Good morning. 
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 7:14 AM and sunset 6:04 PM, for 10h 49m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 61% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand seventy-sixth day.
On this day in 1944, the elements of United States Sixth Army land on the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
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Vanessa Yurkevich and Betsy Klein report Trump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it’s gone for good:
As details emerged Thursday about the tentative United Auto Workers agreement with General Motors, one thing became clear: The shuttered GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that President Donald Trump hoped to save will stay closed for good.
The President cast himself in 2016 as a savior for workers, taking the unusual tack of publicly pressuring corporations like Carrier into changing their plans for moving or changing production. But despite months of demands, Trump has been unable to get GM to keep jobs at Lordstown.
Trump zeroed in on the Ohio plant because of his promise to working-class voters that he would revive US manufacturing, keeping jobs in the United States. With that promise, Trump won Ohio and did well with voters in Mahoning Valley — a key to securing the election in 2016.
In 2017, Trump went to Youngstown, 15 miles down the road from the Lordstown plant, and promised residents that manufacturing jobs would be returning to the region, telling the crowd: “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house.”
GM worker Ernie Long heard that speech while he was still at the Lordstown plant.
“He said don’t sell your house, and look, now I got to sell my house that I just built three years ago,” said Long, who was at the plant for 11 years. He’s still a member of his union — Local 1112 — but is injured and not currently working.
Pema Levy writes Here’s What Russian Disinfo Sites Want You to Believe About Impeachment (‘Kremlin-backed media is parroting Trump’s attacks on the Bidens and pushing his fantasies of a deep state coup’):
Russia helped elect Trump, and as he faces impeachment, Russian state media is standing behind him. Propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik, which target Americans with English language content, provide a clear view of Russian messaging on the Ukraine scandal and Trump’s impeachment. Together, they present a picture of a propaganda machine working to exonerate Trump, condemn former Vice President Joe Biden, and spread doubt about the trustworthiness of American government.
The particulars of the Ukraine scandal make a natural fit for the Kremlin’s playbook for destabilizing western democracies: sowing distrust of authority and turning corruption into a “both sides” problem, encouraging citizens to resign themselves to grift and propaganda. That Russian media has jumped on stories that paint the scandal as a deep state coup—a theory that Trump himself has dangerously expounded during the Mueller investigation—is predictable.