by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 24.
- Exposing the Financial Costs of Climate Change—and Denial of the Climate Crisis (“As a warming planet brings economic tensions to a boil, following the money can reveal some critical stories.”)
- John Kerry Is Looking for Money (to Help Save the Climate) (“Private capital may require some ‘concessions’ before it helps developing countries transition to clean energy.”)
- Exclusive: Toyota scrambles for EV reboot with eye on Tesla
- EU countries seek common stance on climate compensation for COP27
- Fears of a severe recession deepen as European business activity slows on surging energy costs
- U.S. and allies reject Russian claims that Ukraine plans to use dirty bomb on itself
- Russia could plan ‘dirty bomb’ pretext, Western countries say
- Russia Moves to Defend Kherson Against Ukraine’s Advance Before Winter
- Ukraine denounces Russia’s ‘dirty bomb’ claims
- Ukraine Latest: Russia Presses Warning of ‘Dirty Bomb’ by Kyiv (Very, very dangerous.)
- Freed Ukrainian women recount torture and other brutal treatment in Russian prisons
- Russian fighter jet crashes in Siberia, killing two crew members
- Cheney slams ‘pro-Putin’ McCarthy over Ukraine funding threat (McCarthy is a disgrace and obviously never should be allowed to be Speaker of the House.)
- Macron says it’s up to Ukraine to decide how and when peace deal comes
- World faces tension with China under Xi Jinping’s third term
- Democrats have a strong closing argument: The GOP would wreck the economy
- China’s Xi is more powerful than ever. What does it mean for the world? (Nothing good whatsoever.)
- China economy grows faster than expected, but falls short of targets as risks loom (“GDP rose 3.9% in the July to September quarter, but China remains on track to deliver among weakest growth in almost four decades”)
- Xi’s Power Grab Spurs Historic Market Rout
- UK has a clear front-runner in race to be new prime minister (“Many of Boris Johnson’s supporters blame Rishi Sunak for helping oust the former leader from power in July after a series of scandals”)
- Next UK prime minister: Sunak closes in after Johnson balks
- Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race
- Sunak closing in on No 10 as Mordaunt races to get 100 backers
- The Bonfire of the Tories
- The Front-Runner Could Say, ‘I Told You So’ (“Rishi Sunak’s warnings about inflation and his fiscal conservatism may have cost him in September. But now they’re easing his path.”)
- Mexico faces flooding threat after deadly Hurricane Roslyn lashes country
- Children’s hospitals grapple with a nationwide surge in RSV infections
- A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise
- Oh, Myyyy Is George Takei Correct: The Economy Really Does Perform Better on Nearly Every Metric Under Democratic than Republican Presidents (In fact, “G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century.”)
- Biden can’t do much to bring down gas prices. But a recession can (Biden’s also not in any way/shape/form responsible for higher gas prices. That’s simply not the way it works.)
- Only 5% of plastic waste generated by US last year was recycled, report says (Appalling.)
- This Supreme Court Term Is All About White Grievance (“The justices are poised to rule that the real victims of racism are white people.” These people are completely f’ed up.)
- House GOP’s 2023 forecast: Fiscal warfare
- Voter beware: Divided government will be an unholy mess (This is the LAST thing voters should want, especially considering that a Democratic Congress with a Democratic president just got a TON of great stuff done!)
- Juan Williams: The GOP is embracing Christian nationalism
- US midterm elections: early voting on track to match 2018 record
- Woodward says Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘a threat to democracy’
- The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger
- Trump Plans to Challenge the 2022 Elections — Starting in Philly
- Full Cheney: ‘If Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican Party, the party will shatter’
- Trump is not ‘man enough’ to testify in Jan. 6 probe, Pelosi says
- Cheney rejects possibility of Trump Jan. 6 testimony on live TV
- Trump Organization’s Tax Fraud Trial to Begin on Monday
- The top DOJ prosecutor taking on Trump
- Scoop: Tucker Carlson lashes out at GOP campaign chief in irate private call
- Democrats locked in close contests with election deniers for key secretary of state posts
- Potential mass layoffs at Twitter could cripple content moderation, some experts say (Which will turn Twitter into an unusable hellhole.)
- Twitter is already under pressure as Musk closes in
- Dominion Voting Systems CEO speaks out against conspiracy theories
- More antisemitic hate seen in L.A. after Kanye West’s remarks (At this point, anyone defending Kanye or making excuses for his vicious anti-Semitism is likely anti-Semitic themselves.)
- Top Fox lawyer’s “big screw up” could reveal Lachlan Murdoch’s secrets
- Kari Lake suggests early voting be restricted in Arizona as she repeats election lies (Youngkin campaigned for this horrible person.)
- Kari Ann Lake’s Hijacking of Martin Luther King
- Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council
- Murkowski and Peltola aren’t running as a ticket — but they might as well be
- Doug Mastriano: is the Trump-backed election denier too extreme to win?
- How rural Nevada became the next battleground for the ‘Big Lie’
- Rep. Elaine Luria’s Busy Week: Won the Second VA-02 Debate, Participated in a Reagan Institute Panel on the Navy, Endorsed By National Security Leaders and The Washington Post
- Cheney knocks Youngkin for campaigning with Trump-backed election deniers
- Chair of VA Senate Privileges & Elections Committee Lionell Spruill Demands “actual explanation” From Youngkin’s Elections Commissioner to Problems with Voter Registration, Incorrect Polling Location Information. (Sen. Spruill wants answers “no later than the close of business Monday given that we are currently in active voting.”)
- Loudoun school board race partisan, tense and a test of GOP appeal
- Patients in peril: Demand for medical services grows in Virginia, but number of doctors doesn’t
- Virginia Supreme Court upholds ‘open courts,’ narrows FOIA personnel exemption
- Officials got rid of an abandoned road culvert. Now migrating fish can swim freely.
- Roanoke youth question council candidates during Sunday forum
- Editorial: How else to honor Roanoke’s Reuben Lawson?
- D.C.-area forecast: Pleasant temperatures but lots of clouds to start the week
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