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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 19.
- Climate top of the agenda as knife-edge race to lead Germany enters final stage
- In Canada and Germany, the climate crisis is finally on the ballot. But can it win?
- World leaders return to U.N. with focus on pandemic, climate
- U.N. General Assembly Faces Climate Change, Covid-19 and New Tensions (“Biden is scheduled to speak in person as a nuclear submarine deal involving the U.S., U.K. and Australia angers France”)
- U.S. Nears Deal for 500 Million Pfizer Doses to Give Abroad
- Pro-Putin party heads for Russian election win after Navalny clampdown (Farce.)
- Apple and Google are showing Putin just how much he can get away with
- China Defends Tech Crackdown in Meeting With Wall Street Chiefs
- Iran Says it May Hold Nuclear Talks at UN Summit in New York
- Trudeau warns against vote split in tight Canada election
- 28 U.S. citizens depart Afghanistan on Qatar Airways flight
- Aukus: French minister condemns US and Australia ‘lies’ over security pact
- Australia had ‘deep and grave’ concerns about French submarines, PM says
- Aukus: France’s ambassador recall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, say analysts
- As France escalated its submarine dispute, it decided to go a bit lighter on Britain. Here’s why.
- Yellen faces test as climate advocates push for aggressive financial action
- House Bill Raises Chance for Global Pact to Curb Corporate Tax Havens
- Vaccine mandate backlash sparks concerns of other health crises
- Fears of US government shutdown as debt ceiling game of chicken begins (Ugh, “both sides” reporting in this one, even though it’s 100% the Republicans’ fault.)
- Senate Republicans say they will vote to allow a debt default, leaving Democrats scrambling for plan to avert economic crisis
- Joe Manchin Got the Voting Bill He Wanted. Time to Pass It.
- Fascism makes a comeback — but nothing about its methods is especially new (“The Trump movement’s assault on democracy is directly descended from both the Jim Crow era and the Nuremberg laws”)
- SpaceX: Inspiration4 amateur astronauts return to Earth after three days
- Hundreds Of Migrating Birds Die After Crashing Into NYC Buildings (This is absolutely appalling; we need to fix our buildings so that they are bird FRIENDLY. “NYC Audubon wants the owners of the World Trade Center towers and other buildings to help reduce the number of bird strikes by dimming the lights at night and by treating glass to make it more visible to birds.”))
- Proposed Tax Changes Focus on the Wealthy
- Extreme weather keeps knocking out America’s power. Here’s what we must do (Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: “Granted, additional lines, stronger poles and strategic undergrounding can’t stop every weather disaster from knocking power plants or transmission offline — but we can mitigate disruptions when they occur with distributed clean energy systems.”)
- The Memo: Never Trumpers sink into gloom as Gonzalez bows out
- Gen. Milley’s stress test
- Kinzinger says Trump ‘winning’ because so many Republicans ‘have remained silent’
- Tomi Lahren’s vanishing voter-fraud claim
- Think all politics are local? The California recall says most politics are now national.
- West Virginia Was a Covid-19 Vaccine Success Story, but Now Cases Are Surging
- Here’s why California has the lowest COVID rate in the nation
- Texas Doctor Says He Performed an Abortion in Defiance of New State Law
- Florida police search wildlife reserve for fiance of missing woman Gabby Petito
- ‘Hotlanta’ is even more sweltering in these neighborhoods due to a racist 20th century policy (“The staggering temperature difference is due in large part to historical redlining, a federal government-sanctioned effort that began in the 1930s that amplified segregation by denying loans and insurance to potential home buyers in poorer neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color.”)
- Capitol Rioters’ Pity-Party Played the Nazi Card. Of Course. (“One speaker at the ‘Justice for J6’ rally even compared the jailing of insurrectionists to the persecution of Jews.” Disgusting.)
- Sparse Right-Wing Protest of Jan. 6 Arrests Draws Huge Police Response
- Small Crowd Shows Up To The Capitol For Uneventful Rally In Support Of Insurrectionists
- It’s Undebatable That a Vote for McAuliffe is a Vote to Keep Progress Moving Forward in Virginia
- It’s Been A Bad Week For Glenn Youngkin (“Youngkin Refused to Condemn Allied Republican House Candidate After Anti-Semitic Tweet”)
- Chaz Nuttycombe Analyzes Newly Released VA Redistricting Commission Maps: “There are very few highlights about these maps. It’s like they started off mostly reasonable in Northern Virginia and went, ‘Hey, let’s make the rest of the state suck.’”
- Republicans Now Eager to Spin the Election in Virginia (“After the California recall didn’t go so well, their focus is on wealthy Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin”)
- Northern Va. officials have wanted to tax plastic bags for years. Now they’re doing it. (“Fairfax County approved a plastic bag tax on Tuesday, and both Arlington County and Alexandria followed suit on Saturday.” Good!)
- Va. judge jails woman during her testimony about alleged domestic assault (This person definitely should NOT be a judge!)
- ‘This is a major win’: Union overwhelmingly approves new contract at Mondelez bakery plants including the one in Henrico (“The strike against Mondelez International Inc.’s bakery plants, including one in eastern Henrico County, is over.”)
- Roanoke County School Board candidates take on politics, issues
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm but somewhat refreshing today; temperatures trending lower tomorrow
