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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, September 10.
- Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime (“Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa want international criminal court to class environmental destruction as crime alongside genocide”)
- One of the most potent greenhouse gases is rising faster than ever (“Methane emissions from fossil fuels, farms and landfills will make it impossible for the world to maintain a safe climate, scientists say.”)
- ‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running (“Last year Antartica’s ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less ice than that”)
- Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
- Let’s Be Clear: Putin Is Again Trying to Put Trump in the White House
- Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack to date
- A woman is killed near Moscow as over 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say
- China’s $6.5 Trillion Stock Rout Worsens Economic Peril for Xi
- How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over the US’s booming solar power
- An Israeli strike on a Gaza humanitarian zone tent camp kills at least 40 people, Palestinians say (Ugh, horrible.)
- Deadly Israeli strike in Gaza humanitarian zone ‘targets Hamas commanders’
- Fear of ‘lost generation’ as Gaza school year begins with all classes shut
- Germany announces temporary controls on all land borders
- Macron’s Faustian bargain could be a dire turning point for France
- Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people, nearly half the population
- Ex-partner who killed Ugandan athlete dies from burns (“Rebecca Cheptegei was set alight and later died after Dickson Ndiema ambushed her near her home.”)
- Apple, Google Lose Multibillion Dollar Court Fights With EU
- Justice Clarence Thomas faces new recusal demand after wife’s alleged message to conservative group
- GOP opposition appears to doom Speaker Johnson’s initial plan to avert shutdown (Johnson is an extremist AND a f’ing clown.)
- Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Congress makes it harder to vote (“The exhausting dance that precedes every single government funding battle has begun.”)
- I Believe Trump When He Says Kicking Immigrants Out Will Be a “Bloody Story” (“Why would I not believe it? He keeps saying it in front of God and the world.”)
- Trump is increasingly vowing to prosecute political foes and others he says are ‘corrupt’ if he wins
- Trump Is Fixated on Made-Up Problems—and Terrifying Solutions
- Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where’s everyone who questioned Biden’s age and fitness?
- Ahead of the debate, Donald Trump is now the candidate facing questions about his age and cognitive health.
- How Harris Will Maneuver the Trump Debate Minefield
- Harris and Trump make final preparations ahead of crucial presidential debate in Philadelphia
- Trump Makes No Sense and Is Full of Meaning
- Ten Tough Climate and Energy Questions for Tonight’s Harris-Trump Debate
- What the First Debate Question for Trump Must Be (“The moderators ought to start with the fact that he rejects the foundations of the American system of government. — I find it exhausting to have to point out that Donald Trump has—yet again—threatened to engage in violent and dictatorial behavior”)
- DEBATE DAY: President Obama Knocks Trump’s Obsession with Crowd Size in New Harris Campaign Ad (“Ad to Air Nationally on Debate Day on Fox News, Which Trump Is Known to Watch”)
- ABC News steps into the spotlight with high stakes Trump-Harris debate
- Donald Trump can’t get any attack to stick to Kamala Harris
- Vengeance is Trump’s only true campaign proposal
- What If Trump Wins? — The chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next
- Who Trump wants to punish (“During a speech and on social media over the weekend, the former president pledged retribution for his allies in new detail.”)
- Harris’s economic agenda blends populism with a ‘healthy dose of centrism’
- US charges alleged white supremacist gangsters with trying to incite race war
- Trump has scant voter turnout operation in swing states, GOP worries
- Why the ‘one-two punch’ of Liz and Dick Cheney backing Harris matters
- The right-wing bubble says Trump will save your cat from immigrants
- MAGA Launches Most Unbelievable Conspiracy Yet—on Migrants Eating Pets
- Trump Campaign Amplifies False Claim About Haitian Migrants in Ohio
- Ohio police have ‘no credible reports’ of Haitian immigrants harming pets, contradicting JD Vance’s claim
- JD Vance Spreads Outrageous Lie About Haitian Immigrants (“The smear is just the latest in Trump and Vance’s ‘mass deportation” agenda'”)
- RFK Jr. wins effort to leave ballot in North Carolina, but stays on in Michigan
- Tracking the 2024 Election: State by State
- CBS News poll for 2024 Senate races shows Democrats lead in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
- A new poll finding voters think Donald Trump is a centrist should be a wake-up call for the news media (The media is MASSIVELY failing us.)
