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Top eight CNS stories for today including the global death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 1 million; A federal judge in Pennsylvania became the latest to issue a nationwide injunction against the Postal Service’s operational changes; California wildfires are threatening several towns in the wine regions of Napa and Sonoma counties, and more.

/ September 28, 2020
The Glass Fire burns a hillside above Silverado Trail in St. Helena, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the global death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 1 million; A federal judge in Pennsylvania became the latest to issue a nationwide injunction against the Postal Service’s operational changes; California wildfires are threatening several towns in the wine regions of Napa and Sonoma counties, and more.

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National

1.) Blocking Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from moving forward with operational changes that have caused mail delays ahead of the November election, a federal judge in Pennsylvania became the latest Monday to issue a nationwide injunction against the controversial policy shifts.

A forklift operator loads absentee ballots for mailing in Raleigh, N.C., in September 2020. (Gerry Broome/AP)

2.) Just over one-fourth of American adults are turning to YouTube to get their news from both big media organizations and independent producers, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.

A YouTube sign is shown across the street from the company's offices in San Bruno, Calif., on April 3, 2018.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

3.) President Donald Trump said from the White House Rose Garden on Monday that the federal government has contracted with health care giant Abbott Laboratories to procure 150 million rapid Covid-19 tests for local governments in all 50 states to help them reopen schools.

FILE- In this Aug. 31, 2020 file photo, Miami-Dade County Public Schools' superintendent Alberto Carvalho glances towards student Emily Acosta as she does school work in her mother's class as he stopped by Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes, Fla. Authorities announced, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, that a 16-year-old student has been arrested for orchestrating a series of network outages and cyberattacks during the first week of school in Florida's largest district. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Regional

4.) Residents of Santa Rosa, California, who fled their homes ahead of the Tubbs Fire three years ago did so again late Sunday and into Monday as the Glass Fire destroyed buildings and threatened several towns in the wine regions of Napa and Sonoma counties.

The Glass Fire burns a hillside above Silverado Trail in St. Helena, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

5.) An Austin-area sheriff was arrested Monday and booked into his own jail for the alleged destruction of video recorded by police docuseries “Live PD” of the chase and death of unarmed Black motorist Javier Ambler last year.

Williamson County deputies hold down Javier Ambler as one of them uses a Taser on Ambler’s back during his arrest in Austin, Texas, in March 2019. (Austin Police Department via AP)

International

6.) The global death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 1 million by Monday, a grim milestone in a pandemic that caught much of the world unprepared for a health crisis and left economies reeling, convulsed politics and fundamentally altered the world.

The cell phone of gravedigger Rider Sol Sol rests on a white cross marking the grave of a person who died from the new coronavirus, in a cemetery recently developed to bury victims of COVID-19, along a remote road known as “Kilometer 20,” on the outskirts of Pucallpa, in Peru’s Ucayali region, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. These days, with the death count lower, the 48-year-old gravedigger is the only man working most days. “I give thanks to God that I have a job,” he said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

7.) A former Kosovo military officer on Monday became the first defendant to be brought before a special court established to try war crimes during the Kosovo War. 

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, Netherlands. (Wikipedia public domain image via Courthouse News)

8.) One of the four men charged with the downing of flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 wants to address the court, his lawyers announced Monday.

FILE - In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 file photo, people walk amongst the debris at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabove, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
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