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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, Memorial Day, May 31. Respect and deep gratitude to all members of the military who sacrificed their lives to help defend our nation and our democracy.
- Climate Talks Resume Online as Pressure to Act Grows (“For the first time since 2019 and following a flurry of net-zero pledges from the world’s largest emitters, UN climate negotiations resume Monday in a virtual format just six months before the crunch COP26 summit. “)
- Companies should pay more for pollution, says UN special envoy on climate action Mark Carney
- The climate is moving to greater and greater extremes — acting now can reduce risks
- Solar and wind projects fear big delays from new “one at a time” connection rules
- Germany deployed 620 MW of solar in April
- OECD raises growth forecasts on vaccine rollouts and U.S. stimulus
- Covid: Vietnam starts mass testing as new variant emerges
- Covid-19: UK in early stages of third wave – scientist
- Israel Moves Toward Coalition Deal That Could Sideline Netanyahu
- Israeli opposition parties reach agreement to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Naftali Bennett: The right-wing millionaire who may end Netanyahu era
- Israel’s opposition has finally mustered a majority to dislodge Binyamin Netanyahu
- NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
- China Moves to Three-Child Policy to Boost Falling Birthrate
- A Resurgent World Economy Is Seen Leaving Many Behind
- Leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face ‘covid-26 and covid-32’
- U.S. Covid cases near pandemic low as travel picks up for Memorial Day weekend
- A big jobs report looms in the week ahead, as markets enter the often-weak month of June
- N.Korea slams end to U.S. guidelines limiting S.Korea missile range
- It’s OK not to feel normal yet as the US reopens
- Empty airports and full delivery trucks: Covid’s toll on infrastructure, by the numbers
- For Memorial Day, Biden Pays Tribute To Fallen Service Members In Delaware
- Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights (“DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be the best shot for defending democracy”)
- Is America’s Democracy Slipping Away? (“Most Republican senators couldn’t vote for the independent commission, because the people attempting the insurrection were their voters. The insurrectionists didn’t so much want to completely destroy democracy but to redefine democracy as a system in which their voice held more weight, determinative weight. The insurrectionists want the same thing as the Republican Party that shields them.”)
- Shadow primary: GOP 2024 hopefuls dive into House races to get around Trump
- How Young G.O.P. Leaders Sold Out Their Generation
- Sorry, Republicans: Joe Biden isn’t Jimmy Carter — and these aren’t the 1970s (“Never mind the gas lines: Superficial similarities aside, we live in a vastly different world now”)
- Four more indicted in alleged Jan. 6 Oath Keepers conspiracy to obstruct election vote in Congress
- California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a photo essay (“Water shortages and dry conditions are already affecting the state as the governor has declared an emergency in 41 of 58 counties”)
- Sharp rise in Florida manatee deaths as algal blooms hasten food depletion (“Death toll at 749, on course to pass high mark set in 2018; Pollution including nutrient runoff kills seagrass”)
- Athletes Will Never Be Quiet Again (“A year of activism after George Floyd’s murder reframed the role of sports in American public life.”)
- Two Dead and at Least 20 Wounded in South Florida Shooting
- Trump’s Ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Calls For Myanmar-Type Coup In U.S. (How on earth was Flynn ever in a position of any authority, also how on earth did he ever have a security clearance?!?)
- Texas’ fix after blackout doesn’t dwell on climate change
- Texas Democrats Walk Out, Stop Republican’s Sweeping Voting Restrictions
- Texas Democrats block restrictive voting bill by walking off the floor to deny GOP-majority House a quorum
- Texas Democrats stage walkout to stop debate on restrictive voting bill, delaying final passage
- Why it took 100 years for America to learn about the Tulsa massacre (“The long-hidden racist attack on ‘Black Wall Street’ and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.” This is the part of US history that Republicans like Glenn Youngkin don’t want taught in schools. Gee, wonder why that is…)
- ‘They were killing all the Black people’: This 107-year-old still remembers Tulsa massacre
- Matt Gaetz says $155k to close on yacht with his fiancee ‘went missing’
- Brands Cut Ties With Nashville Store Selling “Not Vaccinated” Star of David Patches
- J.D. Vance emerges as wild card in Ohio GOP Senate primary
- Barbara Comstock: If Trump disappeared there wouldn’t be many Republicans in the search party
- Video: Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA10) “Optimistic” That, Despite Republicans’ Rejection of 1/6 Commission, “Truth Will Come Out”
- Celebrating Medicaid Expansion in Virginia, Three Years After Its Passage (Note that this happened after years of Republicans saying “NO” to expanding healthcare access)
- Latinos have become the second-most vaccinated in Virginia. Community clinics are a major reason why
- Sunday (5/30) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations at Lowest Point Since Start of Pandemic; 10-Day New COVID Cases at Lowest Point Since 4/1/20
- Coronavirus continues its retreat in Hampton Roads
- Arrival of largest container ship ever on East Coast portends things to come for Port of Virginia
- They’re rodents, of unusual size: War on invasive nutria heats up in Hampton Roads, with collateral damage (“Nutria — an invasive, destructive species — invaded the southside of Hampton Roads years ago from North Carolina. In 2020, it was discovered that the giant rats have crossed the James River, getting a toehold in virgin territory with enough prime habitat to allow their population to boom.”)
- Anti-racism protesters reprise George Floyd rally and march to Roanoke police station
- Historians Want Resources for Island Now Going to the Birds
- D.C.-area forecast: Bye-bye, dreary chill; hello, warm sunshine (“Temperatures return to more typical levels for the time of year over the next few days.”)
