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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 7.
- Hottest summer on record could lead to warmest year ever measured (“This year will more than likely end up the warmest humanity has measured, reports European climate service”)
- What’s at stake in the US election? The climate for the next million years | Bill McKibben
- In Threatened Island Nation, Pope Hears Plea for Climate Action
- EU failing to enforce illegal fishing rules, say campaigners
- Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy (“The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.”)
- Ukraine’s ‘dragon drones’ give Russian troops another reason to be fearful (“Battlefield innovation rains molten metal on Russian positions, a modern twist on a munition used to horrific effect in both world wars”)
- UK, US spy chiefs call for ‘staying the course’ on Ukraine
- Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack (“Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down.”)
- US says striking deep in Russia no game-changer after Zelenskiy plea (“Lloyd Austin says ‘no one capability’ would be decisive in war as Ukrainian president urges allies to let Kyiv hit targets far across border.”)
- Video footage appears to show Russians killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers
- Putin Pals Say Accused MAGA Media Stars Should Come to Russia for Protection
- Pro-Trump Media Firm Abruptly Folds After Russia Scheme Exposed (“Tenet Media is no more. — The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being funded by Russian state-controlled media…”)
- YouTubers Are Almost Too Easy to Dupe (“No wonder Russia finds its useful idiots among the extremely online.”)
- Meet the right-wing Canadian influencers accused of collaborating with an alleged Russian propaganda scheme
- American citizen killed in West Bank anti-settler protest
- ‘Deeply disturbed’ White House calls for inquiry into killing of Ayşenur Eygi (“Eygi, 26, was protesting against settlements in occupied West Bank when she was killed by Israeli troops, witnesses say”)
- Musk Dares the World to Take On X as He Scoffs at Brazil’s Ban
- Pakistani National Charged for Plotting Terrorist Attack in New York City in Support of ISIS
- Statement from President Joe Biden on the August Jobs Report
- US economy adds 142,000 jobs in August as Fed plans to cut interest rates (“Reading for month was shy of the average forecast as headline unemployment rate decreased from 4.3% to 4.2%”)
- The U.S. economy looks fragile. There’s an easy way to fix that. (“The Federal Reserve should go big in September with a 50-basis-point cut in its benchmark interest rate.” No brainer.)
- Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high wealth tax dodgers
- Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth
- Justice Merchan Had a Surprisingly Good Reason to Delay Trump’s Sentencing
- The real story of January 6 is found in mountains of shocking evidence
- There Was No Good Legal Reason to Delay Trump’s Sentencing (“But I don’t blame the judge for his decision.”)
- What Was Judge Juan Merchan Thinking Delaying Trump’s Hush-Money Sentencing?
- Judge delays Trump sentencing in hush money case until November
- Trump Catches Yet Another Legal Break, Won’t Be Sentenced for Hush Money Crimes Till After the Election
- Trump rants, resurfaces sexual assault allegations for 49 unfocused minutes (“The Republican nominee spoke in an appearance billed as a ‘press conference’ that sometimes verged into a stream of consciousness that was hard to follow. He took no questions.”)
- Trump takes no questions at lengthy news conference on his legal cases
- Trump Holds Press Event Just To Attack Women Who’ve Accused Him Of Sexual Assault
- Trump’s New E. Jean Carroll Defense Is That He Assaulted Other Women (“Donald Trump on Friday inexplicably started detailing two horrific sexual assault allegations made against him, as part of a hapless attempt to discredit a completely different sexual assault allegation.”)
- After court appearance, Trump rails against legal cases, his lawyers and the election
- Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims
- He Could Have Talked About Anything Else (“Trump used a press conference to remind voters that he’s been accused of sexual assault.”)
- Trump Skewers His Legal Team as They Awkwardly Stand Beside Him
- Trump’s rambling answer to a child care question, deconstructed (And completely nonsensical, idiotic, etc.)
- Trump rebrands his ramblings as ‘I do the weave’ – but is he just losing it? (“Ex-president tries to fend off criticisms of mental acuity that plagued Biden as he waffles about sharks and batteries”)
- Trump turns to outlandish promises to offset $7 trillion in tax cuts
- Why Trump’s word salad answer on child care policy matters
- The Press Response to Trump’s Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing
- The power of a single word about media malfeasance (“It’s ‘sanewashing’ — and it’s what journalists keep doing for Trump”)
- More Than 90 Business Leaders Endorse Kamala Harris for President
- The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots (“Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American”)
- Harris hires rural vote director in bid to cut into Trump’s battleground margins
- Vance Stands By Tucker Carlson Platforming Holocaust Revisionist
- JD Vance Should Answer For Cozying Up to Tucker Carlson After He Elevated a Holocaust Denier (“Vance is refusing to criticize Carlson, instead sitting down for an interview with him and scheduling another event with him later this month.”)
- Tucker Carlson Welcomes a Hitler Apologist to His Show
- Harris and Trump are getting ready for Tuesday’s debate in sharply different ways
- Harris team worried she’ll be ‘handcuffed’ by debate rules set by Biden (“Even some Democrats dismiss her griping as gamesmanship. But the mic rules are changing her strategy.”)
- US presidential polls: Harris leads Trump nationally, but key swing state races tighter (It’s completely insane that this election is even close. Should be a blowout for Harris over Trump.)
- Dick Cheney says he’s voting for Harris in November and Trump ‘can never be trusted with power again’
- Liz Cheney endorses Democrat Colin Allred in Texas Senate race, says father will vote for Kamala Harris
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Harris, his daughter Liz Cheney says
- Liz Cheney will back Allred in Texas Senate race
- Poll: Rick Scott and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in heated race to win Florida Senate seat
- Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis
- Tucker Carlson blasted for interview with Holocaust revisionist
- What I saw at the Moms for Liberty summit: a diminished and desperate group
- North Carolina elections agency appeals to keep RFK Jr. on ballot
- RFK Jr’s name must be taken off ballots, Michigan and North Carolina courts rule
- Surprised Republicans air frustration with Gonzales prediction of GOP losing House
- As Jimmy Carter nears 100, he is buoyed by Harris’s run for president
- Does Eric Adams Know How Much Trouble He’s In? (It’s really astounding that this guy was ever elected; literally a few minutes of Googling him would have convinced any smart, sane person not to do so!)
- During visit to Spotsylvania solar farm, Kaine not sheepish about desire for clean energy in Commonwealth
- WHERE IS JEN? “Smasal, but Not Kiggans, Attends Congressional Candidate Forum in Smithfield” (Event moderator: “I even sent a personal and confidential letter to her on 15 July. Jen never responded”)
- Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) Receives Stamp of Approval From Project 2025’s Creators (“Any score 60% or above is considered a positive rating from the extremist Republicans pushing Project 2025.”)
- Schapiro: Ever the Marine, Earle-Sears battles for governor (The media begins its relentless campaign of “sanewashing” Sears.)
- Chesterfield residents speak with Dominion reps about proposed gas plant
- How a Virginia meat plant became the center of a national listeria outbreak
- Richmond judge denies effort to block land sale to Planned Parenthood
- Federal grant to help bring a million baby oysters to the Hampton River
- Dulles Greenway owners can’t raise tolls. The fight is just starting. (“The private toll road has frustrated local leaders for decades. Lawmakers disagree about its future.”)
- Listeria outbreak at Boar’s Head plant shakes small Virginia town
- D.C.-area forecast: Brief shower risk today before cooler air spills in
