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3:40 PM ET, September 15, 2023

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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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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Democrats head to the picket line as UAW strike gets underway  —  In Michigan and Ohio, Democratic candidates for the Senate are backing the striking union workers, with some even showing up to picket.  —  All eyes on Friday are turned to Missouri, Ohio and Michigan, where union auto workers …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
U.A.W. Strike Is a Real-Time Test of Biden's Economic Agenda
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
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.”
Discussion: Speaker Kevin McCarthy and IJR
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Rep. Comer is the Biden impeachment inquiry's wild card
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hunter Biden's lawyer accuses House Republicans of ‘congressional manipulation’
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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Inyoung Choi / NBC News:
Trump says Melania will be back on the campaign trail with him ‘pretty soon’  —  Melania Trump, the former first lady, has been largely absent during Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.  —  Trump: Melania will hit the campaign trail 'when it's appropriate'
The Intercept:
UAW Temporarily Loses Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three  —  This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.  Twitter offered only an auto-response …
CNN:
Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump's account to special counsel  —  Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from former President Donald Trump's account - @realDonaldTrump - to special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year as part of the federal election subversion …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Speaker Matt Gaetz has big plans for the House  —  The Constitution designates the speaker as the presiding officer of the House of Representatives and, throughout our history, this has been the case — until now.  —  The House is currently being run not by Speaker Kevin McCarthy …
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Politico:
The secret thoughts of moderate Republicans
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Insider
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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.
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and 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
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Is Going To Have To Talk About Leonard Peltier  —  Indigenous leaders and human rights advocates are making the long-imprisoned Native activist's freedom a 2024 election priority.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON ― Maxine was 4 years old when the bullet whizzed by her face.
Discussion: Source New Mexico
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.
Discussion: El País
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.
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 …
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Lee ripped Newsom.  His advisers are quitting her super PAC.  —  Two longtime aides in Newsom world are siding with the California governor over Rep. Barbara Lee.  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two top California strategists have cut ties with the super PAC supporting Barbara Lee's U.S. Senate bid …
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
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
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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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump, DeSantis go head-to-head at key conservative group summits in DC
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times:
California lawmakers pass bill to make it easier to delete online personal data
Discussion: Associated Press
Greg Norman / Fox News:
AOC, other Dems drowned out by screaming protesters at NYC migrant crisis news conference
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Outflanked by liberals, Oregon conservatives aim to become part of Idaho
Discussion: Raw Story
Li Zhou / Vox:
The fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants is caught in an endless court fight
Timothy Pratt / The Guardian:
Trump's Georgia charges thrust Coffee county in to the spotlight. Its people seek accountability
Discussion: Raw Story
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
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Biden's Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he's not getting much credit
Discussion: The Hill
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump, His Kids, and His Bankers: New York AG Lays Out Witnesses in Case
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and ABC7
Public Notice:
The state of right-wing extremism nearly 3 years after J6
Politico:
All thanks to ‘Big Yellow Taxi’: How State discovered Chinese hackers reading its emails
Bob Libal / The Hill:
What I saw at the Texas border shocked me
Discussion: HotAir and NewsNation
 

 
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