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Top eight CNS stories for today including President Trump said the White House coronavirus task force isn’t going anywhere; Markets fell slightly after yet another report showed historic job losses in April; Sicilians freed from stay-home orders feel relieved but still worried about what the future holds, and more.
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2.) Dialing in from the hospital, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no secret of her disapproval of the government Wednesday for standing in the way of women’s access to free birth control.
3.) Against a brewing fight in Congress over whether companies should be shielded from coronavirus-related liability, special interests on either side of the divide released conflicting studies Wednesday that claim the American public strongly backs both positions.
5.) Fifty-four days after Justin Walker fist-bumped Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the new district judge’s investiture ceremony, the 37-year-old Kentuckian is racing toward a seat on the D.C. Circuit.
7.) Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in a closely watched federal voting rights trial that could add hundreds of thousands of felons to Florida’s voter rolls and potentially affect the 2020 presidential election.
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