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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 12.
- What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet (Disastrous.)
- Climate crisis and China-US rivalry: five top takeaways from the Pacific’s most important summit
- EU strikes landmark deal on law to restore and protect nature (“Legislation will set targets to restore 20% of EU land and seas by 2030, and 90% of degraded habitats by 2050”)
- Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack (“Roman Chervinsky, a colonel in Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, was integral to the brazen sabotage operation, say people familiar with planning”)
- Ukraine War Slips Toward Violent Stalemate (“Ukrainian and Russian offensives are struggling for a major breakthrough against strong defensive lines.”)
- Ukraine has enough energy resources to get through winter, energy minister says
- The Israel-Gaza war is exposing Europe’s divisions
- Netanyahu says he opposes Palestinian Authority’s return to post-war Gaza
- Calls Grow for Israel to Pause Fighting
- US and Israeli Polticians Amplify Bogus Claims of Media Complicity in Hamas Attack (“Sen. Tom Cotton called for a DOJ investigation based on a conservative website’s speculation.”)
- WHO loses contact with Gaza’s main hospital as power shuts down
- Hamas Needed a New Way to Get Money From Iran. It Turned to Crypto.
- Israeli military says it will help evacuate babies from Gaza hospital
- In Gaza, fleeing refugees face hunger and disease: ‘We are in the Dark Ages’
- Main Gaza hospital ‘totally surrounded’, director says as Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls (“Head of al-Shifa hospital says bombardments continue as Israeli PM says ‘no alternative to victory’”)
- War Budget Leaves Netanyahu Caught Between Markets and Politics
- Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (“Israel claims that Hamas locates military assets under hospitals and other sensitive sites like schools and mosques. Bloodshed serves Hamas’ agenda, it says, winning international attention and sympathy for the Palestinian cause…Palestinian medical workers accuse Israel of mounting an all-out attack on infrastructure to punish the population and force a surrender.”)
- If Progressives Don’t Like Biden’s Gaza Position, Wait Till They Learn About Trump’s (“Neither the coup-attempting former president nor his GOP rivals even mention the Palestinian civilians under near-constant Israeli assault.”)
- London’s Day of Creeping Extremism (“On a day dedicated to peace, the British capital is consumed by competing symbols.”)
- Dozens of Chinese ships chase Philippine vessels as US renews warning it will defend its treaty ally
- Pope Francis removes a leading US conservative critic as bishop of Tyler, Texas
- Environmentalists want to save Brazil’s golden monkey, one green corridor at a time
- Biden honors America’s veterans at Arlington
- Trump’s rivals seize on opportunities to challenge his mental sharpness (Weird framing; why doesn’t the WaPo just say that Trump appears to have completely lost his mind?)
- “Covering him as a normal candidate”: Extremism scholars say TV news “normalizing” Trump’s threats (“TV news outlets increasingly ignore Trump’s ‘dehumanizing’ rhetoric at rallies despite growing threat”)
- Biden campaign slams ‘extreme’ and ‘racist’ Trump immigration plans
- The Authoritarianism Is The Point
- Stephen Miller: Trump will implement ‘spectacular migration crackdown’
- Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans
- How Trump’s fraud trial defense may unfold (“The first witness lawyers will call is the former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.”)
- Trump continues attacks on special counsel Jack Smith, references his family (LOCK HIM UP.)
- In Veterans Day Speech, Trump Promises to ‘Root Out’ the Left (“The former president said that threats from abroad were less concerning than liberal ‘threats from within’ and that he was a ‘very proud election denier.” Trump’s completely unhinged…and fascistic.)
- Donald Trump’s Veterans Day Message Was Very Different to Joe Biden’s
- ‘Travesty in darkness’: Trump backs drive to televise his D.C. election subversion trial
- Johnson announced his pitch to avoid a shutdown. It’s already hitting a wall.
- House GOP pursuing two-step plan to avert government shutdown (“House Republicans are pursuing a two-step plan for funding the government, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as Congress barrels toward another spending deadline Friday.”)
- US Shutdown Risk Eased in Stopgap Plan Offered by Johnson
- White House reacts to Speaker’s ‘extreme’ stopgap funding bill (“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop”)
- The other warning Republicans should heed from this year’s elections (“Republicans don’t seem to know how to stop bleeding support from the suburbs.”)
- Hey, Joe Manchin! There’s no ‘middle’ in a right-wing GOP.
- This school board made news for banning books. Voters flipped it to majority Democrat
- Former VA Secretary of Education Atif Qarni Announces for the Democratic VA10 Nomination (See Qarni’s press release and an interview with him on why he’s running, what his priorities would be, etc.)
- As Expected, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Announces She’s Not Running for Reelection to Congress, WILL Run for Virginia Governor in 2025 (Check out the loooong list of likely/potential candidates for the Dem and GOP VA07 nominations.)
- Anger at Youngkin’s strategy fueling Virginia House GOP leadership fight (“A group of Republican legislators said they will try to overthrow House Speaker Todd Gilbert for failing to push back against a strategy that they say cost the GOP control of the House”)
- Don Scott to become Virginia’s first Black House speaker as Hampton Roads’ legislators take center stage
- Editorial: Democrats win slim legislative majorities but face challenges ahead (With a Republican governor, it’s obviously going to be hard to get progressive legislation signed into law.)
- BREAKING: VA House Dems Nominate Don Scott for Speaker; Elect Charniele Herring for Majority Leader, Kathy Tran for Caucus Chair (In the next few days, House Rs, Senate Rs, and Senate Ds will all choose their new leadership.)
- Former inmate sues Virginia, saying he was held too long
- Williams: Election Day left Richmond’s mayor and the city’s suburbs blue
- Arlington County Board Adopts Langston Boulevard Area Plan (“Ultimately, the plan will help transform the predominantly car-oriented, strip commercial and residential, 4.5-mile-long corridor into a green, mixed-use main street that provides safe and multimodal access and is rooted in environmental resiliency, economic sustainability, and equity.”)
- Suspect in UVa Medical parking garage killing to undergo mental evaluation
- D.C.-area forecast: Cooler today, then slowly warmer and staying dry through midweek (“Next chance of rain probably won’t arrive until at least Friday.”)
