by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 5.
- Climate Change Is Threatening Komodo Dragons, Earth’s Largest Living Lizards
- Indigenous leaders push new target to protect Amazon from deforestation
- Tuna bounce back, but sharks in ‘desperate’ decline
- Mexico’s Journalists Speak Truth To Power, And Lose Their Lives For It
- Delta Surge Means This Is as Good as it Gets for Global Growth
- Taliban Fighters Crush a Women’s Protest Amid Flickers of Resistance
- Taliban, opposition fight for Afghan holdout province, top U.S. general warns of civil war
- Afghanistan pullout sparks EU calls for more military might
- As China woos the Taliban, Uyghurs in Afghanistan fear for their lives
- The Lessons of Defeat in Afghanistan (“After twenty years, it hardly needs saying that America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were disastrous to U.S. interests and standing.”)
- No major organized religion objects to Covid vaccines. Will religious exemptions hold?
- Why America has 8.4 million unemployed when there are 10 million job openings
- The Full Scale of Ida’s Shocking Wrath Is Beginning to Emerge
- Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer
- New York mayor: Ida devastation shows need to prepare for ‘very, very worst’ (It also shows the need to get off of fossil fuels ASAP!)
- Biden to travel to all three 9/11 sites for 20th anniversary of attacks
- 9/11 and the Rise of the Homeland-Security Industrial Complex
- How Has Joe Biden Become So Unpopular? (“Biden’s slide is noteworthy, but it is also exactly what we should expect given the structural conditions of American politics in the 21st century.”)
- Cheney, Thompson slam McCarthy’s comments about Trump, Jan. 6: ‘Baseless’
- January 6 select committee refutes claim by McCarthy that the Justice Department cleared Trump of any role in insurrection
- Thompson & Cheney Statement on McCarthy’s January 6th Misinformation Campaign
- Hillary Clinton warned us this day would come
- Dread at 30,000 ft: Inside the increasingly violent world of US flight attendants
- Five tax issues to watch as Democrats craft $3.5T bill
- White House says ball is in Congress’ court on voting rights, abortion
- Trump Gripes About Losing Ungrateful Catholic, Jewish Voters On Call With Religious Advisers
- Scoop: Trump nears deal for D.C. hotel
- S.B. 8 and the Texas Preview of a World Without Roe v. Wade (“The new law, an employee of Whole Woman’s Health said, has been ‘nothing short of devastating for our providers, our staff, and our patients.'”)
- The Sinister Origins of the Texas Abortion Law, and Why Democrats Are So Unprepared to Do Anything About It
- The Strange, Sudden Silence of Conservative Abortion Foes
- Facebook Apologizes After Its AI Labels Black Men As ‘Primates’ (They can apologize, but Facebook is still a disgrace in so many ways.)
- ADL head: On NY Islamic center, we were wrong, plain and simple
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom enters final stage of recall election fight
- Kamala Harris to campaign with Gavin Newsom in final stretch before California recall election
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch site threatens wildlife, Texas environmental groups say
- Florida grapples with COVID-19′s deadliest phase yet
- Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten announce birth of adopted twins
- ‘Today’ Veteran Willard Scott, Who Delivered Weather With Shtick, Dies At 87
- 5 years after a woman was killed by a flying beach umbrella, Virginia senators still pushing for safety measures
- COMMENTARY: PRO Act would harm Virginia businesses, workers (That’s just flat-out false.)
- Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor treads a slippery political path (“Glenn Youngkin has been endorsed by Trump but stays silent on the right wing’s cherished issues to win over moderate voters”)
- Virginia GOP lt. gov. nominee says she would support heartbeat abortion legislation
- Video: “The @GlennYoungkin ticket is now on record that they would bring a Texas-style abortion ban to our Commonwealth. It’s getting real folks.”
- Two recent decisions put Virginia on the right side of history and morality
- 1 in 4 Virginians hospitalized for coronavirus in intensive care now
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “We all want our normal life back, but COVID is not done with us.”
- Editorial: Evolving attitudes and skills will shape the future of work in Virginia
- Editorial: Striking a balance (“Is it possible to strike a balance that satisfies business and protects workers? Recent experience in Virginia suggests the answer is yes.”)
- Mountain Valley Pipeline seeks the identity of its anonymous critics (“Appalachians Against Pipelines says the subpoena is nothing more than an effort to intimidate and silence them — a position shared by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for privacy and free speech on the internet.”)
- Black women are dying of breast cancer in Hampton Roads at staggering rates, prompting national attention
- D.C.-area forecast: Plenty of clouds and some light showers possible today; trending nicer again on Labor Day
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