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The United Auto Workers is preparing to strike at some Ford, General Motors and Stellantis factories if automakers don't move closer to its demands for pay raises and restoration of benefits — like reinstituting pensions — the union gave up during leaner times. Detroit's Big Three have never faced a simultaneous strike by the UAW, which represents 146,000 workers, and union President Shawn Fain said the strike could expand if companies "continue to give us insulting offers."

The Labor Day parade brought out UAW supporters in Detroit.

(Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A federal judge ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. The legal backstory is complicated, but the ruling continues to block the program from accepting new applicants and almost guarantees the Supreme Court will have the final say. 

Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante was captured Wednesday morning after he was detected by a federal law enforcement airplane with a heat-seeking camera. Cavalcante was on the run for the 14th day after escaping from a county prison outside Philadelphia. He was arraigned on a felony escape charge and driven to a state prison to resume serving the life sentence for killing his ex-girlfriend.

Danelo Souza Cavalcante is taken into custody Wednesday.

(Pennsylvania State Police via AP)

Rising Gas Prices drove up inflation last month*, but core inflation — which leaves out fluctuating food and gas prices — actually fell a little bit. The drop from 4.7% in July to 4.3% in August is smaller than declines in months, though, which means inflation will take longer to reach the Federal Reserve's goal of 2%. The news is positive enough that most experts are still expecting the Fed to leave rates unchanged at its meeting next week.

*That pun was an accident, we swear.

More than 70,000 childcare programs are at risk of closing once pandemic aid expires at the end of September. Many will raise prices to stay afloat, said financial planner David Peters. There are no good options when something as expensive as childcare becomes even more costly, but he walked us through how we can work out the best plan for our families.

The husband of Rep. Mary Peltola died in an airplane crash in Alaska, which she represents in Congress. Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola Jr., 57, was the pilot and sole occupant of the small passenger plane that crashed in a mountainous region 440 miles west of Anchorage. 

French regulators told Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 until the company reduces how much radiation it emits. A recent lab test found the phone model, released in late 2020, exceeded levels allowed by European Union regulations, although not levels that science has shown to be harmful. 

When U.S. regulators see Europe

making companies follow the law:

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A coalition of 40 historically Black colleges and universities received a $124 million gift to boost the schools' enrollment, graduation and job prospects. The philanthropy Blue Meridian Partners has now given about $200 million to the HBCU Transformation Project since 2020, when private giving to HBCUs started rising in response to the police murder of George Floyd and the risk that some schools wouldn't financially survive the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hundreds of Milwaukee drinkers took up a bar on its offer of a free tab if the New York Jets — the new home of former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers — lost their season opener on Monday Night Football. When Rodgers was injured just four plays into the game, patrons started ordering more, thinking a night of free booze was on the house — but then the Jets won in overtime. The duly paid tabs gave Jack's American Pub one of its biggest nights of the year.

Talk about a buzzkill.

Yesterday was International Chocolate Day, but it can be every day if you believe. To celebrate, we had The Melting Pot show us how to fondue with chocolate. What can you dip, what's the best technique for dipping, and is it true that you are required to play the song Da' Dip by Freak Nasty when you are dipping? Learn all this and more.

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You roll out your exercise mat, ready to do some crunches and planks. But then your dog lays down on it, and they're so cute, you don't have the heart to make them move. How will you work out your abs and lower back now? By doing these standing-up core exercises, that's how.

Trader Joe's: What if pumpkin had a baby with everything?

—@difficultpatty

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