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Top CNS stories for today including Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke made his first campaign stop in North Carolina and spoke about issues that resonate with Tar Heel State voters such as gerrymandering and LGBT rights; Five parents in an Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn brought a lawsuit over New York City’s mandatory vaccination order; Firefighters battled a massive blaze at the French capital’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral that sent ash pouring onto tourists and flames shooting out of the world-famous 12th century monument, and more.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke speaks in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, April 15, 2019. (CNS Photo/Erika Williams)

1.) Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke made his first campaign stop in North Carolina on Monday, speaking to a crowd in Charlotte about issues that resonate with Tar Heel State voters such as gerrymandering and LGBT rights.

Girls play in a yeshiva schoolyard on April 9, 2019, in the Williamsburg section of New York. The city health department ordered all ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in a neighborhood of Brooklyn on Monday to exclude unvaccinated students from classes during the current measles outbreak. In issuing the order, the health department said that any yeshiva in Williamsburg that does not comply will face fines and possible closure. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

2.) Faced with $1,000 fines if they do not inoculate their children for measles, five parents in an Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn brought a lawsuit Monday over New York City’s mandatory vaccination order.

Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday, April 11, 2019 for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum .(Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

3.) As a battle over the expected extradition of Julian Assange heats up in the United Kingdom, a newly unsealed U.S. court filing details how the WikiLeaks founder tried to cover his tracks.

Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston on Wednesday, April 2019, after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

4.) Actress Lori Loughlin and three other parents indicted as part of the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal filed not-guilty pleas on Monday.

Science

The island of Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa.

5.) Herbs can lift a bland soup or zest up a quiche, but now researchers say a batch of medicinal plants found on an island in the Indian Ocean have the potential to stop the spread of esophageal cancer.

An illustration showing how a sliver of cometary building block material was swallowed by an asteroid and preserved inside a meteorite, where it was discovered by a Carnegie-led team of scientists. (Larry Nittler and NASA)

6.) Much like the popular movie scene where scientists discover an ancient insect preserved in amber, a Carnegie Institution for Science research team announced its discovery of primitive dust particles from a comet encased inside a meteorite found on Antarctica.

An image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas, the only other stable body of water on the surface of planetary body in our solar system other than Earth. (NASA / JPL-Caltech)

7.) Radar data and images from the only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn revealed small yet surprisingly deep methane-filled liquid lakes perched atop hills on Titan, the gas giant’s largest moon, NASA revealed Monday.

International

Flames rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

8.) Firefighters battled a massive blaze Monday at the French capital’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral that sent ash pouring onto tourists and flames shooting out of the world-famous 12th century monument.

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