by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 29.
- Japan eyes mixed use of COVID-19 shots to speed vaccine rollout
- Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro says he will be killed, arrested or re-elected (This guy’s a Trump-like fascist and a menace.)
- Germany’s Social Democrats Overtake Merkel’s Bloc in Poll
- Israeli PM tells Biden he won’t publicly campaign against Iran deal
- U.S. says drone strike killed 2 Islamic State targets; evacuations near end
- Biden Warns Another Attack in Afghanistan Likely as U.S. Begins Final Stage of Withdrawal
- U.S. Used a Special Hellfire Missile in Afghanistan Airstrike on Islamic State
- Among the Troops Who Died, Two Women on the Front Line
- DOD Identifies Marine Corps, Navy and Army Casualties
- What we know about the 13 U.S. service members killed in the Kabul attack.
- Biden to withdraw U.S. diplomatic staff from Afghanistan as future relationship with the Taliban remains unclear
- Clarissa Ward’s chilling interview with ISIS-K leader
- Taliban Move to Ban Opium Production in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: with the US gone, how soon will the Taliban show their true colours?
- US tells Americans to leave Kabul airport ‘immediately,’ citing ‘credible’ threat
- ‘A virtual death sentence’: Gay Afghans brace for uncertain future under Taliban
- What Trump’s Disgraceful Deal With the Taliban Has Wrought
- Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead of powerful Hurricane Ida
- Hospitals in U.S. South Run Low on Oxygen Amid Covid, Storm
- Ida Rapidly Intensifies Into Dangerous Category 4 Hurricane
- ‘Time is not on our side.’ Gulf Coast braces for Sunday arrival of Hurricane Ida, potentially a Category 4 storm
- Hurricane Ida May Damage Almost 1 Million Homes on U.S. Gulf
- Hurricane Ida could ravage the Covid-strained Gulf Coast
- Vaccines can only do so much. The rest is up to people.
- Breyer, the optimistic justice, shakes off defeats but warns of threats to Supreme Court’s authority (“Stephen G. Breyer, 83, is frustrated with questions about retirement and warns that structural changes to the high court could come at a high cost.” Just retire already. Like…now!)
- Trumpists live in an alternate reality — but they believe in it, and that’s terrifying
- Joe McCarthy was never defeated — and Donald Trump now leads the movement he created (“McCarthy dreamed of a right-wing movement rooted in bigotry, demagoguery and false accusations. Well, here it is”)
- Republican election audits have led to voting system breaches, experts say (“MyPillow chief gave out election software at South Dakota event derived from Republican challenges in Colorado and Michigan” Why is this in any way/shape/form acceptable or legal?)
- Sirhan Sirhan: six Kennedy children condemn decision to grant killer parole
- Pollsters confront tough survey landscape after 2020 flubs
- Trump’s lawyers used his tactics to spread disinfo. Now they’re paying for it. (It’s about f’ing time.)
- The Sanctioning of Trump’s Lawyers Is Exactly What Is Supposed to Happen
- As recall looms, California governor aims to galvanize Democrats
- The Memo: Will DeSantis’s star fall as Florida COVID numbers rise?
- A Calif. elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.
- L.A. prosecutors decline to pursue gun, domestic abuse claims against Larry Elder
- Miss. Gov.: South’s response to COVID impacted by belief in ‘eternal life’ (Saying the quiet part out loud…)
- After 3-week COVID-19 battle, Daytona Beach talk radio host Marc Bernier dies
- Anti-vaxx police officer who had been taking horse worm medicine dies from Covid
- Doctor advising DeSantis promoted ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite FDA warnings
- Two veterans team up to fight military suicides amid Afghanistan withdrawal (“Reps. Liz Cheney and Elaine Luria introduced a resolution in June and, if passed, would designate Nov. 21, 2021, for the commemoration.”)
- After Democrat Jennifer Lewis Announces VA06 Campaign, Far-Right-Extremist Rep. Ben Cline (R) Falsely Fearmongers That Lewis Is “Extreme-Left Socialist” Like AOC (Cline also throws in @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib – gee, wonder why?)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: Don’t Take Ivermectin, “Just get the [COVID] vaccine. It’s safe and effective.”
- Editorial: Reform higher Virginia’s education funding?
- Loudoun County school employees must get a coronavirus vaccine or submit to tests
- During the pandemic, the rate of Black people in Hampton Roads dying from opioid overdoses more than doubled
- Outer Banks wild horse gets stuck in wire, dies from heat stroke (“A Dominion Power worker noticed a horse on the ground, tangled in wire. Hurricane, a 10-year-old stallion, later was euthanized after suffering organ failure.” Ugh.)
- Richmond-area public schools short roughly 270 bus drivers, Chesterfield schools ended the first week about 100 drivers short
- D.C.-area forecast: Not as hot today with an isolated storm possible; hotter again tomorrow
