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Top CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee will vote this week on subpoenas to acquire special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; The D.C. Circuit upheld the Trump administration’s ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks; The Supreme Court cleared the way 5-4 for Missouri to execute a man whose rare medical condition could make lethal injection severely painful, and more.

/ April 1, 2019

Your Monday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee will vote this week on subpoenas to acquire special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; The D.C. Circuit upheld the Trump administration’s ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks; The Supreme Court cleared the way 5-4 for Missouri to execute a man whose rare medical condition could make lethal injection severely painful, and more.

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National

Pacific Junction, Iowa, resident Fran Karr, left, points out to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the location of her flooded home, during a stop to the recently flooded town of Pacific Junction, Iowa, on March 29, 2019. Jason Karr, Frans's husband stands rear center. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

1.) Democratic presidential candidates seeking to break out in a field crowded with as many as 20 potential contenders ahead of next February’s Iowa caucuses pitched their ideas on rural issues to a packed auditorium at Buena Vista University on Saturday.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., questions Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Feb. 8, 2019, as he appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Emboldened by their new majority, Democrats are undertaking several broad new investigations into President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a post-Robert Mueller world. Nadler has helped lead the charge to pressure the Justice Department to release the full report by Mueller to the public. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

2.) The House Judiciary Committee will vote this week on subpoenas to acquire special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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 D.C. Circuit on Monday upheld the Trump administration’s ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks, which were used to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas nearly two years ago.

Russell Bucklew was scheduled to die by injection last year for a brutal 1996 rape and murder in eastern Missouri. Bucklew faces a potentially “gruesome and painful” execution because of a rare medical condition that compromises the man’s veins and causes multiple tumors in his head and throat, his attorney has argued. (Jeremy Weis Photography via AP)

4.) The Supreme Court cleared the way 5-4 Monday for Missouri to execute a man whose rare medical condition could make lethal injection severely painful.

Regional

A statue of Capt. John Smith stands over the site of the 1607 fort in Jamestown, Virginia. (Photo by Roger Green/National Park Service)

5.) President Trump hopes to turn Virginia red for the first time in more than a decade in 2020, but analysts see a different outlook for the commonwealth. Trump will find out just how strong his message is this year, as all 140 House and state Senate seats are up for election before the end of 2019.

In this March 24, 2019 photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot, right, participates in a candidate forum sponsored by One Chicago For All Alliance at Daley College in Chicago. Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, left, are competing to make history by becoming the city's first black, female mayor. On issues their positions are similar. But their resumes are not, and that may make all the difference when voters pick a new mayor on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

6.) Polls show former prosecutor Lori Lightfoot handily winning the Chicago mayoral race Tuesday, likely to outmaneuver veteran politician Toni Preckwinkle to become the city’s first black female mayor and its first openly gay leader.

Members of the New York state Senate debate budget bills during session in Senate Chamber at the state Capitol Sunday, March, 31, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

7.) New Yorkers will soon see some big changes after the state Senate signed off this weekend on a ban on plastic shopping bags as well as congestion pricing when they passed the state’s 2020 budget.

Science

8.) “Unprecedented” is the word researchers are using to once again describe the impacts of a climate change on wildlife and habitat, this time regarding a marine heatwave that will have long-lasting negative effects on birth rates and survival of the iconic dolphin population in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

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