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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, Labor Day, September 5.
- Rich nations owe reparations to countries facing climate disaster, says Pakistan minister
- EU gas price rockets higher after Russia halts Nord Stream flows
- Ukrainian officials upbeat on progress of Kherson counteroffensive
- Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last independent media, banned by court
- Ukraine says 4 civilians killed, 7 wounded by Russian shells
- Exclusive: Zelenskyy tells David Muir ‘Russians using Zaporizhzhia as nuclear weapon’
- U.S. ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on
- France Enters Era of Energy ‘Sobriety’
- China Threatens Reaction After U.S. Announces Arms Sales to Taiwan
- Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate
- Israel Makes Final Push to Shape Restored Iran Nuclear Deal
- Islamic State Turns to NFTs to Spread Terror Message
- Saudi Arabia Is Betting $1 Trillion It Can Become the Next Tourist Hotspot
- Canadian police search province for deadly stabbing suspects
- Canada stabbings: some victims targeted while others were attacked at random, say police – video
- Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law (Disgusting.)
- Britain’s Truss expected to be named Conservative leader, new PM
- Britain to learn who will succeed Johnson as prime minister
- The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President (“Bukele has ridden Bitcoin schemes and a repressive crackdown on gangs to become Latin America’s most popular leader.”)
- Opinion/Column: This Labor Day, celebrate U.S. turnaround (“Our nation’s working people have come all the way back from the depths of a global pandemic, regaining every job lost and more. This milestone seemed impossible to reach on Labor Day two years ago.”)
- Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation.
- Building a zero emissions grid in US in just 13 years would save $US1.2 trillion
- How Biden could help U.S. reach climate goals on his own (“A new report published Monday outlines a slew of executive actions the Biden administration could take to combat climate change.”)
- Lofgren says Trump’s FBI criticism ‘potentially’ incitement
- The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis. We should act like it.
- Trump rally highlighting January 6 case of alleged Nazi sympathizer sparks criticism (“Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, on Sunday called out former President Donald Trump for featuring a speaker during his Saturday rally who highlighted the plight of a January 6 rioter and alleged Nazi sympathizer who was convicted on all five charges he faced in May.”)
- Biden visiting 2 swing states as midterm crunch time begins
- Abortion and Trump Are Giving Democrats a Shot
- Biden Shouldn’t Apologize to Republicans (There’s absolutely nothing to apologize for – far from it!)
- Biden’s Climate-Bill Win Offers Fresh Chance to Woo Midterm Voters
- In sprint to November, Democrats seize on shifting landscape over abortion (“No issue has upended the battle for Congress and statehouses as abruptly”)
- Trump Investigations Face a Dilemma Before the Midterm Elections
- Trump Returns to Rally Team MAGA
- Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It. (“At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke.”)
- Former GOP rep: Trump gave Democrats ‘major gift’ with speech in Pennsylvania
- In Pa. visit, Trump attacks Biden for ‘vicious, hateful and divisive’ address
- America is in the middle of a labor mobilization moment
- Juan Williams: Black votes matter in fight for Senate
- Democracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’ (To the contrary, this is a HUGE story, arguably THE story of our day – other than the climate crisis – so if you’re NOT reporting on it, you really shouldn’t be a journalist at all.)
- Raskin wants Gingrich, Ginni Thomas and Pence to testify to Jan. 6 committee
- Republicans Seek Path for Constitutional Convention (Very dangerous.)
- Report: Rick Scott Blew It (“The National Republican Senatorial Committee had an astounding run of fundraising. But the money is nearly all gone now and with few returns.”)
- Trump says Fox News pushing ‘Democrat agenda,’ offers to help CNN go ‘Conservative’ (Bizarre.)
- Kash Patel, Trump’s disinformation wizard, publishes worst children’s book of all time
- White, then Black residents abandoned Jackson, propelling its water crisis (“The Mississippi capital entered a spiral of decline when two different out-migrations caused its tax base to plummet, eroding its ability to afford repairs or apply for federal money as its infrastructure crumbled.”)
- Living in a city with no water: ‘This is unbearable’
- Florida let them vote. Then DeSantis’s election police arrested them. (Fascism.)
- J.D. Vance largely avoids pivot to center in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race after culture-war heavy Republican primary
- Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
- Conservative Texas phone company fueling extremist takeover of schools (“Patriot Mobile, a ‘Christian conservative wireless provider’, is targeting school board elections to push its far-right agenda”)
- In Brutally Accurate Editorial, Daily Progress Rips Far-Right VA07 GOP(Q) Nominee Yesli Vega as “Dogma”-Based Candidate Who “wants to be like Bob Good. Or Marjorie Taylor Greene. Or Lauren Boebert.”
- Va’s Glenn Youngkin to help Maine’s Paul LePage despite racial rhetoric (Any be “racial” they actually mean “racist,” but for whatever reason, the WaPo won’t just say that.)
- Virginia Democrat says Youngkin’s push to ’empower parents’ is ‘harmful’ to trans students
- Column: Youngkin needs to keep attention on Virginia (By VA House Dem Leader Don Scott)
- Unions are gaining steam in Virginia, a state that has typically been unfriendly to them
- Violent night in Norfolk — including a shooting that killed 2 and injured 5 — overwhelms hospital, emergency response teams
- Contractor sues Arlington County over park renovation pay dispute
- D.C.-area forecast: Rain chances rise into tonight, but we dry out for week’s second half
