by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 14.
- ‘We’re back to frontier days’: Michael’s aftermath in Florida
- What Is Donald Trump’s Response to the U.N.’s Dire Climate Report? (“The U.N.’s scientific advisory board sounds a piercing alarm on climate change, but the President doesn’t seem to hear it.”)
- Kushner Paid No Federal Income Tax for Years, Documents Suggest (“Confidential documents reviewed by The Times indicate that Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, probably paid little or no income tax from 2009 to 2016.” Did Kushner commit any crimes here?)
- Can Saudi Arabia’s ‘great reformer’ survive the death in the consulate? (“The disappearance in Turkey of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has shaken confidence in Riyadh even among close allies”)
- Trump vows ‘severe punishment’ if Saudis killed Jamal Khashoggi (“Severe” defined as anything but stopping arms sales or basically doing anything that would hurt Saudi Arabia’s government.)
- My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot
- After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince’s ‘dark’ and bullying side
- If a Prince Murders a Journalist, That’s Not a Hiccup (“In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.”)
- ‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
- That $3 Trillion-a-Year Clean Energy Transformation? It’s Already Underway.
- Collusion judgment looms for key Senate panel (“The Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching a major decision point in its investigation into Russia’s election interference where lawmakers will weigh in on whether members of President Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow.”)
- Capturing CO2 From Air: To Keep Global Warming Under 1.5°C, Emissions Must Go Negative, IPCC Says (“Soil leads the solutions for negative emissions in a new climate change report. Soil carbon sequestration was among the cheapest methods with the greatest potential.”)
- No Food, No FEMA: Hurricane Michael’s Survivors Are Furious (“Miles and miles of Florida are obliterated, and residents have been left to fend for themselves with little help from the government.”)
- Members Of A Far-Right Men’s Group Violently Beat Up Protesters And Weren’t Arrested. New York Police Won’t Say Why.
- Calling Democrats the ‘Angry Mob’ is Trump’s Biggest Lie Yet
- There’s a Lot of Talk About ‘Mobs’ These Days. Let Me Refer You to the Constitutional Convention. (“The notion that large, emotional mobs have always been dismissed out-of-hand in America is ahistorical.”)
- Pastor Arrives Back in U.S. After Two Years Detained in Turkey (It’s very revealing how much the Trump administration cared about this guy, but not about so many other cases.)
- Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year’s midterm elections (“Democrats maintain a double-digit advantage in overall support for Congress”)
- Mob of white nationalist ‘Proud Boys’ brutally beat several men: ‘Are you brave now, faggot?!’ (“Meanwhile, Fox News is still trying to paint liberals as the violent mob.”)
- Melania Trump finally gave an explanation for her “I don’t really care. Do U?” jacket (Right, and it turns out she WAS doing it to send a message…which means she lied/gaslit at the time. Yep, I can definitely see why she and the Orange Stain are married.)
- Brian Kemp Has Put Democracy Itself on the Ballot in Georgia
- Top Iowa paper bashes GOP’s Steve King for consorting with ‘fascists and neo-Nazis’ and endorses his opponent (If I had to pick one member of Congress who is the most evil in every way, I’d probably vote for Steve King.)
- GOP yanks funding for ‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ Rohrabacher as campaign collapses
- Michael J. Allen: We can’t afford to wait on climate change
- Editorial: We can’t ignore this call to act on climate changes
- WATCH: Saturday Night Live mocks Trump’s meeting with Kanye West
- Local woman takes on Virginia (Go Jennifer Lewis!)
- Tim Kaine On Disappearance Of Jamal Khashoggi And Saudi Arabia
- Virginia Absentee Ballot Numbers As of 10/12 Continue to Run Far Ahead of 2017, Particularly in VA-10 and VA-07
- Video: Pathetic Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01) Won’t Even Say If He Disagrees That the Press Is the “Enemy of the People”
- Hincker: Questions for Griffith and Flaccavento (By far the most important issue that should be asked about is climate change. Ask Griffith about his slavish fealty to the dying coal industry and about his laughable climate science denial idiocy.)
- Despite policy encouraging travel, most Airports Authority board members are staying grounded
- Sixth Va. death related to Tropical Storm Michael confirmed; Dominion says it has restored power to nearly 80 percent with outages
- Gordon C. Morse: College funding, and how we got here
- Fort Monroe could be leader in energy efficiency
- Consistently cool this week, although briefly warmer tomorrow
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