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Top eight CNS stories for today including the presidential debate commission announced it would make changes to the format of the remaining debates after a chaotic event with shouting and frequent interruptions; A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled the 2020 U.S. Census count will continue; Crimes and mass killings committed by the Franco dictatorship after the Spanish Civil War are slowly coming to light inside a walled municipal cemetery, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the presidential debate commission announced it would make changes to the format of the remaining debates after a chaotic event with shouting and frequent interruptions; A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled the 2020 U.S. Census count will continue; Crimes and mass killings committed by the Franco dictatorship after the Spanish Civil War are slowly coming to light inside a walled municipal cemetery, and more.

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National

1.) Following a chaotic debate with shouting and frequent interruptions, the presidential debate commission announced Wednesday it would make changes to the format of the remaining debates.

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

2.) The 2020 U.S. Census count will continue, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, denying a stay of a lower court order barring the Trump administration from ending the decennial population count one month early.

In this June 25, 2020, file photo, two young children hold signs through the car window that make reference to the 2020 U.S. Census as they wait in the car with their family at an outreach event in Dallas. Thousands of census takers are about to begin the most labor-intensive part of America’s once-a-decade headcount (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

3.) Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for her role as the longtime financier of purported self-help group NXIVM, which was essentially a pyramid scheme with sex slaves. 

Clare Bronfman arrives at federal court, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Bronfman, the Seagram's liquor fortune heir and a wealthy benefactor of Keith Raniere, the disgraced leader of self-improvement group NXIVM in upstate New York convicted of turning women into sex slaves who were branded with his initials, faces sentencing Wednesday in the federal conspiracy case. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Regional

4.) Texas county clerks’ authority to manage early voting is limited to things like setting the air conditioning at a comfortable level at polling sites, not mailing unsolicited absentee voting applications, the state argued before the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The Texas Supreme Court building in Austin, which is also home to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. (Kelsey Jukam/Courthouse News)

5.) The Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that seeks to expand access to absentee voting to all Indiana residents who want to cast their ballots by mail in the November election.

Box of absentee ballots waiting to be counted at the Albany County Board of Elections, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

International

6.) Day by day and bone by bone, crimes and mass killings committed by the Franco dictatorship against its left-wing enemies after the Spanish Civil War are slowly coming to the light inside the walled municipal cemetery of a small city outside Valencia.

Headstones are gathered together in the municipal cemetery in Paterna, Spain, after being moved to make way for exhumation work. The headstones show executed men peering from portraits. The exhumation work in Paterna is among many sites in Spain where mass graves are being dug up in order to identify victims of Gen. Francisco Franco's repression. (Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau)

7.) Lawyers for Canada’s attorney general claim Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers are relying on inadmissible and irrelevant evidence to wrongfully turn her Canadian extradition proceedings into a “U.S. trial.”

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou leaves the British Columbia Supreme Court following a Sept. 30, 2020, hearing on motions in the U.S. extradition case against her. (Courthouse News photo / Darryl Greer)

8.) Rwanda’s former richest man can be turned over to a United Nations tribunal to face charges of genocide, France’s high court ruled Wednesday. 

Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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