by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, September 12.
- Reasons for (cautious) optimism: the good news on the climate crisis
- ‘Timber Cities’ Might Help Decarbonize the World (“New research suggests that using wood for construction could avoid 100 gigatons of CO2 emissions through 2100, but building skylines of timber requires careful forest planning.”)
- A Global Food Crisis Is Not Imminent—Yet
- US fears Russian energy manipulation could fracture European resolve on Ukraine
- White House alarm rises over Europe as Putin threatens energy supply
- Ukraine’s Offensive Claims More Ground in Northeast (“Russia Appears Stunned by Success of Rapid Assault”)
- Putin’s Kharkiv disaster enrages Kremlin allies (“In the last week, Ukraine has recaptured more territory than Russian forces have captured in all their operations in the country since April”)
- Ukraine keeps initiative, claims it reached Russian border
- The four reasons Ukraine is winning
- It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory
- Amid Ukraine’s startling gains, liberated villages describe Russian troops dropping rifles and fleeing
- Russia’s Retreat in Ukraine Pokes Holes in Putin’s Projection of Force
- Ukraine offensive ‘snowballs’ with fall of Russian stronghold
- Russians ‘outnumbered 8-1’ in Ukrainian offensive (“Ukraine’s army makes significant territorial gains, while Russia hits back with missiles.”)
- Russia Strikes Power Plants as Ukrainian Forces Extend Gains
- Ukraine inflicts ‘major operational defeat’ on Russia as its forces retreat
- Russia Hits Power Stations After Ukraine Counteroffensive (“Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing widespread outages across Ukraine.”)
- Zelensky says it’s ‘not even possible’ that Trump did not recognize Putin threat
- Moscow’s military setbacks may be weakening President Vladimir Putin’s reputation at home. (It’s about time.)
- Exclusive: Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports
- Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
- King Charles III Addresses Parliament for the First Time as Monarch
- Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years
- Biden Touts al-Zawahiri Strike in 9/11 Speech, Renews Vow to Follow Enemies to ‘Gates of Hell’
- Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty
- What Chief Justice Roberts misses (Pretty much everything.)
- Opinion: Here’s who John Roberts should blame for the Supreme Court losing ‘legitimacy’ (“The hard truth, however, is that Roberts must pin the blame for the loss of confidence in the Supreme Court on himself and his five fellow conservative justices.”)
- Several Trump associates subpoenaed in Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe
- 16 weeks left for a heap of questions: Jan. 6 panel weighs its endgame
- Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump should be treated as any other citizen in DOJ investigation
- ‘I’m just not going to leave’: New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House
- Donald Trump, Still in Golf Shoes, Flies Unannounced Back Into D.C. But Why?
- Ranking the Top 10 Midterm States for Dems to Target
- Kamala Harris says ‘everything on the line’ in midterm elections (“Vice-president warns that the elections will determine whether ‘age-old sanctity’ of right to vote would be protected”)
- Scholar who saw all this coming: Americans “do not really understand liberal democracy”
- Trump backers flood election offices with requests as 2022 vote nears (“The requests for records related to the 2020 election have complicated preparations for November, which some officials say may be the point.”)
- Two Americas Index: Democracy deniers
- Why politicians should not be stock traders
- Democrats find hope in Florida
- ‘Don’t piss women off’: Democrat John Fetterman makes abortion rights push in Philadelphia suburbs
- Ron Johnson is proving to be a great campaigner — for Democrats
- Rudy Giuliani: 9/11 Was “In Some Ways” the “Greatest Day of My Life”
- New York City’s Hasidic Schools Demonstrate the Folly of State-Funded Religious Education
- Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 93, Dies; Created Database of Enslaved People
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner – On 21st Anniversary of 9/11, Attack on Our Democracy “not coming from terrorists, but…literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on 1/6” (Sen. Warner adds that the Intelligence Committee needs damage assessment from Trump’s mishandling of classified information.)
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says His Gut Tells Him Trump Took Classified Info “to either sell it or have it as a a get-out-of-jail-free card” (Kaine: “refusing to impose accountability [on Trump] will be much more destructive to US democracy than insisting that nobody’s above the law”)
- Despite law, few Virginia school districts adopt state model transgender policies
- Study projects major local tax losses due to sea level rise
- Rising seas will likely mean rising taxes
- Limpert: Mountain Valley Pipeline reassurances downplay catastrophic safety risk
- Editorial: Government moves favoring MVP make Appalachian property owners feel like political sacrifices
- Virginia resident creates financial literacy programs for HBCU students
- Virginia Metro stations closed south of airport
- Richmond to host 16.19, a new Black history running event
- World’s largest indoor vertical farming company has opened in Pittsylvania (“AeroFarms is part of a larger movement toward controlled environment agriculture.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Storms threaten later today, gorgeous weather follows
