by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 19.
- For Climate, Protecting Forests Is Way Better Than Planting Trees (“A new paper cautions against monoculture planting as a solution.”)
- What Endures After a Climate Activist’s Suicide: Grief, Anger and Hope
- U.N. plastic treaty talks grapple with re-use, recycle, reduce debate
- Ukraine says it has evidence of 109,000 Russian war crimes
- Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv second night in row, Ukraine says
- The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas
- Israel and Hamas reach tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause conflict, free dozens of hostages
- PM says bucking int’l pressure against Gaza op, stresses no hostage deal ‘as of now’
- Qatar PM says only ‘very minor’ obstacles to hostage deal remain
- WHO says Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital a death zone, as hundreds leave
- Israel Latest: Homes of Senior Hamas Officials Raided in North
- ‘Just look us in the eye’: Israeli hostages’ families arrive at Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem office (“Thousands had marched for five days to demand action by the Israeli prime minister to bring home the 240 people captured by Hamas”)
- Israel says it will increase military offensive in southern Gaza (“Apartment block bombed, killing 26, in area civilians were urged to flee to for their safety” Horrifying.)
- For Years, Two Men Shuttled Messages Between Israel and Hamas. No More. (“Since 2006, Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist, and Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas official, maintained a secret back channel. Then came Oct. 7.”)
- Biden orders top aides to prepare reprimands for violent Israeli settlers in West Bank
- ‘It’s basically hell on earth’: Gaza City left totally bereft of healthcare
- ‘These are biblical lands promised to us’: Jewish settlers in West Bank hope Gaza conflict will help their cause (“Human rights groups say settlers, empowered by their right-wing government, are exploiting the Israel-Hamas war”)
- The Israel-Hamas war is driving a surge in US hate crimes. These Jewish Americans say it’s changing the way they live
- An inside look at what’s ahead in Israel’s shattering war in Gaza
- Democrats in Senate, House discuss conditioning military aid to Israel
- WHO leads ‘very high risk’ mission to Gaza hospital
- Trump vows to kill Asia trade deal being pursued by Biden if elected (Of course he is.)
- Biden and Xi’s Blunt Talk (“Nobody should expect diplomacy between the U.S. and China to return to the performative, if misleading, good cheer of a generation ago.”)
- Militants Take Cover Amid Elephants, Lions in West Africa’s National Parks (Ugh.)
- Argentines choose between polar opposites in run-off (Horrible choices, but Milei is Trump-level unhinged and fascistic.)
- Argentina Elects Next President Sunday in Runoff Vote
- Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low (“Rooftop and utility scale solar set new records in Australia’s main grid, as coal output from the country’s biggest coal state also sent to a new low.”)
- The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu (It’s disgusting and it should be 100% unacceptable to treat animals like this.)
- Fears of political violence are growing as the 2024 campaign heats up and conspiracy theories evolve (The headline might want to mention that this is overwhelming on the RIGHT.)
- The GOP’s hollow presidential field is allergic to ideas
- Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high. (“Trump may be a performance artist, but with his shocking provocations, he is telling us what he would do in a second term as president. That’s why taking him seriously and literally is required.”)
- Takeaways from the blockbuster Trump ‘insurrectionist ban’ ruling
- Trump’s fraud trial media strategy gives glimpse of what’s to come
- Biden team ratchets up offensive against Trump
- How a flood of congressional retirements is rocking the 2024 elections
- The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI
- OpenAI investors push to bring Altman back as CEO one day after he was ousted by board
- Another ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ for Elon Musk
- ADL Celebrates Elon Musk’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Speech (The ADL has completely lost its way if it’s praising a virulent anti-Semite.)
- Facebook-parent Meta breaks up its Responsible AI team (Seriously?)
- Gov. Evers says ‘Neo-Nazis, antisemitism, and white supremacy have no home in Wisconsin’ after demonstration on state Capitol grounds
- Neo-Nazis March Through Madison Yelling ‘There Will Be Blood’
- 261 Georgia congregations leave the United Methodist Church over a divide on LGBTQ issues
- Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence (“Michael Zacharias’s victims said the priest waited until they began abusing drugs before he sexually trafficked them” Pure evil.)
- Congresswoman with brain disorder skipping therapy to serve in House (“Virginia Democrat Jennifer Wexton has been using assistive technology after diagnosis with six- to nine-year life expectancy”)
- Editorial: A gambling resort wasn’t going to save South Side. Not without good planning, and a vision
- Thomas Bliley Jr., tobacco ally who disclosed industry deceit, dies at 91
- He’s correctly predicting the US’s most critical elections. He’s still in college (“Charles ‘Chaz’ Nuttycombe, 24, is impressing analysts with his accurate forecasts of consequential state legislature elections”)
- Williams: Renaming this crossing shouldn’t be a bridge too far
- D.C.-area forecast: A sunny and seasonable Sunday. Travelers beware of Tuesday rain.
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