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12:55 PM ET, September 15, 2023

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The Intercept:
Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three  —  After members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job at midnight, Twitter stripped the union of its account verification without notice, according to a UAW official.
Discussion: Axios and The Verge
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Associated Press:
Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers in a battle for a bigger share of industry profits  —  About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn't bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit's three automakers are willing to pay.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
U.A.W. Strike Is a Real-Time Test of Biden's Economic Agenda
CNN:
UAW to target strikes at Ford, GM and Stellantis at midnight if no deal reached
Washington Examiner:
Evidence of Biden's wrongdoing is considerable  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed this week that “there is precisely zero evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever” by President Joe Biden.  The Associated Press asserted Republicans are “claiming without evidence that [Joe and Hunter Biden] engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Rep. Comer is the Biden impeachment inquiry's wild card  —  Rep. James Comer, the leader of House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Biden, has repeatedly exaggerated and distorted the findings of his investigation into the Biden family this year.
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hunter Biden's lawyer accuses House Republicans of ‘congressional manipulation’
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Double blow of inquiry and son's indictment create tough stretch for Biden
Politico:
Congress is in crisis.  There's no clear escape.  —  “We've been seeing this coming ... I just didn't think we were dumb enough to get there,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) said.  —  The government is barreling toward a shutdown.  House Republicans threaten to impeach the president — though some of them don't see the evidence.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McCarthy Pulls Back Pentagon Spending Bill, Inching Closer to a Shutdown
New York Times:
Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force  —  If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit.  The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.
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Reuters:
Biden weighed by economic concerns, age in potential 2024 rematch with Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's chances of re-election are being jeopardized by voters' concerns over his age, the economy and crime, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, creating an opportunity …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump says he'd testify under oath he never ordered Mar-a-Lago security video deleted  —  In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” Trump said, “They were my tapes.  I could have fought them.”  —  Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he did not order …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump says it's ‘very unlikely’ he'd pardon himself if elected
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Married South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having a years-long clandestine affair  — DailyMail.com uncovered evidence of Lewandowski and Noem's fling: Dozens of trips that mixed business with pleasure, private flights and luxury resort stays
Discussion: UPROXX, Twitchy and Boston Herald
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump, His Kids, and His Bankers: New York AG Lays Out Witnesses in Case  —  The world will soon hear from Donald Trump's long-silent bankers at Deutsche Bank, his insurers at Zurich, property appraisers at Cushman and Wakefield, and his children. … The New York Attorney General plans …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Justine McDaniel / Washington Post:
Man helping deer cross a busy street shot, killed by ‘scared’ driver  —  A man who was trying to slow traffic in his neighborhood because deer were crossing the street was shot and killed by another man who was driving past, authorities in western Washington state said.
Discussion: Raw Story
Max Zahn / ABC News:
Some small businesses caught in culture wars face financial woes, employee fears: ‘Never been as bad’  —  Target and Bud Light draw attention but backlash also hurts small companies.  —  When Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a war on “woke” earlier this year with a proposal …
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump expands lead in GOP primary race  —  DeSantis continues to lose ground as Ramaswamy holds steady  —  Three weeks after the first Republican presidential primary debate, the latest Fox News survey finds Donald Trump has increased both his lead in the race and his strength of support.
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Bob Libal / The Hill:
What I saw at the Texas border shocked me  —  On Sept. 6, a federal judge in Austin ordered Texas to remove a floating “buoy barrier” wall in the Rio Grande outside Eagle Pass, which has become a symbol of Governor Greg Abbott's (R) Operation Lone Star border program.
Discussion: HotAir and NewsNation
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways  —  US news organizations have turned Biden's age into a scandal and continue to cover Trump as an entertaining side show  —  Christiane Amanpour has reported all over the world, so she recognizes a democracy on the brink when she sees one.
emptywheel:
By Asking for Tanya Chutkan's Recusal, Trump Invited a Lesson in His Centrality to January 6  —  Trump's motion for Tanya Chutkan to recuse was not designed to work.  Rather, it was designed as a messaging vehicle, to establish the basis for Trump to claim that a Black Judge was biased …
Discussion: UPI, Politico and Washington Post
Politico:
All thanks to ‘Big Yellow Taxi’: How State discovered Chinese hackers reading its emails  —  The State Department relied on a clever alert system to uncover and unravel an advanced Chinese spying campaign that involved breaches of officials' emails.  —  A recent Chinese-linked hack …
 
 
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Politico:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner and Insider
Timothy Pratt / The Guardian:
Trump's Georgia charges thrust Coffee county in to the spotlight. Its people seek accountability
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Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
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Discussion: El País
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
TikTok and U.S. rekindle negotiations, boosting app's hopes for survival
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
McBride leads primary opponents in early polling
Discussion: The Messenger
Associated Press:
Biden's Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he's not getting much credit
Discussion: The Hill
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60 Years  —  There is a lot going on in Georgia.  But I'm not going to write about it tonight …
Discussion: NPR
Associated Press:
Zelenskyy is expected to visit Washington as Congress is debating $24 billion in aid for Ukraine
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How a shutdown could blindfold the Fed
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A US federal court allows The Intercept's claim that the DMCA stops OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but dismisses its claims against Microsoft

 
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