by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 11.
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— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 11, 2021
- Iran cheers U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — but fears what could follow
- G20 recognizes carbon pricing as climate change tool for first time
- Biden Administration Shows Little Appetite for Haiti’s Troop Request
- Haiti Calls U.S. for Troops, After Wild Day of Gunfights and Suspicion
- In Haiti, rivals claw for power as crisis escalates after assassination (“Collapsing institutions, gang fiefdoms and bickering leadership have pushed Haiti toward the brink.”)
- Haitian leader’s widow blames political enemies as power struggle intensifies
- What the assassination of Haiti’s president means for US foreign policy
- Violence spreads to South Africa’s economic hub in wake of Zuma jailing
- Biden and Merkel to discuss Afghanistan, cybersecurity and Nord Stream pipeline this week
- Hungary Bans LGBTQ Content From Schools, But Some Teachers Say They Will Defy It
- G20 backs crackdown on multinationals’ use of tax havens
- Janet Yellen says tax changes for large firms may not be ready until 2022 (“G20 finance ministers and central bank governors endorsed the deal over the weekend, but questions remain over the ability of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to persuade a deeply divided Congress to ratify the changes.”)
- Ethiopia’s Ruling Party Wins National Election In Landslide
- ‘Growing risks’: Hong Kong pro-democracy group scales down
- Pope appears in public for first time since surgery
- With an uptick in Covid-19 cases, there is growing alarm. ‘We’ve seen almost an entire takeover in the Delta variant,’ one state official says
- Heat Wave Hit Northwest Businesses From Christmas Trees and Doughnuts to Fish
- US heatwave: California and Nevada brace for record-breaking temperatures
- Death Valley Posts 130-Degree Heat, Potentially Matching A Record High (We need to stop emitting greenhouse gases immediately, or as close to immediately as possible.)
- Young Americans Aren’t Getting Vaccinated, Jeopardizing Covid-19 Fight (“Slow uptake of Covid-19 shots among 18- to 29-year olds is complicating mass vaccination campaign; U.S. ramps up outreach to young adults”)
- How We’ll Know When The COVID-19 Crisis Is Over (“There are no set-in-stone metrics for when it’s over”)
- Virgin Galactic’s Branson ready for space launch aboard rocket plane
- The Ascension of Bernie Sanders
- Biden administration cancels $55.6M in student loan debt
- Vacancies remain in key Biden administration positions
- The Jan. 6 Capitol attack was, in fact, a violent insurrection
- Wonking Out: mRNA and the Meaning of Life (“Happy days are here again. No, really. Gallup has been asking Americans since the beginning of 2008 whether they are “thriving.” The percentage answering yes hit a low point in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis and again during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it has soared in recent months, to 59.2 percent, its highest level ever”)
- Under Trump, Presidents Got More Power to Fire Agency Heads. Biden Just Used It.
- The Rise of Anti-history (“The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.”)
- Governors’ races see flood of pro-Trump candidates
- The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing?
- Republican immigration proposal falls flat
- Trump’s false election claims persist at conservative gathering in Texas (“The conversation at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend reaffirmed Republican activists have no intention of moving on”)
- Sha’Carri Richardson’s relay exclusion wasn’t necessary. USA Track and Field did it
- America is no longer as evangelical as it was — and here’s why
- Rise of the anti-“woke” Democrat (“A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too “woke” to large swaths of America.”)
- A Texas man was arrested on charges that he voted in the 2020 Democratic primary while on parole. He could face as much as 20 years in prison. (That is beyond unacceptable!)
- Democratic Lawmakers Consider Fleeing Texas To Prevent New Voter Suppression Measures (“Texas Democrats steel for new fight against measures that could become some of the most restrictive voting laws in America.”)
- Exclusive: D.C. journalists launch media company with $10 million+ funding
- Trump renews attack on Michigan Senate ahead of sanction hearing
- Alaska GOP endorses Murkowski primary challenger
- Alaska Republican Party leaders endorse Tshibaka in U.S. Senate race
- Can Eric Adams turn around New York?
- Eric Adams Has Plans for New York, Beyond Public Safety
- Madison Cawthorn Says Door-to-Door Vaccines Could Lead to Taking of Guns, Bibles (Unhinged.)
- Video: Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, Jason Miyares Campaign with Wren Williams, “a Big Lie conspiracy theorist who led Donald Trump’s effort to overturn Wisconsin” (Williams was just featured in a NY Times article, “The Nation Needs a Reality-Based G.O.P. Only the Kook Caucus Is Stepping Up”)
- Bob Holsworth: “Is Glenn Youngkin…on board with his party’s demand to investigate Sabato’s tweets?”
- Youngkin mum on abortion comments video during Abingdon GOP rally
- Editorial: Rocky start for redistricting (I’m really looking forward to all the newspaper editorial boards which pushed the fatally flawed Amendment 1 to apologize to the citizens of Virginia for their idiocy and dishonesty. But I’m not holding my breath…)
- Opinion/Editorial: VEC’s woes slow to be settled
- A national park for the Chesapeake Bay? Efforts are underway — with Fort Monroe as anchor
- Photos, Video: Charlottesville Removes Statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson
- In historic day, Charlottesville removes Lee, Jackson and Lewis-Clark-Sacagawea statues
- Statue removals bring joy to many, though more work needs to be done, they say
- An incredible day’ as Lee statue removed in Charlottesville
- Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue Four Years After Deadly White Supremacist Rally
- Charlottesville Finally Removes Its Robert E. Lee Statue
- Robert E. Lee statue removed in Charlottesville; it had become focal point of deadly 2017 rally
- Nearly a half-century later, ‘marijuana martyr’ sees hope in Virginia
- Scott S. Brabrand column: Five key challenges in the coming school year: A superintendent’s perspective
- Striking Volvo Workers nix Tentative Deal at Truck Plant
- Audit of Chesterfield public school curriculum finds overall learning experiences are ‘culturally insufficient’
- D.C.-area forecast: Sticky summeriness returns. Storms possible into midweek.
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