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Top CNS stories for today including a privacy class action that Google settled for $8.5 million faced a Supreme Court clamp-down after the justices found there are too many questions about standing to move forward; The nation’s highest court appeared ready to vacate a death-penalty conviction in a case where the prosecutor had a history of racially motivated juror strikes; A United Nations tribunal hiked the sentence of Radovan Karadzic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, from 40 years to life, and more.

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National

Google offices in San Francisco with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background, on Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

1.) A privacy class action that Google settled for $8.5 million faced a Supreme Court clamp-down Wednesday, with the justices ruling 8-1 that there are too many questions about standing to move forward.

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2018, file photo, the U. S. Supreme Court building stands quietly before dawn in Washington. The Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same offense. And yet Terance Gamble is sitting in prison today because he was prosecuted separately by Alabama and the federal government for having a gun after an earlier robbery conviction. he Supreme Court is considering Gamble’s case Thursday, Dec. 6, and the outcome could have a spillover effect on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

2.) The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to vacate a death-penalty conviction in a case where the prosecutor had a history of racially motivated juror strikes.

FILE- In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, packages pass through a scanner at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore. Amazon's Prime Day starts July 16, 2018, and will be six hours longer than last year's and will launch new products. (Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

3.) The Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday over whether the attack of a gay man at an Amazon shipping facility counts as a federal hate crime.

4.) Giving hope to the 1 in 9 women who experience postpartum depression, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug to treat PPD.

Regional

5.) Aiming to protect California’s reputation for setting tough clean air and climate change laws in the face of lackluster federal standards, one lawmaker is making environmental issues a focal point of the state Senate’s 2019-20 agenda.

Trinidad Drilling rigs are seen off of Way Highway 59 outside of Douglas, Wyo., in 2013. A federal judge has blocked oil and gas drilling on almost 500 square miles in Wyoming, saying the government must consider cumulative climate change impacts of leasing public lands across the U.S. for energy development. The order marks the latest in a string of court rulings over the past decade faulting the government's consideration of emissions when issuing energy leases. (Leah Millis/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)

6.) Faulting the Trump administration for its failure to consider climate change, a federal judge temporarily blocked the auction of federal land in Wyoming for oil and gas drilling.

International

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on July 31, 2008. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia’s devastating war ended, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction during Europe’s bloodiest carnage since World War II. United Nations appeals judges will decide Wednesday whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic’s 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and his 40-year sentence. (Jerry Lampen/Pool via AP, File)

7.) Following an appeal, a United Nations tribunal hiked the sentence of Radovan Karadzic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, from 40 years to life Wednesday.

Zhou Xiaoqin installs a fine glass pipette into a sperm injection microscope in preparation for injecting embryos with Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA at a lab in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong province on Oct. 9, 2018. China has unveiled draft regulations on gene-editing and other new biomedical technologies it considers to be "high-risk." The measures follow claims in November 2018 by Chinese scientist He Jiankui that he helped make the world's first genetically-edited babies. That roiled the global science community and elicited widespread outcry over the procedure's ethical implications. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

8.) A World Health Organization panel is urging researchers in the rapidly growing field of editing human genes to stay away from using the biotechnology to make better babies.

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