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6:50 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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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Trump criticizes UAW leadership amid strike, warns autoworkers' jobs are moving to China
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Democrats head to the picket line as UAW strike gets underway
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'
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump says he'd testify under oath he never ordered Mar-a-Lago security video deleted
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
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Special counsel warned Trump could ‘precipitate violence’ if told of Twitter search warrant  —  Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith's team warned that former President Trump could “precipitate violence” unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account.
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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 …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Special Counsel Seeking Limited Gag Order on Trump in Election Case  —  Prosecutors have asked Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to curb statements from the former president that could intimidate witnesses, influence potential jurors or lead to harassment of others in the case.
NBC News:
Special counsel asks for ‘narrow’ gag order for Trump in election interference case  —  Jack Smith's office says Trump's “disparaging and inflammatory attacks” have spurred threats against witnesses and threaten the court process.  —  WASHINGTON — Citing threats against individuals former …
Politico:
The Ken Paxton saga is exposing the limits of Trump's coattails  —  Nearly a quarter of Texas Republicans now disapprove of the embattled attorney general, an all-time high.  —  Ken Paxton and his MAGA allies framed his stunning impeachment trial as the last gasp of the GOP's weakened establishment.
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Thorn:
An Update From Thorn  —  Today we are sharing that Ashton Kutcher, our co-founder, will be resigning from his role as Board Chair at Thorn, effective immediately.  This decision is rooted in the recognition of recent events and ensuring Thorn remains focused on its mission: to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse.
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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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
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Hunter Biden's lawyer says gun statute unconstitutional, case will be dismissed  —  The younger Biden's attorney spoke to ABC News on Friday.  —  The attorney for President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, who is facing felony gun charges, said Friday that the statute is “likely unconstitutional” …
Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Bill That Bans Vaccine Mandates In Arkansas  —  The Arkansas governor claimed the legislation, which replaces a similar ban that recently expired, aims to defend citizens' “individual liberty.”  —  LOADING  —  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) …
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
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.
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.
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: The Hill, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Lee's jabs at Newsom cause exodus from 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 after she went scorched earth on Gavin Newsom.
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
 
 
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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
 Earlier Items: 
Max Zahn / ABC News:
Some small businesses caught in culture wars face financial woes, employee fears: ‘Never been as bad’
Associated Press:
Biden's Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he's not getting much credit
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
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
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways