiropractic office, the justices of the Supreme Court questioned Monday whether a federal law really prevents federal district courts from interpreting the orders of some administrative agencies.

Regional

Marijuana plants grow in a tomato greenhouse being renovated to grow pot in Delta, British Columbia, on Sept. 25, 2018. The legal marijuana industry exploded in 2018, pushing its way further into the cultural and financial mainstream in the U.S. and beyond. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

5.) Unable to wrangle the necessary votes at the end of legislative session Monday, Democratic lawmakers sidelined a bid Monday to make the Garden State the 11th to legalize recreational marijuana.

6.) The family of a woman shot dead on a San Francisco pier cannot hold the city liable for failing to help deport an undocumented immigrant who fired the fatal bullet, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers answered reporters questions at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisc., Thursday, March 21, 2019, after a Dane County judge has blocked the lame duck laws that Republicans passed in December to limit the power of the governor and attorney general. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

7.) In the second round of hearings over Wisconsin’s controversial lame-duck legislation in as many weeks, a Dane County judge heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by unions challenging three laws passed during an extraordinary floor session of the GOP-controlled Legislature in December.

International

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wave from the town hall balcony on occasion of the Charlemagne Prize awarding in Aachen, Germany, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Left Aachen's mayor Andreas Herman. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

8.) Following a two-day meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels last week, the European Commission delayed a fight about climate change legislation until June after Germany surprisingly defected.

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