by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 2. Polls open Tuesday morning at 6 am; no more in-person, early voting at this point (but remember, “If you are returning your ballot by mail, it must be postmarked on or before election day and received by your general registrar’s office by noon on the third day following the election”).
- Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out
- EU climate chief says US absence from COP30 is ‘watershed moment’
- Climate change drives ancient Socotra dragon’s blood tree to brink of extinction
- Trump Pivot Is a ‘Watershed Moment’ for Climate, Says EU’s Hoekstra
- Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine says its troops still holding out in embattled Pokrovsk (“Ukraine military says it has improved positions in several districts, while Moscow says its troops are enclosing in on Ukrainian forces. What we know on day 1,348”)
- China’s pause on rare earth export controls extends to EU
- Trump Plays Nice With Asian Allies Stung by Repeated Threats
- Next Question for Gaza Peace Plan: Who Wants to Police It?
- Syrian president expected to meet Trump at the White House, U.S. envoy says
- Trump says he’s ordered Pentagon to ‘prepare for possible action’ in Nigeria
- Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
- UK police say 10 people in hospital after train stabbing attack, 9 with life-threatening injuries
- Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes (That’s not up to the president to decide!)
- War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
- These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela
- Three killed in US military strike on alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean (“Defense secretary announces a new strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, bringing total killed in US strikes to at least 64 people”)
- Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note (“By selling hope alongside progressive patriotism, the centrist D66 party widened its appeal and beat the far right”)
- Trump’s immigration raids continue through Halloween in Chicago and Los Angeles
- On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
- 2025 Is ICE’s Deadliest Year In 20 Years
- Tens of Millions of People Lost Their Food Stamps—For Now (“Judges ordered the federal government use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.”)
- Uncertainty over federal food aid deepens as the shutdown fight reaches a crisis point
- After a month of the shutdown, workers face mounting bills, car repossessions
- Shutdown Pain Spreads at One Month, Touching Tens of Millions
- Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda
- A Third Trump Term Is Not the Charm (“The overriding concern among congressional supporters of the 22nd Amendment was to limit the president’s overall tenure of office. They did not parse the difference between service and election; they did not intend to create some special scenario by which, if a president followed the right steps, he could circumvent the restriction. They meant, simply, to restrict the president to two full terms for fear of what might be if presidential power fell into the wrong hands.”)
- Trump dismisses SNAP recipients he’s trying to shaft as ‘largely Democrats’
- New SNAP restrictions go into place amid shutdown drama
- Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito (“Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration.” Massive corruption!)
- Trump, 79, Claims It’s ‘Illegal’ for Late-Night Host to Mock Him (“The president is once again shouting at the TV.”)
- New warning signs emerge for Lindsey Halligan’s effort to prosecute Trump’s foes
- FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use (” The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.” If something like this happened in a DEMOCRATIC administration, it would be a MASSIVE scandal. But in the Trump administration, the media’s like, “yawn, whatever, who cares?”)
- Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds
- As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost (“The wit and wisdom of the superstar ex-US president make him the best candidate – too bad he can’t run” Obama really is amazing; and no, Democrats – let alone Republicans – don’t have anyone else like him. Trump is like the ANTI-Obama in every way.)
- Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board
- Democrats are searching for their next leader. But they still have Obama.
- Obama Is Now Not So Sure America Can Survive Under Trump
- The MAGA Right’s Antisemitism Problem
- The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
- Exclusive: Heritage Reassigns Chief of Staff Following Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes Fallout
- Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons (“Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish” She’s completely insane.)
- Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional
- Live Video, Updates: With Election Day in <72 Hours, Barack Obama, Abigail Spanberger, Tim Kaine, Bobby Scott, Louise Lucas, Don Scott, etc, etc, Rally with 8,000 Supporters in Norfolk
- Obama criticizes Trump and Republican policy in stump speech for Abigail Spanberger
- Obama urges Virginians to send message by electing Spanberger
- Obama talks values during campaign stop with Spanberger
- Obama rallies with Spanberger in Norfolk
- Photos: Spanberger’s “Virginia Votes Bus Tour” Continues Through Greater Richmond & Petersburg (Spanberger met “Virginians in Ashland, Richmond, and Midlothian — and also joining Virginians who are working to get out the vote in Petersburg.”)
- Jay Jones is back in the Democratic fold amid texting scandal
- New Virginia Polls: Atlas Intel (Spanberger +8.7, Hashmi +6.1, Miyares +1.5); Echelon (Spanberger +12, Hashmi +3, Miyares +3); etc.
- New poll: Spanberger, Hashmi with nice leads; AG race still up for grabs
- Earle-Sears, running mates, Youngkin rally in Abingdon, urge big turnout
- Winsome Earle-Sears Campaigns in Northern Virginia (Almost every word from these people was either fear mongering, bigotry, distortions, lies or all of the above. Truly disgusting.)
- Editorial: Gratitude warranted for professionalism of Virginia’s election workers
- Hampton Roads Alliance releases next-era playbook to grow jobs, economy
- Williams: It’s time to say goodbye to the Richmond Coliseum
- Blacksburg will elect a new mayor. Sutphin, Macedo make their final pitches.
- 5 candidates compete for 3 seats on Blacksburg Town Council in Nov. 4 election
- CWG Live updates: Mostly nice through the first week of November
