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Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump denied reports that the Iranian Intelligence Ministry captured 17 citizens it believes were trained by America’s CIA; A new poll shows President Trump’s approval rating is his strongest yet; The United Kingdom enters a new and unsettling crisis point as former London Mayor Boris Johnson looks set to become the next prime minister, and more.

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National

A woman walks past a mural in a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid salemi)

1.) The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced Monday it had captured 17 Iranian citizens it believes were trained by America’s CIA. President Donald Trump took to Twitter hours later to claim the reports were false.

President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

2.) President Trump not only weathered the “send her back” controversy, but according to one poll released Monday his approval rating is the strongest of his presidency.

The Capitol is seen early morning in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

3.) A majority of U.S. adults believe that trust in both the federal government and fellow Americans has been shrinking, according to a poll released Monday, and most say it is important to reverse those trends.

Bitcoin buttons are displayed on a table at the Inside Bitcoins conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. The conference brought together entrepreneurs and enthusiasts of the virtual currency to discuss business opportunities and recent developments. (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)

4.) A federal judge in California has given a cryptocurrency entrepreneur another shot to make his case that AT&T’s negligence allowed hackers to steal $24 million in digital currency.

International

British Conservative party leadership and prime minister contender Boris Johnson leaves home in South London in London, Thursday, June 20, 2019. The race to become Britain's next prime minister is down to the final four on Wednesday, as Johnson stretched his lead among Conservative lawmakers and upstart Rory Stewart was eliminated from the contest. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

5.) The United Kingdom, already rattled by Brexit and tensions with Iran, enters a new and unsettling crisis point this week with the pending ascendancy of former London Mayor Boris Johnson, the man likely to take over No. 10 Downing Street and become the leader of the world’s fifth-largest economy and one of its strongest militaries.

FILE - This April 12, 2016, file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France. Microsoft has an eye on its international customers as it confronts the Trump administration in a Supreme Court fight about turning over emails to investigators. The justices will hear arguments Feb. 26, 2018, over whether the company, as part of an international drug trafficking investigation, must comply with an American warrant for emails stored on a server in a Microsoft facility in Dublin, Ireland.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

6.) A Microsoft subsidiary agreed Monday to pay more than $26 million to resolve claims that its employees bribed Hungarian government officials to tie up software-licensing deals.

Science

7.) The structure and size of the Milky Way is a direct result of our galaxy consuming a far smaller galaxy nearly 10 billion years ago, a study revealed Monday.

The moon is seen during a complete lunar eclipse over Jakarta, Indonesia, on Aug. 28, 2018. Skywatchers around much of the world are looking forward to a complete lunar eclipse that will be the longest this century. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

8.) By studying craters near the poles of Mercury and the moon, scientists have identified what they believe to be millions of metric tons of water trapped as ice according to a study released Monday.

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