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Top CNS stories for today including hiring slowed in July but was still strong as employers added 164,000 new jobs; The United States withdrew from a milestone arms-control agreement reached with Russia over three decades ago; The second round of Democratic presidential debates made little dent in former Vice President Joe Biden’s polling numbers, and more.

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FILE - In this July 2, 2019, file photo a construction worker walks atop a building as a crane lifts a load over head in Miami. On Friday, Aug. 2, the U.S. government issues the July jobs report. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

1.) Hiring slowed in July but was still strong as employers added 164,000 new jobs, while the closely watched trade deficit with China narrowed slightly.

Undated file photo provided Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official web site shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia. A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead. The U.S. and Russia both walked away from the deal on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP/File)

2.) The United States withdrew Friday from a milestone arms-control agreement reached between Russia and the United States over three decades ago, freeing up the U.S. to test new missiles that would have been previously banned under the treaty.

U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, right, poses for photos during a stop at the Texas A&M-San Antonio, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, in San Antonio. Hurd, one of President Donald Trump’s few Republican critics in Congress is trying to hang on for another term in a Texas swing district. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

3.) Will Hurd, the only black Republican in the House of Representatives, announced he will not run for a fourth term, making him the sixth Republican congressman to decline to run for re-election in 2020.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., listens as former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

4.) While former Vice President Joe Biden might have been on his back foot during this week’s Democratic debates in Detroit, fielding attacks from his fellow candidates, the overall night made little dent in his polling numbers.

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, questions former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies to the House Intelligence Committee about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. President Donald Trump announced today, Sunday, July 28, 2019, that he will nominate Rep. Ratcliffe to replace Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats who is leaving his job next month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

5.) John Ratcliffe, the Texas Republican congressman in line to take over as the director of national intelligence, is withdrawing from consideration for the job, President Donald Trump said Friday.

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Eric Garner, right, poses with his children during a family outing in this undated photo provided by the National Action Network. (Family photo via National Action Network)

6.) An administrative board recommended immediate dismissal Friday for the Staten Island officer whose chokehold killing of Eric Garner helped spur the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.

Opponents of an extraordinary session bill submitted by Wisconsin Republican legislators hold "Stop Lame Duck" signs at a rally outside the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

7.) Republican Wisconsin legislators sued the state’s Democratic attorney general over the enforcement of controversial lame-duck laws aimed at curtailing his powers and those of the new governor, also a Democrat.

Northern lights. (Gary Schultz via Courthouse News)

8.) In his latest dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief shivers through a northern lights show at a hot springs resort in the Alaskan wilderness.

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