Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of race relations, the novel coronavirus and reopening the economy; The conservative-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned three of the Democratic governor’s budget vetoes; The Netherlands brought a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and more.

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National

1.) With a little over 100 days left until Election Day, a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of race relations, the novel coronavirus and reopening the economy as hospitals across the country see a surge of patients infected with Covid-19.

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable meeting with Hispanic leaders in the Cabinet Room, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

2.) The American juror has emerged from quarantine with something of a makeover.

With chairs spread out several feet apart to ensure safe physical distancing, the jury assembly room in Southern District of New York's Daniel Moynihan Courthouse now has a maximum capacity of 60 people — part of a remodel with public health in mind for reopening the courthouse during the coronavirus pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Adam Klasfeld)

3.) The D.C. Circuit ordered federal reconsideration Friday of whether parts of more than a dozen counties near Denver, Chicago and other major cities meet national air quality standards for smog.

This aerial photo shows the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo, Calif., on May 25, 2017, with Los Angeles International Airport in the background and the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach, Calif., in the foreground. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Dec. 7, 2017, that California is among 14 states and the District of Columbia that are suing the Trump administration over what they say a failure to enforce smog standards. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Regional

4.) The conservative-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court jettisoned three of the Democratic governor’s budget vetoes on Friday, delivering a second blow to the governor’s executive authority in as many days.

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2020 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers holds a news conference in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration is moving ahead with plans to buy 10,000 ventilators and 1 million protective masks in the fight against the coronavirus. The effort comes after Evers' administration had clashed with Republican lawmakers over whether he needed their permission to make such purchases. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

5.) President Donald Trump on Friday visited South Florida, one of the nation’s epicenters of coronavirus infections, as the region struggles to contain skyrocketing cases and keep hospital beds open.

President Donald Trump claps after delivering a speech about the counternarcotics operations at U.S. Southern Command, Friday, July 10, 2020, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

6.) The Texas Republican Party said it will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court after a judge denied its request for an order to let it hold its convention in Houston next week.

FILE - In this June 28, 2020 file photo, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks in Houston. Houston officials have canceled the Texas GOP's in-person convention. They say the spread of the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event as scheduled. Mayor Turner said Wednesday, July 8, 2020, that the city's lawyers exercised provisions in the contract that the Texas Republican Party signed to rent the downtown convention center for a three-day event to have started July 16. Virus cases have surged in Texas, particularly in the state's largest cities. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip File)

7.) Once a city with ample opportunity for upward mobility, Houston’s welcome mat is fraying with home prices rising beyond the reach of the working class. And the American Dream is slipping fastest from the hands of Black Houstonians.

International

8.) The Netherlands brought a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights on Friday over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, escalating tensions over the 2014 crash as a separate criminal trial plays out near Amsterdam.

Australian and Dutch investigators examine a piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, in 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

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