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Top eight CNS stories for today including German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken over as head of the European Council presidency and will try to lead the EU through a minefield of crises; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is once again undergoing chemotherapy treatment but said she will continue to serve on the Supreme Court; California will bar schools from reopening in counties hardest hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and more.

/ July 17, 2020
This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in a scene from "RBG." (Magnolia Pictures via AP)

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Top eight CNS stories for today including German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken over as head of the European Council presidency and will try to lead the EU through a minefield of crises; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is once again undergoing chemotherapy treatment but said she will continue to serve on the Supreme Court; California will bar schools from reopening in counties hardest hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and more.

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National

1.) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is once again undergoing chemotherapy treatment, she said Friday, revealing that a February biopsy found liver cancer but that she will continue to serve on the Supreme Court. 

This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in a scene from "RBG." (Magnolia Pictures via AP)

2.) Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said during a House Small Business Committee hearing Friday that Congress should approve another round of relief money with an emphasis on businesses hurting the most.

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers)

Regional

3.) California will bar schools from reopening in counties hardest hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic until the counties stay off the state’s Covid-19 watchlist for at least 14 consecutive days.

Residents of East Los Angeles stand in line and wait in their cars to collect food donations outside James A. Garfield High School as part of the school district’s effort to support families struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courthouse News photo / Martin Macias Jr.

4.) Announcing a more limited final phase of the state’s reopening plan, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that indoor dining, mall and museums are still considered too risky.

Candace Sanders, right, sits behind a plastic curtain while getting a pedicure at HT&V Nails in the Harlem section of New York, Monday, July 6, 2020. Nail salons and dog runs were back in business on Monday as New York City entered a new phase in the easing of coronavirus restrictions, but indoor restaurant dining will be postponed indefinitely in order to prevent a spike in new infections. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

5.) Brownsville, Texas: gateway to Mars? Don’t put it past SpaceX founder Elon Musk. But in its rush towards space travel, environmentalists say the company is testing rockets beyond the scope of its federal permit at its launch site just outside the 

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a global positioning satellite for the U.S. Space Force, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

6.) A Virginia judge has recused himself from two lawsuits over the removal of Confederate monuments in the former capital of the Confederacy, pointing to the fact that he lives near the statues.   

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is seen during protests in Richmond, Va., in June 2020. (Brad Kutner/Courthouse News Service)

International

7.) Europe is full of great expectations for the next six months as its most powerful politician, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, finds herself in a position to do what she’s best known for: Fixing crises.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, July 17, 2020. Leaders from 27 European Union nations meet face-to-face on Friday for the first time since February, despite the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, to assess an overall budget and recovery package spread over seven years estimated at some 1.75 trillion to 1.85 trillion euros. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

8.) With the number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic nearing 600,000, the United Nations on Friday warned the health crisis and global economic downturn are driving millions of people into poverty and threaten to unleash a wave of famine, war and misery.

A boy wearing a face mask carries a small bowl of "githeri", or mixed beans and maize, for him to eat as he walks past an informational mural warning people about the risk of the new coronavirus, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, April 18, 2020. Africa now has more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday, with 52 of the continent's 54 countries having reported cases. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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