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Top eight CNS stories for today including the U.S. argued before the United Nations’ highest court Monday that a 1955 treaty doesn’t prevent the Trump administration from reimposing sanctions on Iran; President Donald Trump met with California officials regarding the wildfire crisis gripping the entire West Coast; A divided Ninth Circuit panel allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 300,000 immigrants, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the U.S. argued before the United Nations’ highest court Monday that a 1955 treaty doesn’t prevent the Trump administration from reimposing sanctions on Iran; President Donald Trump met with California officials regarding the wildfire crisis gripping the entire West Coast; A divided Ninth Circuit panel allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 300,000 immigrants, and more.

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National

1.) Weeks after assigning blame for California’s disastrous wildfire season on poor leadership and not climate change, President Donald Trump on Monday met with state officials regarding the siege gripping the entire West Coast. 

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Sacramento McClellan Airport, in McClellan Park, Calif., Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, for a briefing on wildfires. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

2.) President Donald Trump’s “path of indifference” on climate change has left millions of Americans unprotected from the ravages of wildfires, floods and hurricanes — an abdication of the most basic duty of the president, former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden depart after voting early in Delaware’s state primary election at the New Castle County Board of Elections office in Wilmington, Del., Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

3.) With natural disasters battering the country, 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday challenging a rule they claim eliminates regulations on hazardous pollutants spewing from the oil and natural gas industry. 

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, the sun shines through clouds above a shale gas drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa. President Donald Trump's administration is expected to undo Obama-era rules designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields and pipelines, formalizing the changes in the heart of the nation's most prolific natural gas reservoir and in the premier presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

4.) A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday voided a lower court’s injunction and will allow the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 300,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan.

Members of the National TPS Alliance – a coalition comprised of temporary protected status beneficiaries – hold signs at a rally in support of the program outside the Richard H. Chambers Courthouse in Pasadena, Calif. on Aug. 14, 2019. (Martin Macias Jr / CNS)

5.) An attorney testifying before a House Oversight subcommittee said Monday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have violated federal law if reports are true that he reimbursed employees at his former business for making GOP campaign donations.

FILE - In this April 2, 2020 file photo, a United States Postal Service worker makes a delivery with gloves and a mask in Warren, Mich. A group of states suing over service cuts at the U.S. Postal Service is asking a federal judge to immediately undo some of them, saying the integrity of the upcoming election is at stake.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya,File)

Regional

6.) San Antonio has agreed to offer commercial space at the city’s international airport to Chick-fil-A, the fast-food restaurant that was controversially left out of a vendor agreement last year in a move Republican state officials called religious discrimination.

A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Toronto. (Sikander Iqbal/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News)

7.) Tropical Storm Sally, the earliest S-named storm on record in the Atlantic, is expected to slow down over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday evening before strengthening into a hurricane Tuesday with life-threatening storm surge along the Gulf Coast, including metropolitan New Orleans.

This satellite photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Sally, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, at 2050 GMT. Sally churned northward on Sunday, poised to turn into a hurricane and send a life-threatening storm surge along the northern Gulf of Mexico. (NOAA via AP)

International

8.) The United States argued before the United Nations’ highest court Monday that a 1955 treaty with Iran doesn’t prevent the Trump administration from reimposing sanctions on the Middle Eastern country

The International Court of Justice begins hearing a sanctions dispute between the U.S. and Iran on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek)
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