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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and views in September 2022. Part 2 covers the period from Sept. 25 to the end of the month. Part 1 covers the earlier part of the month.October Update
Oct. 2
Top Headlines
New York Times, As New Term Starts, Supreme Court Is Poised to Resume Rightward Push, Adam Liptak- New York Times, Ukrainian Troops Hunt Demoralized Russian Stragglers in Seized City
- Washington Post, Florida death toll at 48 as Ian aftermath reverberates and cleanup begins
- Associated Press via Politico, Bolsonaro, Lula appear headed for runoff in Brazil's presidential election
- Washington Post, Brazil makes pivotal decision: More Bolsonaro or back to Lula?
- Washington Post, She was the No. 1 educator in her school. Now in the U.S., ‘one day teaching here is like a month’
Released American Hostages
Washington Post, Americans captured by Russia detail months of beatings, interrogation, Dan Lamothe - New York
Times, American Prisoners Are Released From Venezuela and Iran
More On Monday's U.S. Supreme Court Opening
- New York Times, Editorial: The Supreme Court Has a Crisis of Trust
- Washington Post, Editorial: Good on the Supreme Court for keeping live audio. Now it’s time to go further
- Washington Post, Opinion: A partisan Supreme Court is 2022’s other incumbent, E.J. Dionne
U.S. Hurricane Coverage
Washington Post, Floridians hit by hurricane face gridlock, flooding, extensive damage- New York Times, Staggering Scale of Wreckage Becomes Clear
- New York Times, Facing a Dire Storm Forecast in Florida, Officials Delayed Evacuation
- Washington Post, Hurricane Ian may leave behind a trail of environmental hazards
More On Ukraine War
- New York Times, Panic, Bribes and Ditched Cars: Portraits of Flight From Russia
New York Times, Ukraine Updates: Ukrainian Forces Patrol Strategic City After Russia’s Hasty Retreat
Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: U.S., U.K. say Russia’s retreat from Lyman is ‘significant’- Washington Post, Russia’s annexation puts world ‘two or three steps away’ from nuclear war
- Washington Post, Opinion: Putin’s recruits are heading for slaughter, Mark Hertling
- Washington Post, Searching for bodies with the Ukrainian captain collecting Russian corpses
- Politico, Zelenskyy vows to retake more areas after pushing Russia out of key Donetsk city
Trump Probes, Disputes, Rallies, Supporters
- Washington Post, National Archives says it’s still missing records from Trump officials
- Palmer Report, Analysis: Turns out Donald Trump’s classified documents scandal is even uglier than we knew, Bill Palmer
- HuffPost, DOJ Seeks Expedited Appeal In Trump's Mar-A-Lago Documents Battle
World News, Human Rights, Disasters
- Washington Post, At least 174 killed at Indonesia soccer game as police use force against crowds
- Washington Post, Opinion: Post Elizabeth: Palace video footage demands are an early red flag, Autumn Brewingon
- New York Times, Analysis: Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates, Max Fisher
New York Times, Bolsonaro vs. Lula: Brazil Faces Radically Opposed Options in Divisive Election- Washington Post, Brazil’s Indigenous women have had it. A record number are running for office
U.S. Politics, Elections, Economy, Governance
- Washington Post, Carter, longest living president, marks 98th birthday in Georgia hometown
- Washington Post, CPAC backpedals on pro-Russia tweet as some U.S. conservatives back Putin
- Washington Post, Congress proves to be productive as Democrats navigate with slim majority, Azi Paybarah
- New York Times, The Racial Divide Herschel Walker Couldn’t Outrun
- New York Times, Federal Judge Rules Against Fair Fight Action in Georgia Voting Lawsuit
- Washington Post, Abbott and O’Rourke clash on immigration, guns in only scheduled debate in Texas governor’s race
U.S. Courts, Crime, Immigration, Shootings, Gun Laws
Washington Post, Opinion: Italy and Sweden show why Biden must fix the immigration system, Fareed Zakaria- Washington Post, Jail warden, his twin brother charged in roadside shooting of Mexican migrants
Pandemic, Public Health
New York Times, In China, Living Not ‘With Covid,’ but With ‘Zero Covid’- New York Times, Analysis: New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Isn’t Ready, Apoorva Mandavilli
Abortion, Forced Birth Laws, Privacy Rights
- New York Times, Special Report: What It Costs to Get an Abortion Now in America, Allison McCann
- New York Times, In the House fight for the New York City suburbs, will abortion turn the tide for Democrats?
