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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, Virginia primary day, June 8. Polls opened at 6 am and close at 7 pm; vote at your usual location.
- “America is back”: Brussels upbeat on eve of Biden’s Europe trip
- G-7 leaders face pressure to aid poor countries grappling with climate change
- Netanyahu channels Trump as he makes his last stand
- Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory (Stop. Emitting. Carbon. Dioxide. ASAP.)
- Global carbon dioxide levels continued to rise despite pandemic
- Climate Change Has Central Americans Fleeing to the U.S.
- Carbon Dioxide, Which Drives Climate Change, Reaches Highest Level In 4 Million Years (Yeah, this will end well…NOT!)
- Biden, Johnson to Rally G-7 for Vaccine Push After U.S. Hoarding
- Uyghurs are being deported from Muslim countries, raising concerns about China’s growing reach
- U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab
- As battery costs tumble, Coalition puts Australia on most expensive energy path (Conservatives being morons, as usual.)
- China vents anger at US Senators’ visit to Taiwan
- Mexico’s latest election results could bolster its beleaguered democracy
- Why the G-7 agreement is such a big deal
- Muslim family in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say (Horrific.)
- India’s Worst COVID Outbreak Yet Forces Journalists To Criticize Modi Leadership
- Daniel Ortega takes a sledgehammer to the opposition
- Kamala Harris Tells Migrants ‘Do Not Come’ To U.S. Border In Guatemala Speech
- Biden administration sets up ‘strike force’ to go after China on trade
- Hi-tech sting leads to global crackdown on organised crime, over 800 detained
- Hundreds arrested after Australian police and FBI crack underworld app (“Australian prime minister says messaging app sting ‘struck heavy blow against organised crime’”)
- Global Internet Outage As Some of World’s Biggest Websites Go Offline
- Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg News websites down
- As the World Seeks Climate Solutions, GOP Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels (“We are seeing desperate attempts to delay the inevitable.” Evil.)
- U.S. Billionaires Faced Tax Rates as Low as 0%: ProPublica
- Biogen’s FDA Victory Changes the Game for Alzheimer’s Treatment
- Republican loyalty to Trump isn’t just about the ‘big lie.’ It’s much worse. (“What they’re actually doing is considerably worse. They’re widely casting doubt on the idea that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States, something that has alarming implications when it comes to future election”)
- One Reason U.S. Treasuries Don’t Seem That Worried About Inflation (“Yields on government bonds might be agreeing with the Federal Reserve that price pressures are transitory, but they could also just be artificially low thanks to a constellation of arcane money market rates.”)
- Biden administration announces plans to strengthen critical supply chains
- Takeaways from the Senate report on January 6 security failures
- Senate report reveals new details about January 6 Capitol attack (“Besides previously unknown details about the stunning security failures, the bipartisan report also has several glaring omissions, including Trump’s role in the riots”)
- ‘Bring Your Guns’: Probe Uncovers More Alarming Intelligence Before Capitol Riot
- Capitol Police didn’t act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says (The question is, why the f*** not???)
- Capitol Police had intelligence about invasion weeks before riot, Senate probe finds
- Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
- Dreams of Ending the Filibuster Dashed, Democrats Rethink Strategy (“President Biden and his party searched for a way forward on their ambitious agenda after one of their own, Joe Manchin III, closed the door on ending the filibuster.”)
- Senate filibuster fight throws Democrats’ wish list into limbo
- Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
- Joe Manchin’s focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights (“To placate his voters, Manchin doesn’t support H.R. 1 — but his Plan B for saving democracy can’t work.”)
- Joe Manchin’s Argument Is as Far Removed From Reality as West Virginia Is From Neptune
- Time to call Manchin’s bluff (“Show us 10 reasonable Republicans. We’ll wait.”)
- Democrats grapple with way forward on Biden agenda after Manchin throws up roadblocks
- Joe Manchin’s mighty delusions
- Manchin is setting himself up to be the villain of this fairy tale
- Democrats reach turning point with Manchin
- Are we going to let Joe Manchin sink democracy?
- John Lewis voting rights bill faces steep uphill climb in Senate
- Democrats May Need To Change Their Voting Rights Bill If They Want It To Pass
- How Joe Manchin’s awful new stance could blow up in his face
- Mitch McConnell’s plan is coming together perfectly (“No Democratic legislation beyond reconciliation? Check. Stage set for a 2022 GOP takeover? Check. Thanks Sen. Manchin.”)
