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Top eight CNS stories for today including the postmaster general announced a reorganization of the service and a freeze on executive hiring; A pipeline in Europe is nearing completion despite years of protests by environmental activists and local politicians; Russia wants President Trump to win re-election while China wants him to lose, and more.

/ August 7, 2020
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, is escorted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Some clarity is beginning to emerge from the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill. An exchange of offers and meeting devoted to the Postal Service on Wednesday indicates the White House is moving slightly in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s direction on issues like aid to states and local governments and unemployment insurance benefits. But the negotiations have a long ways to go. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the postmaster general announced a reorganization of the service and a freeze on executive hiring; A pipeline in Europe is nearing completion despite years of protests by environmental activists and local politicians; Russia wants President Trump to win re-election while China wants him to lose, and more.

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National

1.) Suffering losses of $9 billion last year and on track to do worse in 2020, the postmaster general on Friday announced a reorganization of the service and a freeze on executive hiring amid the Covid-19 pandemic and an impending election. 

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, is escorted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Some clarity is beginning to emerge from the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill. An exchange of offers and meeting devoted to the Postal Service on Wednesday indicates the White House is moving slightly in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s direction on issues like aid to states and local governments and unemployment insurance benefits. But the negotiations have a long ways to go. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

2.) Saying the order was issued without giving due process to the company, TikTok on Friday threatened legal action over President Donald Trump’s executive action that would ban the platform’s parent company from doing business in the United States.

A man opens social media app 'Tik Tok' on his cell phone, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Pakistan has threatened the China-linked TikTok video service and blocked the Singapore-based Bigo Live streaming platform, citing what the regulating authority called widespread complaints about "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

3.) A top intelligence official said Friday that Russia is trying to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election chances by undermining his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, while China wants the former vice president to win because it sees Trump as unpredictable.

FILE - In this July 16, 2018, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. For the past three years, the administration has careered between President Donald Trump's attempts to curry favor and friendship with Vladimir Putin and longstanding deep-seated concerns about Putin's intentions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

4.) An overwhelming majority of Americans said that houses of worship should not be allowed to ignore rules about social distancing, the Pew Research Center found in a survey released Friday.

Parishioners wear face masks as they attend an in-person Mass at Christ the King Catholic Church in San Antonio in 2020. (Eric Gay/AP)

Regional

5.) Environmental groups, Texas regulators, a waste company and others oppose a federal plan to let disposal sites that aren’t specifically licensed for radioactive waste request an exception to take in the waste.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., pictured in 2012 before the plant closed and began the decommissioning process. (Photo via Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

6.) While many parents won’t be sending their children off to school this fall, that isn’t stopping big-box stores and local boutiques in Texas from preparing for what they hope will be a busy tax-free holiday weekend as bargain shoppers welcome the annual tax moratorium Friday.

Shoppers walk along Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, ahead of the tax-free holiday weekend in Texas and nine other states. (Courthouse News photo/Erik De La Garza)

International

7.) A pipeline in Europe is nearing completion despite years of protests by environmental activists and local politicians, as well as official investigations into environmental wrongdoing by the pipeline company.

This photo shows the worksite where the Trans Adriatic Pipeline is being laid through olive orchards near Melendugno, a town in Puglia, a region on the bootheel of the Italian peninsula. The natural gas pipeline is a source of controversy in Italy and Europe because it undermines the European Union's commitments to combat climate change. (Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau)

8.) Glaciers in the Southern Hemisphere, located in New Zealand, are past a tipping point in terms of ice loss due to climate change.

The "Southern Alps" of New Zealand in winter. (By Lasse Holst Hansen - https://pixabay.com/en/mountains-landscape-snow-2186075/ archive copy, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59278862)
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