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Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including the Trump administration is projecting that roughly twice as many people will die of Covid-19 every day in the U.S. by this time next month; A variety of businesses and retail establishments across California could spring to life in limited fashion this week; Italy eased restrictions on a nationwide lockdown, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including the Trump administration is projecting that roughly twice as many people will die of Covid-19 every day in the U.S. by this time next month; A variety of businesses and retail establishments across California could spring to life in limited fashion this week; Italy eased restrictions on a nationwide lockdown, and more.

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National

1.) Roughly twice as many people will die of Covid-19 every day in the United States by this time next month, the Trump administration is projecting, according to modeling made public Monday.

A person wearing a mask jogs past an Amazon Go store, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in downtown Seattle. Amazon.com is expected to announce earnings for the first quarter of 2020 at the close of markets Thursday, a report that is expected to be closely watched due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the company. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

2.) After the pandemic shut its physical doors, the Supreme Court aired its first livestream Monday, teleconferencing on whether the travel website Booking.com is too generic for trademark protection.

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jack Rodgers/Courthouse News)

3.) In what is likely just the first domino to fall in a line of retailers whose bottom lines have been hit hard by Covid-19 shutdowns, the owner of J.Crew filed for bankruptcy protection Monday.

A window display at a J Crew store overlooks a quiet Rockefeller Center, Saturday, May 2, 2020, in New York. On April 30, the company announced it would apply for bankruptcy protection amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

4.) Guilty verdicts from split juries will face a Supreme Court reckoning after the justices agreed Monday to hear an appeal by a Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, rape and robbery.

The empty courtroom is seen at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington as the justices prepare final decisions of the high court's term, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Regional

5.) After seven weeks of closures, a variety of businesses and retail establishments across California could spring to life in limited fashion as soon as Friday under the first modification to the statewide lockdown order.

Tacos remain essential business in San Diego, California. Inside Ortiz's, a masked customer is seen waiting for his takeout. (Photo by BARBARA LEONARD/Courthouse News Service)

6.) A hotly debated proposal in Texas for government-mandated oil production cuts is unlikely to move forward after a key regulator on Monday described the proposal as “dead.”

A pump jack is pictured near Imperial, Texas in 2017. (Travis Bubenik/Courthouse News)

7.) Laying out a data-based plan for reopening New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a chart marking where each region of the state stood Monday.

People maintain social distancing and wear face masks due to COVID-19, while waiting to enter a check cashing service center, Friday April 24, 2020, in the Bushwick area New York. Federal relief payments have started flowing into American taxpayer bank accounts of millions of the poorest people who cash their relief payments at fee-based alternative financial service centers such as check cashing stores. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

International

8.) Monday was a momentous day for Italy as it eased restrictions on a nationwide lockdown imposed in early March, the longest in Europe.

Commuters crowd Cadorna train station in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 4, 2020. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
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