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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 12.
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- Top U.S. commander to step down in symbolic end to Afghan war
- Australia’s COVID-19 Delta outbreak worsens despite Sydney lockdown
- Cuba sees biggest protests for decades as pandemic adds to woes
- ‘Freedom!’ Thousands of Cubans take to the streets to demand the end of dictatorship
- Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
- The Next Surprise in China’s Wind Sector Could Be More Mergers
- EU to Press Ahead on Carbon Tax That IMF Criticizes: G-20 Update
- ECB’s Lagarde Foresees July Policy Shift, 2022 ‘Transition’
- Haiti police say murder suspect is middleman living in Florida
- The U.S. Is Sending A Team Of Investigators To Haiti, But Not Military Assistance
- Haitian police say assassination suspect wanted to be president (“Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a doctor with long-standing ties to Florida, recruited some of the men who took part in the killing by telling them they would be his bodyguards once he assumed the presidency, authorities said.”)
- Haitian police arrest suspect accused of orchestrating President’s assassination
- England expected to confirm lockdown lifting despite fears over delta surge
- Jordan court jails two ex-officials for 15 years over alleged royal plot (“Ex-royal aide Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a royal family member, convicted of plotting to foment unrest”)
- ‘Surprising amount of deaths’ will soon occur in these US regions from increased Covid-19 cases, expert says
- Fauci says no immediate need for Covid booster for fully vaccinated Americans
- Fauci Calls CPAC Cheering of Low Vaccination Numbers “Horrifying” (“The top public health official responds to a rising right-wing push against Covid-19 vaccines.”)
- Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic crew are safely back from space, ushering in a new era
- The Joyride Era of Space Travel Is Here (“Richard Branson just flew to space and back for the thrill of it.”)
- Richard Branson’s Space Flight Was Fun. But Who Is He Taking for a Ride? (“How he and other oligarchs continue to covet the US space program.”)
- Richard Branson space flight beats out Jeff Bezos. But all of humanity loses. (“The stratification of who gets to leave the stratosphere is not another division we need.”)
- Biden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives (“A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80% renewable energy use by 2030” They mean renewable ELECTRICITY, actually, not total energy. Big difference!)
- More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future (“The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems.” We need both.)
- Heat Pumps are the Most Climate Friendly Way to Heat Homes, But Still Emit a Climate Super Pollutant, Despite the Availability of a Cleaner Chemical
- Democrats hit crunch time in Biden spending fight (“With lawmakers starting to return to Washington on Monday, Democrats are entering crunch time as they try to move past months of haggling to an intense few weeks of summer legislating that will determine whether their top priority stalls out or if they achieve one of the party’s biggest legislative victories since passing ObamaCare more than a decade ago.”)
- Bootleg Fire in Oregon Scorches 143,000 Acres as Heat Wave Continues in the West (“With record-breaking temperatures and hard-to-contain wildfires, Western states are struggling through a hellish summer.”)
- How will the West solve a water crisis if climate change continues to get worse?
- The Biden administration needs to take democracy issues much more seriously (Agreed.)
- This Christian movement wants a nation under God’s authority and is central to Trump’s GOP (“Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth is part of a growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and includes some of the largest congregations in the nation.”)
- How to Manufacture a Moral Panic (“Christopher Rufo helped incite an uproar over racism education with dramatic, dodgy reporting.”)
- Critical race theory battles are driving frustrated, exhausted educators out of their jobs (“Battles over diversity and equity initiatives in public schools have resulted in administrators and teachers being fired or resigning over discussions about race.” So bad.)
- Historian Annette Gordon-Reed: Jan. 6 was a “turning point” in American history (“Pulitzer-winning Harvard historian on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy”)
- Fox News Invites Trump on to Whitewash the January 6 Insurrection (“There was ‘love in the air,’ the ex-president claims about the day thousands stormed the Capitol.” Completely f’ed up.)
- A weekend of demagoguery shows why Trump can’t be ignored
- Trump on Jan. 6 insurrection: ‘These were great people’ (This is beyond sick.)
- Trump Still the Overwhelming Choice Among Republicans at CPAC (Unhinged.)
- New polling shows Democrats alarmed about crime, too
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slashes Lauren Boebert For Call To End Government Benefits (“The woman who has talked about her days on welfare NOW wants benefits to end.”)
- Scuffle breaks out at Rep. Katie Porter’s town hall (Ugh, not good.)
- Texas Republicans advance voting restrictions in special session
- Florida Breaks Annual Manatee Death Record In First 6 Months Of 2021
- Eric Adams Is Set To Meet With Joe Biden At The White House
- Biden and Eric Adams to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence
- I lost the NYC mayoral race, but women and minorities win with ranked-choice voting
- Virginia needs to revisit how it funds local prosecutors
- Spanberger’s office now has returned more than $6M in funds to constituents
- Donald Trump – Whose Endorsement Glenn Youngkin Is “Honored” to Have – Calls 1/6 Violent Insurrection “peaceful protest,” “lovefest”; Describes Insurrectionist Ashli Babbit as “innocent, wonderful, incredible woman”
- Don’t be surprised if the GOP tests its anti-crime message in Virginia. But will it work?
- Sunday (7/11) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, New COVID Cases At Lowest Levels Since March 2020
- Vaccinated Virginians rarely die of coronavirus, data shows
- Va. House candidate blocked from ballot after election official’s mistake
- Five years later, Virginia prison still not meeting terms of court-ordered settlement over shoddy medical care
- Group wants judge to stop Virginia Tech from enforcing policies against harassment and discrimination
- Richmond to participate in nation’s largest heat-mapping effort
- Charlottesville Circuit Court lifts mask requirement for vaccinated people
- D.C.-area forecast: Super sweaty this week, the hottest of the summer so far
