by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 24.
- World’s Food Supplies Get Slammed by Drought, Floods and Frost
- On the Heels of Europe’s Devastating Floods, Scientists Warn More Is Yet to Come (“A new study finds that slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century.”)
- Conservative former Australian prime minister: Murdoch news outlets are “contributing to death and disease”
- “Long-Term Disaster Is the Best-Case Scenario”: Author Nathaniel Rich Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change (“Amid floods, wildfires, and smoke-filled skies, is it too late to reverse the telltale signs of a swiftly melting planet?”)
- Extreme weather takes climate change models ‘off the scale’
- Group of 20 nations fails to agree on phasing out coal by 2025 (Ugh.)
- Heavy rain in India triggers floods, landslides; at least 125 dead
- Global supply chains buckle as virus variant and disasters strike
- Peru’s democracy survived a squeaker election. Will it outlast a far-left president?
- Jane Goodall reveals what studying chimpanzees teaches us about human nature (“The renowned primatologist wants us to remember that humans aren’t so exceptional — we’re animals, too.”)
- China is stepping up its deception and denial in investigations of covid-19
- Violent protests mar funeral of slain Haiti president
- Did the Covid-19 Olympics have to be a mess?
- China Blasts NBC for Using ‘Incomplete’ Map on Olympic Broadcast
- China Sanctions Wilbur Ross After U.S.’s Hong Kong Warning
- Biden Team Has No Immediate Plan to Sanction China Over Hacks
- U.S. Drops Visa Fraud Cases Against Five Chinese Researchers
- How LGBTQ Rights Forced Hungary Into a Moment of Reckoning
- Heat wave hits Tokyo as Olympic organizers battle to keep Covid rates down
- No Jab, No Play Should Have Been the Ironclad Rule
- Algerian Olympian Sent Home After Refusing Potential Bout With Israeli Opponent (Absurd.)
- Biden authorizes $100 million in emergency funds for Afghan refugees
- In a city besieged by the Taliban, Afghan military advances disappear with forces stretched thin (“Elite units are leading the battle to retake territory, but the troops called up to secure those gains have inconsistent support and lack advanced training.”)
- Covid cases are rising again in all 50 states across U.S. as delta variant tightens its grip
- How concerned should we be about breakthrough coronavirus infections? One expert weighs in —
- Biden Officials Now Expect Vulnerable Americans to Need Booster Shots
- “Don’t You Work With Old People?”: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
- Republican governor says ‘time to start blaming unvaccinated’ for rise in cases (“Alabama’s Kay Ivey says surge in new infections is due to a reluctance among many in state to get inoculated”)
- Democrats question GOP shift on vaccines
- Republican Governors Are Meeting COVID Surges With a Giant Shrug (“The delta variant is spreading in states like Alabama and Texas—two places where the people in charge have opted for a hands-off approach.”)
- They Waited, They Worried, They Stalled. This Week, They Got the Shot. (“On a single day this past week, more than half a million people across the U.S. got vaccinated for Covid-19 after months of reluctance and procrastination. The Times interviewed dozens of Americans, who revealed a nation at a crossroads as many worried about the Delta variant as well as the available vaccines.”)
- Frustration mounts over coronavirus vaccine holdouts
- Dow jumps more than 200 points to close above 35,000 for the first time ever (Trump predicted, wrongly as always, that the stock market would collapse if Biden became president. The exact opposite happened.)
- US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country
- Tenants at Risk for Eviction as Pandemic Protections Are Set to Expire
- The Boss Wants You Back in the Office. Like, Now.
- Roe v. Wade is on the Supreme Court’s chopping block. And that’s not all. (“We’re at the front end of what could come to be known as the Great Rights Retraction” Why on earth are we allowing this?)
- Mississippi Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade (“After Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, the right thinks it can challenge abortion rights”)
- Abortion rights face most difficult test yet at Supreme Court
- SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa
- How Anti-Racist Is Anti-Racism? — America’s sitting president is decades older than its democracy.
- NRA and Republicans out to hobble Biden’s choice for top gun law role
- Have Trump voters come down with a serious case of Snowflake Syndrome? (“On vaccines and voting rights, fear of offending Trump supporters has become too controlling.”)
- Republicans increasingly look to ballot initiatives as way to enact voting measures (“Voting rights advocates say they fear the efforts in 3 states will prove successful and spread to others where such initiatives are legally possible.”)
- Voting curbs enacted in 18 US states this year despite none finding widespread fraud (Or really ANY fraud.)
- Does the Biden Administration Really Think It Can “Out-Organize” Voter Suppression? (“The White House has reportedly suggested to voting rights advocates that they are focusing more on turnout than legislation to combat the GOP’s voting restrictions.”)
