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Top CNS stories for today including the Chinese woman accused of illegally entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club armed with malicious software allegedly had a signal detector, $7,500 in hundred-dollar bills and nine USB drives stashed in her hotel room; Senator Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionized presidential campaign in history, announced a policy proposal sure to resonate with that base: banning right-to-work laws; A New Jersey appeals court ruled that mail-in ballots must be printed in English and Spanish, and more.

/ April 8, 2019

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Top CNS stories for today including the Chinese woman accused of illegally entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club armed with malicious software allegedly had a signal detector, $7,500 in hundred-dollar bills and nine USB drives stashed in her hotel room; Senator Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionized presidential campaign in history, announced a policy proposal sure to resonate with that base: banning right-to-work laws; A New Jersey appeals court ruled that mail-in ballots must be printed in English and Spanish, and more.

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National

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is seen in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 24, 2017. China says it has been informed of the arrest of a Chinese woman at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend and is providing her with consular services. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

1.) The Chinese woman accused of illegally entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club armed with malicious software had a signal detector, $7,500 in hundred-dollar bills and nine USB drives stashed in her hotel room at the time of her arrest, a Secret Service agent said at a hearing Monday.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Henderson, Nev., on March 16, 2019. One of the big questions facing Sanders is whether he could translate his upstart success from 2016 into front-runner status in 2020. So far, the answer is yes. (AP Photo/John Locher)

2.) Senator Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionized presidential campaign in history, announced Monday a policy proposal sure to resonate with that base: banning right-to-work laws. 

Allison Mack leaves Brooklyn federal court on April 8 after pleading guilty to racketeering charges in a case involving a cult-like group based in upstate New York called NXIVM. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

3.) Former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty Monday to charges related to the cult NXIVM, a case involving sex slaves who were branded with the initials of the group’s leader.

Felicity Huffman arrives at federal court in Boston on Wednesday to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

4.) The actress Felicity Huffman is among 13 parents in the sweeping college admissions scandal who will plead guilty to bribery and fraud charges, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Regional

In this May 21, 2018, photo, a roll of stickers awaiting distribution to early voters sits on a table. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)

5.) Pointing to the unambiguous intent of New Jersey laws to promote voting, rather than restrict it, an appeals court ruled Monday that mail-in ballots must be printed in English and Spanish.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh delivers an address during her Dec. 6, 2016, inauguration ceremony inside the War Memorial Building in Baltimore. Maryland's chief accountant is calling for Pugh to step down, calling the latest revelations about lucrative deals to sell her self-published children's books "brazen, cartoonish corruption." In an April 1, 2019 tweet, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot wrote: "The Mayor has to resign — now." His comments came on the same day that Kaiser Permanente disclosed that it paid Pugh's limited liability company about $114,000 for roughly 20,000 copies of her "Healthy Holly" children's books. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

6.) The Baltimore City Council unanimously called Monday for the city’s embattled mayor to resign over a scandal involving sales of her children’s books, but she has shown no signs of giving in.

Science

The Baishui Glacier No.1 on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in the southern province of Yunnan in China. Scientists say the glacier is one of the fastest melting glaciers in the world due to climate change and its relative proximity to the Equator. It has lost 60 percent of its mass and shrunk 250 meters since 1982. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

7.) Massive ice sheets in Greenland, the Antarctic and other locations lost more than 9 trillion tons of ice in the past five decades – adding over an inch of water to global sea levels.

FILE -- In this Feb. 1 2018 file photo, Cape Town's main water supply from the Theewaterskloof dam outside Grabouw, Cape Town. South Africa has declared that the drought afflicting Cape Town and other parts of the country is a national disaster. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)

8.) Should the worst prognosis for climate-ravaged planet Earth materialize, the recovery time for the globe would be slow and arduous, according to a new study published Monday.

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