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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 6.
- Climate change is altering the way snow smells (“As both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger, researchers say.”)
- Can Farming Kelp and Seaweed Help Ease the Climate Crisis? (“Canada’s Coastal First Nations are doing experiments to find out.”)
- Will climate change melt the Winter Olympics?
- Goodbye Easy Money as Hawkish Central Banks Speed Up Rate Hikes
- EXCLUSIVE North Korea grows nuclear, missiles programs, profits from cyberattacks -U.N. report
- Beijing’s Olympic City Has Swabs Aplenty, But No Great Firewall
- Explaining NATO and Ukraine: How a 30-year-old debate still drives Putin today
- Russia could seize Kyiv in days and cause 50,000 civilian deaths in Ukraine, U.S. assessments find (“Up to 5 million people likely to flee if Russia invades”)
- Russian official dismisses U.S. assessment on possible invasion as alarmist
- Russian forces at 70% of level needed for full Ukraine invasion, U.S. officials say
- Ottawa endures ‘increasingly dangerous’ covid mandate protests as ‘Freedom Convoy’ blockades leave city on edge
- ‘Partygate’: Johnson’s removal is now inevitable, warns loyalist (“More MPs set to submit resignation demands as No 10 rejigs team”)
- Moroccan boy pulled from 100-foot well is dead, royal palace says
- The charm of cryptocurrencies for white supremacists
- Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth
- Fresh inflation data could fuel further market volatility in the week ahead
- What the January 6th Papers Reveal (“The Supreme Court ruled to give the House Select Committee access to a trove of documents detailing election-negating strategies that Donald Trump and his advisers entertained—including a military seizure of voting machines—but he continues to peddle a counter-narrative in which he’s the victim.”)
- In Scrutinizing Trump and His Allies, Jan. 6 Panel Adopts Prosecution Tactics
- Trump’s GOP: Party further tightens tie to former president
- RNC Should Take a Lesson from Mike Pence
- Trump responds to Pence criticism
- Jan. 6 Was a Warning. Will Lawmakers Do Anything to Protect the 2024 Election?
- This was the week when Trump revealed all (“He really did want to overturn the 2020 election, and he never meant it when he said those who broke the law on Jan. 6 should have to pay”)
- Stalled agendas, tumbling ratings: Biden takes a hit as Republicans’ lawlessness cries resonate (“A Gallup survey showed only 24% of Americans were satisfied with efforts to ‘reduce or control crime’, the lowest it’s been”)
- ‘Taking the Voters Out of the Equation’: How the Parties Are Killing Competition
- ‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits (Is that legal?)
- Trump’s January 6 pardon pledge baffles some attorneys
- Biden needs GOP support for Breyer replacement, Clyburn says
- A year after Trump purge, ‘alt-tech’ offers far-right refuge
- ‘Trump is not my God’: how the former president’s only vaccine victory turned sour (“A rigid anti-vaccine stance among Trump’s supporters means Republicans can’t reap the benefits of Operation Warp Speed”)
- Esper Memoir of Trump Tenure to Move Ahead After Legal Battle Ends
- Joe Rogan apologizes for ‘regretful and shameful’ past use of the n-word (Horrible person.)
- Dozens of Joe Rogan podcast episodes pulled from Spotify
- U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee Chairman Don Beyer on House Passage of America COMPETES Act
- “An official account of [Gov. Youngkin] is attacking a child. A grown man bullying a kid. I don’t even think Trump did that.” (“Governor- this is a disgrace and you owe Ethan a public apology immediately”)
- Opinion: Virginia needs Congress to help in fighting climate change
- UPDATED: “Shameful” – “Historian tasked with teaching about slavery at the Virginia Governors Mansion just resigned after finding the Youngkins converted her classroom into a family room” (As Prof. Larry Sabato comments sarcastically, “Slavery is such an inherently divisive topic.”)
- Historian resigns from Executive Mansion position highlighting stories of enslaved
- Editorial: A counterproductive strategy (“As educators line up against Gov. Glenn Younkin’s early moves on education, he would do well to engage them in an effort to find some middle ground.”)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “We have seen the number of patients who present with symptoms that we diagnose come down by about 90% over the last 6 weeks.”
- Editorial: Right justice reforms for Virginia, but wrong year?
- A ‘blue carbon’ market in Virginia: Eastern Shore seagrass restoration soon to launch first credit program of its kind (“A coalition of The Nature Conservancy, the University of Virginia and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science under William & Mary are working with the state to launch the first carbon credit program linked to seagrass. It would allow anyone interested to purchase credits to offset carbon emissions, with the money feeding back into research and management.”)
- Blacksburg Police: Suspect in downtown shooting arrested (“An 18-year old was killed and four people were wounded in Friday night’s shooting.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly but sunny today; very light snow or rain possible tomorrow