- NPR poll shows why the stakes are so high for Harris and Trump in the debate
- Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump? (“The biggest problem, I concluded, was not journalists’ failure to resolve an unresolvable debate about exposure, but their failure to accurately describe Trump’s rhetoric—without resorting to euphemism, for example—and to do so with due prominence.”)
- Jack White sues Trump over the use of The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’: ‘This machine sues fascists’
- Sen. Tuberville blocks promotion of Lloyd Austin’s top military aide
- Even Republicans Say Kari Lake’s Campaign Is Falling Apart (“AWESOME!” Right, Glenn Youngkin? LOL)
- DeSantis’ Government Is Doing Everything It Can to Defeat an Abortion Rights Measure
- DeSantis’s election police agents question people who signed abortion ballot petition (This is Glenn Youngkin’s role-model governor!)
- James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93 (R.I.P.)
- Jones’s talents went far, far beyond his magnificent voice (“In a career that encompassed Broadway, Disney animation and Star Wars, James Earl Jones turned authority figures into human beings.”)
- New Poll by Morning Consult Has Kamala Harris +10 Points in Virginia, Which Would Match Joe Biden’s 2020 Margin of Victory. (Standard caveats apply: don’t trust any polling, certainly don’t get overconfident, work like the race is tied (or whatever motivates you best), etc!)
- Harris leads among Virginia voters, Post-Schar School poll finds (“The eight-point margin for Harris suggests Virginia would be a long-shot for Trump, whom voters view negatively and who is not significantly preferred on any issue.”)
- Harris-Walz ‘Fighting For Reproductive Freedom’ bus tour coming to Virginia this week
- Cao’s Cuts Could Defund Federal And Local Law Enforcement (“Cao called a radical plan that would fire almost 50,000 federal law enforcement officers and rip away federal funding for local and state law enforcement ‘perfect'”)
- Cao dismisses need for multiple debates with Kaine, says one is enough to defeat him (Hahahahahaha!)
- AARP Virginia to Host Telephone Forums with U.S. Senate Candidates
- 5th District GOP chair: Where is John McGuire? (“After the Republican congressional nominee snubbed a key committee meeting, party officials withhold funding from his campaign”)
- Good to officially step down as Freedom Caucus chair by end of week
- Vindman Challenges Anderson To Come Clean on Abortion at Upcoming Debates and Forums (“Extremist Anderson Scared to Answer How He Will Vote on Codifying Roe and National Abortion Ban”)
- Virginia’s future concerning vehicle electrification is bright, but costs are a challenge
- Geothermal energy is having a moment. Could it power Virginia’s data centers? (“Is this technology the answer to the surging demand for electricity from data centers and artificial intelligence?”)
- Promoters of clean-energy data centers in Virginia coal country unfazed by doubters (“Data Center Ridge is the first phase in a sprawling, state-endorsed plan to advance test sites for solar, wind, pumped hydro, small nuclear and other clean energy innovations.”)
- Virginia House Speaker Don Scott endorses Abigail Spanberger for governor
- Applicants for Virginia’s military survivors education benefits not expected to slow
- Science, policy advancements could curb disproportionate breast cancer deaths in Tidewater
- Appalachian Power wants a rate increase, Roanoke lawmakers say “no way”
- Richmond voters discuss the 2024 mayoral candidates
- Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt Richmond City Council meeting (Huh? What does the Richmond City Council have to do with the Middle East situation?)
- Virginia Beach School Board candidate withdraws from race after opponent sued to keep him off ballot
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm and sunny September weather, with lovely low humidity (Actually, it’s not “lovely” -we need rain badly!)
