by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 21.
- Timber companies claim carbon credits for trees they don’t cut down
- Report: 2023 a record year for wind installations (“The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record, according to a new report by the industry’s trade association…But the authors warned that the wind industry must increase its annual growth to at least 320 gigawatts by 2030 in order to meet the COP28 pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy generation capacity by 2030, as well as to meet the Paris Agreement’s ambition of capping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”)
- Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds
- Criminalization of Indigenous Land Defenders on the Rise, Says UN Report (Unacceptable.)
- Long-awaited U.S. aid should arrive just in time to avert Ukraine’s defeat
- Ukraine war briefing: ‘Thank you America’ says Zelenskiy as aid passes House at last
- Russia says deeper U.S. hybrid war using Ukraine will end in Vietnam-style humiliation
- Ukraine aid package could help Kyiv slow Russia’s advance (Give them everything they need – ASAP!)
- Ukrainian and Western leaders laud US aid package while the Kremlin warns of ‘further ruin’
- US weighs sending additional military advisers to Ukraine as Russia gains momentum
- House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
- House passes sweeping foreign aid bill, sending help to Ukraine and Israel
- Trump Deflates (“It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid. — Ukraine won. Trump lost. — The House vote to aid Ukraine renews hope that Ukraine can still win its war. It also showed how and why Donald Trump should lose the 2024 election.”)
- Statement from President Joe Biden on House Passage of the National Security Package
- By passing Ukraine aid, the accidental speaker became an unlikely Churchill (Stephen Collinson is usually excellent, but this headline…yikes.)
- Republicans erupt into open warfare over Ukraine aid package vote
- How Mike Johnson Got to ‘Yes’ on Aid to Ukraine (“Intelligence, politics and personal considerations converted the Republican speaker, who had largely opposed aid to Ukraine as a rank-and-file member, into the key figure pushing it through Congress.”)
- House approves $61bn aid for Ukraine – what we know so far, and what happens next (“The whole package will now go to the Senate, which could pass it as soon as Tuesday. It is then passed to Biden, the US president, who has promised to sign it immediately.”)
- Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 18, mostly children, as US advances aid package
- Inside the White House’s Scramble to Avert Full-Blown Middle East War
- Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops (Go rebels!)
- US to withdraw from Niger after security pact fails in strategic victory for Russia (That’s not good at all.)
- The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the US, but don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon
- Biden marks 25th anniversary of Columbine shooting
- Do Republicans really care about democracy as much as Democrats? No.
- How Trump could win at the Supreme Court even if his broad immunity argument is rejected (“If the court rejects Trump’s broad immunity claim, it could still send the case back to a lower court for more deliberations, which could further delay a potential trial.” That would be outrageous.)
- Millions more go to Trump legal expenses as Biden and Democratic Party expand campaign cash advantage
- Trump’s legal bills drain millions more from his political committees
- Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden
- Trump Rally, a Return to the Campaign Trail, Is Called Off Because of Storms
- Trump forced to listen silently to people insulting him as he trades a cocoon of adulation for court
- Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports
- Will a Mountain of Evidence Be Enough to Convict Trump?
- Trump’s Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control
- Who’s Afraid of Judging Donald Trump? Lots of People
- Biden’s budding behemoth, Trump’s legal spending and other takeaways from campaign finance reports
- Biden celebrates Tennessee Volkswagen plant’s vote to join UAW
- Mike Pence: Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement
- Virginia senators want flight expansion at DCA halted
- Video: Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA08), Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Urge House to Pass Aid to Ukraine, Stand Against “depraved, thuggish dictator, Vladimir Putin” (“We must meet this test today. We must stand with Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!”)
- ‘The Ukrainian-Russian Border Is OUR Border!!’ Democrat Gerry Connolly Rages At Republicans Over Opposition to Ukraine Aid Package
- Video: On “Friday Power Lunch,” Sen. Louise Lucas Says “tick tick tick, [Youngkin’s] time is ticking down, he is definitely lame duck” (Lucas says Winsome Sears is ok “as long as she stays in her lane”; gives big “thumbs up” to comment about Sears “keep[ing] her cuckoo to herself”)
- What did the Virginia General Assembly accomplish in their one-day session?
- Editorial: Individual choices add up, and can protect our environment (“Hampton Roads residents can do plenty to protect our land, water and air and preserve our region’s natural habitat for future generations.”)
- Editorial: Systemic economic isolation, not gun-toting teenagers, is killing RVA
- Williams: How do you define hypocrisy? Ask Hanover, which just censored a Girl Scout
- D.C.-area forecast: Much cooler today with plenty of clouds, then turning sunny and warmer
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