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Top eight CNS stories for today including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laid out a vision of Europe as a world leader in tackling climate change and upholding an international order; A new poll shows Joe Biden maintaining his narrow edge over President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and holding a wider lead in Minnesota; Hurricane Sally slammed the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle, and more.

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1.) A poll released Wednesday shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden maintaining his narrow edge over President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and holding a wider lead over the Republican incumbent in Minnesota.

Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden meets with community members at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., in September 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

2.) Disinformation and conspiracy theories are the sources of some of the deepest disagreements between Republicans and Democrats during the 2020 campaign season, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday.

The One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, in downtown Washington, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

3.) The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told senators Wednesday a Covid-19 vaccine may not be widely available in the U.S. until the middle of next year.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield holds up his mask as he speaks at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a "Review of Coronavirus Response Efforts" on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

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4.) Arizona’s Republican Senator Martha McSally, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, trails Democrat Mark Kelly by double digits in her run to keep her seat in Congress’ upper chamber, according to a poll released Wednesday.

NASA astronaut Mark Kelly and wife and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords at an event in Tucson, Arizona, in 2016. (Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia)

5.) Hurricane Sally slammed the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle on Wednesday after strengthening overnight to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph and drenching rains forecasters warn will bring catastrophic flooding.

Flood waters move on the street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

6.) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that he and his staff of nearly 500 employees will be furloughed for a week in an effort to combat a multibillion-dollar budget crisis.

A family rides the subway in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

International

7.) In her first State of the Union speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday laid out a vision of Europe as a world leader in tackling climate change and upholding an international order built around the rule of law, free trade and human rights.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

8.) U.S. sanctions against Iran are aimed at ruining the Middle Eastern county’s economy and they violate a 1955 treaty, Iran argued before the United Nations’ top court on Wednesday.

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