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Top eight CNS stories for today including hundreds of thousands of people on the West Coast remain under evacuation orders due to a relentless late-summer wildfire siege; The 11th Circuit ruled Florida can condition voting rights on the payment of fines, fees and restitution by felons; The crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Belarus is once again turning violent, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including hundreds of thousands of people on the West Coast remain under evacuation orders due to a relentless late-summer wildfire siege; The 11th Circuit ruled Florida can condition voting rights on the payment of fines, fees and restitution by felons; The crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Belarus is once again turning violent, and more.

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National

1.) Strip clubs cannot force the Trump administration to make them eligible for pandemic relief loans because the government has no legal obligation to provide financial aid to erotic dance clubs, a federal judge ruled Friday.

2.) Nearly six months after Congress earmarked $8 billion for Native tribes in the CARES Act, the Treasury Department argued to the D.C. Circuit on Friday that it can lawfully hand out portions of the coronavirus relief funds to Alaska Native corporations

A woman walks before dawn in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a mostly Yuip'ik village on the edge of the Bering Sea, on Jan. 20, 2020. Native American leaders are raising questions about how $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief tagged for tribes will be distributed, with some arguing that for-profit Alaska Native corporations shouldn't get a share of the funding. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

3.) President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending certain work visas through the end of the year will devastate scores of industries that rely on seasonal and specialty workers, organizations representing hundreds of U.S. businesses affected by the sweeping proclamation argued in federal court Friday.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order during a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Regional

4.) Escaping dozens of major fires burning near the fringes of major West Coast cities like Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, hundreds of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Friday due to a relentless late-summer wildfire siege.

Jerry Walker fled his apartment in Phoenix, Ore., in his pajamas, and here views the Coleman Creed Estates mobile home park Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. He doesn’t know if his apartment complex made it and he was here to check on the business that he works at, a food cart. The mobile home park behind him that is destroyed is Coleman Creek Estates. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

5.) Florida can condition voting rights on the payment of fines, fees and restitution by felons, the en banc 11th Circuit ruled Friday.

Voters head to a polling station in Orlando, Fla., in March 2020. (John Raoux/AP)

6.) The Fifth Circuit vacated a San Antonio federal judge’s order that would have allowed any eligible Texas voter to qualify for a mail-in ballot during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Harris County election clerk Nora Martinez, left, helps a voter Monday, June 29, 2020, in Houston. Early voting for the Texas primary runoffs began Monday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

International

7.) Microsoft’s claim to have prevented Iranian cyberattacks drew swift denials Friday from Tehran, where officials maintain they have no interest in who controls America’s executive branch.

In this Nov. 10, 2016, photo, people walk near a Microsoft office in New York. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall)

8.) The crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Belarus is once again turning violent as security forces increasingly attack demonstrators and masked men carry off opposition figures.

Plainclothes policemen detain a man in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Belarusian authorities detained scores of demonstrators Friday while seeking to end more than a month of protests against the country's authoritarian president, who is set to visit Russia to help shore up his hold on power after 26 years in office. (Tut.By via AP)
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