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Ex-chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers are blasting an analysis from UMass-Amherst professor Gerald Friedman that Bernie Sanders' camp has praised recently. Do their opinions matter to voters?

The former first daughter and White House adviser spoke remotely to the committee about the Capitol insurrection.

Also: President Trump will lunch with GOP senators; two men who supported rancher Cliven Bundy in a standoff with officers plead guilty; and an Iditarod musher is named in a dog-doping scandal.

Also: A former CIA officer is accused of spying for China; new fissures open near Hawaii's volcano; and Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton throws a no-hitter, helping defeat the Toronto Blue Jays.

The tentative deal — which needs to be approved by members — comes less than a week after the union struck a similar deal with Ford. Meanwhile, the union is expanding its strike against GM.

Six states hold presidential primary contests today, with Michigan the big prize for Democratic candidates. But both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have cancelled rallies due to coronavirus concerns.

U.S. forces in Iraq capture a senior biological weapons scientist, known as "Mrs. Anthrax" and the only woman on the U.S. military list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. A U.S.-trained microbiologist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Iraq's biological weapons program after the 1991 Gulf War. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday.

The former secretary of state says a new report that some emails on her private server exceeded the "Top Secret" classification is "an effort to inject" controversy into her campaign.

In new letter to President Trump, Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries request a meeting to discuss the path forward for government funding ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.