by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, October 18.
- Stalled spending on electrical grids slows rollout of renewable energy, endangering climate goals
- EU climate divisions give foretaste of fight looming at COP28
- See How the World’s First Solar-Powered Car Could Reshape Our Future
- Oil Jumps as Iran Steps Up Rhetoric Against Israel (“Iran calls for oil embargo against Israel by Muslim nations; Brent crude climbs toward $93 a barrel, while WTI also gains”
- New Global Divisions on View as Biden Goes to Israel and Putin to China
- Biden Plans to Ask Congress for $100 Billion in Ukraine, Israel Aid
- What Is Israel Trying to Accomplish? (“Gazans know that if they leave, they will have to rely on the goodwill of Israel to let them back in and not use this moment to remake the region’s demography.”)
- Biden lands in Israel as chaos rises across Middle East
- ‘He’s unfit’: Israel fiercely divided over Netanyahu’s hostage response (“While many feel the state is failing to protect their loved ones, others – including some families – back a hardline response”)
- Biden’s Middle East mission was thrown into turmoil even before he left
- Israel Releases Evidence Denying Blame for Hospital Bombing
- Whatever unfolds in Gaza war, judgment day looms for Netanyahu
- Gaza hospital blast sparks angry demonstrations across Middle East
- Fears grow people are dehydrating to death in Gaza as clean water runs out (Ugh, horrible.)
- Netanyahu Must Go
- Gaza hospital blast kills hundreds, Palestinian officials say (“Palestinian officials said the Israeli military was behind the strike, while Israel denied involvement and blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”)
- Biden says Gaza hospital blast ‘appears as though it was done by the other team’ and not Israel
- More US ships head toward Israel and 2,000 troops are on heightened alert. A look at US assistance
- Biden meets Netanyahu as Gaza hospital blast overshadows Israel visit
- Biden’s Middle East Burden (“Visiting Israel, the President will express support for a traumatized nation, but he must also try to steer it from the blindness of rage.”)
- Fox News’ Jesse Watters: “I don’t like how people try to differentiate between the Palestinians and Hamas” (Wildly irresponsible, inaccurate and incendiary rhetoric, as always, from Fox “News”)
- Israeli anger at Netanyahu erupts at hospital bedsides as judgment day nears for PM
- Israel Says Failed Islamic Jihad Rocket Launch Killed Hundreds at Gaza Hospital; Hamas Blames IDF
- UN Security Council to vote Wednesday on Israel-Gaza conflict
- Biden admin doesn’t want Israel-Hamas to suck U.S. back into the Middle East (“He wants to show the U.S. supports Israel, but there’s little appetite in the White House to make the Israel-Hamas fight the top foreign policy priority.”)
- An Explosion That Killed 500 People at a Gaza Hospital Could Haunt the Region for Years
- When Hamas Attacked, This Israeli Kibbutz Fought Back and Won
- Vast Gaza tunnels present a battlefield of nightmares
- As Conditions in Gaza Deteriorate, Why Is Egypt Keeping Its Border Closed?
- Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike (Excellent – give them more!)
- Elon Musk now faces an investigation into disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war
- Russian sources disappeared after Trump declassified ex-spy’s evidence, UK court told (Treason by Trump appears in this case to have led to people’s imprisonment or death of these Russian sources.)
- Satellite Images Show Russia Increasing Nuclear Capability in Belarus
- U.S. says thwarts drone attack on its troops in Iraq
- Department of Defense Releases Declassified Images, Videos of Coercive and Risky PLA Operational Behavior
- US accuses China of pattern of ‘dangerous’ air force manoeuvres against military planes
- Putin praises Belt and Road as Xi charts way forward
- China’s Growth Beats Forecasts as Consumer Spending Improves
- India’s top court declines to legalize same-sex marriage in landmark LGBTQ ruling
- A world-first in the Scottish Highlands (“As rewilding accelerates around the world, the global movement’s first dedicated centre has opened in the Scottish Highlands.” Great stuff!)
- The Supreme Court’s very brief, very revealing new decision about guns, explained (“Why the Supreme Court just smacked down one of the judiciary’s worst GOP partisans.”)
- Anti-Jewish, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes spiked in 2022
- Normie GOP, R.I.P.
- House in disarray as resistance hardens to Jordan
- Here’s what we know about Jim Jordan and the Ohio State University wrestling scandal
- Democrat blisters Jordan in nominating Jeffries (The headline fails to note that everything Rep. Pete Aguilar said was ACCURATE.)
- Speaker Jim Jordan? That would be a colossal mistake. (“Making Jim Jordan speaker of the House is an open invitation to inaction and division.”)
- On speakership, can Republicans make an offer Democrats cannot refuse?
- With the House GOP in full meltdown, Democrats could offer a way out
- The Petty and Bitter Chaos of the House GOP’s Speaker Drama (“House Republicans are no closer to resolving their speaker drama. In fact, they may be even further away.”)
- Here are the 20 Republicans who voted against Jordan for Speaker
- The Wrestlers Trying to Stop Jim Jordan From Becoming House Speaker
- Congressman’s Wife Receives Anonymous Texts Warning Husband to Vote For Jim Jordan: ‘Will Not Hold Any Political Office Ever Again’ (Jim Jordan is a THUG.)
