• A House committee announced a Sept. 28 hearing as part of its probe into Maui wildfires that claimed at least 115 lives. Testimony is expected from officials of two state agencies and Hawaiian Electric.
  
  

• The deadline for the United Auto Workers and three companies to reach a contract agreement and avoid strikes in a small number of factories is tonight at 11:59 p.m.
  
  

• The Democratic National Committee‘s (DNC) Rules and Bylaws Committee granted New Hampshire another extension for complying with the DNC’s new presidential primary calendar, with the state party chairman maintaining the state will hold the first Democratic primary.  

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted to oust nonpartisan state Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe. Democrats argue the chamber doesn’t have the power to remove Wolfe from the role, and a legal battle is likely.

The Hill’s Lauren Sforza reported that GOP leaders “have falsely claimed that [Wolfe] orchestrated a plan to rig the 2020 election in Wisconsin — a swing-state President Biden carried in 2020 by nearly 21,000 votes.” Read more here.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee rejected prosecutors’ request to try the 19 defendants in the Georgia 2020 election interference case together in October, meaning former President Trump won’t be tried next month.

“The Court joins the skepticism expressed by several federal courts that denying severance always ensures efficiency, especially in ‘mega trials’ such as this,” McAfee wrote.

“Though McAfee did not set a trial date for Trump, his ruling sets a motions deadline of Dec. 1, which would come before any eventual trial,” The Hill’s Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee noted. 

An excerpt from a forthcoming biography of outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says he, along with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), considered creating a new political party. 

“We’d say, ‘This party’s going to endorse whichever party’s nominee isn’t stupid,'” Romney told the biographer.

President Biden‘s reelection campaign has a new ad airing in Wisconsin touting job creation. It’s part of a $25 million blitz of advertising in battleground states. The Hill’s Alex Gangitano has more here.

“22 years after military force was authorized in Afghanistan, Congress needs to restore basic checks and balances” — Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Stephen Miles, president of the group Win Without War. (Read here)

“US outreach to China is raising questions and doubts in Korea” — Seong-Hyon Lee, a senior fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and a visiting scholar at Harvard University Asia Center, and Zoe Leung, senior director of research at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations. The views expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors. (Read here)

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown.