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Top CNS stories for today including House Democrats signaled they will continue to prioritize action on climate change as Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a new bill aiming to keep the U.S. on track to meet emission standards laid out in the Paris climate accord; A new EPA policy that bars federal grant recipients from serving on advisory committees survived a lawsuit from scientists who accused the Trump administration of trying “to stack the deck against scientific integrity”; The threat of deep cuts at the State Department had Republicans and Democrats fuming as they met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the 2020 budget, and more.

/ March 27, 2019

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Top CNS stories for today including House Democrats signaled they will continue to prioritize action on climate change as Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a new bill aiming to keep the U.S. on track to meet emission standards laid out in the Paris climate accord; A new EPA policy that bars federal grant recipients from serving on advisory committees survived a lawsuit from scientists who accused the Trump administration of trying “to stack the deck against scientific integrity”; The threat of deep cuts at the State Department had Republicans and Democrats fuming as they met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the 2020 budget, and more.

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National

House Oversight and Reform Committee members, from left, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listen to Republican arguments against compelling Trump administration officials to turn over documents on family separations at the southern border, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

1.) A day after the Green New Deal was defeated in the Senate, House Democrats signaled Wednesday they will continue to prioritize action on climate change as Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a new bill aiming to keep the U.S. on track to meet emission standards laid out in the Paris climate accord.

2.) A new EPA policy that bars federal grant recipients from serving on advisory committees survived a lawsuit Wednesday from scientists who accused the Trump administration of trying “to stack the deck against scientific integrity.” 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on budget Wednesday in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

3.) The threat of deep cuts at the State Department had Republicans and Democrats fuming Wednesday as they met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the 2020 budget.

4.) A Texas death-row inmate who believes chanting prayers with his Buddhist priest as he is executed will help him be reborn in the “Pure Land” has asked the Fifth Circuit for a stay because Texas will not let the priest accompany him in the execution room.

Science

5.) The commonly held narrative regarding social media and the 2016 presidential election is that the platforms were a den of misinformation, breeding fake news and building echo chambers. But a study published Wednesday finds Facebook and Twitter – both the focus of vitriol immediately after the election and since – actually have little influence on how much people believed falsehoods about candidates.

In this 2015 photo taken by Mars rover Curiosity, layers can be seen on Mt. Sharp that indicate exposure to water billions of years ago. Researchers believe the Red Planet's ability to hold water - its atmosphere - was stripped away by solar winds. (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS)

6.) New research challenges perceptions of Mars’ climate history with findings that broad, fierce rivers may have flowed across the Red Planet as recently as 1 billion years ago.

International

A pro EU protestor shouts through a megaphone at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. British lawmakers were preparing to vote Wednesday on alternatives for leaving the European Union as they seek to end an impasse following the overwhelming defeat of the deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

7.) British Prime Minister Theresa May told Conservative lawmakers Wednesday that she will step down once the U.K.’s exit from the European Union is delivered — a dramatic concession meant to bring enough of her colleagues on board to push her deal over the line.

8.) A man who tried to return a mattress without the protective film in which it was shipped can still seek a refund, Europe’s highest court ruled Wednesday.

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