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Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a trip to Kenosha and met with the family of Jacob Blake; California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye shifted the make-up of the state’s rule-making body for the courts; Facebook announced it will ban political ads for the week leading up to the election, and more.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight CNS stories for today including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a trip to Kenosha and met with the family of Jacob Blake; California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye shifted the make-up of the state’s rule-making body for the courts; Facebook announced it will ban political ads for the week leading up to the election, and more.

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National

1.) New claims for jobless benefits continued their fall, but a total of 29.2 million Americans collected unemployment insurance as of Aug. 15, up 2 million from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

A sign on a store in Manitou Springs, Colorado, gives a cheeky explanation for not being open, as of Aug. 30. (Courthouse News photo/Amanda Pampuro)

2.) America’s trade gap with all countries surged 18.9% in July to the highest level since summer 2008, driven by a sharp increase in imports.

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2019 file photo cargo cranes are used to take containers off of a Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation boat at the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Wash. The U.S. trade deficit tumbled in February 2020 to the lowest level since 2016 as exports fell and imports fell more. The politically sensitive gap in the trade of goods with China narrowed in February when the world's No. 2 economy was locked down to combat the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

3.) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, participating in a town hall-style community meeting focused on hope and optimism at a local church shortly after meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot in the back by Kenosha police 11 days ago.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives at the Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, Pa., en route to speak at a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

4.) With Election Day just two months away, Facebook announced Thursday it would be taking new steps to combat misinformation and attempts to interfere in the election on its platform, including banning political ads for the week leading up to Nov. 3.

FILE - In this March 25, 2015 file photo CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote address during the Facebook F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco. Germany’s competition authority said Wednesday March 2, 2016 it is investigating whether Facebook abused its market position by breaching data protection laws. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

Regional

5.) California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye shifted the make-up of the state’s rule-making body for the courts with a wave of Judicial Council appointments Thursday.

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye addresses lawmakers at her annual State of the Judiciary on March 10, 2020. (Penne Soltysik, Judicial Council of California)

6.) Attorneys representing the two major political parties faced off in the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday in a dispute over two state laws limiting Minnesotans’ ability to help others vote.

FILE - In this May 27, 2020, file photo, a voter drops off their mail-in ballot prior to the primary election, in Willow Grove, Pa. The civic ritual of casting a ballot has been disrupted by a global pandemic and dramatically animated by social unrest. And If the results of a frustrating, chaotic primary in Georgia are a measure, the notion of democracy itself will also be on the ballot in the November election. Congress is now considering sending $3.6 billion to states to help facilitate safe and fair elections as part of another round of relief funds to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

7.) North Carolina is a key swing state in the November election, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has just a 2-point lead there on President Donald Trump, a Thursday poll shows.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles while speaking during a roundtable on economic reopening with community members, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

International

8.) The harsh view that the European Union is a weakling when it comes to foreign affairs and standing up against the military powers of the world is being seriously tested as Russia exerts control over Belarus and dismisses claims that a prominent Russian opposition leader was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, left, listens to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during their talks in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. On Thursday, Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin traveled to the Belarusian capital to discuss conditions for Belarus to refinance a Russian loan. (Alexander Astafyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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