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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:
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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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Trump criticizes UAW leadership amid strike, warns auto workers' jobs are moving to China
Trump criticizes UAW leadership amid strike, warns auto workers' jobs are moving to China
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NBC News, The Hill, The White House, Roll Call, Washington Times, Semafor, Daily Caller News Foundation, National Review and Mediaite
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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Ars Technica, The Economist, The Hill and RealClearMarkets
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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American Wire News, New York Post, Mediaite, Erick Erickson's Show Notes, Raw Story, Twitchy, UPROXX and Boston Herald
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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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Reuters:
Biden weighed by economic concerns, age in potential 2024 rematch with Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Biden weighed by economic concerns, age in potential 2024 rematch with Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
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The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Liberal Patriot
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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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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HuffPost, DCCC, UPROXX, The Boston Globe, The Daily Caller, al.com, Punchbowl News, Washington Times, The Nation, Crooks and Liars and American Wire News
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Politico:
The secret thoughts of moderate Republicans — As a potential shutdown looms, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Republican Governance Group, explains why he and other moderates aren't panicking - yet. — It would be easy to look at the House of Representatives and assume …
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Washington Examiner and Insider
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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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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Speaker Kevin McCarthy and IJR
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Rep. Comer is the Biden impeachment inquiry's wild card
Rep. Comer is the Biden impeachment inquiry's wild card
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The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Raw Story, Fox News, Mock Paper Scissors, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Mediaite, Washington Times, New Republic and CNN
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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Politico, NBC News, The Hill, The Guardian, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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
CNN:
Hunter Biden indicted on gun charges — President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, has been indicted by special counsel David Weiss in connection with a gun he purchased in 2018, the first time in US history the Justice Department has charged the child of a sitting president.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hunter Biden's lawyer accuses House Republicans of ‘congressional manipulation’
Hunter Biden's lawyer accuses House Republicans of ‘congressional manipulation’
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 …
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 …
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.
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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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
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Outflanked by liberals, Oregon conservatives aim to become part of Idaho — Much of conservative eastern Oregon wants to be part of Idaho, and a push to shift an old border is underway — ONTARIO, Ore. — The Snake River has formed the border of Oregon and Idaho for more than a century and a half …
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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.
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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
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 Capitolist, The Hill, 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