- Trump teases 2024 run but legal threat rises as investigations ramp up
- Speaker Trump? He says it’s “interesting,” but MAGAworld is split on latest 2022 fantasy (“Trump thinks the idea is ‘interesting,’ but Roger Stone argues it could lead to more irritating investigations”)
- Trump pretends he’s ‘not the one trying to undermine democracy’ (“Trump would have his followers believe his attacks on our democracy are really little more than a defense of democracy, which is as twisted as it sounds.”)
- The truly worrying aspect of a federal judge’s ruling on assault weapons
- Pro-McConnell PAC prepared to intervene in 2022 primaries
- Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods
- U.S. Mandates Body Cameras for Federal Law-Enforcement Officers
- Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies
- Trump’s Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020
- How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Forecasts Did And What We’ll Be Thinking About For 2022 (The bottom line is, as 538 writes, “the polls were mediocre to poor” and “nearly all of our models’ misses came in the same direction; namely, Republicans won in races where Democrats were favored”)
- How A New Team Of Feds Hacked The Hackers And Got Colonial Pipeline’s Bitcoin Back
- Feds recover more than $2 million in ransomware payments from Colonial Pipeline hackers
- Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack.
- Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial (WTF?!?)
- DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
- Justice Dept. continues appeal on behalf of Trump in defamation case brought by sexual assault accuser
- The best way for Garland to protect the Justice Department is to stop defending his predecessor
- The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World (“The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in America (and a friend), has shaken the Christian world.”)
- Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race (“New Mexico, a once-purple state, is turning increasingly blue.”)
- Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson
- Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide
- Oregon lawmaker faces expulsion in assault on state Capitol (And a long prison term, hopefully.)
- Exclusive: Eric Adams jumps in front, Yang slips in NY1/Ipsos poll
- Vermont Governor Phil Scott Agrees to Expand Voting Rights
- As 2025 deadline for Chesapeake Bay cleanup looms, Virginia zeroes in on agriculture
- Glenn Youngkin Is Helping Donald Trump Threaten American Democracy (“Youngkin has already chosen to side with Trump’s deranged conspiracy theories — proving once again that he is wrong for Virginia”)
- Ahead of the Democratic Primary, Virginia Democrats Highlighted Glenn Youngkin’s Extreme Agenda Across The Commonwealth (“Attacking reproductive rights; Opposing action to stop gun violence; Peddling Donald Trump’s dangerous election conspiracies…”)
- Editorial: Primary election sets the stage
- How the Hangover from Trump’s Presidency Is Shaping Democratic Primaries (“Virginia is about to be the test case.”)
- Terry McAuliffe takes on Democratic opponents in governor’s primary race
- Video: Chaz Nuttycombe’s “PredictIt” Preview of Tuesday’s Virginia Democratic LG Primary (Chaz has Sam Rasoul as the “slight favorite” with “room for a Hala Ayala upset”)
- With Virginia Holding Its Primaries Tomorrow, Where Have Statewide Candidates Received Their Funding (and Who’s Raised the Most)?
- Primary Day 2021 in Virginia: What you need to know
- Virginia Democrats compete in primary for closely watched governor’s race
- The Week Ahead: Virginia’s Democratic Primary And Beltway Toll Lanes
- One-on-One with Gubernatorial Candidate, Jennifer McClellan
- Two House primary races shine a light on Virginia’s Democratic donor war
- Watchdog urges changes to Virginia’s new marijuana law, defining limits on products, establishing misdemeanor (“Virginia will legalize possession of up to an ounce of leafy marijuana for adults 21 and up starting July 1”)
- Editorial: Virginia’s community colleges have a set of tools to deliver an enrollment turnaround
- Monday (6/7) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, 10-Day New COVID Cases Near Lowest Points Since Start of Pandemic
- Homicides in Virginia hit highest levels in two decades
- Companies Behind Mountain Valley Pipeline Fail to Protect Shareholders From This Economically and Environmentally Nonsensical Project
- Former BAE Norfolk shipyard worker sues, says complaints about racially hostile co-worker were ignored
- Charlottesville city council votes to remove Confederate statues that were the focus of violent 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally (“Figures of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson could come down in 30 days.” Good riddance.)
- Pharrell Williams’ latest project: A private school in Norfolk for students from low-income families
- ‘It’s tough”: Virginia Tech officials address murder charge against football player
- D.C.-area forecast: Staying hot and humid with increasing storm potential before late-week cooling
