by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, December 29.
- This Year’s Record-Breaking Climate Disasters Usher In A Horrific New Normal
- “Baked From The Inside Out”: 2021 Proved Climate Change Is Here And It Is Deadly
- 67 degrees in Alaska? Climate change continues to topple temperature records.
- ‘Turn the valve off’: Climate activists push for an abrupt end to the fossil fuel era
- Equilibrium/Sustainability — World’s largest wind farm powers up
- Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
- Russian Court Orders Prominent Human Rights Group to Shut
- Putin wants to shut down Russia’s Memorial, but he can’t erase the past
- Hong Kong Police Arrest Six Linked to Pro-Democracy News Site
- US shows China its hand on strategic value of ‘unsinkable’ Taiwan
- Omicron is ‘not the same disease’ as previous Covid variants, Oxford University scientist says
- How Errors, Inaction Sent a Deadly Covid Variant Around the World
- The Looming Threat of a Nuclear Crisis with Iran (“Biden’s Administration faces a potential confrontation with a longtime rival that is better armed and more hard-line than at any time in its modern history.”)
- Poland Is a Vision of the Future (A really bad one.)
- Covid: US reports record infections as Europe’s Omicron cases also soar
- Worries that omicron surge could lead to breakdown in essential services spurred new quarantine, isolation rules
- Why Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups
- Omicron Is Not More Severe for Children, Despite Rising Hospitalizations
- Seriously, Upgrade Your Face Mask
- Why isn’t vaccination proof required for domestic flights?
- CDC Pares Omicron Estimate to a Still-Dominant 59% of U.S. Cases
- Omicron Lifts Cases Above 1 Million for Second Day: Virus Update
- U.S. Cases Break Daily Record as Delta and Omicron Converge
- Biden is learning not to fret over vaccine deniers (“Let irresponsible Americans face the consequences of their reckless conduct.”)
- Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan
- Trump idolatry has undermined religious faith (“The damage many White evangelicals have done to religion dwarfs the damage they have done to our politics.”)
- White House, Jan. 6 committee agree to shield some documents
- EXCLUSIVE: There Was ANOTHER Rally Planned On Jan. 6 … At The Supreme Court
- Judge rejects Proud Boys’ First Amendment claims in January 6 conspiracy case
- White supremacists are using an old playbook but so are the lawyers fighting them
- Statement by President Joe Biden on the Passing of Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
- Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader and Democratic kingmaker, dies at 82
- By the numbers: A year of conservative media fearmongering over “critical race theory”
- Misinformer of the Year: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” approach is destroying American democracy
- Judge Says New York Times Can Retain Project Veritas Memos, for Now
- Trump warns Alaska GOP governor he’ll revoke endorsement if he backs Murkowski
- ‘She had big dreams’: parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, teen killed by LAPD, speak out (“The 14-year-old came to LA from Chile with her mother six months ago, excelled in school and wanted to become an engineer”)
- NFL Hall of Fame coach and iconic sports broadcaster John Madden dies at 85
- Fox News Star Was Up for ‘The View’ Gig Until She Refused to Get Vaccine
- The Political Life of Dr. Oz
- Michigan’s redistricting commission adopts final congressional map for the next decade
- Virginia Supreme Court Unanimously Approves New US House, State Senate and House of Delegates Maps for the Next Decade (Per Dave Wasserman: ” Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) gets a much more tenuous #VA07; Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D) gets a safe #VA10; Rep. Elaine Luria (D) still very vulnerable in #VA02″)
- Redistricting is complete: Virginia Supreme Court signs off on new legislative maps
- Supreme Court of Virginia finalizes legislative maps
- Virginia Supreme Court approves new political maps
- Virginia Supreme Court approves redrawn congressional, General Assembly maps
- Supreme Court approves redistricting map that pairs Cline and Griffith
- With Anti-Mask, Anti-Science Republicans in Charge, the 2022 VA House of Delegates Session Could Be a COVID-19 Disaster (With Democrats in charge, Speaker Filler-Corn did what was needed to keep everyone safe. Is there any chance that will continue under Speaker Todd Gilbert (R)?)
- Virginia COVID Cases Continue to Surge, Up 7,439 Since Monday Morning; Deaths Up 185; Hospitalizations Up 142 (COVID cases up a massive 61,898 over the past 10 days)
- School safety: should students be screened for weapons before school?
- Here’s what was inside the aged time capsule opened Tuesday in Richmond
- Editorial: Making transportation progress (“Completion of a wider Interstate 64 and progress toward an expanded Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel are reasons to cheer in Hampton Roads.” Widening highways is really not the answer.)
- Inside the 1887 Lee monument time capsule: Confederate bullets, coins and books, a Lincoln reprint.
- D.C.-area forecast: Rain chances on the rise, remaining mild through New Year’s Day
