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Trump to hold small United Auto Workers union rally — after attacking their strike

Instead of attending the second Republican Party debate, Donald Trump will hold an event with 500 union workers from the United Auto Workers in Detroit. The event will come after Trump attacked the union for the strike. There are 13,000 workers in the UAW "big three." Trump's 500-person rally would be 3.8 percent of the union workers.

The comment comes amid Trump's attacks on the UAW leadership, which he says is leading the union down the wrong path with the strike.

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'100 percent in': Right-wing firebrand Matt Gaetz expected to join FL governor race

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be term limited out of his current role at the end of 2026, unless he manages to turn around his fortunes in the presidential race and moves to the White House before that. And there's one figure who appears ready to run to succeed him, reported NBC News on Monday: far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz.

The prominent Freedom Caucus member and Trump ally fueled the speculation while speaking to NBC about a Sunday event he attended celebrating Miami Republican state Rep. Danny Perez, who will be designated state House Speaker.

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'They would have done it to us': Trump thinks Republicans can oust Biden using 25th amendment

Donald Trump is urging Republicans to remove President Joe Biden from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, which in part details the process for removing and replacing a sitting U.S. President by his own Vice President and his own Cabinet, not Congress.

The 25th Amendment also allows for a sitting U.S. President to temporarily remove himself or herself from the responsibilities of office and officially had that responsibility to their Vice President, say, if the President were to undergo surgery and be under anesthesia, or in other cases where they decide they should not hold power for a limited time.

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Study finds 'forever chemical' exposure increases risk of certain cancers in women

Exposure to a range of widely used chemicals may significantly increase the odds of certain hormonally driven cancers in women, according to U.S. government-funded research published Monday.

In a study appearing in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, researchers analyzed data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and found that women exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), phenols, and parabens had higher odds of having been diagnosed with cancers of the breast, ovary, skin, and uterus.

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‘Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party’: Kevin McCarthy and far-right Republicans mocked as GOP divide grows even greater

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy its being attacked by far-right House Republicans and being mocked as their "victim" as he openly admits to the press that he doesn't "quite know what" they want just days before what appears to be an increasingly-likely federal government shutdown that will lay at the feet of his members including U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

"It's a good thing I love a challenge," Speaker McCarthy told reporters Monday morning (video below) as he slammed extremist members of the House Republican Conference. "Because every day is gonna be a challenge."

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Biden takes political risk with Iran prisoner swap

US President Joe Biden hailed a prisoner swap with Iran as cause for celebration Monday, but Republican criticism makes the deal politically risky ahead of the 2024 election.

The White House has defended the exchange, in which five "innocent Americans" flew out of Iran following the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds. Five Iranians held in the US were also freed.

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'Dumb as a rock': Trump snaps at Biden as U.S. hostages head for home

Donald Trump dumped on the prisoner exchange agreement brokered by the Biden administration that saw five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran freed Monday.

The agreement gives Tehran access to $6 billion in oil revenues that had been frozen under U.S. sanctions, and five Iranian nationals in U.S. custody are also expected to be released.

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'A Nazi movement — all the way to the top’: critics denounce Trump’s antisemitic attack on ‘liberal Jews’

Donald Trump is being denounced for his antisemitic message attacking "liberal Jews who voted to destroy America" by not voting for him, at the start of Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish New Year. Republicans have remained largely silent as "liberal Jews" trends on social media. The ex-president's remarks came just days after President Joe Biden warned that antisemitism has "risen to record levels."

Haaretz, the century-old Israeli newspaper with an international readership, called Trump's remarks "an ominous warning to American Jews in honor of Rosh Hashanah, retreading well-worn territory of dual loyalty tropes and conflating support for Israel and American Jews."

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US-Iran ties since Trump quit nuclear deal

Following are key dates in the storied relationship between the United States and its arch-rival Iran since Washington pulled out of a landmark nuclear pact with Tehran in 2018.

2018: nuclear deal walkout

After years of mounting concern over Iran's nuclear enrichment program, world powers reach a deal with Tehran on sanctions relief in exchange for guarantees it will not build an atomic bomb.

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GOP should worry more about MTG and Boebert's 'mental competency' than Joe Biden's: House member

At the end of an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) got off a shot at two of his Republican colleagues in the House after he was asked about concerns about President Joe Biden.

Initially speaking with the hosts about Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's hamstringing of the military over concerns about Pentagon abortion policies, Crow was asked in parting about attacks on Biden's "mental competency" from Republicans.

According to the Colorado Democrat, GOP leaders have a bigger problem on their hands that they need to deal with.

POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office?

"Where do you stand on the president's age and on the age of those senior politicians more generally?" he was asked by panelist Katty Kay.

"I think it's wrong to look at age, I think we should look at capacity, I think we should look at acuity and leadership," he replied.

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Biden's son Hunter sues IRS, alleges unlawful release of his taxes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging unlawful disclosure of his taxes by whistleblowers who work for the U.S. tax agency. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focused on statements made by IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler in media interviews amid a long-running investigation by House of Representatives Republicans into the younger Biden's taxes and business dealings. Hunter Biden, 53, is at the center of a political maelstrom, as House Republicans mount an impeachmen...

Five Americans freed in Iran-US prisoner swap deal brokered by Qatar

Five US detainees flew out of Iran on Monday in a swap for five Iranians held in the US under a rare deal brokered by Qatar between the arch enemies that also unfroze $6 billion of Tehran's funds.

A Qatari plane took off from Tehran carrying the five with two of their relatives, shortly after the US and Iran received confirmation that the funds had been transferred to accounts in Doha, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.

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Trump 'leaning into his criminal case' after seeing supporters' reaction to his indictments

Donald Trump has made the four indictments against him a centerpiece of his 2024 presidential campaign after determining the 91 criminal charges only boosted him in the eyes of his supporters.

The former president was charged with keeping top-secret government documents in Florida and for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in both Washington, D.C., and Georgia, and he's charged with business fraud in New York.

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