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Top eight CNS stories for today including black church leaders in Los Angeles marched to LAPD headquarters in a sign of unity with the community after several days of unrest across the nation; Wall Street markets continue to rally as Main Streets across America burn; The Great Divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union could get even messier as the two sides struggle to come up with a long-term settlement, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including black church leaders in Los Angeles marched to LAPD headquarters in a sign of unity with the community after several days of unrest across the nation; Wall Street markets continue to rally as Main Streets across America burn; The Great Divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union could get even messier as the two sides struggle to come up with a long-term settlement, and more.

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National

1.) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a resolution Tuesday that sought to formally condemn President Donald Trump for having disbanded a peaceful protest so he could pose for photos. 

A young man stands near a police barricade outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., during a long day of largely peaceful protests Saturday against police brutality and racism. (Courthouse News photo/Brandi Buchman)

2.) As Main Streets across America burn, on Wall Street markets continue to rally

Demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

3.) Stoking the passions of voters who have taken to the streets this week to protest police brutality, former Vice President Joe Biden called Tuesday for a massive review, funded by the federal government, of police hiring, training and de-escalation practices.

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden listens as clergy members and community activists speak during a visit to Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del., Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

4.) In the last 15 years, 170 rural hospitals in the United States closed their doors.

Rhea Medical Cneter in rural Rhea County, Tennessee. (Daniel Jackson photo/Courthouse News)

Regional

5.) Black church leaders in Los Angeles marched to LAPD headquarters Tuesday in a sign of unity with the community after several days of unrest across the nation and a day after peaceful protesters and clergy members were tear-gassed outside the White House.

Hundreds kneel outside police headquarters in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)

6.) New Yorkers heard markedly different responses from officials Tuesday on widespread looting that gripped parts of the city overnight.

Police officers arrests a large group of people at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Monday, June 1, 2020. Demonstrators took to the streets of New York City to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

7.) Netflix star Joe Exotic lamented behind bars Tuesday a court order turning over his former Oklahoma zoo to nemesis Carole Baskin to satisfy a $1 million trademark judgment.

Carole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue, walks the property near Tampa, Fla., in 2017. (Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

International

8.) The Great Divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union has been messy and agonizing, and it could get even messier as the two sides struggle to come up with a long-term divorce settlement over such critical areas as trade, law, security, border controls and fishing boundaries.

An anti-Brexit campaigner waves European Union and British flags outside Parliament in London in January 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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