by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, November 12.
- Influential study sees momentum ebbing on cutting global CO2 emissions
- IEA Now Says Oil Consumption Could Keep Growing to 2050 (That’s just not going to cut it. At all.)
- Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people (“Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure”)
- Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA (“Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling”)
- Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says (“10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström”)
- Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives
- “A clear decline:” IEA says faster transition to renewables equals lower household prices
- ‘Godfathers of wind’ raise alarm as Trump urges countries to abandon climate fight
- Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip
- California governor calls Trump ‘an invasive species’ at Cop30 climate talks
- How a European cottage industry is fighting Russian drone incursions
- What the Looming Fall of a Ukrainian City Says About Putin’s War (“The brutal fight for Pokrovsk points to the Russian leader’s aims and the problem with peace talks.”)
- China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds (“World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity”)
- The Mess at the BBC Will Never End (“The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way.”)
- Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit (He definitely doesn’t!)
- Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge (Wildly unacceptable.)
- Israel’s longest war is leaving a trail of traumatized soldiers, with suicides also on the rise
- ‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row (“Relatives share with the Guardian final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman’s rule”)
- UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean (“Rare rupture between military allies comes as concerns grow over Trump administration’s lethal sinking of boats”)
- Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
- Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise (“USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989”)
- Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela
- Venezuela orders massive mobilization as U.S. aircraft carrier enters region
- Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street’s Expansion in India
- Trump defends H-1B visas: “You don’t have certain talents” in the U.S.
- Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds (“Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison”)
- Then They Came for the Dreamers (“Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.”)
- US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
- ICE ordered to release brothers with special status from Virginia detention facility
- DOJ Tells SCOTUS Trump Has Unreviewable Power to Send Troops to U.S. Cities (Insane.)
- Supreme Court extends temporary pause on $4 billion in SNAP payments for November (This court sucks.)
- Supreme Court extends its order blocking full SNAP payments, with shutdown potentially near an end
- The Supreme Court Just Took a Scary Voting Case That Has Trump Salivating. He Might Be Disappointed.
- The Fed Is Increasingly Torn Over a December Rate Cut
- Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say (“Republicans say giving health care subsidies as cash to consumers would give Americans more control over their coverage. Critics say it could severely undermine the ACA marketplaces.” Here we go with the “both sidesing” and “critics say” formulation. This is a verifiable fact – that Trump’s plan would “severely undermine the ACA marketplaces” – and the media should report it as such!)
- Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies
- As Shutdown Nears End, Trump Still Confronts Soaring Health Costs (“The central issue of the government closure remains unresolved, leaving Republicans under political pressure ahead of the midterms.”)
- Duffy: Travel disruptions will get “much worse” if shutdown doesn’t end soon
- A historic shutdown is nearly over. It leaves no winners and much frustration
- Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
- Republicans Inserted a Sinister Provision into the Shutdown Package (“The president is trying to undermine the investigation into his misdeeds, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune made the perfect puppet to get it done.”)
- After Election Day losses, Trump and MAGA will strike back hard (“Far from being a lame duck, Trump and MAGA will only escalate their attacks on democracy”)
- What Democrats say they won in the 43-day government shutdown (“Emotions are raw after eight senators voted to end the shutdown, but Democrats say they demonstrated an ability to take on Trump and shifted the conversation to health care.”)
- What if Democrats’ Big Shutdown Loss Turns Out to Be a Win?
- Democrats lose shutdown battle — as Trump, Republicans risk losing war (“Democrats are embroiled in a new round of infighting, while Republicans are bracing for longer-term consequences if they continue to oppose an extension of Obamacare subsidies.”)
- How Chuck Schumer plans to weather the storm
- Why Democrats Finally Caved In The Government Shutdown Fight (“Donald Trump was willing to make millions of people suffer. Democrats didn’t have the stomach for it.”)
- US House to vote on bill that could end longest-ever government shutdown (“Democrats have vowed to vote against the proposal after a faction of Senators broke with party to pass a compromise”)
- ‘Where the Hell Have You Been?’ House Democrat Gives Republicans Blunt Greeting After Long Absence
- Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats (“FHFA’s acting inspector general handed probe report to U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James”)
- Trump on higher prices: ‘Costs are way down,’ ‘con job by Democrats’ (Trump just flat-out, wildly lies…and the media’s mostly like, whatever.)
- Vance, RFK Jr. to mingle with health execs, influencers at DC MAHA summit (Appalling.)
- Trump built a surprising voter coalition. One key piece just cracked. (“Republicans could not recreate the president’s coalition in last week’s off-year elections.”)
- The President’s Most Annoying Buddy (“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remains in his position, despite a series of blunders.”)
- Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director (“In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet”)
- The Epstein files fight is finally coming to the House floor (“Long-delayed swearing-in of Arizona Democrat will set the stage for a vote President Trump has sought to avoid…The completion of the discharge petition, a rarely used mechanism to sidestep the majority party leadership, will trigger a countdown for the bill to hit the House floor. It will still take seven legislative days for the petition to ripen, after which Johnson will have two legislative days to schedule a vote. Senior Republican and Democratic aides estimate a floor vote will come the first week of December, after the Thanksgiving recess.”)
- Mike Johnson finally schedules Grijalva swearing in (4 pm today)
- Johnson to Seat Grijalva, Seven Weeks After She Was Elected
- Following Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, fault lines have emerged as right-wing media battle over the future of MAGA (“Some in MAGA media have tried to distance their movement from Fuentes and his ideas while others have suggested the white nationalist streamer is ‘mainstream now'”)
- Jack Schlossberg, member of Kennedy political dynasty, is running for Congress (“The 32-year-old said he will run as a Democrat for the New York City seat of U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who announced he’s retiring.”)
- Newsom tells AP the eight senators who struck the shutdown deal aren’t alarmed enough about Trump
- Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling
- Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
- Utah’s Cox supports effort to appeal court ruling on redistricting (“A district judge installed a new map late Monday night that would likely award Democrats a seat in deep-red Utah.”)
- Some Kansas Republicans Resist Redistricting Efforts Amid Growing Skepticism
- A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a raid on a small-town newspaper
- Tim Kaine Doesn’t Care That His Party Is Furious Over Shutdown Cave (“Senator Tim Kaine says people are ‘overdramatizing’ things.”)
- Kaine stands fast on shutdown deal that left other Democrats ‘furious’
- Politico, Punchbowl Report That Former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) “will launch a comeback bid Wednesday…join[ing] a crowded Dem primary to take on GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans.” (Luria served two terms before being narrowly defeated by Kiggans in November 2022.)
- U.S. Navy Veteran Rep. Elaine Luria Launches Campaign for Virginia’s Second Congressional District (Campaign argues Luria is “well positioned to unseat vulnerable Republican Jen Kiggans”)
- Former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria launches bid for her old seat in Virginia
- Former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is attempting a comeback bid in Virginia
- Roanoke author Beth Macy to run for Congress in 2026
- The 2026 Sixth District congressional field is starting to get crowded (“Ken Mitchell, who challenged Ben Cline in the Sixth District as it is currently drawn in 2024, and lost by 28.6 points, will formally launch his campaign for the 2026 cycle on Friday in Harrisonburg. Mitchell, a 24-year military veteran-turned-Rockingham County organic farmer, joins Pete Barlow, a former FEMA analyst-turned-Augusta County small farmer, in the Democratic Party nomination race. The rumored third candidate is bestselling author and journalist Beth Macy, whose book Dopesick is perhaps the defining piece of journalism on the U.S. opioid crisis.”)
- Scott, Wittman and Kiggans, on opposing sides in redistricting debate (That’s actually misleading; in fact, Wittman and Kiggans SUPPORT gerrymandering in red states, oppose them in blue states like Virginia.)
- Federal shutdown strains Virginia’s skies as controllers work without pay (“Flights face delays amid FAA staffing shortages; more than 1,100 Virginia controllers continue working as airports brace for deeper flight cuts.” Dangerous.)
- Youngkin’s Four-Year Fiasco: Far-Right Extremism, Incompetence, Failures, Embarrassments, Lies, etc. (130 items so far…and counting!)
- Va. redistricting reform advocate opposes mid-decade rewrite (Whatever.)
- Virginia’s artificial intelligence registry faces transparency challenges, study shows (“Research reveals state agencies’ mounting frustrations with the tool developed by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency”)
- Despite Democratic sweep, Virginia’s next governor faces hurdles ahead (Any Virginia governor – or governor of ANY state, for that matter – faces “hurdles ahead,” of course, thanks to the Trump administration and Republican Congress f’ing things up badly.)
- Here’s another reason why Spanberger’s margin was so large: Earle-Sears failed to excite working-class Republicans.
- Virginia Republicans are soul searching after last week’s elections (They’re really not, actually, because they refuse to look at the actual main root cause of their defeat, which is TRUMP! So of course this article doesn’t even mention that fact.)
- Senior Democrat’s joy tempered by economic reality
- Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair (Disappointing – but sadly not surprising, given that McAuliffe pushed for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Mountain Valley Pipeline when he was governor.)
- Why Richmond’s code refresh matters for equity and homeownership
- Changes announced at Mary Baldwin, speculation rampant on future of Staunton campus
- Reforest Richmond’s Tree Week plants the seeds of a greener city
- Residents say they’re worried about health impacts from MVP compressor station
- CWG Live: Winter chill wears off by this afternoon; staying dry for now
