by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 1.
- Coal generators are learning how to shut down for solar in significant boost to renewable switch
- Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report (“Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report”)
- Don’t underestimate the risks of escalation over Ukraine (“We are closer than you think to an all-out superpower conflict”)
- China marks 75 years of Communist Party rule as economic challenges and security threats linger
- Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon escalates fight against Hezbollah
- Past wars loom over Israel’s ground operation in southern Lebanon
- Why America is looking increasingly powerless as Israel’s war expands
- Netanyahu rides wave of euphoria over assassinations as his political fortunes turn around (“The regional confrontations are good for Netanyahu…They seem quite clearly to be the contributing factor to his recovery.”)
- The decapitation of Hezbollah leaves Iran weighing its options (“Masoud Pezeshkian is under domestic pressure but analysts point to the high risk of a direct attack on Israel”)
- As a Crisis Builds, Lebanon’s Government Is Nowhere to Be Found
- Rattled Mexico Investors Seek Economic Clues as Sheinbaum Takes Office
- Biden administration expands asylum restrictions at southern border
- Helene leaves “unimaginable” destruction in 6 states as death toll tops 130
- Here’s how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
- Powell says more interest rate cuts are ahead, but Fed is not in a hurry
- Port strike freezes shipping on East Coast, posing a threat to the economy (“The strike is disrupting ports that handle more than half of U.S. trade in shipping containers, with the economic bite growing worse if the standoff drags on.”)
- Americans Are More Reliant Than Ever on Government Aid (That includes some of the “reddest” areas of Virginia, like VA09 and VA06. SO bizarre.)
- Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights
- Donald Trump, America’s white-collar rogue
- Donald Trump’s First Term Is a Warning
- The Only Patriotic Choice for President
- Harris says she backs legalizing marijuana, going further than Biden
- Video of Harris slurring words in Helene warning is edited | Fact check
- No, A Former Republican Congressman Now Backing Harris Did Not Author Project 2025 (“A right-wing conspiracy theory that the transition plan written by Trump alumni was actually a super secret sabotage effort has been disputed by those at the center of it.”)
- Biden Excoriates ‘Lying’ Trump for BS Hurricane Helene Claim
- Biden angrily responds to Trump on hurricane response (Trump is a DISGRACE!)
- Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims
- Trump lobs false attacks at Biden, Harris after Hurricane Helene, and CNN claims he’s offering a “message of unity”
- Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene
- Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season (Near the PEAK of hurricane season, no less!
Trump is an IMBECILE.) - Trump Says No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane at Peak of Hurricane Season
- Kemp praises Biden’s Hurricane Helene response amid Trump criticism (The headline should say “Trump FALSE criticism”! Why is this SO f’ing hard for “The Hill”??)
- Trump falsely says Georgia’s governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage
- Rudy Giuliani’s daughter says she’s voting for Harris, ‘grieving the loss of my dad’ to Trump
- Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too
- Trump, Magic Beans, and the $100,000 Watch
- Harris Campaign Releases Trump-Vance Health Care Plan (“As JD Vance Confirmed, They Are Running on ‘Concept’ of Raising Costs for People with Pre-Existing Conditions and Ripping Insurance Away from Millions”)
- Harris launches multimillion-dollar TV ad blitz hitting Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’ for health care (“The Democratic nominee is opening an aggressive new front on health care, seeing it as a winning issue to attract voters and paint Trump in a corner.”)
- NEW >> Highlights from Vice President Harris’ 45-Minute Interview on Podcast “All the Smoke” (Podcast, “hosted by former NBA champions Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, has more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube”)
- ‘This Is Where You End Up When You Do Your Own Research’ (“On the National Mall with the RFK-to-MAGA pipeline”)
- J.D. Vance’s Stolen Valor: ‘He Puts on Poverty Like You Put on Makeup’
- How JD Vance Disqualified Himself From Becoming Vice President (“Vance has made clear that he is willing to cater to Mr. Trump’s obsession with the myth that his victory in the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and that on Jan. 6 Vice President Pence refused to exercise his constitutional powers to prevent that theft.”)
