nightly brief

Top eight CNS stories for today including strikes by trade unions over French President Emmanuel Macron’s push to overhaul the nation’s retirement system will continue despite a compromise offer by the government; American businesses posted the lowest number of job openings since February 2018; The Supreme Court agreed to again take up a dispute over whether religious groups are exempt from the requirement that health insurance plans cover contraception, and more.  

Top eight CNS stories for today including the Senate prepared to weigh whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office; Lawmakers approved a new trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada; A federal watchdog said the White House broke the law by allowing Trump to freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including House lawmakers voted to transmit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose seven lawmakers from her Democratic caucus to serve as impeachment managers in the Senate trial; President Trump inked a long-anticipated partial trade agreement with China, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is expected to start next week; House Democrats released a trove of explosive documents providing new evidence tied to the Ukraine scandal; The European Court of Human Rights ruled Russia did not give fair trials to the country’s former richest man and a second man who criticized President Putin, and more.  

Top eight CNS stories for today including the opening of a trial where a Slovakian businessman stands accused of ordering the murder of a journalist is shining more light on the entanglement of politics and corruption in Europe; Denim giant Lucky Brand Dungarees struck a chord with a powerful figure as it waged the latest battle of a nearly two-decade-long trademark dispute at the Supreme Court; New Jersey Senator Cory Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled she would soon send President Donald Trump’s articles of impeachment to the Senate; American employers added 145,000 jobs while the unemployment rate held steady at a 50-year low; House lawmakers passed a bill for U.S. regulators to designate chemicals found in cooking spray, cosmetics and other grease-resistant products as health hazards, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including workers angry over the French government’s plans to overhaul the nation’s public retirement system seized the country with a new wave of nationwide strikes; The Trump administration plans to reduce the time it takes to assess the environmental impact of major federal projects; Pete Buttigieg is holding a slight lead among Democratic presidential candidates in New Hampshire, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump said he would invoke more sanctions on Iran so long as it continues to pursue development of nuclear power; A new poll shows most people around the globe don’t trust Trump to do the right thing when it comes to foreign affairs; The escalating conflict between the U.S. and Iran poses a range of dangers for Europe, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Iowa caucusgoers will finally make their choices in less than four weeks; America’s trade gap with all countries fell 8.2% to the lowest level since President Donald Trump took office; Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden called the president’s approach to Iran erratic, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Democrats plan to introduce legislation affirming that Congress alone has the power to declare war; Senate Republicans introduced a resolution that could allow them to dismiss President Donald Trump’s articles of impeachment; Dutch military training operations in Iraq have been called off in the wake of a U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s top general, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the State Department issued a security alert telling U.S. citizens to get out of Iraq after a U.S. drone killed the head of Iran’s elite military force; A federal judge allowed Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas to share information that could kickstart further impeachment investigations against President Donald Trump; The House of Representatives plus a group of 20 mostly Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia asked the Supreme Court to hear a case over the constitutionality of Obamacare, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including a conservative group asked a Wisconsin judge to find the state’s elections board in contempt for refusing to remove thousands of people from voter rolls; Senator Bernie Sanders ended the final quarter of the decade by reporting $34.5 million in campaign contributions; Austria’s young conservative leader is joining forces with the left-wing Greens only months after his first government coalition with a far-right party fell apart, and more.  

Top eight CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump announced he plans to formally ink a first-step trade agreement with China in a ceremony at the White House next month; Polls from two southern states show former Vice President Joe Biden beating Trump if the 2020 election was held today; New York State’s criminal justice system will look a little different next year, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded that the White House stop stonewalling the upcoming impeachment trial; A former campaign aide to presidential candidate Tom Steyer claims the South Carolina Democratic Party falsely accused him of stealing information on volunteers working for then-rival Kamala Harris; An investigation into the assassination of a prominent leftist politician last year has focused on Brazil’s far-right president, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the United Kingdom began its shift away from Europe as the Conservative-dominated House of Commons voted in favor of a deal that spells out the terms of Brexit; The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch government must reduce greenhouse gas emissions; A coalition of state prosecutors claim the Trump administration ignored the science in rolling back protections for many U.S. waterways, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ridiculed the possibility that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will delay the next step of President Donald Trump’s impeachment; The Senate confirmed a dozen of Trump’s nominees for seats on federal courts across the country; A magistrate for Europe’s highest court backed the validity of data transfers from the European Union to the United States, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the House debated for hours before its planned vote to impeach the president for the third time in U.S. history; The Fifth Circuit ruled the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate tax penalty zeroed out by Congress two years ago is unconstitutional; The Trump administration is forging ahead with its plan to allow states to import prescription drugs from Canada, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Rules Committee hashed out the guidelines for what will surely become a contentious road for a historic impeachment vote;  The House of Representatives passed a $1.4 trillion spending package to avoid a government shutdown; Michigan became the first state in the nation to treat pharmaceutical companies like drug dealers in court, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee detailed its findings from weeks of impeachment hearings in a 658-page report; A voting rights group filed an emergency motion to stop Georgia from purging over 120,000 people from voter rolls; The latest round of international talks over stopping global warming ended with many calling it a complete failure, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee hurtled President Donald Trump one step closer to impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress with a pair of party-line votes; The United States and China have formally agreed to a partial trade agreement; The Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump’s attempts to keep nearly a decade of his tax returns out of the hands of New York City prosecutors and congressional committees, and more.