by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 17.
- Climate change is the catastrophe to end all other catastrophes
- IEA says massive grid expansion needed to avoid gridlock in switch to green energy
- We are trashing our oceans. Here’s how river cleanups could help.
- Biden Plans High-Stakes Israel Visit to Keep War From Escalating (“President to meet Netanyahu ahead of planned ground offensive; Rare trip near warzone comes amid political friction at home”)
- Biden trip to include meetings with Egyptian and Palestinian leaders
- As Biden heads to Israel and Jordan, aid is held up for a Gaza on the verge of total collapse
- Israel-Hamas war live updates: Biden to visit Israel; Gaza aid deal hopes rise
- How Hamas’s carefully planned attack devolved into a chaotic rampage
- Hamas is emulating ISIS’s horrors. But ISIS lost.
- President Joe Biden will visit Israel in high-stakes trip
- Behind Israel’s high-risk push to eliminate Hamas
- Israel’s catastrophe, Republicans’ paralysis and democracy’s obligations
- Blinken urges Bibi to allow aid into Gaza to maintain wider support for invasion
- U.S. Picks Troops to Prepare for Potential Deployment to Middle East
- Analyst: Israel’s costly misunderstanding of Hamas’ true aims
- Opinion: Many Palestinians in Gaza hate Hamas. My father certainly did
- Desperately needed aid piles up outside Gaza as WHO warns water is running out
- Camps Are So Bad Gaza Refugees Head Home to Face Airstrikes
- Leaders to meet as EU struggles to put on united front over Israel-Hamas war
- Why a Gaza Invasion and ‘Once and for All’ Thinking Are Wrong for Israel
- Hamas says 250 people held hostage in Gaza
- Waiting For News, Families Of Israeli Hostages In Gaza Tell Stories Of Their Loved Ones (“The families of Israeli hostages are waiting, desperate to find out whether their loved ones are even alive.”)
- Top Iranian envoy warns ‘preemptive action’ against Israel expected soon
- Netanyahu Chose Limited Strikes Until Now. This Is His First All-Out War. (“In his 15 years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has been seen as risk-averse, avoiding open-ended military engagements and peace initiatives.”)
- Poland Shows That Autocracy Is Not Inevitable
- Polish election marks huge win for Donald Tusk as ruling conservatives lose to centrist coalition (“Three opposition groups won a collective of 53.7%, enough for a comfortable majority in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, or Sejm; The Civic Coalition garnered 30.7% of the vote while the centrist Third Way got 14.4% and the New Left about 8.6%.”)
- Germany’s tremors are a warning sign for Europe — and for Ukraine
- Russia Goes on the Offensive in Ukraine—and Suffers Heavy Losses
- Putin visits ‘dear friend’ Xi in show of no-limits partnership (Disgusting.)
- Will Xi Jinping’s Gamble on Vladimir Putin Pay Off?
- Belt and Road Initiative: Is China’s trillion-dollar gamble worth it?
- U.S. to ease sanctions on Venezuelan oil for freer presidential election
- The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana
- Brussels shooting suspect is killed after nightlong police manhunt
- The next front in the climate fight: U.S. exports of natural gas
- Yellen says US is not ready to sign global tax treaty just yet
- American Work-From-Home Rates Drop to Lowest Since the Pandemic (“Fewer than 26% of households now have someone working remotely”)
- 21 species removed from endangered list due to extinction, U.S. wildlife officials say (Ugh.)
- Justice Amy Coney Barrett says ethics rules for the Supreme Court would be a ‘good idea’ (Ya think?)
- Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue fully enforcing ghost gun regulations
- Supreme Court silence on allowing Texas execution is an institutional failure
- Supreme Court tells Fifth Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case
- With the House GOP in full meltdown, Democrats could offer a way out
- The GOP Is Burning Down the House (“It’s been reality-TV central lately in the halls of Congress—wacky stunts, wild rants, and a mystery baby. But like the prospect of Speaker Jim Jordan, the party’s antics are hardly entertaining.”)
- Jim Jordan’s Prospects for the Speakership Are Suddenly Looking Terrifyingly Bright
- The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold
- Morning Report — Does Jordan have the votes?
- Holdouts could blunt Jordan’s momentum as House braces for Speaker floor vote
- House Republicans are making a gamble with a possible Jim Jordan speakership
- Can Jim Jordan become the next Republican House Speaker?
- Vulnerable Republicans face a moment of reckoning with Jim Jordan speaker vote
- Jim Jordan’s remarkably thin legislative track record
- Jim Jordan Could Bully His Way to Being Speaker of the House
- Scoop: GOP lawmakers say Jordan gave assurances on Israel-Ukraine aid
- ‘Everything Is Just Stuck.’ No Matter What Happens to Jim Jordan, the Next Speaker Is In For a World of Trouble.
