by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 3.
- New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Polar Bear Decline (“Scientists say their findings could help close a legal loophole that enables the federal government to avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions impacts on threatened and endangered species.”)
- Why biodiversity conservation is a critical climate solution
- How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life
- As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared (“The vast expanse of the 54-nation African continent is relatively unserved and unwarned.”)
- Africa’s vast underground water resources are under pressure from climate change – how to manage them
- The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster (“The destruction of the Kakhovka dam unleashed untold damage. Months later, many communities are still reeling.”)
- Inside Putin’s push to rewrite Russian history in favor of his war in Ukraine
- Nobel Foundation cancels Russia, Belarus, Iran invites to annual prize awards
- The U.S. and Europe Are Splitting Over Ukraine (“The GOP’s populist wing would abandon Kyiv—and endanger the world’s most successful military alliance.” Extremely dangerous.)
- Threats, insults, and Kremlin ‘robots’: How Russian diplomacy died under Putin
- Russia attacks a Ukrainian port before key grain deal talks between Putin and Turkey’s president
- China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere. Help Us Catch Them.
- How Xi Returned China to One-Man Rule (“For decades, China built guardrails to prevent another Mao. Here’s how Xi Jinping has dismantled them and created his own machinery of power.” HUGE mistake.)
- Eighty years on, Italian victims of Nazi crimes finally to get compensation
- Atomic age is over in Germany, Chancellor Scholz insists (Stupid.)
- Niger Demands French Troops, Envoy Depart as Deadlines Pass
- Rival Eritrean groups clash in Israel, leaving dozens hurt in worst confrontation in recent memory
- Netanyahu rues his foreign minister’s disclosure of meeting with Libyan counterpart (“The Israeli prime minister appeared to shift blame to his top diplomat for the disclosure of the secret meeting with the Libyan foreign minister that caused a backlash in Tripoli.”)
- The summer food went weird: searing heat reshapes US food production
- At last, a Labor Day when workers can celebrate their power
- Banish the myth of ‘lazy girl jobs.’ Americans want to work. (“On this Labor Day weekend, there is much to celebrate.”)
- FACT SHEET: Ahead of Labor Day, Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Empower Workers— Building on the President’s Historic Support for Workers and Unions (“New actions announced this week empower workers to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up—a core pillar of Bidenomics”)
- Do Higher Deficits Cause Inflation? Not This Year
- Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks
- Five under-the-radar races to watch this year
- Abortion battle to play out on multiple fronts in November
- 5 political narratives that will dominate the fall
- Biden’s big gamble: Staying quiet on Trump (“Biden rarely utters Trump’s name and declines to punch back when given the opportunity. It has some Democrats worried.”)
- Biden: ‘Nobody intelligent’ can deny the impact of climate crisis (Actually, you can be intelligent and still deny the climate crisis, but then you’d have to be evil and/or a fossil fuel industry tool, etc.)
- Biden tours Florida hurricane damage: ‘nobody can deny impacts of climate crisis’
- Republican race remains stuck as Trump dominates heading into fall
- Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline
- Why Biden Just Can’t Shake Trump in the Polls (“The core four dynamics shaping 2024”)
- Kinzinger slams DeSantis for not meeting with Biden in Florida: ‘Absolutely outrageous
- Biden praises Rick Scott after DeSantis snub: ‘I want to thank the senator’
- Storm Idalia: Biden pledges support to help Florida recover
- Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back.’ DeSantis rejects meeting with him
- Neo-Nazis March Through Florida Park (DeSantis’ Florida.)
- Florida Judge Throws Out DeSantis-Backed Congressional Map, Rules In Favor of Civil Rights Groups
- Some in the Gulf Coast are hitting a ‘tipping point’ (“Many insurance companies are pulling out of some Gulf states, leaving homeowners and businesses with more risk and fewer options”)
- Opinion: The Sunbelt was the retirement destination of choice. That was before climate change
- Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (“When Minnesota farmers cranked up their powerful wells, they blew through state limits. Thirsty crops included corn, soybeans and fry-friendly potatoes.”)
- Greene responds to criticism over impeachment comments: ‘The White House is attacking me’
- Bill Richardson, a former governor and UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies
- Statement from President Joe Biden on the Passing of Jimmy Buffett
- Officials Investigating Death At Burning Man As Foul Weather Brings Chaos To Festival (“Organizers told the ‘Burners’ to ‘conserve food, water, and fuel, and shelter in a warm, safe space.'”)
- Biden has DNC plow $1.2M into Virginia amid Youngkin fundraising blitz
- With Just 20 Days Until Early Voting Starts in the CRUCIAL 2023 Virginia Elections, DNC to Pour in $1.2 Million. Of Course, We Still Need a LOT More to Counter Youngkin’s Dirty $$$. (Here are some Democratic HoD and VA Senate candidates to help – now!)
- The Most Important Elections of 2023 Will Test Purple-State Voters—and Glenn Youngkin’s Clout
- Budget details released; includes money for flood relief, inland port, Catawba Hospital and Central Virginia Training Center
- Advocates say Virginia’s $10 million mass violence care fund would give ‘a glimmer of hope’
- Williams: A Richmond author’s cancellation in Florida is a reality check on censorship
- Armed men protested outside an empty Gloucester school building. Charges could still be coming. (“Gloucester Sheriff Darrell Warren is standing by his decision to have his deputies stand down when a group of camouflaged men with rifles protested on school division property two weeks ago.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Serious September heat wave starts today, then sizzles through midweek
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