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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 23.
- Humans do a poor job of calculating risk. That’s terrible for the climate crisis
- After the Omicron wave, here’s what experts say could come next in 2022 (“But infectious disease experts say there just may be an end in sight. Maybe.”)
- UK warns Russia will face severe sanctions if it installs Ukraine ‘puppet regime’
- Russia Fires Back After U.K. Alleges Anti-Kyiv Plot
- German navy chief resigns over Ukraine comments
- Britain Says Moscow Is Plotting to Install a Pro-Russian Leader in Ukraine
- Germany’s Reliance on Russian Gas Limits Europe’s Options in Ukraine Crisis
- Confusion over UK claim that Putin plans coup in Ukraine
- Russian ships, tanks and troops on the move to Ukraine as peace talks stall
- S.Korea says Iran to regain UN vote after delinquent dues paid with frozen funds
- Goldman Sees Risk Fed Will Tighten at Every Meeting From March
- Omicron Cases Appear to Peak, but U.S. Deaths Are Still Rising (“Upward of 700,000 new cases are reported a day, fewer than earlier this month, but still far more than in any prior surge.”)
- For all of Biden’s successes or failures, it’s really about ‘COVID, stupid’
- Biden Didn’t Have the Power or Luck to Become FDR or LBJ (“Biden is trying to govern in an era totally unlike the 1930s or 1960s. Give him a break.”)
- Biden can’t let Manchin and Sinema block voting rights act without consequences
- Sinema censured by Arizona Democrats over filibuster stance that blocked voting rights legislation
- ‘What are Republicans for?’ Just one thing. (“But there is, in fact, an answer. Today’s Republicans are for whatever they think can restore them to power”)
- Americans Should Pay More for Gas, Not Less (If the price incorporated the product’s “negative externalities” – pollution, damage to health, etc. -the price would be a lot higher.)
- Joe Manchin Thinks James Madison Is on His Side. Nope.
- ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks
- Donald Trump slams Jan. 6 panel after Ivanka Trump interview request: ‘They’ll go after children’ (Uh, Ivanka is a grown-ass adult who served in the White House, etc.)
- Black Mississippi Senators Walk Out As ‘CRT’ Bill Earns White Lawmakers’ Approval (Disgraceful byh the white lawmakers.)
- Florida redistricting plan faces opposition from DeSantis
- SNL’s Ted Cruz Begs Trump to ‘Hit Me, Choke Me, Spit in My Face’
- Looking Backward, Virginia Republicans Attack Climate Action and Coddle Coal (Also, signs that Youngkin “intends to govern as a burn-the-house-down extremist when it comes to the environment”)
- Virginia Gov. Youngkin’s assertion of executive power leaves Republicans jubilant, Democrats fuming (Moronic “horse race” framing – who’s up, who’s down, which party is happy, which is unhappy, blah blah blah.)
- Editorial: Youngkin begins education reform by starting fights instead of fixing schools
- Virginia Republicans File Multiple Anti-Abortion Bills Leading Up to the 49th and Likely Final Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
- Editorial: New anti-CRT bill wants teachers prosecuted as criminals
- In Youngkin’s promise of education reform on race, critics fear a whitewash
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “We are moving in the right direction,” But “the numbers are still 3-5 fold higher than in the fall”
- Former Sen. Glen Sturtevant to run in new 12th District, setting up three-way GOP battle (“Former Sen. Glen Sturtevant, who lost his seat in 2019 after one term, will run for election next year in a new Senate district in Chesterfield County and Colonial Heights, setting up a three-way battle for the Republican nomination with Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, and businesswoman Tina Ramirez.”)
- Editorial: Federal windfall benefits region
- Virginia lawmakers continue to demand answers about Amtrak blockage that left hundreds stranded in Lynchburg
- Virginia DOC refers alleged officer choking of inmate to prosecutor for review after RTD obtains video
- Former Rocky Mount police officer was armed during U.S. Capitol riot, new charges allege
- Unusual Ice and Snow Storm Hits the Carolinas and Virginia
- Frigid temps are coming to Hampton Roads; officials warn of black ice, freezing fog
- D.C.-area forecast: A little less cold today with a chance of evening snow showers
