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Top eight CNS stories for today including the number of new coronavirus infections reported each day is on the rise around the world; Stock markets finished out the week on a mildly positive note; Michael Flynn’s bid to end his prosecution appeared unlikely to win D.C. Circuit approval, and more.

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1.) Markets were able to climb partly out of Thursday’s pit to finish out the week on a mildly positive note.

People walk through Universal CityWalk, Thursday, June 11, 2020, near Universal City, Calif. The tourist attraction, which had been closed due to the coronavirus outbreak recently re-opened. The Universal Studios tour is still closed. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

2.) Declining to futz with rules that determine who makes the coveted presidential debate stage, the D.C. Circuit sank a challenge Friday from the Libertarian and Green parties.

From left, Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas, hosted by NBC News and MSNBC. (AP Photo/John Locher)

3.) Michael Flynn’s bid to end his prosecution, going around a federal judge to secure the recommendation of Trump’s Justice Department, appeared unlikely Friday to win D.C. Circuit approval.

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 in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Regional

4.) Governor Andrew Cuomo repealed New York’s police secrecy law and put their state funding on the line Friday as part of a reform package meant to turn the page on systemic issues of racism and excessive force.

Joining New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for a bill-signing ceremony on June 12, were the Rev. Al Sharpton, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Leader Carl Heastie, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; and Hazel N. Dukes is President of the NAACP New York State Conference. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Cuomo via Courthouse News)

5.) Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s ban on large church services – intended to slow the spread of Covid-19 – was within the law, the state’s high court ruled Friday morning.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks with the media at the Capitol in Salem Monday, July 1, 2019. Brown said she’s prepared to use executive order privileges as a last resort if lawmakers can’t move forward on a climate proposal that divided the statehouse and prompted a nine-day GOP walkout. (AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman)

6.) A black man who served as a scapegoat for a lynch mob in 1920 received Minnesota’s first-ever posthumous pardon Friday, 100 years after his conviction was used to justify the murder of three of his co-workers.

In this May 30, 2020 photo, a protestor holds up a photo of George Floyd in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial as part of a large protest in Duluth, Minn. The state’s Board of Pardons, consisting of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court Lorie Skjerven Gildea, will vote Friday, June 12, to clear Max Mason of a rape case that led to the only known lynching of Black people in the state’s history 100 years ago next week. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)

International

7.) Three months after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, the number of new infections reported each day is climbing as the deadly virus attacks people in poorer parts of the world.

A heath worker takes a nasal swab sample during a public testing for the new coronavirus conducted at a market in Bali, Indonesia on Friday, June 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

8.) In addressing their countries about the coronavirus pandemic, world leaders are using key parts of effective science communication: Keep your message short and simple and repeat it often.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks during a recent press conference on the coronavirus pandemic.

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