by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 27.
- World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters (“A23a split from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, but it became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in the Weddell Sea”)
- How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it (Right, but specifically FOSSIL energy is the problem.)
- COP28: What key issues will be discussed at UN climate change conference?
- COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
- “Air Pollution From Coal Is Much More Harmful Than We Thought”—New Study Reveals
- Biden not scheduled to attend COP 28 climate summit
- China’s coal addiction puts spotlight on its climate ambitions before Cop28
- Now for Some Good News About Climate (“Costs for renewables have plummeted and growth is exceeding expectations”)
- Intercepted calls from the front lines in Ukraine show a growing number of Russian soldiers want out
- Could Eastern Ukraine’s Avdiivka Become the Next Bakhmut? (“Russian forces have suffered heavy losses in its assault on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, yet the city has limited strategic value. WSJ explains why Moscow, as with Bakhmut, wants to capture it at all cost.”)
- Ukraine’s push into Russian-occupied territory was bold — but a breakthrough is far from guaranteed
- Putin Is Going All In on Ukraine, Putting Kyiv on Back Foot (“The Russian president seeks to turn his nation’s advantage in manpower and munitions into battlefield progress, while Western will and assistance for Kyiv are wavering.”)
- Turner says House passage of Ukraine, Israel aid package unlikely before end of year
- As hostages return to Israel, details of captivity begin to emerge
- Emotional reunions as Israeli hostages return home
- More hostages set to be freed as hopes grow for longer Gaza truce
- Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during the Israel-Hamas war
- Pressure Grows on Israel to Prolong Cease-Fire With Hamas
- Biden Backs War Pause Extension After Hamas Frees Hostages
- TikTok v X: The Israel-Gaza battles raging on social media (“Pro-Palestinian TikTok posts gain traction with Gen Z, while slicker Israeli content is popular on X.”)
- Freed hostage Emily Hand ‘better than expected’
- Musk Tours Massacre Site With Netanyahu Amid Antisemitism Furor (Inexcusible by Netanyahu.)
- US pushes for extension of Gaza pause, but the possibility of war raging again looms large
- Israel receives list of hostages to be released today
- Antisemites supporting Israel is weird. Jewish support of them is even weirder
- Negotiators Work to Extend Israel-Hamas Truce
- Corrupt, discredited: could a reformed Palestinian Authority run Gaza? (“The west’s preferred vehicle to govern a Gaza shorn of Hamas is a body whose authority has been undermined by all sides”)
- Israel, Hamas appear open to extending pause; agencies rush aid to Gaza
- Israel’s president: Hamas’ ‘passive-aggressive’ approach is an attempt to drive Israel ‘crazy’
- Argentina’s Milei Heads to US, Invites Lula to Inauguration
- China, Japan and South Korea, amid regional rivalries, line up leaders’ summit (“Xi Jinping to gather with Fumio Kishida and Yoon Suk Yeol ‘in near future’ against backdrop of tensions over US alliance and North Korea’s hostility”)
- More than 100 arrested at world’s largest coal port (“Protesters say the 30-hour blockade stopped over half a million tonnes of coal from leaving Australia.”)
- New Zealand smoking ban: Health experts criticise new government’s shock reversal (“The legislation, introduced under the previous Jacinda Ardern-led government, would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born after 2008.”)
- Sunak Says Claims UK Headed for Austerity ‘Simply Unfounded’
- Wilders’s Dutch Coalition-Building Attempts Hit Another Snag
- From Niagara Falls to Texas to Gaza, a horrifying look into the abyss of a post-truth future
- Investors See Interest-Rate Cuts Coming Soon
- US oil and gas production set to break record in 2023 despite UN climate goals (Yet according to Republicans, Joe Biden is waging some sort of war on US energy production. In fact, the exact opposite is the case.)
- Electric heat costs way less than reports say, new data suggests
- Senate aims to clear national security backlog in final 2023 stretch
- GOP braces for internal battle royale over government spending
- Congress got its Christmas break — and will suffer for it in January
- Sure, Joe Biden is pretty old: Listen, could you do what he’s doing? (“Let’s admit the obvious: We feel anxious about Biden’s age. But he doesn’t seem to — he’s just doing the job”)
- Trump, Who Destroyed Roe, Thinks He Can Run As an Abortion ‘Moderate’ in 2024
- A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners
- Trump’s Pardoning of a Loan Shark Derailed a Federal Investigation: Report
- Trump is fighting an uphill battle in his fraud trial. But it could be years before penalties kick in.
- Chris Christie plays down risk to Republicans if Trump loses primary but won’t leave the race
- Christie says he plans to stay in GOP race through convention
- The insidious rise of “tradwives”: A right-wing fantasy is rotting young men’s minds (“There’s serious money in peddling fantasies of female submission online, but it may be exacerbating male loneliness”)
- White House Mocks Fox Reporter For Dancing Around 1 Big Detail In Biden Age Report (The concept that Fox is in any way “news” is a total joke.)
- At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say
- 3 Palestinians Shot In Vermont In Possible Hate Crime (“The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is calling on the police and the FBI to investigate it as a hate crime.”)
- What we know about the shooting of 3 Palestinian students in Vermont (“The Burlington Police Department said in an emailed statement early Monday that officers had arrested a suspect, named as Jason J. Eaton, 48, in connection with Saturday night’s shooting by ‘a white male with a handgun’ that hospitalized the three 20-year-olds.”)
- Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers
- D.C. region, including NoVa, sets ‘ambitious’ goal for rooftop solar
- Report says Virginia doesn’t have enough child care but there’s little the state can do about it
- What should Virginians expect from the 2024 General Assembly?
- Outgoing VA Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw Says That, After Election Wins, “Democrats are no longer just playing defense” (Sen. Saslaw notes that constitutional amendments “do not require any approval from the Governor”)
- MVP allowed to work 24-7 on boring under I-81 in Montgomery County
- Why a secretary of rural development for Virginia is a bad idea (“The position sounds good but would have no power to do the things it’s supposed to do.”)
- Commentary: Virginia’s K-12 funding formula is broken. It’s time for an overhaul
- Virginia localities sue pharmaceutical giants over insulin costs
- Ghosts on the Chesapeake Bay: What can be done to bring dead forests back to life? (“When saltwater reaches coastal forests that rely on freshwater to live, it results in the destruction of these forests, many of which have been around for centuries. In a region where sea level rise and sinking land is inevitable, scientists and researchers are looking at ways to create benefits out of inundated land.”)
- Williams: Reality, not books, is the greatest threat to students (“Sadly, the Hanover County School Board views books as a threat.”)
- Analysis: With Joe Morrissey dealt out, will casino chips fall in line for Petersburg?
- D.C.-area forecast: A winter chill for November’s waning days
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