Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including former Vice President Joe Biden is running hot ahead of this weekend’s South Carolina primary; A Ninth Circuit panel ruled YouTube is not bound by the First Amendment; President Donald Trump’s campaign sued The New York Times for defamation, and more.

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National

1.) After picking up a key endorsement Wednesday and the top spot in the latest statewide poll, former Vice President Joe Biden is running hot ahead of this weekend’s South Carolina primary.

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, takes photos with supporters after speaking at a campaign event in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

2.) YouTube is not bound by the First Amendment, its lofty statements about embracing free speech notwithstanding, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday in a long-awaited ruling in Prager University’s challenge to the platform’s suppression of its videos.

A YouTube sign is shown across the street from the company's offices in San Bruno, Calif., on April 3, 2018.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

3.) Escalating President Donald Trump’s war on the media, his campaign sued The New York Times for defamation Wednesday over its 2019 editorial titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo.”

4.) Reversing a sweeping injunction, the Second Circuit gave the Justice Department a green light Wednesday to withhold funding from New York City and seven states in retaliation for their sanctuary policies on immigration.

FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse in San Francisco. President Donald Trump's executive order threatening to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that limit cooperation with immigration authorities is unconstitutional, but a judge went too far when he blocked its enforcement nationwide, a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Regional

5.) Despite the Super Tuesday primary looming just days away, Alabama U.S. Senate candidate and former football coach Tommy Tuberville is already prepping his supporters for a runoff gameplay.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville poses with his bus outside Decatur, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (CNS Photo/Dan Jackson)

6.) Days before California voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, officials in Santa Clara County sued an employee union to block its members – 1,700 of which work at the county registrar of voters office – from going on strike.

International

7.) Taxes on betting in Italy do not constitute discrimination against companies based in other countries, the European Union’s highest court ruled Wednesday.

A woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Oct. 5, 2015. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

8.) Nature is not concerned with human crops and will reclaim land when it is abandoned. The process has a benefit: Croplands that are no longer tended help cool the planet.

Farmland in the German state of Bavaria. (William Dotinga / CNS)

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