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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.
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Associated Press, HotAir, 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.
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CBS News, Detroit Free Press, Washington Post, The Detroit News, CNBC, New York Daily News, Automotive News, Associated Press, The Nation, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Messenger, Mock Paper Scissors, CNN, Bloomberg, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Advance, Yellowhammer News, Electrek, Forbes, UPI, ABC7, USA Today, ABC News, al.com, American Prospect, IJR, NPR, NewsNation, ZeroHedge News, New York Times, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Chicago Sun Times, Reuters, Payday Report, The Japan Times, WGN-TV, Fortune and Financial Times
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How the Latest Labor Strikes Are Attempting to Reverse Decades-Long Trends
How the Latest Labor Strikes Are Attempting to Reverse Decades-Long Trends
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The Hill, The Economist and RealClearMarkets
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
U.A.W. Strike Is a Real-Time Test of Biden's Economic Agenda
U.A.W. Strike Is a Real-Time Test of Biden's Economic Agenda
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Associated Press, Politico, ABC News, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Messenger, CBS News, Reuters, Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Washington Times, The Guardian, NewsNation, The Atlantic and Washington Examiner
CNN:
UAW to target strikes at Ford, GM and Stellantis at midnight if no deal reached
UAW to target strikes at Ford, GM and Stellantis at midnight if no deal reached
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HotAir, USA Today, The Hill, CBS News, CNBC, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, NBC News, Ars Technica, Politico, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Spectrum News NY1, New York Times, TechCrunch, Outside the Beltway, Jacobin, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Beast, BizPac Review, UPI, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times and ABC7
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.
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The Daily Caller, Mock Paper Scissors, Raw Story, Washington Post, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Washington Times, Mediaite, New Republic and CNN
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hunter Biden's lawyer accuses House Republicans of ‘congressional manipulation’
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
Double blow of inquiry and son's indictment create tough stretch for Biden
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The Hill, Newsmax, Politico, PennLive, PJ Media, New York Magazine, BizPac Review, New York Times, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Forbes, ABC News, Political Wire, WCDC-TV and New York Post
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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Punchbowl News, al.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Messenger, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and NPR
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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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Raw Story
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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 …
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The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Free Beacon, RedState and Daily Caller News Foundation
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
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New York Post, Raw Story, UPROXX, Twitchy and Boston Herald
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
Trump says it's ‘very unlikely’ he'd pardon himself if elected
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Variety, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Palmer Report, The Messenger, HuffPost, Mediaite, New York Post, Lucianne, The Hill, Associated Press, USA Today, Althouse, The Dean's Report and Deadline
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Trump says he discussed pardoning himself but dismissed option
Trump says he discussed pardoning himself but dismissed option
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NBC News, New York Times, Washington Times and HuffPost
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 …
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Raw Story
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Reuters:
Judge temporarily halts NY fraud trial against Trump, pending appeal
Judge temporarily halts NY fraud trial against Trump, pending appeal
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Associated Press, Raw Story and USA Today
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New York Fraud Trial in Limbo After His Legal Gambit Works
Trump's New York Fraud Trial in Limbo After His Legal Gambit Works
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USA Today, Raw Story, The Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Insider, New York Times, ABC7 and The Messenger
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.
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Raw Story
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
The spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine — This week's unanimous vote on phenylephrine's ineffectiveness was decades in the making. — After spending decades on pharmacy shelves, the leading nasal decongestant in over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines has met its downfall.
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El País
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 …
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.
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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.
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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HotAir, The Hill, The Capitolist, Political Wire and Monmouth University …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump, DeSantis go head-to-head at key conservative group summits in DC
Trump, DeSantis go head-to-head at key conservative group summits in DC
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Associated Press
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Trump DOJ Official Jeff Clark Claims President Had ‘Unqualified and Illimitable’ Right to Deputize Him in 2020 Election — Clark also told a federal judge that he got it wrong in denying former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows a federal court transfer
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Raw Story
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Tom LoBianco / The Messenger:
Trump Pushing RNC to Change Third GOP Debate Venue (Exclusive)
Trump Pushing RNC to Change Third GOP Debate Venue (Exclusive)
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Washington Times, Politico, American Wire News, New York Post, The Hill and Fox News
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 …
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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 …