Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including the acting director of U.S. intelligence said executive privilege concerns pushed him to seek White House guidance on keeping secret a whistleblower complaint that has fueled an impeachment probe against President Donald Trump; The future of Trump’s choice for a seat on the Fifth Circuit is uncertain after multiple Republicans have spoken out against his nomination; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to apologize for yet another performance in Parliament that saw him ruthlessly attacking opponents and provoking outrage, and more.

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National

1.) Under fire about his role in keeping secret a whistleblower complaint that has fueled an impeachment probe against President Donald Trump, the acting director of U.S. intelligence told House lawmakers Thursday that executive privilege concerns pushed him to seek the administration’s guidance.

2.) The future of President Donald Trump’s choice for a seat on the Fifth Circuit is uncertain after multiple Republicans have spoken out against his nomination.

Secretary of Labor nominee Eugene Scalia speaks during his nomination hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

3.) The Senate voted 53-44 on Thursday to confirm Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as the next head of the Department of Labor.

Jan. 24, 2019 file photo shows the Capitol at sunset in Washington. Facing criticism that the Senate has become little more than what one member calls “an expensive lunch club,” Congress returns for the fall session with pressure mounting on Leader Mitch McConnell to address gun violence, election security and other issues. (AP file photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

4.) Passing a budget that will fund the government through November, the Senate on Thursday included financial support for farmers meant to offset tariffs from the ongoing trade war with China.

Regional

Fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger confers with her attorney before proceedings in her murder trial, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in Dallas. Guyger is accused of shooting her unarmed black neighbor in his Dallas apartment. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)

5.) The prosecution rested Thursday in the murder trial of fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger after disputing claims that she tried to help the unarmed black man she shot after mistaking his apartment for her own.

FILE--In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Alex Jones speaks to reporters in Washington. Lawyers in Connecticut, on Monday, June 17, 2019, allege conspiracy theorist Alex Jones sent them electronic files containing child pornography as part of a defamation lawsuit against the Infowars host by relatives of some victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The families of eight victims of the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn. and an FBI agent who responded to the massacre are suing Jones, Infowars and others for promoting a theory that the shooting was a hoax. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

6.) Attorneys for Infowars personality Alex Jones appeared before Connecticut’s high court Thursday to contest sanctions Jones faces in his court battle with victims of the Newtown school shooting, a massacre he denies ever occurred.

International

In this handout photo provided by the House of Commons, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in Parliament in London, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. An unrepentant Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed off cries of “Resign!” and dared the political opposition to try to topple him Wednesday at a raucous session of Parliament, a day after Britain’s highest court ruled he acted illegally in suspending the body ahead of the Brexit deadline. (Jessica Taylor/House of Commons via AP)

7.) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under pressure Thursday to apologize for yet another performance in Parliament that saw him ruthlessly attacking opponents and provoking outrage in his bullish drive to force the United Kingdom out of the European Union by the end of October.

8.) The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the CEO of a Hungarian oil and gas company cannot bring his fight against Croatia prosecutors to the court because he hasn’t exhausted his legal options in the Croatian judicial system.

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