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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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1.) The White House coronavirus task force isn’t going anywhere, President Trump tweeted, overturning an announcement his administration made less than 24 hours earlier.

President Donald Trump flips through a stack of papers as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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.

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020 , file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a discussion on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has been hospitalized with an infection caused by a gallstone. The 87-year-old justice underwent non-surgical treatment Tuesday, May 5, for what the court described as acute cholecystitis, a benign gall bladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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.

A customer waits for his medication behind a sheet of plastic installed to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at a CVS pharmacy store in Morton Grove, Ill., Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Customer and pharmacist being separated by crates and plastic sheets during the Covid-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

4.) Markets fell slightly on Wednesday after yet another report showed historic job losses in April.

A Five Guys restaurant is quietly open in San Diego's Liberty Station along a strip of businesses shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)

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.

A man wearing a mask depicting American flags jogs past the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Regional

6.) A referendum challenging a rural northern California town’s water rate hike rests on whether the California Supreme Court considers it a tax or a fee.

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.

A polling place in seen in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (CNS Photo/Alex Pickett)

International

8.) Freed from stay-home orders imposed on March 11, Sicilians in Castelbuono feel relieved, but still worried about what the future holds.

Nicola Failla (left) and Emilio Minutella talk in front of Failla's florist shop in Castelbuono, a mountain town in Sicily. Failla reopened his store this week after Italy eased a nationwide lockdown. The townsfolk of Castelbuono are quietly joyful to see life return once again on their streets but also expressing mixed feelings about a future darkened by the coronavirus pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau)

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