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Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including the European Union’s highest court struck down a pact that lets companies move data between the United States and EU; The Republican National Committee dramatically scaled down plans for its four-day convention amid a surge in coronavirus cases; The Supreme Court refused to vacate a stay that keeps Florida felons from registering to vote in time for the upcoming presidential race, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the European Union’s highest court struck down a pact that lets companies move data between the United States and EU; The Republican National Committee dramatically scaled down plans for its four-day convention amid a surge in coronavirus cases; The Supreme Court refused to vacate a stay that keeps Florida felons from registering to vote in time for the upcoming presidential race, and more.

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National

1.) The Republican National Committee announced Thursday dramatically scaled down plans for its four-day convention next month in the new host city of Jacksonville, as Florida continues to reel from a surge in coronavirus cases.

FILE - In this July 19, 2016, file photo, the shadow of delegates are seen on the convention floor during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (AP Photo/John Locher)

2.) Some 1.3 million Americans, a population roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, filed for unemployment last week, making for a total of 32 million out-of-work Americans receiving jobless benefits, according to numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

A mural on Broadway in Denver, Colorado in April 2020, celebrates frontline workers treating people with Covid-19. (Courthouse News photo/Amanda Pampuro)

3.) A new Pew Research Center analysis of Facebook posts and tweets from members of Congress since 2015 shows that Democrats post more but Republicans have more audience engagement.

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, a Facebook start page is shown on a smartphone in Surfside, Fla. Facebook says a bug in its anti-spam system is blocking the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

4.) The U.S. government executed the second federal inmate this week early Thursday morning, carrying out the death sentence for a man whose attorneys claimed he suffered from dementia. 

In this 1998 photo, Wesley Ira Purkey, center, is escorted by police officers in Kansas City, Kan., after he was arrested in connection with the death of 80-year-old Mary Ruth Bales. Purkey was also convicted of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old girl and is scheduled to be executed on July 15, 2020, in Terre Haute, Ind. (Jim Barcus/The Kansas City Star via AP)

Regional

5.) Turning down Florida felons whose chance to vote again is nearly in reach, the Supreme Court refused Thursday to vacate a stay that keeps them from registering in time for the upcoming presidential race.

FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives an update on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic during a press conference at Florida's Turnpike Turkey Lake Service Plaza, in Orlando, Fla. in July 2020. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

6.) San Diego’s regional air quality did not meet federal ozone standards and the status of its air pollution should be heightened from moderate to severe, according to a report from the California state auditor on Thursday.

Ocean Beach Pier at sunset, San Diego, California. (Courthouse News photo / Chris Marshall)

International

7.) Swayed by evidence that U.S. intelligence authorities surveil users illegally, the EU’s highest court struck down a pact that lets companies move data between the United States and European Union.

Austria's Max Schrems listens to a ruling at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Oct. 6, 2015. The Austrian privacy campaigner’s long-running legal battle against Facebook over its data transfers to the U.S. has reached Europe’s highest court on Tuesday July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)

8.) Azerbaijan illegally jailed married human rights activists who later fled the country, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday, ordering the government to pay them each $23,000 in damages.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. (Photo by CherryX from Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News)
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