- Jordan builds Speakership momentum as opposition falls
- Jim Jordan to force floor vote for House speaker on Tuesday after consolidating Republican support
- Jim Jordan skeptics begin lining up behind his House speaker bid
- Insurrectionist/Extremist/Slimeball Jim Jordan Moves Closer to Speakership. As Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Says, “Sadly, Jordan’s values are the GOP’s values” (Meanwhile, supposedly “moderate” (hahaha) Rs are caving, one after the other; will Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) cave next?)
- Dems warm to empowering McHenry as GOP chaos persists
- Do GOP ‘Moderates’ Have the Stomach to Block Jim Jordan? (“Moderates” in air quotes, as there are exactly ZERO moderate House Republicans.)
- New ad targets Jordan, Republican supporters over 2020 election, Jan. 6
- Trump Hit With Another Gag Order (“Judge Tanya S. Chutkan bars the former president from attacking witnesses and prosecutors.”)
- Lawyers, Trump and money: Ex-president spends millions in donor cash on attorneys as legal woes grow
- Judge Chutkan’s Impossible Choice (“Which itself is only going to lead to more impossible choices.”)
- Donald Trump Cannot Terrorize Prosecutors, Witnesses in Federal Election Case: Judge
- Trump, under fire for Israel comments, proposes fresh crackdown on Muslim immigrant
- Judge imposes gag order on Donald Trump in D.C. trial
- Biden Joins Trump’s Truth Social Site ‘Because We Thought It Would Be Very Funny’
- I Helped Obama Get Re-Elected. Here’s How Biden Can Win Again, Too.
- George Santos’ campaign loses $16,500 in three months
- Suspect in death of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy was obsessed with Israel-Hamas war, prosecutors say (Horrifying and disgusting.)
- Virginia’s most volatile congressional district (“Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia Beach, worries that the turmoil over the speakership could endanger her reelection. Here’s why the 2nd District is so unpredictable.”)
- The race for speaker hits local Virginia elections (“Democrats are starting to spend money in local Virginia races tying the speaker’s race to dysfunction.”)
- Hampton Roads Congressional Representatives discuss House Speaker race at Congressional Forum
- Youngkin: Attacks on Israel a crime against humanity (“Nine days after the Hamas attack Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks at a Richmond synagogue and calls for unwavering support for Israel.”)
- Va. Gov. Glenn Youngkin taps Trump alum Pompeo for megadonor retreat (Uh oh, another article by Laura Vozzella, who spent 2021 whitewashing Glenn Youngkin…)
- With Just Three Weeks Until Election Day (11/7), Virginia Campaign Finance Numbers for 9/1-9/30 Are Coming In Now…
- Video, Highlights: “‘Three Weeks To Go’ Virtual Press Call With Key VA Senate Democratic Campaign Leaders and Candidates (“Republicans in this state are out of step, and the voters are telling us that every single door we knock.”)
- DLCC Announces Additional Six-Figure Investment Into Virginia House Tying Legislative Elections to National Republicans’ Inability to Govern (“If Republicans can’t even come together to choose a Speaker of the House, how do we expect them to lead the commonwealth?”)
- Va. education workgroup recommends revisions to state educational testing
- Virginia Democrats push back against book bans as Republicans duck blame (“A GOP state senator says her bill requiring schools to notify parents about ‘sexually explicit’ content in library books was not intended to lead to book bans.” Uhhhh…sure.)
- What’s at stake for Virginians’ wallets in November
- State report finds child care is unaffordable for most Va. families with young kids
- New voter registration lags compared to last General Assembly election
- What could happen if the Virginia Senate flips? (A LOT of really bad shit.)
- JLARC: Virginia child care subsidies, public support programs not working well (“Virginia’s history as a low tax, low service state is bound to create conflict, especially with a budget-sensitive Republican governor and, potentially, the legislature.”)
- VA State Sen. Monty Mason’s Anti-Choice/Pro-Gun Republican Opponent, Danny Diggs, as Sheriff Fired His Political Opponents and Was Lenient on His Friends
- Protestors arrested at Mountain Valley Pipeline site after locking themselves to construction equipment
- Residents invited to share feedback as Hampton Roads Transit explores ‘high-capacity’ options in Chesapeake
- As Southside solar farm development continues, some localities eye limits
- School board meeting altercation leads to defamation suit in Roanoke County
- D.C.-area forecast: Increasing sunshine and temperatures the next few days
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