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Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including the postmaster general said operational changes in the U.S. Postal Service will be put off until after the presidential election; San Diego’s mayor signed an executive order allowing churches and gyms to operate for free at one of the city’s 340 parks; The World Health Organization warned against “vaccine nationalism,” and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the postmaster general said operational changes in the U.S. Postal Service will be put off until after the presidential election; San Diego’s mayor signed an executive order allowing churches and gyms to operate for free at one of the city’s 340 parks; The World Health Organization warned against “vaccine nationalism,” and more.

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National

1.) Attorneys general across the country are joining forces in a lawsuit over operational changes in the U.S. Postal Service put forth by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who said Tuesday those initiatives will be put off until after the presidential election.

Voter places a ballot into a ballot drop off box in Aurora, Colorado on June 30. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News)

2.) Democrats tackled how to court rural voters during a meeting of the Democratic National Convention’s Rural Council on Tuesday, emphasizing that rallying rural America behind Joe Biden will require key infrastructure investments and a legitimate ground game to meet voters where they are.

The rural Big Bend region of West Texas had zero confirmed coronavirus cases for weeks after the pandemic began. The number has inched into the double digits in recent days. (Courthouse News photo/Travis Bubenik)

3.) Two weeks after the neglected storage of highly combustible ammonium nitrate caused a devastating explosion in Lebanon, six environmental groups urged the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday to stop the United States from ushering in a new era of so-called bomb trains.

A liquefied natural gas export facility under construction near Quintana, Texas, in 2018. (Courthouse News photo/Travis Bubenik)

Regional

4.) Back to school this year in Southern California will be — like most other tasks during the era of the novel coronavirus — unprecedented.

Art teacher Cara Bailey attends a Utah Safe Schools Mask-In urging the governor's leadership in school reopening during a rally Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Parents and teachers rallied at the Utah State Capitol Thursday morning to urge schools to enforce mask wearing and to implement other safety policies recommended by health officials as the state prepares to reopen classrooms this fall. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

5.) Calling being outdoors “a birthright for every San Diegan,” Mayor Kevin Faulconer Tuesday signed an executive order allowing churches and gyms to operate for free at one of the city’s 340 parks — the same day San Diego came off Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 watchlist.

People keep their distance as they exercise outside of a closed La Jolla beach Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

6.) Despite President Donald Trump saying Monday that he fully approved Iowa’s request for $3.9 billion in disaster assistance following last week’s powerful wind storm, it is unclear how much money the state will actually receive.

A toy sits on a log as a woman moves branches from a fallen tree to the curb, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The storm that struck Monday morning left tens of thousands of Iowans without power as of Friday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

International

7.) The World Health Organization warned against “vaccine nationalism” on Tuesday at a moment when the race to vaccinate world populations against the novel coronavirus is entering a new combative phase after China joined Russia in declaring it has developed a vaccine against the virus.

People wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus walk by human sculptures on display outside an art gallery in Beijing, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. The Chinese city of Wuhan that was the original epicenter of the pandemic again reported no new coronavirus cases or deaths Tuesday and its hospitals remained empty of virus patients for a second straight day. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

8.) Fifteen years and nearly a billion dollars later, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicted one member of Hezbollah and acquitted three others Tuesday in the suicide bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon building in Leidschendam, Netherlands. (Molly Quell/Courthouse News)
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