by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 26.
- Biden warns that Trump’s climate denial risks a ‘more dangerous world’ (Absolutely correct; this ALONE should disqualify Trump!)
- Biden announces $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine (“The aid includes the first shipment of a precision-guided glide bomb called the Joint Standoff Weapon, with a range of up to 81 miles, giving Ukraine a major upgrade.”)
- Zelenskyy warns of Russia threat at UN as Putin steps up nuclear rhetoric
- Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine (Let’s just hope, as Sting said, that “the Russians love their children too.”)
- Putin proposes new rules for using nuclear weapons (Reckless.)
- Escalating Trump row looms over Zelensky’s US visit
- Trump says Ukraine is ‘demolished’ and dismisses its defense against Russia’s invasion
- Exclusive: Russia has secret war drones project in China, intel sources say
- Russian missiles and drones target Kyiv for 5 hours, hitting Ukraine’s power grid
- Zelenskyy to visit White House amid spat with Trump (The Guardian is generally excellent, but this is NOT a “spat” – c’mon!)
- China’s Politburo Supercharges Stimulus With Housing, Rates Vows
- U.S., France and key allies call for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon
- Biden: ‘significant support’ for cease-fire along Israel-Lebanon border
- Lebanese officials say an Israeli strike killed 23 Syrian workers and family members in Lebanon
- Why Everything Is Suddenly Spiraling for Israel
- Netanyahu tells Israel’s military to keep fighting with ‘full force’ in Lebanon after ceasefire calls
- The War That Would Not End (“Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East”)
- Israeli foreign minister rejects Lebanon ceasefire proposal
- Iran’s New President Makes His U.N. Début as the Middle East Is in Flames (“With the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel threatening to tip into all-out war, Masoud Pezeshkian calls for diplomacy.”)
- ‘All must be beheaded’: Revelations of atrocities at French energy giant’s African stronghold (“Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies’ natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.”)
- Raising Efficiency Standards for New Home Mortgages Could Save Families a Bundle (No brainer!)
- Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US (This industry is HORRIBLE.)
- South-eastern US braces for ‘catastrophic’ Hurricane Helene
- “The evidence will be powerful”: Legal experts say Jack Smith about to drop a bomb in Trump case
- Statement from President Joe Biden on Passage of the Continuing Resolution
- Congress clears December spending patch, avoiding preelection shutdown
- Schumer’s October gift for embattled Senate Democrats
- Trump makes last-minute push for alternative stopgap with voting provisions (Trump loses yet again!)
- With Few Wins to Highlight, House Republicans Head Home to Chase Votes
- Donald Trump’s True Character, According to His Own People
- Nice Little Jewish Community You Have Here (“Donald Trump’s Mob-boss warning to American Jews”)
- Republicans Seem To Be A Far Greater Threat To Pets Than Immigrants
- Republicans Have A Nazi Problem (“The problem is that they’re brimming with Nazis”)
- Harris-Walz Campaign: A New Way Forward To Build American Industrial Strength, Powered by American Workers (“Trump, by contrast, failed to deliver for American manufacturing. His presidency was a tale of broken promises.”)
- Kamala Harris: American Women Don’t Need Trump’s ‘Protection’
- ‘There’s empirical evidence:’ Harris shuts down interviewer who tries to defend Trump
- Harris Calls Trump ‘One Of The Biggest Losers Ever On Manufacturing’
- Harris is making a ‘capitalist’ pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism
- Harris lays out manufacturing framework in Pittsburgh
- Harris heads to Pittsburgh (again) to make a manufacturing pitch to voters
- Harris Casts Herself as a Pro-Business Pragmatist in a Broad Economic Pitch
- Donald Trump Coverage Used to Give Media Outlets a Traffic Boost. Now It’s Kamala Harris’s Turn
- The one thing worse than high credit card rates is Trump’s plan to cut them
- JD Vance’s Bold Claim About ‘Character’ Leads To Immediate Fact-Check (“The GOP VP candidate’s latest claim quickly backfired on social media.”)
- Biden insists he would have beaten “loser” Trump
- Trio of sex scandals create unwelcome September surprises for GOP
- ‘I’ve got 25 grandkids’: Mitt Romney fears Trump will target him and his family if re-elected
- Emhoff says an army of lawyers is ready to step-in if the GOP claims voter fraud
- Barack Obama’s Secret Service Detail Penetrated, Armed Man Walks Up to SUV
- Post-UMD poll: Democrat Alsobrooks pulls ahead in Maryland’s must-win Senate race (“Alsobrooks is up by 11 percentage points, while Republican Larry Hogan remains popular enough to close the gap and has pulled off upsets before.”)
