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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 10.
- Climate Change Is Already Shocking Our Food Chain
- An energy crisis is gripping the world, with potentially grave consequences
- Pope Francis Tells Lawmakers To Get Their Act Together On Climate Change
- Pope Francis meets Pelosi in private audience at the Vatican
- Pope Francis and Nancy Pelosi meet to discuss climate action
- Moderna, Racing for Profits, Keeps Covid Vaccine Out of Reach of Poor
- Britain and Ireland argue on Twitter over Brexit deal
- Central Bankers Are Spooked by Signs That Inflation Is Lingering for Longer
- Czech elections: PM Andrej Babis looks set to lose power
- Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations
- China-Taiwan tensions: We will not bow to Beijing pressure, says leader
- There’s $44 Billion in Clean Energy Funds Up For Grabs
- Taliban say they won’t work with US to contain Islamic State
- Iraqis vote in first parliamentary election since 2019 mass protests
- Iraqi Election Could Shape Future for U.S. Troops in the Country
- Why the Nobel Peace Prize award is a huge blow to Facebook
- Biden administration delivers brusque message to Pakistan (“With relations frosty over Taliban victory and Pakistani repression, deputy secretary of state visits for ‘specific and narrow purpose’”)
- Abdul Qadeer Khan: ‘Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb’ dies (“AQ Khan is considered a national hero but was also called ‘the greatest nuclear proliferator of all time'”.)
- Iran says more than 120kg of uranium enriched to 20%(“Announcement comes amid signs Tehran may be open to resuming stalled talks on 2015 nuclear deal”)
- Abductions by the busload: Haitians are being held hostage by a surge in kidnappings
- Weak jobs report shows how Fed misdiagnosed delta variant’s toll on economy
- Biden faces shrinking timetable to salvage his agenda
- California’s Oil Leak Is Part of a Larger Disaster in the Making
- Tracking the spread of Covid-19 (“The big picture for coronavirus in the US is looking a little brighter. See how your state and county are doing on our map.”)
- How many people of color did the 2020 census miss? COVID makes it harder to tell
- A Year After ‘Defund’, Police Departments Get Their Money Back (“The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures.”)
- Texas’s anti-abortion law was halted. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t.
- Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter
- Most Senate Republicans don’t want to see Trump run again
- Former Trump aide Dan Scavino served January 6 committee subpoena after struggle to locate him
- EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Documents Show January 6th Rally VIPs
- Trump holds Iowa rally as poll in early voting state shows strong support (Totally deranged, as usual.)
- The latest revelations mark the beginning of the end for the House of Zuckerberg (Let’s hope!)
- Frances Haugen takes on Facebook: the making of a modern US hero
- Congress may finally be ready to regulate tech companies. Here’s what not to do.
- Jim Acosta Condemns Chuck Grassley, Kim Reynolds for Attending Trump Iowa Rally: ‘Twisted’
- Trump says Grassley has his ‘complete and total endorsement’ (Grassley is a disgrace.)
- Unvaxxed Allen West Has COVID, Pneumonia, and Low Oxygen
- Gen. Raymond T. Odierno Dies at 67; Oversaw Iraq Surge
- Abigail Spanberger column: The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for Virginia: Why it needs a vote now
- Three Front-Page WaPo Stories on the VA Governor’s Race…and They All SUCK (Hell, They Even Describe Youngkin as a “6 foot 5 Mystery Date” – WTF???) (I’m not linking to this crap in the news clips, btw. If you really want to read these godawful articles – and there’s no reason to do so – then…nah, just don’t read them.)
- Anti-LGBTQ group endorses Glenn Youngkin
- Candidates, supporters work to turn out Virginia voters
- DLCC: Republicans Will Gut Virginia’s Economy, Funding for Public Education and Public Safety (“GOP candidates want to eliminate state income tax equivalent to 72% of state revenue; VA Democrats’ leadership has led Virginia to earn the rank of best state in nation for business”)
- Opinion: Student debt should be prominent in governor’s race
- Youth voter turnout in Virginia soared with Trump in office. Will it stay that way?
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Here’s how I know COVID is getting better. I did not have COVID listed as an agenda item when we met earlier this week.” (“Science matters. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. We’re not quite there.”)
- Gubernatorial candidates comment, or choose not to, on Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Editorial: Economic diversity is key (“Ensuring a stable economy isn’t about replacing the three pillars of the Hampton Roads economy, but diversifying so they don’t have to shoulder so much of the load.”)
- Profanity, screaming, threats: Hampton Roads school boards become battleground (“The vitriol reached a fever pitch this summer across the country and in Hampton Roads, where police have investigated threats to shoot Virginia Beach School Board members and several meetings have been gaveled into recess after speakers either screamed profanities or made profane gestures.” Disgusting and unacceptable.)
- Three candidates vie for vacated 88th District House seat in Fredericksburg area
- Opposites face off in attention-grabbing 9th District House of Delegates race (“Democrat Bridgette Craighead and Republican Wren Williams are vying to succeed Charles Poindexter.” Williams is one of the VA GOP’s numerous extremists/insurrectionists.)
- One building, two schools: The legacy of segregation at Maggie Walker
- Community rallies to support Virginia Beach family taunted by ‘racist stuff’ blaring next door since 2017
- D.C.-area forecast: Mild and murky at times through midweek
