Top eight CNS stories for today including a chaotic geopolitical map surrounds the European Union as its national leaders meet in Brussels this week; A human rights group and law professors filed a complaint challenging the Trump administration’s sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court; Joe Biden launched a new ad campaign tailored around the former vice president’s Catholic faith, and more.
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Top eight CNS stories for today including a chaotic geopolitical map surrounds the European Union as its national leaders meet in Brussels this week; A human rights group and law professors filed a complaint challenging the Trump administration’s sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court; Joe Biden launched a new ad campaign tailored around the former vice president’s Catholic faith, and more.
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National
1.) The Trump administration’s civil and criminal sanctions against anyone helping the International Criminal Court probe possible U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan are illegal and unconstitutional, a human rights group and law professors claim in a federal lawsuit Thursday.
2.) In an effort to pull Christian voters away from President Trump, Joe Biden launched a new ad campaign Thursday tailored around the former vice president’s Catholic faith and values.
3.) After the highly contentious — and unprecedented — presidential debate in Cleveland this week, new polling data shows that half of voters believe former Vice President Joe Biden outperformed President Donald Trump during the event, even if they felt the whole affair was a rather unpleasant one.
Regional
4.) Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the Texas-New Mexico border, saying either plan would be unsafe and would threaten the region’s sprawling Permian Basin oilfield.
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