- N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption probe (If voters had spent 10, 20 minutes Googling Adams prior to the Democratic primary, they most wouldn’t have voted for him. But nope, god forbid anyone do any research on anything.)
- Ocasio-Cortez Says Adams Should Resign ‘for the Good of the City’
- Hillary Clinton: What I learned canoeing with a former white supremacist
- CBC calls for GOP lawmaker to be censured for post attacking Haitians as ‘thugs’
- GOP Rep. Clay Higgins deletes post calling Haitian migrants ‘thugs,’ telling them to get ‘their a** out of our country’
- Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians (Excellent headline, so why won’t the NY Times do this for TRUMP – e.g., call him RACIST, which he is!)
- Rep. Clay Higgins’ Extremely Racist Tweet Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg (“His record includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.”)
- Mark Robinson’s Top Staff in the Lieutenant Governor’s Office Plan to Resign (They knew who and what Robinson was all along!)
- ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson Defended White Actor’s Drunken N-Word Rant
- Fox News does not have an independent decision desk (“Top Fox executives are willing and able to overrule those calls if they think the results would anger Donald Trump and Fox viewers.”)
- Virginia and North Carolina under state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Helene (“The storm’s center was near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, and it was expected to intensify and grow in size as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico.”)
- Video: DPVA Chair Susan Swecker, Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04), Del. Cia Price Call Out Hung Cao’s Dangerous Anti-Choice Agenda (“That’s why I am here to say…it is critically important that we elect Tim Kaine and keep the Senate Democratic this November.”)
- U.S. Senators, Richmond housing expert discuss how to ease nation’s affordable housing crisis
- Candidates in Virginia’s 10th congressional district want to talk affordability (Right, except that the Republican candidate has NOTHING to offer in this regard – and the headline SHOULD make that clear!)
- It Says NOTHING Good (and a LOT Bad!) About Youngkin That He’s Ditching Mark Robinson Now, But Standing By the MUCH-MORE-DANGEROUS, Equally Extreme/Insane Donald Trump! (It’s all a cynical political calculation for Youngkin, and he has calculated that Robinson has no chance – and no “upside” for Youngkin to stick with him at this point.)
- Schapiro: ‘What’s it mean for the Jews?’ (“These days — in Virginia, in the finale to the presidential election and the fast-approaching first anniversary of the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah war — it’s a question worth asking because self-styled friends of the Jews within the state’s Republican Party, starting with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, are behaving as anything but. It’s glaringly obvious because of their shameless silence on an alarming recent rant by Donald Trump: That if voters refuse to restore him to the presidency, it will be the Jews’ fault…It says a lot that Youngkin and other Republicans choose to say nothing publicly about Trump’s fresh tirade about the Jews. Most notably, this speaks to their fear of angering Trump and a Republican base beholden to him, thus, imperiling their chances of getting ahead. In Youngkin’s case, it’s about positioning himself for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028, having flirted with challenging Trump this year. For Attorney General Jason Miyares, a possible gubernatorial candidate in 2025, obeisance to Trump comes easily, because a would-be opponent for the nomination, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has — since the GOP’s underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterm elections — said the party should move on from Trump…Facing Trump’s Hannibal Lecter, Youngkin opts for the silence of the lambs”)
- Harris holds 8-point lead over Trump in Virginia: Poll
- As Hurricane Helene approaches the Gulf Coast, Youngkin declares state of emergency in Virginia
- Is sewage sludge laced with ‘forever chemicals’ contaminating Va. farmland? No one’s testing it. (Yikes.)
- Virginia could lead the way on strengthening privacy laws regarding intimate images
- Virginia lawmakers want to crack down on the nonconsensual distribution of sensitive images
- Video: The Commonwealth Institute Launches “Jonei”, Digital Ad Calling for a $15 Minimum Wage for Virginia Workers (“Gov. Youngkin vetoed legislation that would have given minimum wage workers a raise”)
- Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging legality of Virginia school zone speed cameras
- Editorial: Catch the King project collecting regional flooding data needs your help (“The king tides will bring high water to Hampton Roads next month and local organizations want your help in mapping it throughout the region.”)
- How are animals best served? Difference in ideology colors debate over Danville shelter
- Fairfax sheriff’s sergeant allegedly assaulted suspect, officials say
- Baby inside carjacked SUV reunited with family in Fairfax County
- Fairfax Co. reports slight rise in students who say they’ve been bullied
- Swift water rescue teams preparing for Helene’s deluge in SWVa
- Mother sues Virginia Beach private school that suspended boy who reported bullet
- D.C.-area forecast: Spotty showers today become more numerous Friday because of Helene (“At least a small chance of rain is in the forecast for the next five days.”)
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