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Top CNS stories for today including a federal judge struck down the work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky, effectively blocking the Trump administration’s plan to revamp the country’s health care program for the poor; Congressional Democrats said they are investigating the Texas interim election chief’s bungled announcement of 95,000 registered voters possibly not being citizens; There is still no clear separation plan on the day before the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union was supposed to be final, and more.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including a federal judge struck down the work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky, effectively blocking the Trump administration’s plan to revamp the country’s health care program for the poor; Congressional Democrats said they are investigating the Texas interim election chief’s bungled announcement of 95,000 registered voters possibly not being citizens; There is still no clear separation plan on the day before the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union was supposed to be final, and more.

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National

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1.) A federal judge struck down the work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky, effectively blocking the Trump administration’s plan to revamp the country’s health care program for the poor.

An election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting site in Austin, Texas, in 2014. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

2.) Congressional Democrats said Thursday they are investigating the Texas interim election chief’s bungled announcement of 95,000 registered voters possibly not being citizens that spurred lawsuits, accusations of voter suppression and an apology.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. McConnell says there is "indisputable evidence" Russia tried to affect the 2016 presidential election. He says the Senate understands the "Russia threat" and that is the "widespread view here in the United States Senate among members of both parties."(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

3.) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took steps Thursday to speed up confirmation of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including people nominated to federal district courts.

4.) Chicago demanded Thursday that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett repay the $130,000 it cost to investigate the alleged hate crime against him that city officials insist he staged.

5.) Nearly 2 million acres designated as critical habitat for three imperiled frog species survived a court challenge by California farmers.

Regional

6.) It didn’t pass the flick test. Siding with a sous chef who was convicted for possessing an illegal gravity knife, a federal judge struck down New York’s ban against the so-called “successor of the switchblade” as unconstitutionally vague.

7.) A bitterly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a judge need not tell a sex offender the length of his commitment when he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.

International

A pro European demonstrator holds a banner near parliament in London on Jan. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

8.) On the day before the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union was supposed to be final, there is still no clear separation plan from the British government.

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