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Top eight CNS stories for today including the Ninth Circuit ordered a federal judge to reconsider if he had proper jurisdiction over two lawsuits seeking to hold the world’s five biggest oil companies liable for climate change when he dismissed them; Wall Street bet big that cases of Covid-19 will continue to decrease; The 49th state to join the union will be the first state to fully reopen for business, and more.

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1.) A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday ordered a federal judge to reconsider if he had proper jurisdiction over two lawsuits seeking to hold the world’s five biggest oil companies liable for climate change when he dismissed them in 2018.

Aerial view of large Icebergs floating as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, early Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Greenland has been melting faster in the last decade and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on record since 2012. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

2.) As more of America reopened during Memorial Day weekend, Wall Street bet big that cases of Covid-19 will continue to decrease, posting huge gains Tuesday.

New York Stock Exchange employees wait to enter the building as the trading floor partially reopens, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Regional

3.) The 49th state to join the union will be the first state to fully reopen for business after two-plus months of pandemic shutdowns.

Alaska’s Mt. Susitna, also known as the Sleeping Lady, near the state’s largest city, Anchorage. (Julie St. Louis photo/Courthouse News)

4.) Some worry the coronavirus pandemic’s financial toll on Texas ranchers could wind up rivaling the impacts of a devastating drought from almost a decade ago.

Cattle are pictured near Marfa, Texas, a town that was known for its historic ranching culture long before it was reborn as an international arts destination. (Courthouse News photo/Travis Bubenik)

5.) The long-running fight over a rural Virginia school’s transgender student bathroom policy returned Tuesday to the Fourth Circuit, where one judge wondered whether the creation of a nongendered bathroom amounts to separate-but-equal discrimination.

Gavin Grimm, who has become a national face for transgender students’ rights, speaks during a news conference held by the ACLU in Norfolk, Va., in 2019. (Kristen Zeis/The Daily Press via AP)

6.) New York City will more than double its diagnostic testing of the novel coronavirus over the next two months, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, touting the 180 testing sites that will be open across the city by June’s end.

Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Hawaii officials said Tuesday they are capable of testing 250 samples for the new coronavirus each week. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

International

7.) The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Hungary violated six journalists’ rights by suspending their credentials to cover parliament after they questioned lawmakers outside designated areas.

The Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest. (Photo via Epistola8/Wikipedia Commons)

8.) The Dutch government can roll out a faster telecom network nationwide after a judge in The Hague ruled against anti-5G activists on Monday.

The District Court building in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo courtesy of De Rechtspraak via Courthouse News)

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