| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, September 18NETANYAHU APPEARS TO SUFFER SETBACK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his religious and nationalist allies in national elections, setting the stage for a period of coalition negotiations that could threaten his political future and clear the way for him to be tried on corruption charges. [AP]STONEWALL COREY Democrats at a House Judiciary Committee hearing asked former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski simple questions about his interactions with President Donald Trump as part of their probe into the possible impeachment of the president. He refused to answer. [HuffPost]GM YANKS STRIKING WORKERS’ HEALTH CARE General Motors workers will be losing their company-sponsored health care two days into a strike that has shut down more than 50 facilities across the country. This forces the United Auto Workers to dip into its strike fund in order to provide health coverage to the nearly 50,000 workers involved in the work stoppage. [HuffPost]OVER 100 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN SUE ADMINISTRATION More than 125 migrant mothers and children have sued the U.S. government, claiming the Trump administration has violated the rights of asylum-seekers through the arbitrary and capricious implementation of a virtual asylum ban at the southern border. [Reuters]EVEN SAUDI ARABIA DOESN’T THINK TRUMP SHOULD GO TO WAR WITH IRAN The perception that Trump will start a conflict with Iran because that’s in the Saudis’ interest relies on a misunderstanding of what’s good for the kingdom. And Saudi officials have so far shown that they know further escalation isn’t helpful. [HuffPost]COKIE ROBERTS DEAD AT 75 Celebrated ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts died has from complications related to breast cancer. She was 75. “We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness,” her family said. [HuffPost] A global HuffPost project on everything you ever wanted to know about therapy, whether you've been once or 100 times. TRUMP TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA FROM SETTING POLLUTION STANDARDS Trump’s administration will announce today that it will revoke California’s legal authority to set its own auto emissions standards, according to reports, escalating his pro-oil assault on the environment, the Obama administration and even what some automakers want. [HuffPost]TRUMP: HOMELESS CALIFORNIANS RUINING ‘PRESTIGE’ Trump lamented the nation’s homelessness crisis ― not because so many Americans are unable to afford safe and stable housing, but rather because it’s supposedly affecting the “prestige” of California cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. [HuffPost]‘IT JUST LOOKS LIKE CORPORATE GREED’ No one knows how long the largest auto strike in more than a decade will last. But workers have dug in. They look at how well General Motors has done in recent years ― the company pulled in roughly $11 billion in pre-tax profits in 2018 ― and wonder why they shouldn’t have a larger piece of the pie. [HuffPost]GRETA TAKES SENATORS TO TASK Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist from Sweden, told a task force of U.S. Senate Democrats they weren’t trying “hard enough” to tackle the climate crisis. “Sorry,” she added in a blunt call to action. [HuffPost]STRING OF TEXAS CHILD SHOOTINGS HIGHLIGHT GUN VIOLENCE Five children were shot in four separate incidents over the weekend in Texas, highlighting a sobering statistic for a state already struggling with gun violence: Texas ranks first in the nation for unintentional shootings involving children. [HuffPost]SAMSUNG’S CRISIS CULTURE Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, is perpetually in crisis mode. In part, that’s by design: Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee once wrote that a successful company needs to maintain a “heightened sense of crisis,” meaning even in the good times, it must anticipate change ahead. [CNN]
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