- Jim Jordan’s allies tried strong-arming his GOP critics. It backfired.
- Jim Jordan’s Speaker Bid Hanging by a Thread
- These California Republicans voted for Jim Jordan and against the good of the country. Remember their names (Anyone who voted for this insurrectionist and utter scumbag should be booted from office at the next possible opportunity.)
- The Symbiotic, Democracy-Eroding Relationship Between Donald Trump and Jim Jordan
- Trump Predicts Jordan Speakership Bid Will Be Successful: ‘He’s A Fantastic Young Man’ (And by “fantastic young man,” Trump really means, “Jordan helped me try to overthrow the government, U.S. democracy, the 2020 election, etc.”)
- Jim Jordan loses first House speaker vote, will try again Wednesday
- GOP’s Jim Jordan will try again to become House speaker, but his detractors are considering options
- Jordan’s speaker bid on the brink amid steep GOP opposition ahead of today’s vote
- Jim Jordan Is a Lousy Strongman
- Trump Can’t Contain His Vile Eruptions
- Trump’s statements pose ‘grave threats’ to court proceedings, Judge Chutkan says in written gag order
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Trump’s recent rhetoric reminds us who he is — and why he’s unfit for office.
- “It’s 100% Personal”: Trump Insiders Fear His Netanyahu Vendetta Could Be a Gift to Biden (“One source called Trump’s Israel rhetoric a ‘disaster,’ while others suggested he may even lose Jewish and evangelical voters to Biden, who has offered staunch support for Israel in its war against Hamas.”)
- Trump Returns to NY Fraud Trial He’s Not Required to Attend, Complains It’s a Waste of His Time
- America’s highest gun death rates are in the South
- How Social Media Abandoned the News
- EXCLUSIVE: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet (Bizarre.)
- Montana 2024 Poll: Democratic Senator Jon Tester Holds Narrow Lead Over Republican Challenger Tim Sheehy
- Failed GOP Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate Jailed on Jan. 6 Charges (The Michigan GOP, like most state Republican parties, is an insurrectionist/extremist freak show.)
- Hundreds gather at vigil for 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death (Just a horrible, horrible story.)
- A potential presidential run for Glenn Youngkin would face logistical hurdles and voter skepticism
- DLCC on Youngkin’s Two-Day, Closed-Door Donor Retreat with “Out-Of-State Billionaires [Who] Will Stop at Nothing to Buy an Abortion Ban in Virginia”
- New Ad: With Just 3 Weeks Until Election Day, Majority Project Lays Out MAGA Republican Plans to Take Away Virginians’ Rights and Freedoms
- New VA Poll: Dems Lead “Generic” Ballot 42%-41%; Only 24% of Virginians Want More Restrictive Abortion Laws (Voters oppose book bans, support staying in RGGI, trust teachers, etc.)
- Poll: Likely Virginia voters side with Democrats on abortion, Republicans on transgender student issues (Classic “both sides” framing. In fact, if you look at the poll, Virginia voters side with Democrats on just about every issue, other than transgender kids playing on sports teams…)
- Va. Democrats edge Republicans in fundraising, but Youngkin surges
- Analysis | Glenn Youngkin and the gap between fentanyl politics and reality (“Analysis from NPR published in August estimated that nearly 90 percent of what’s seized is seized at checkpoints…Fentanyl pills are small and easy to conceal. It is far easier and faster to pay someone — often a U.S. citizen — to hide the drugs in their car and then drive through a checkpoint than to smuggle a more limited quantity on foot.”)
- Virginia NAACP Notifies Governor Youngkin of Intent to File Suit to Obtain Records on Secretive Voting Rights Restoration Process (“The Governor cannot be allowed to simply refuse to comply with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act”)
- Op-ed: Virginia General Assembly must build on the cost savings of the IRA
- Halfway through unwinding, 15% of Virginia Medicaid enrollees have lost coverage
- Virginia Senate candidate Russet Perry’s closing pitch
- MVP pipeline protestors arrested in Montgomery County & Giles County
- Unexpected entry of Fariss creates 3-way contest in 51st District race (“Incumbent Del. Matt Fariss is running as an independent against Republican Eric Zehr and Democrat Kimberly Moran in the heavily GOP district.”)
- Virginia state Senate candidate opposes gun laws, thinks profanity should be a crime (“Republican Danny Diggs, a former sheriff, said in 2019 that gun safety laws were unconstitutional and unenforceable.”)
- Va. man imprisoned for 9 years over beer and sandwich theft can pursue malpractice suit, court says
- Loudoun farm pilots invisible fencing in Virginia push for rotational grazing
- Newport News mother sentenced for stabbing children dies by suicide at Hampton Roads Regional Jail
- Norfolk Tides are being sold to Diamond Baseball Holdings, but team ‘will stay in Norfolk.’
- Review finds some large-scale events turn a profit for Virginia Beach while others don’t
- D.C.-area forecast: Slightly warmer today, near or above 70 degrees tomorrow
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