- Without Enough Water To Go Around, Farmers In California Are Exhausting Aquifers (This isn’t going to end well…)
- Why I’m Sure Trump Will Run for President in 2024
- Freedom Caucus presses McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi (The worst of the worst…)
- Biden Approval Drops to 50%, Lowest for Him to Date (It’s just one poll – Gallup. Check the polling averages, which look fine.)
- Arrest of a Trump friend sends key message
- Trump ally Tom Barrack strikes a $250 million bail deal to get out of jail
- US women’s national soccer team players appeal equal pay lawsuit decision
- Facebook’s responses to the Oversight Board are a sham (“Facebook’s commitments are full of loopholes and rarely include ways to ensure real change”)
- Sean Hannity distances himself from any kind of responsible COVID-19 vaccine position
- FBI assistant director faulted for misconduct around romantic relationship (“A senior FBI official violated agency policies in her handling of a romantic relationship with a subordinate, according to findings of the Justice Department’s inspector general”)
- Some Florida Hospitals Have More Covid Patients Than Ever Before
- As Herschel Walker eyes Senate run, a turbulent past emerges (“The documents detail accusations that Walker repeatedly threatened his ex-wife’s life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with unpredictable behavior.” Would you use “turbulent” to describe all that, or possibly another word like “disturbing?”)
- Well-Known White Nationalist Kicked Out Of Air Force Following HuffPost Investigation
- Felicia Sonmez Is Suing the Washington Post for Gender Discrimination (Good – kick their asses!)
- When National Outlets Write About Violence In D.C., Whose Stories Do They Tell?
- Alex Jones’ Last Ditch Defense in Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Depose Hillary Clinton
- Bumble match turns in January 6 suspect who allegedly whipped police
- Cleveland to Rename Indians Baseball Team as the Guardians (Good that they’re changing the name, but what does “Guardians” mean exactly?)
- Conservative radio host, former vaccine skeptic ill with Covid-19
- NSA review finds that Tucker Carlson’s communications were not targeted
- Rep. Eric Swalwell Posts Dramatic Text Exchange With Tucker Carlson
- Tennessee to restart nearly all vaccine outreach paused amid GOP pressure, says health commissioner
- Breast Cancer Patient Attacked by Violent Anti-Mask Protest Outside Clinic (“A breast cancer patient says she was sprayed with bear mace, physically assaulted, and verbally abused outside a cancer treatment center in West Hollywood, Los Angeles by far-right activists who were angry over the clinic’s mandatory mask policy.”)
- Rick Dennison out as Minnesota Vikings assistant after refusing COVID-19 vaccine, sources say
- Eleanor Clift on Glenn Youngkin: “A Trumpy Wannabe Tries to Spend His Way to Victory in Va.” (Super-sharp Dem political analyst Jesse Ferguson warns: “for those who only watch TV ads, they’re getting swamped with content making him seem like he’s something he’s not”)
- Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin tries to pivot away from Trump — but there’s nowhere to go (“Youngkin went all-in on the culture war and Trump’s Big Lie in GOP primary. Now he’s learning that might cost him”)
- Sen. Warner: Infrastructure bill could bring major dollars to address Hampton Roads sea level rise
- Rep. Luria’s pro-Navy, centrist identity may get Jan. 6 test
- Who said it — Rep. Elaine Luria (D) or a Republican? On military affairs, it’d be hard to tell.
- Video, Photos: President Joe Biden Rallies For Terry McAuliffe, Virginia Democratic Ticket in Arlington – “I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia and so will Terry”
- Biden attacks Trump at Virginia rally, tying McAuliffe’s opponent to ex-president (And by “attacks,” the WaPo actually misspelled “tells the truth”)
- EMILY’s List: GOP Candidate For VA LG Spews Misinformation About Reproductive Rights, Compares “clinics that provide health care services to the Ku Klux Klan” (In the same interview, Sears also talked about the “great picture” of her with the “big gun,” that “I am not shying away from it”)
- Virginia Flip-A-District Friday: Volume Il (Elizabeth Guzman, Josh Cole, Nancy Guy, Chris Hurst, Patrick Hope)
- A Renaissance for Southwest Virginia?
- New marijuana law in Virginia means some employers may change their drug testing policies as an employment condition
- Friday (7/23) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations Picking Up, Highest 10-Day New COVID Cases (+5,098) Since 5/17
- Virginia colleges prepare to welcome back students with eyes on vaccination rates
- UPDATED: A third of VCU’s students still haven’t reported their vaccine status
- Thomas Jefferson High School’s new admissions policy is the right course
- Inside the Maddening Search for Virginia’s Colonial Parkway Serial Killer
- William & Mary anticipates return to full capacity for fall semester with 56% of student population fully vaccinated
- D.C.-area forecast: Temperatures and humidity are up today before full-on summer returns Sunday
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