Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including the clock for outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry to answer a House subpoena is running down; The Supreme Court agreed to hear an existential challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; A trade conflict between the United States and Europeans got uglier after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on an array of European goods, and more.

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National

Then-U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File )

1.) Facing scrutiny about his role in Ukraine dealings that have driven a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry will resign his office. Before that can happen, the clock for Perry to answer a House subpoena runs down Friday.

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington as the justices prepare to hand down decisions, Monday, June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

2.) Taking up a case that will give its conservative majority another opportunity to press their vision of administrative agency power, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an existential challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Jan. 24, 2019 file photo shows the Capitol at sunset in Washington. Facing criticism that the Senate has become little more than what one member calls “an expensive lunch club,” Congress returns for the fall session with pressure mounting on Leader Mitch McConnell to address gun violence, election security and other issues. (AP file photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

3.) The Senate confirmed four of President Donald Trump’s nominees to federal district courts this week, while the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced six other nominees.

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Target Center, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

4.) President Trump’s job approval rating took a hit this quarter to just under 41%, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.

Regional

Barrens topminnow. (Photo via J.R. Shute/Conservation Fisheries Inc.)

5.) Pointing to its battle against an evasive species and threats posed by climate change, the Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday extended Endangered Species Act protection to a small, colorful fish found only in a handful of Tennessee counties.

Michael Gargiulo listens to an opening statement from his defense attorney, Daniel Nardoni, in Los Angeles Superior Court at his murder trial on May 2, 2019. Gargiulo, 43, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and an attempted-murder charge stemming from attacks in the Los Angeles area between 2001 and 2008. The former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher is among the victims. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

6.) More than a decade after his arrest – and over 18 years after the murder of his first California victim – a Los Angeles jury unanimously recommended the death penalty for convicted murderer Michael Gargiulo.

International

Wine bottles sit in a boutique shop in Le Cannet-des-Maures, in the Provence region, Thursday Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

7.) A trade conflict between the United States and Europeans got uglier Friday after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on an array of European goods, many of them luxury items like Scotch malt whiskeys, Italian gourmet cheeses, expensive French wines and Spanish olives.

Peter Mulryan reads an article about Irish children who were registered as dead and then sold to Americans, sits at his kitchen table in Ballinasloe, Ireland. Mulryan believes a sister he has never known may have ended up being sold in such a secretive deal. (Cain Burdeau photo/Courthouse News)

8.) An institution run by Catholic nuns in western Ireland’s County Galway is now the focus of a government inquiry looking into the deaths of hundreds of children whose bodies were likely buried in a sewage tank at the back of the building.

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