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Top eight CNS stories for today including attorneys for the Texas Democratic Party and the state clashed over whether Texans fearful of catching Covid-19 at the polls can vote by mail; A lawyer for the erstwhile presidential candidate Andrew Yang made his case to have the Second Circuit safeguard New York’s primary election; Russia has become one of the world’s worst-hit countries by the pandemic, and more.

/ May 15, 2020
A sign posted outside a water well indicates perchlorate contamination at the site in Rialto, Calif. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

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Top eight CNS stories for today including attorneys for the Texas Democratic Party and the state clashed over whether Texans fearful of catching Covid-19 at the polls can vote by mail; A lawyer for the erstwhile presidential candidate Andrew Yang made his case to have the Second Circuit safeguard New York’s primary election; Russia has become one of the world’s worst-hit countries by the pandemic, and more.

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National

1.) The Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly decided to drop regulation of a water contaminant that’s been linked to brain damage in infants, though agency officials deny a final decision has been made.  

A sign posted outside a water well indicates perchlorate contamination at the site in Rialto, Calif. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

2.) A record 11.4 million Americans were laid off in March while the number of open jobs advertised by employers fell to the lowest level in nearly three years, as the Covid-19 crisis began taking its toll on the economy.  

In Point Loma, one of San Diego's few bagel shops closed its doors during the coronavirus pandemic. Tables and chairs once stationed inside for customers have been removed. (Photo by BARBARA LEONARD/Courthouse News Service)

3.) From retail sales to industrial production, a number of “worst-ever” reports dragged markets down Friday morning, but investors fought back to close out the day barely ahead.

A woman walks with a child at SouthPark Mall, Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in Strongsville, Ohio. Ohio retail businesses reopened Tuesday following a nearly two-month-long shutdown ordered by Gov. Mike DeWine to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Regional

4.) The fight over Texas’ absentee voting law reached San Antonio federal court Friday morning, as attorneys representing the state and the Texas Democratic Party clashed over whether Texans fearful of catching Covid-19 at the polls can vote by mail.

Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, a shopper wears a mask as she walks through the meat products at a grocery store in Dallas, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

5.) Reaching back to the medieval charter that shaped the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the erstwhile presidential candidate Andrew Yang made his case Friday to have the Second Circuit safeguard New York’s primary election.

In this Feb. 8, 2020 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, right, gets his photograph taken by a supporter as Yang arrives at the "Our Rights, Our Courts" forum New Hampshire Technical Institute's Concord Community College in Concord, N.H. Federal Judge Analisa Torres ruled Tuesday that the New York Democratic presidential primary must take place June 23 because canceling it would be unconstitutional. "Credit to Andrew Yang and all the grassroots groups that have been carrying on the fight for democracy in New York," said Larry Cohen, who chairs Our Revolution, the grassroots organization spun out of Bernie Sanders' 2016 White House bid. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

International

6.) Russia has become one of the world’s worst-hit countries by the pandemic, with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases second only to the United States.

Municipal workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant in an area in the center of Grozny, Russia, Monday, April 6, 2020. Ramzan Kadyrov, strongman leader of Russia's province of Chechnya, has taken extreme measures to fight the spread of the new coronavirus in the region, vowing Monday not to let anyone who is not a formal resident of Chechnya into the area.The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

7.) Worldwide deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 300,000 this week and despite the hopeful lifting of lockdowns in Europe and the United States, concerns are growing the virus may never be totally eradicated.

Workers in protective gear sanitize beneath the baroque sculpted bronze canopy of St. Peter's Baldachin inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, May 15, 2020. Churches in Italy are preparing to reopen to the public for masses from May 18 after Italy partially lifted restrictions last week following a two-month lockdown due to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

8.) The nationwide lockdown in El Salvador is set to expire at midnight Friday, and political opponents of the popular president have vowed to permit no more extensions, despite rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.

Streets are empty in a small town in El Salvador, but the nationwide lockdown was set to expire at midnight Friday. (Courthouse News photo/Miguel Patricio)
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