- The Wildest Facts to Know About JD Vance Before the VP Face-Off (“Watching Tuesday’s debate? CBS won’t be fact-checking—so read this first.”)
- JD Vance isn’t just thin-skinned — he thinks whining is a winning political strategy (“Trump’s running mate soaks in the online culture of MAGA self-pity and doesn’t realize it annoys normal people”)
- Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump’s Outrage
- Legacy Media Is Failing Us Hard
- How CBS Will Fact Check the Walz-Vance VP Debate
- CBS throws in the towel before the VP debate even begins
- The attack dog and the folk hero: Vance and Walz gear up for debate showdown
- Trump Sure Sounds Like He’s Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
- Facts Need To Be Checked (“So what’s going on with CBS News?”- former CBS News anchor Dan Rather)
- DNC trolls Trump, Vance with digital projections on NYC’s Trump Tower ahead of debate
- VP debates rarely matter – the Walz vs Vance showdown is different
- This Time We Might Have a VP Debate That Actually Matters
- Walz and Vance will meet in their first and possibly only vice presidential debate
- Trump Sure Sounds Like He’s Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
- 43-Foot-Tall Naked Trump Marionette Debuts in Las Vegas | Photos
- Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100
- ‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis
- California bans legacy admissions at all colleges
- Donald Trump’s Candidates Keep Delivering…for Democrats (“Republicans didn’t learn their lesson in 2022, as MAGA mini-mes could once again cost the party winnable races.”)
- Schumer dumping $1M in surprisingly competitive Maryland Senate race
- Let’s Break Down All the Lies in Elon Musk’s False Tweet About Noncitizens Voting
- Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate’s ‘below the poverty line’ tale
- Judge again strikes down Georgia abortion law, allowing abortions to resume
- Democrats Sue Georgia Election Board Over Ballot Hand Counting Rule
- Dikembe Mutombo, Who Died At 58, Was A Man Of His Home And A Man Of The World
- Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king, has died at 83 (An amazing player, no doubt – would be in the Hall of Fame for sure if not for his betting on baseball.)
- “HEADLINE GOES HERE” – VA07 GOP Nominee Derrick Anderson “caught with no issues or platform on his website, using placeholders instead of policy for over a week” (This comes after Anderson was also busted for posing with a fake family)
- Swinging for the fences in Virginia swing seat race (“Rep. Abigail Spanberger has held Virginia’s 7th District seat for three terms, outlasting other Democrats elected to swing seats in the 2018 “blue wave” with her reputation for bipartisanship. But with Spanberger leaving the House as she makes a 2025 gubernatorial run, both parties are invested in winning the competitive Piedmont region-based seat.”)
- Four top 5th District GOP officials ousted for not supporting McGuire (“The party functionaries refused to sign a renewed loyalty pledge for the Republican nominee.”)
- ‘A great opportunity’: NSU students, political analyst preview Va. Senate debate
- 85% of Va. schools fully accredited – lowest number since 2017 system change
- Residents across Southwest Virginia begin long process of recovery after Helene
- Port of Virginia shuts down Monday ahead of expected ILA strike
- Hampton Roads truckers and businesses brace for port workers strike
- (“Lawsuit moves forward against three Roanoke County School Board members”)
- 1st District preview: Breton, Goldman and Walker compete for Richmond City Council seat
- Richmond Public Schools staff discuss cellphone-free education plan
- Va. school board settles with teacher fired for not using student’s pronouns (“Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher in West Point, Va., was fired in 2018.”)
- Hampton Roads groups rally to aid western North Carolina after Helene
- Hurricane Helene deaths in Virginia up to 2, future rain prompts more concern
- As floodwaters recede, residents of Damascus assess their future (“A tally of damages is still underway, but much of the small Washington County town bears the marks of the storm that pummeled Southwest Virginia late last week.”)
- ‘This was a life-or-death situation’ Va. State Police detail daring helicopter rescue
- Monday flood update, boil water advisory for Montgomery County and Virginia Tech (“Most streams and rivers in Southwest Virginia have dropped below flood stage. But efforts to clean up and repair the damage will continue for some time.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Still dreary before sun returns Thursday into the weekend
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