by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 11.
- With a Warming Climate, Coastal Fog Around the World Is Declining (“In California, dissipating “June gloom” could bring a dismal future for some of the state’s redwoods and Torrey pines.”)
- Can the World’s Most Polluting Heavy Industries Decarbonize? (“The production of steel, cement and ammonia emit about one-fifth of all human-caused CO2. Technologies are emerging to decarbonize these industries, but big challenges remain.”)
- EXCLUSIVE U.S., EU line up over 20 more countries for global methane pact
- China Coal Futures Surge to Record as Flood Swamps Mine Hub
- Nobel Prize in economics awarded to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens (“Card was recognized for his contributions to labor economics, while Angrist and Imbens won the award for their contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”)
- India’s Reliance swoops on solar capacity as part of net zero goal
- U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’
- Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
- Drugs, arms, and terror: A high-profile defector on Kim’s North Korea
- Tens of thousands flock to pro-EU demonstrations in Polish cities
- Mass protests in Poland amid EU exit fears
- AstraZeneca antibody cocktail succeeds in late-stage study to treat COVID-19
- Czech president in hospital after shock election defeat for PM (“Fears of a political crisis as Miloš Zeman, an ally of Andrej Babiš, is admitted to intensive care unit”)
- Families separated by Trump administration at the border still waiting for reunification
- Lebanon’s electricity was down for a day, but the crisis was years in the making (“A power outage is just the latest political nightmare for Lebanon.”)
- French Child Kidnapping Plot Shows Global Sway Of QAnon Style(“A French group with echoes of QAnon funded the crime, demonstrating how the conspiracy movement has metastasized around the world.”)
- China’s Property Market Faces a $5 Trillion Reckoning
- Oil Jumps Above $80, Turbocharged by Supply Shortages
- Merck Seeks Emergency Use Authorization for Pill to Treat Covid
- Joe Biden’s FDR Dream Hits the Rocks (“Promises of a truly transformative presidency have run up against reality.”)
- Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Bills Pending in Congress (“Legislation aimed at infrastructure and social programs also includes big changes in energy, transportation and disaster preparation. They would amount to the most significant climate action ever taken by the United States.”)
- Biden needs a reboot. Fighting for democracy is the key.
- Democrats, You’re in Danger
- We Are Republicans With a Plea: Elect Democrats in 2022
- Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near
- GOP Rep. Steve Scalise Still Refuses To Acknowledge 2020 Election Was Legitimate (“The House’s second-ranking Republican repeated without evidence the false claim that states did not follow the Constitution when certifying their votes.”)
- Liz Cheney Accuses Scalise of ‘Attack’ on U.S. After He Refuses to Say Election Wasn’t Stolen
- Floods Threaten a Quarter of Critical Infrastructure in U.S.
- Trump Asked His Top Intelligence Official to Explore Insane Conspiracy Theory That Chinese Thermostats Changed Votes in the 2020 Election: New Book
- Trump boasted of crowd size at Jan. 6 riot, new book says
- House Capitol attack panel ready to urge prosecution of Trump aides, says Schiff (“Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon and Kash Patel all defying subpoenas under instruction from Trump”)
- Rep. Schiff reveals impeachment regrets, tensions on Capitol Hill after insurrection (“He said that even relationships with Republican colleagues that had previously been amicable are now compromised, including with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Even after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Schiff thought the country might turn a corner, but “that flickering of conscience within the GOP lasted about 30 seconds for Kevin McCarthy,” he said.”)
- Schiff: Republican Party “Is Now an Autocratic Cult Around Donald Trump”
- Kyrsten Sinema Is Confounding Her Own Party. But … Why?
- US Capitol Police whistleblower alleges leadership failures on January 6
- Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to share submarine secrets with a foreign country
- Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing
- Allen West, unvaccinated Republican running for governor in Texas, has Covid (“Ex-congressman ‘taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin’ while his wife, Angela West, also positive but vaccinated”)
- Eric Clapton Isn’t Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense—He’s Bankrolling It (Horrible person.)
- North Carolina lieutenant governor says he “will not back down” amid calls to resign for calling LGBTQ+ education “filth”
- Columbus Day is not a holiday the U.S. — and Italian Americans — should celebrate (“We should stop trying to salvage a holiday that brings us no glory while reinforcing the pain of the descendants of the people Christopher Columbus exploited.”)
- Goodbye, Columbus? Here’s what Indigenous Peoples’ Day means to Native Americans
- Abigail Spanberger column: The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for Virginia: Why it needs a vote now
- With 23 Days Until VA Election Day 2021, Here’s Where Things Stand in Polling, PredictIt and Early Voting
- Video: After Glenn Youngkin Blows Off CNN’s “State of the Union,” Host Dana Bash Thanks Terry McAuliffe for “Taking Tough Questions,” Says Youngkin Was Invited But “Declined”
- Virginia’s gubernatorial election is more important than ever as a national barometer
- NEW TV AD: Terry for Virginia Releases “Everybody” on Terry’s Plans to Build A Stronger Economy & Lift Up All Virginians
- Census Data Shows Incarceration Trending Down
- Redistricting commission won’t finish legislative maps, turns attention to congressional districts
- Understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Virginia has put patients at risk, former employees say
- A year into legal sales, medical marijuana patients see high prices and long waits
- In Virginia, it’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. But it’s also, officially, Columbus Day. (There’s really no good reason to be celebrating Columbus.)
- For 20 years, white students have been accepted into Maggie Walker at a rate nearly four times higher than Black students
- In Henrico suburbs, two different approaches in key races for control of the House of Delegates
- Newcomer faces veteran supervisor in Stafford’s Aquia board race
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm through Saturday, with several days near 80 degrees
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