Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump doubled down on the conduct that brewed an impeachment probe and said China and Ukraine should investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family; Trump visited the country’s largest retirement community in one of his first public appearances since the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry; The European Union’s highest court ruled that nations can order Facebook to remove content from its platform worldwide, and more.

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1.) Doubling down on the conduct that brewed an impeachment probe, President Donald Trump said Thursday that China and Ukraine should investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.

2.) President Trump visited the country’s largest retirement community on Thursday to announce new Medicare proposals, one of his first public appearances since the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry.

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

3.) A growing number of Americans – including Republicans – are disenchanted with the president’s conduct during the Ukraine-Biden episode, according to a new poll.

Regional

In this April 11, 2018, photo, production workers stack newspapers onto a cart at the Janesville Gazette Printing & Distribution plant in Janesville, Wis. Members of Congress are warning that newspapers in their home states are in danger of cutting coverage or going out of business if the United States maintains recently imposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

4.) A hard-boiled detective story it wasn’t. The facts underlying a case argued Thursday before the Tennessee Supreme Court started out more as a bake-until-golden-brown tale.

A San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Poway Chabad Synagogue in Poway, Calif., on April 28, 2019. The gunman who attacked the synagogue last week fired his semi-automatic rifle at Passover worshippers after walking through the front entrance that synagogue leaders identified last year as needing improved security. The synagogue applied for a federal grant to better protect that area. The money, $150,000, was approved in September but only arrived in late March. "Obviously we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet," Rabbi Scimcha Backman told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

5.) Appearing before San Diego Superior Court’s presiding judge Thursday, the 20-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a synagogue congregant during the sacred Jewish holiday of Passover this past spring pleaded not guilty to murder and hate crime charges.

6.) California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday authorizing local school boards to close charter schools or block them from opening if they impede neighborhood schools from operating or don’t serve all students equitably.

International

7.) The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that nations can order Facebook to remove content from its platform worldwide.

German troops reach Vienna, Austria, on March 24, 1938, shortly after the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. A survey released on Thursday says many Austrians lack basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, even though the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp was just outside of the city of Linz, and some of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust were Austrian. (AP Photo)

8.) Settling a years-long dispute, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that denying the Holocaust happened is not protected expression under Europe’s human rights convention.

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