Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including the similarities are striking between U.S. President Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, the prospective next Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom; Google unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to help solve the San Francisco Bay Area’s worsening housing crisis; Indiana’s top law enforcement official faces a federal lawsuit from three female statehouse staffers and one lawmaker who accuse him of inappropriate comments and touching at a staff party, and more.

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National

1.) The Trump administration’s top trade negotiator testified Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee in support of the replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, brushing off Democrats’ concerns about tariffs and how they affect trade deals.

Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, left, consults with Army Gen. Scott Miller in Kabul in this February file photo. (AP photo/Robert Burns)

2.) President Donald Trump said in a series of tweets Tuesday that the acting secretary of defense will not move forward with his confirmation process and will be replaced by the head of the Army.

This courtroom sketch depicts former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, center in a wheelchair, during his sentencing hearing in federal court before judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, March 7, 2019. Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, a significant break from sentencing guidelines that called for a 20-year prison term. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

3.) Shedding light on the federal intervention that is keeping Paul Manafort off Rikers Island, a series of letters made public Tuesday show that the government appeared to credit Manafort’s complaints about his pretrial conditions.

International

4.) The similarities are striking between Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and Boris Johnson, the prospective next Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Cars and trucks drive on a highway just before the sun rises in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, June 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

5.) Germany discriminates against foreign drivers by making everyone pay a highway toll and then giving a tax rebate only to residents, Europe’s highest court ruled Tuesday.

Regional

Farmers harvest a cornfield in Dorsten, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. The German government said Wednesday it is to compensate thousands of farmers whose harvests have suffered as a result of this year’s extreme drought, which many experts have linked to climate change. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

6.) A warming climate and bigger corn yields mean Midwestern corn growers who today rely on rainfall to water their crops will need to switch to irrigation by midcentury if current trends continue, possibly setting off a battle royale for dwindling water supplies, new research suggests.

The Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. France’s data privacy watchdog has slapped Google with a $57 million fine, the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect last year. The National Data Protection Commission said on Jan. 21, 2019, it fined the U.S. internet giant for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent” regarding ad personalization for users. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

7.) Google unveiled plans Tuesday to invest $1 billion to help solve the San Francisco Bay Area’s worsening housing crisis.

Then-Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse in Indianapolis in July 2018. (Michael Conroy/AP)

8.) Indiana’s top law enforcement official faces a federal lawsuit from three female statehouse staffers and one lawmaker who accuse him of inappropriate comments and touching at a staff party last year.

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