Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to enforce its policy of making asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their claims are decided; Bernie Sanders said he will stay in the 2020 presidential race despite big primary losses to former Vice President Joe Biden; The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, and more.

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National

1.) The Trump administration can enforce its policy of making asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their claims are decided, after the Supreme Court ordered temporary relief Wednesday.

FILE - In this July 16, 2019 file photo, a woman sits with her sons as they wait to apply for asylum in the United States along the border in Tijuana, Mexico. A federal judge says a Guatemalan family cannot be returned to Mexico to wait for their next hearing in U.S. immigration court without being allowed to consult an attorney. The ruling challenges a key part of a Trump administration policy that has resulted in more than 55,000 asylum seekers being returned to Mexico to wait. The judge scheduled a hearing Dec. 13 to consider whether his temporary restraining order should apply throughout California. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

2.) Eager for a one-on-one debate, Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that he will stay in the 2020 presidential race despite losing to former Vice President Joe Biden in the Michigan primary.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greets people at a campaign event in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

3.) Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States surpassed 1,000 on Wednesday, continuing a massive surge through 38 states and causing panic over the weakening of the economy.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration of COVID-19, a novel coronavirus.

4.) The longest bull market in U.S. history has come to a close, with major markets opening to massive sell-offs Wednesday as the World Health Organization dubbed the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

Trader James Coffey works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. U.S. stocks nosedived in early trading on Wall Street Monday as China's currency fell sharply and stoked fears that the trade war between the world's two largest economies would continue escalating. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Regional

5.) A Wisconsin-based conservative group asked the state supreme court Wednesday to review a decision leaving over 200,000 people who may have moved on the voter rolls, putting pressure on the justices to fast-track resolution of a lawsuit with huge implications for elections this year.

Voters cast their ballots in Kieler, Wis., in 2018. (Nicki Kohl/Telegraph Herald via AP, File)

6.) A New York judge sentenced ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison Wednesday for two forced sex acts perpetrated against women in the entertainment business in 2006 and 2013.

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse for jury deliberations in his rape trial, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in New York (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

International

7.) The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic and urged all countries to do more to control the spread of the respiratory disease.

People line up to buy face masks to protect themselves from the new coronavirus outside a department store in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

8.) Every term of a consumer contract need not face scrutiny for the whole deal to be found unfair, the EU’s highest court ruled Wednesday.

A man walks by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

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