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Top CNS stories for today including the D.C. Circuit cleared the way for the House Oversight Committee to subpoena eight years of President Donald Trump’s personal financial records; A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s so-called “public charge” rule in a fiery opinion; A deal on Brexit suddenly appeared more likely after the European Union and the United Kingdom said they will intensify negotiations, and more.

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House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads an April 2, 2019, meeting to call for subpoenas after a career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump on Saturday, July 27, denigrated Cummings' congressional district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening a campaign against prominent critics of his administration that has exacerbated racial tensions. Trump lashed out in tweets against the powerful House oversight committee chairman, claiming his Baltimore-area district is “considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

1.) Handing a win to House Democrats on Friday morning, the D.C. Circuit cleared the way for the Committee on Oversight and Reform to subpoena eight years of President Donald Trump’s personal financial records.

Hundreds of people overflow onto the sidewalk in a line snaking around the block outside a U.S. immigration office in San Francisco in 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

2.) Days after skewering the government’s rationale for denying green cards to immigrants on welfare, a federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s so-called “public charge” rule in a fiery opinion.

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives on Capitol Hill on Oct. 11, 2019, as she is scheduled to testify before congressional lawmakers on Friday as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

3.) Speaking during a deposition in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told House investigators Friday that she was forced out of her position in May after President Trump pressured State Department officials to remove her.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He accompanied by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, left, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, greets the media before a minister-level trade meetings at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

4.) President Trump on Friday announced a tentative partial trade deal with China, putting off impending tariffs hikes set to be snapped in place on $250 billion in Chinese goods next week.

Regional

Jerry Rowe uses a garden hose to save his home on Beaufait Avenue from the Saddleridge fire in Granada Hills, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)

5.) A massive wildfire northwest of Los Angeles grew to around 5,000 acres overnight, whipped up by strong Santa Ana winds and prompting road and school closures Friday morning.

Shoes are piled outside the scene of a mass shooting including Ned Peppers bar, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. Several people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter is also deceased, police said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

6.) Ohio privacy law prohibits The Associated Press and other news organizations from accessing school records of the Dayton gunman who killed nine people in August to substantiate former classmates’ claims he was suspended in high school for compiling a “hit list” of people he wanted to kill.

International

UK Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay, left, is welcomed by European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier next to British Ambassador to the EU Tim Barrow, right, before their meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

7.) A deal on Brexit suddenly appeared more likely Friday after the European Union and the United Kingdom said they will intensify negotiations.

FILE - In this Friday Nov. 23, 2018 file photo, Alfred Yekatom, a Central African Republic lawmaker and militia leader who goes by the nickname Rambo, appears before the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands. Two leaders of a predominantly Christian militia, Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona and Alfred Yekatom, involved in a bitter conflict with Muslim forces in the Central African Republic have appeared at the International Criminal Court for a hearing, that started Thursday Sept. 19, 2019, at which prosecutors are seeking to persuade judges that they have sufficient evidence to send the suspects to trial. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool via AP, File)

8.) A preliminary hearing for two former African officials accused of human rights violations came to a close Friday, and judges on the International Criminal Court must now decide if there is sufficient evidence to hold a trial.

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