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Top eight CNS stories for today including the Georgia Libertarian Party told an 11th Circuit panel that the state’s election laws unfairly restrict third-party candidates from running for Congress; Hundreds of Europeans continue to die from Covid-19 each day but the deaths are far fewer than a month ago; President Donald Trump said he would override governors if they failed to open places of worship, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the Georgia Libertarian Party told an 11^th Circuit panel that the state’s election laws unfairly restrict third-party candidates from running for Congress; Hundreds of Europeans continue to die from Covid-19 each day but the deaths are far fewer than a month ago; President Donald Trump said he would override governors if they failed to open places of worship, and more.

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National

1.) The largest study so far on using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 was published Friday in the Lancet: It found that patients showed no benefit and, worse, were more likely to die or develop an irregular heartbeat.

A chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 19, 2020.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

2.) Sixteen former Watergate prosecutors and a group of red states offered the D.C. Circuit competing views Friday on whether it should force a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court following a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

3.) Though the number of Covid-19 infections continues to rise around the United States, President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would override governors if they failed to open places of worship over the weekend.

Parishioners wear face masks as they attend an in-person Mass at Christ the King Catholic Church in San Antonio in 2020. (Eric Gay/AP)

Regional

4.) Georgia’s election laws unfairly restrict third-party candidates from running for Congress, an attorney for the state’s Libertarian Party told an 11th Circuit panel Friday.

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2018 file photo, people cast their ballots ahead of the Nov. 6, general election at Jim Miller Park in Marietta, Ga. Georgia election officials have little room for error as they work to replace thousands of outdated voting machines statewide in only a matter of months. The state is making a $106 million purchase of new voting machines. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

5.) Coming to the aid of businesses short on rent, California lawmakers on Friday advanced a statewide moratorium on commercial evictions and a path for those hit hardest by the pandemic to cancel their leases.

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020 file photo, Sheila Kelly, owner of Powell's Steamer Co. & Pub, center, stands behind makeshift barriers as she helps patrons at her restaurant in the El Dorado County town of Placerville, Calif. It was the first day Kelly was serving in-dining meals since the state's lockdown order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. El Dorado County was one of the first counties to win approval from the state to reopen for dining-in. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

6.) Urging caution and discipline as the city crawls toward a phased reopening expected in June, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday offered a new set of indicators by which to measure the spread of the disease shown to have now killed 1 in every 400 city residents.

Justin Gauthier, a surgical resident at Mount Sinai Hospital South Nassau smiles as he leaves a hospital overflow tent after getting his hair trimmed as part of a "Haircuts for Heroes" promotion during the current coronavirus outbreak, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Oceanside, New York. Signature Bank provided three days of free haircuts for hospital workers. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

International

7.) Hundreds of Europeans continue to die from Covid-19 each day but the deaths are far fewer than a month ago.

In this photo taken on Thursday, May 21, 2020, the owner of a restaurant checks the distance between tables to comply with new rules to limit the spread of COVID-19, in Alassio, by the Italian riviera. The touristic season is expected to start as soon as the last limits on movement between regions and Countries will be lifted after the coronavirus lockdown. (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP)

8.) The battle against Covid-19 in Latin America has been a failure. With few exceptions, efforts to contain the pandemic have been derailed by egregious policy decisions and/or a public unwilling to abide by the requirements of social distance and facial coverings.

A water truck makes deliveries in a locked-down village in rural El Salvador in the days before the left- and right-wing parties joined forces to lift the nationwide lockdown. (Miguel Patricio photo/Courthouse News)

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