by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 3.
- Pakistan’s floods. China’s summer. Our heat wave. What more do climate deniers need?
- How Pakistan floods are linked to climate change
- It’s the end of the car as we know it (“The electric vehicle transition is really a U-turn.”)
- ‘We Do Not Want Unknown Graves’: The Struggle to Identify Bucha’s Victims
- EU economics chief says bloc is not afraid of Putin, ready to react over halted Russian gas supplies
- Europe’s Energy Crisis Deepens After Russia Keeps Pipeline Shut
- Ukraine war: G7 agrees to impose price cap on Russian oil
- Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed
- Thousands line up to say farewell to Gorbachev; Putin absent
- IAEA visit to Ukraine nuclear plant highlights risks
- Ukraine Latest: Putin, Erdogan Discuss UN’s Nuclear Plant Visit
- How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq’s slide back into war
- Argentina shaken by assassination attempt on vice president
- Gina McCarthy, Biden’s top domestic climate aide, is stepping down
- Biden seeks $47B for Ukraine, COVID-19, monkeypox, disasters
- John Podesta to Oversee $370 Billion in U.S. Climate Spending
- President Biden Announces Senior Clean Energy and Climate Team
- As We Head Into Labor Day, Jobs Report “Not Too Hot,” “Not Too Cold,” puts an end to any talk the U.S. economy is in recession”(Also, gas prices continue to fall, inflation appears to be easing.)
- Women workers hit post-COVID jobs milestone
- A Healthy Jobs Report Leaves Republicans Scrambling and Biden Smiling (“After creating 1.1 million jobs since May, the economy has now recovered all the jobs lost to the pandemic.”)
- NASA’s new Moon rocket set for launch Saturday after delay
- The more we learn, the worse Trump looks. The latest is no exception. (“Every time new information comes to light, Trump’s actions appear less and less defensible.”)
- Abortion Pill Providers Experiment With Ways to Broaden Access
- The Most Alarming Case On The Supreme Court’s Docket You Haven’t Heard Of
- How election deniers could sway the 2024 election (“GOP candidates in states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Arizona are laying the groundwork to challenge an unfavorable result.” They all need to be defeated.)
- Dear Insurrectionists and Fascists: I’m sorry I offended you
- Joe Biden Sends Republicans Into Outrage Mode By Telling The Truth About Their Drift from Democracy
- MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target
- To sound the alarm on democracy, Biden chose the perfect stage (“Biden’s words and stagecraft were absolutely appropriate to the perilous moment in which the United States finds itself.”)
- Biden earns plaudits from progressives after anti-Trump speech
- Biden Gambles That ‘We the People’ Still Exist (“Countering Trump’s anti-democratic movement isn’t a normal political challenge.”)
- Transcript, Video: President Biden’s Historic, Important, Necessary Speech Warns “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic” (“We can’t afford to…leave anyone on the sidelines. We need everyone to do their part. So speak up. Speak out. Get engaged. Vote, vote, vote.”)
- As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns (Appalling.)
- Biden speech denouncing Trump, ‘MAGA ideology’ sparks threats, calls for violence
- White House defends presence of Marines at Biden speech
- Figuring out how many ‘MAGA Republicans’ there actually are
- Was Biden right? Or was Biden wrong? The national media won’t say (The media overall keeps failing us.)
- Empty Folders at Mar-a-Lago Marked ‘Classified’? I’m Sure It’s Fine
- What we know about Trump and the empty folders the FBI found
- Deep inside busy Mar-a-Lago, a storage room where secrets were stashed
- Scrutiny builds over FBI’s discovery of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago
- F.B.I. Found 48 Empty Folders That Had Contained Classified Documents at Trump’s Home
- Prosecutors detail items seized from Trump estate, including dozens of empty ‘classified’ folders
- Trump’s Mar-a-Lago records were ethically indefensible
- After Mar-a-Lago search, Meadows turns over more texts and emails to Archives
- Revelatory moments from the historic Mar-a-Lago special master hearing
- Barr suggests Trump ‘deceived’ the government over classified records
- Bill Barr Calls B.S. On Trump’s ‘Red Herring’ Classified Document Excuses
- William Barr, on Fox, says there’s no legitimate reason for classified docs to be at Mar-a-Lago and doubts Trump declassified
- Barr says no ‘legitimate reason’ for Trump to have classified documents
- ‘Is there a purge?’: John Harwood’s CNN exit viewed as strategy shift
- A Major Republican Donor Is Playing a Practical Joke on Mitch McConnell
- Anti-trans stalkers at Kiwi Farms are chasing one victim around the world. Their list of targets is growing.
- Black Lives Matter leader accused of stealing $10 million from organization
- As a climate-fueled heat wave stresses California’s electric grid, right-wing media are disingenuously attacking electric vehicles
- Serena Williams’s five biggest moments of cultural impact
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81 (R.I.P.)
- Rape victims can take Plan B instead of having abortions, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says
- How Newt Gingrich tried to “arouse the country’s anger” with election fraud conspiracy theories on Fox
- Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals
- Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for ‘pitchforks and torches’ (Nuts.)
- Video: In VA05 Dem Nominee Josh Throneburg’s First Video Ad, He Promises to Fight “for a better future for all our families” (Currently, VA05 is (mis)represented by Bob Good, who by almost any standard is one of the most extreme, racist, homophobic, insurrectionist, horrible people in the entire Congress. It’s time for a change!)
- Schapiro: Congressional hopefuls toil at Labor Day launch
- Virginia Governor Youngkin Blasts Biden’s Speech as ‘Divisive’ (Of course he did.)
- Youngkin’s revamped Executive Mansion tour doesn’t mention slavery
- Report: Parts of the state’s labor force face disproportionate wages
- Friday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 25,524; Hospitalizations at 773 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- As MVP construction extended, concerns about pipe’s integrity grow
- Tangier Island, facing oblivion, waits to see: Will Congress help?
- What would it take to permanently close Carytown to cars?
- D.C.-area forecast: Humidity combines with late-summer heat for Labor Day weekend
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