- Washington Post, University of Idaho may stop providing birth control under new abortion law,
Food, Water, Energy, Climate, Disasters
U.S. Media, Sports, Culture, Education
- Washington Post, Tua Tagovailoa’s injury renews debate over how broadcasts handle concussions
- New York Times, Opinion: The Crisis of Men and Boys, David Brooks
Top Stories
This week's new official portrait of the U.S. Supreme Court
New York Times, As New Term Starts, Supreme Court Is Poised to Resume Rightward Push, Adam Liptak, Oct. 2, 2022. The justices return to the bench on Monday to hear major cases on affirmative action, voting, race and discrimination against gay couples; The court’s conservative majority seems set to dominate the new term as it did the last one, which ended with bombshell rulings on issues like abortion.The last Supreme Court term ended with a series of judicial bombshells in June that eliminated the right to abortion, established a right to carry guns outside the home and limited efforts to address climate change. As the justices return to the bench on Monday, there are few signs that the court’s race to the right is slowing.
The new term will feature major disputes on affirmative action, voting, religion, free speech and gay rights. And the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority seems poised to dominate the new term as it did the earlier one.
“On things that matter most,” said Irv Gornstein, the executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law, “get ready for a lot of 6-3s.”
Several of the biggest cases concern race, in settings as varied as education, voting and adoptions.
They include challenges to the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. As in last term’s abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, longstanding precedents are at risk.
The court has repeatedly upheld affirmative-action programs meant to ensure educational diversity at colleges and universities, most recently in 2016. In an interview that year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the issue had been permanently settled.
In that same interview, though, she said she feared what would happen were Donald J. Trump, then on the campaign trail, to become president.
“For the country, it could be four years,” she said. “For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
Mr. Trump went on to name three members of the Supreme Court, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who succeeded Justice Ginsburg after her death in 2020.
Those changes put more than 40 years of affirmative action precedents at risk, including Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 decision in which the Supreme Court endorsed holistic admissions programs, saying it was permissible to consider race as one factor among many to achieve educational diversity. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she expected that “25 years from now,” the “use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”
The court seems poised to say that the time for change has arrived several years early in the two new cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707. They are set to be argued on Oct. 31.
The role race may play in government decision-making also figures in a voting rights case to be argued on Tuesday, Merrill v. Milligan, No. 21-1086. The case is a challenge under the Voting Rights Act to an Alabama electoral map that a lower court had said diluted the power of Black voters.
New York Times, Ukrainian Troops Hunt Demoralized Russian Stragglers in Seized City, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Schwirtz and Norimitsu Onishi, Oct. 2, 2022. A major Russian newspaper said the Russian troops, facing defeat in Lyman, had fled with “empty eyes” after barely escaping with their lives.Ukrainian forces on Sunday hunted Russian stragglers in the key city of Lyman, which was taken back from Russia after its demoralized troops, according to a major Russian newspaper, fled with “empty eyes,” and despite Moscow’s baseless claim it had annexed the region surrounding the city.
Two days after President Vladimir V. Putin held a grandiose ceremony to commemorate the incorporation of four Ukrainian territories into Russia, the debacle in the city — Lyman, a strategic railway hub in the eastern region of Donbas — ratcheted up pressure on a Russian leadership already facing withering criticism at home for its handling of the war and its conscription of up to 300,000 men into military service.
Russia’s retreat from Lyman, which sits on a riverbank that has served as a natural division between the Russian and Ukrainian front lines, came after weeks of fierce fighting.
In an unusually candid article published Sunday, the ...
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