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Top CNS stories for today including Attorney General William Barr is set to give the public its first look at the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election; Two new polls show most Americans believe President Donald Trump obstructed justice and he continues to suffer from low approval ratings; The FBI hunt for an 18-year-old woman obsessed with the 1999 Columbine school shooting who made threats against several Denver-area schools has ended with her death, and more.

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National

In this March 24, 2019 photo, Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House, after attending St. John's Episcopal Church for morning services, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

1.) Fulfilling a promise about the report he has been carefully redacting for weeks, Attorney General William Barr is set to give the public its first look Thursday at the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Minneapolis-Saint Paul Air Reserve Station in Minneapolis, Monday, April 15, 2019. Trump is in Minnesota to tout the 2017 tax law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

2.) As President Donald Trump and the rest of the country await the impending release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, two new polls released Wednesday show most Americans believe the president obstructed justice and he continues to suffer from low approval ratings.

3.) Forty years ago in the Reagan administration, a dearth of endangered-species listings spurred Congress to impose strict new deadlines. With the Trump administration now rivaling those numbers, the Center for Biological Diversity asked a federal judge Wednesday to step in.

Regional

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office released these undated photos of Sol Pais, whom officials believe to be a threat to Denver-area schools, which canceled classes Wednesday. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via AP)

4.) The FBI hunt for an 18-year-old woman obsessed with the 1999 Columbine school shooting who made threats against several Denver-area schools has ended with her death, authorities said Wednesday.

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)

5.) The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday to continue an emergency measles vaccination order, part of a bid to squelch an outbreak that has already sickened hundreds.

Ned S. Gilmore, collections manager of vertebrate zoology, shows a hellbender salamander in the collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia on March 23, 2012. A nocturnal salamander that can grow to be more than 2 feet long, the hellbender was recognized Tuesday by Pennsylvania lawmakers as the state amphibian. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

6.) Recognizing its importance as an indicator species for clean water, Pennsylvania lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to designate a state amphibian: an enormous salamander called the Eastern hellbender.

International

Northern Irish cattle farmer George Elliott voted for Brexit but now says he would vote to remain in the European Union. (Photo by CAIN BURDEAU/Courthouse News Service)

7.) If he could, cattle farmer Gordon Elliott would take back his vote for Brexit and choose to remain in the European Union, while also keeping the nearby border with Ireland open and free, as it is today.

A view inside Galerie Enrico Navarra at 75 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, in Paris, France. (Image via Facebook)

8.) Recasting claims that it spent nearly a decade shaping in federal court, a Paris gallery demands more than $18 million from a New York art dealer that it accuses of spoiling its contract with a now-deceased Chinese-French painter.

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