by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 27.
- Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks?
- Putin says Moscow will respond if West helps Ukraine to strike deep into Russia
- Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says North Korean troops are poised to join the war, cancels UN chief’s visit
- Russian economy overheating, but still powering the war against Ukraine
- Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at 2 secretive Iranian military bases (“Some of the buildings damaged sat in Iran’s Parchin military base, where the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects Iran in the past conducted tests of high explosives that could trigger a nuclear weapon.”)
- Israel’s Limited Attack on Iran May Help Spur Regional Deal
- Middle East crisis live: Iran supreme leader speaks on Israeli attack; people injured after truck hits bus stop in Israel
- Iran mocks Israel’s ‘weak’ attacks as hardliners call for reprisal
- Israel and Iran urged to use restraint by world leaders after strikes
- How Israel Pulled Off Its Largest-Ever Strike on Its Nemesis Iran
- Biden Pushed Israel to Limit Attack and Still Inflict a Heavy Blow
- Japan’s ruling party braces for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house in elections
- The Inflation Reduction Act Is Life-Changing for Seniors Like Me (“Now we must do everything we can to protect the progress made and build on it, not set us back.”)
- Voters Are Deeply Skeptical About the Health of American Democracy
- Kamala Harris and Michelle Obama rally in Michigan, warn of consequences of another Trump presidency
- ‘Take Our Lives Seriously,’ Michelle Obama Pleads As She Rallies For Kamala Harris In Michigan (“The former first lady described the assault on abortion rights as the harbinger of dangerous limitations on healthcare for women.”)
- Michelle Obama says she’s a ‘little angry’ at the hesitation to vote for Harris
- Michelle Obama makes the case for Harris in Michigan, as Dems see signs of hope
- Michelle Obama makes fiery pitch on abortion as Trump courts support from Muslim leaders
- Michelle Obama Blasts Trump as Candidates Blitz Key States (“Why on Earth is this race even close?”)
- Michelle Obama makes passionate plea for women’s health while campaigning for Harris
- Michelle Obama blasts Trump for ‘gross incompetence’ at Harris’s Michigan rally
- Trump Escalates Threats as Campaign Enters Dark Final Stretch
- Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results
- Trump unbound as US presidential race nears its end
- Amid Talk of Fascism, Donald Trump’s Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past
- GOP focus on rare noncitizen voting may continue long after Election Day
- ‘All Trump, All the Time’: Inside the Trump Campaign’s Media Strategy
- Video: 10 Days From Election Day, Harris Campaign Spotlights Trump’s Project 2025 Plans To Make Americans Pay the Price (“Donald Trump: more unhinged, unstable, and unchecked”)
- Mapped: The states Harris and Trump are visiting most (“Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump have made a combined 30 visits to Pennsylvania and Michigan since August — and a grand total of zero to 36 non-swing states.” This is what the Electoral College does.)
- 5 things a tardy Trump said in Traverse City
- Trump lashes out at Cheney, calls her a ‘Muslim-hating warmonger’
- Trump, Who Once Proposed a Muslim Registry, Now Courts Their Votes
- Why Is Trump Holding a Rally at Madison Square Garden?
- RFK Jr.’s presence on Michigan, Wisconsin ballots raises concerns for Trump
- The Washington Post is in deep turmoil as Bezos remains silent on non-endorsement
- Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime. (“The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.”)
- Ben Bradlee’s Posthumous Advice to Jeff Bezos: You Need to Sell The Washington Post.
- Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’
- It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
- Biden says Elon Musk was an ‘illegal worker’ when he began U.S. career
- Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
- Man In MAGA Hat Arrested For Allegedly Punching Election Worker
- Elon Musk is Trump’s biggest booster — and patron. Why? (It’s all really, REALLY bad.)
- Harris leads Trump in Virginia, Post-Schar School poll finds
- Trump calls in to Chesterfield rally, says he wins if he carries Virginia
- Harris-Walz Campaign Says Trump “welcome to waste his time campaigning” in Virginia, Where He’s “been soundly defeated every time he’s run”
- Trump calls into Youngkin’s Chesterfield rally to boost Va. GOP candidates, announces Salem visit
- VA07 GOP Nominee Derrick Anderson Campaigns with MAGA Extremist Jim Jordan (If you campaign with an extremist, that makes you…yep, an extremist yourself.)
- In-person early voting is on pace with 2020, mail voting lags
- Student body presidents at Virginia colleges urge Youngkin to address ‘attacks’ on DEI
- Strained by liquor thefts, police want Virginia ABC to take over investigating crimes (“Roughly 31,000 bottles of alcohol worth more than $1.6 million have been stolen from Virginia ABC stores so far this year.”)
- Loudoun parents sue school board for stopping public comments early
- Former state Sen. Frank Ruff of Mecklenburg County dies (R.I.P.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Cooler today with a possible freeze tonight. Warming again this week.
