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Top CNS stories for today including Boris Johnson will become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister and lead his country’s difficult Brexit negotiations; President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit to block the House Ways and Means Committee from getting his state tax returns after New York lawmakers made it easier for members of Congress to do so; The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed military veteran and Army Secretary Mark Esper as secretary of defense, and more.

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President Donald Trump is joined on stage with Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk as he finishes speaking at Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

1.) Acting as a private citizen, President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block the House Ways and Means Committee from getting his state tax returns after New York lawmakers made it easier for members of Congress to do so.

In this July 20, 2019, photo, former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in an electrical workers union hall in Las Vegas. Biden is proposing a sweeping criminal justice agenda that would reverse key provisions of the 1994 crime bill he helped author and which rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination have blamed for mass incarceration of racial minorities. (AP Photo/John Locher)

2.) Former vice president turned 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden released a plan Tuesday to reform the American criminal justice system, emphasizing crime prevention over incarceration a week before the second round of Democratic debates.

3.) Americans tend to have a baseline knowledge of Christianity, Islam, and atheism, but know far less about Judaism and other religions, Pew researchers reported Tuesday.

In this July 16, 2019 photo, Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense nominee Mark Esper testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Esper, an Army veteran and former defense industry lobbyist, won Senate confirmation Tuesday to be the Secretary of Defense. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

4.) The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed military veteran and Army Secretary Mark Esper as secretary of defense, giving the Department of Defense a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in seven months.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on the rural economy, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

5.) Despite warnings that the move will hurt the poor, the Trump administration pushed a proposal Wednesday to make sure only the truly needy are eligible for food stamps.

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)

6.) Boris Johnson, a controversial figure in British, European, and now world politics, will become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister Wednesday and lead his country’s difficult Brexit negotiations.

This photo shows the home where the parents of Luigi Di Maio, Italy's deputy prime minister, live in Pomigliano d'Arco, a southern Italian town where Di Maio grew up. Di Maio is the leader of the 5-Star Movement, a left-leaning populist political party that is at risk of falling out of government in Italy. (Photo by CAIN BURDEAU/Courthouse News Service)

7.) Any day now Italy’s coalition government — molded from an unlikely alliance of two populist parties drawn from the left and the right — could fall and plunge Europe into a new crisis.

8.) First U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba heard a noise, then they became dizzy and had trouble concentrating. The State Department described the event as a sonic attack, but conflicting evidence surrounding Havana Syndrome has led others to question this conclusion – and the results of brain imaging released Tuesday only deepen the mystery.

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