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Top CNS stories for today including senior law enforcement officials told Congress that Radical ideologies like white supremacy are spreading faster thanks to social media while violence from domestic terrorism has outpaced attacks linked to Islamic extremism; The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not providing it with the full report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller; With British politicians deadlocked over Brexit, voters in the United Kingdom will cast ballots in elections for the European Parliament at the end of May, and more.

/ May 8, 2019

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Top CNS stories for today including senior law enforcement officials told Congress that radical ideologies like white supremacy are spreading faster thanks to social media while violence from domestic terrorism has outpaced attacks linked to Islamic extremism; The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not providing it with the full report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller; With British politicians deadlocked over Brexit, voters in the United Kingdom will cast ballots in elections for the European Parliament at the end of May, and more.

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National

A San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Poway Chabad Synagogue in Poway, Calif., on April 28, 2019. The gunman who attacked the synagogue last week fired his semi-automatic rifle at Passover worshippers after walking through the front entrance that synagogue leaders identified last year as needing improved security. The synagogue applied for a federal grant to better protect that area. The money, $150,000, was approved in September but only arrived in late March. "Obviously we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet," Rabbi Scimcha Backman told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

1.) Radical ideologies like white supremacy are spreading faster thanks to social media while violence from domestic terrorism has outpaced attacks linked to Islamic extremism, a group of senior law enforcement officials told Congress on Wednesday.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as released on Thursday, April 18, 2019, is photographed in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

2.) The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt Wednesday for not providing it with the full report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, setting up a high-profile legal showdown between the House and the Trump administration.

New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, R-Smithtown, left, speaks to members in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Jan. 4, 2017, opening day of the legislative session in Albany. Calling it a "blatant political act," Flanagan, now the leader of the chamber's Republican minority, opposes the bill that would allow congressional investigators to get access to President Donald Trump’s state tax returns. The bill was voted in Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

3.) On the morning that President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over an unredacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, New York legislators snapped into action Wednesday by authorizing state authorities to turn over those returns at House Committees’ request.

Christian Dawkins arrives to court in New York on March 5, 2019. Federal prosecutors have recommended multiyear prison sentences for three men convicted of fraud for channeling secret payments to the families of top-tier basketball recruits to influence where the players went to school. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

4.) A federal jury convicted two sports business insiders Wednesday in the second act of the government’s NCAA corruption trial.

Regional

Abortion opponents rally in downtown Louisville, Ky., in 2017. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

5.) An anti-abortion protester detained for over two days after she allegedly made bomb threats outside a Michigan abortion clinic argued on Wednesday before the Sixth Circuit there was no probable cause for officers to arrest her.

6.) Michigan’s practice of suspending the licenses of indigent drivers who don’t pay fines and court costs does not violate their right to due process, a divided Sixth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday.

International

British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

7.) With British politicians deadlocked over Brexit, voters in the United Kingdom will cast ballots in elections for the European Parliament at the end of May.

Members of the delegation of Qatar on the first day of the hearings Tuesday, in the International Court of Justice. (UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek.)

8.) The United Arab Emirates and Qatar returned to the International Court of Justice on Wednesday as representatives for Doha made their argument that the government in Abu Dhabi discriminates against Qatari citizens living in the UAE.

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