by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 17.
New video from Zelensky in moment of exhausted and emotional late night reflection: “52 days. We work (shows speech), we love (family photo), we are thankful (gifted cockerel from destroyed borodyanka flat), we are proud (flag), we will be victorious” pic.twitter.com/kwvfMI6XXX
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) April 17, 2022
- Pope Francis Prays for Peace in Ukraine, Warns of Nuclear War
- To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough
- India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
- China’s New COVID Crisis Could Spawn the Worst Variant Yet
- How China’s Zero Covid policy is failing Shanghai
- EU chief urges member states to give Ukraine weapons quickly (“Ursula von der Leyen says she doesn’t distinguish between heavy and light arms and suggests Sberbank could face sanctions”)
- Ukraine-Russia peace talks will end if Moscow ‘eliminates’ Mariupol fighters, says Zelenskiy
- Ukraine rejects Moscow’s ultimatum as brutal assault rage
- Russia may begin new offensive soon, U.S. officials say, as Ukraine runs through its stock of artillery shells
- Zelensky Signals That Russian Forces Are Close to Seizing Mariupol
- After More Than a Month of Fighting, Much of Mariupol Lies in Ruins
- Why Russia turned away from urban war in Kyiv to focus on the east
- I’ve Photographed Nightmares Before. Here’s What I See in the Images From Bucha.
- The first European Union leader to meet with Putin since the invasion of Ukraine says the Russian president ‘believes he is winning the war’
- Russia bears down on Mariupol, strikes other Ukraine cities
- Putin’s dictatorship is based now on fear rather than spin
- In Bucha, the story of one man’s body left on a Russian killing field
- Russia offers Mariupol defenders a surrender window
- Zelensky calls scene in Mariupol “inhuman” as Russian forces bear down on city
- How Zelenskiy’s team of TV writers helps his victory message hit home
- US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training
- ‘We’re Exhausted’: Palestinians Decry Israeli Raids as Collective Punishment
- North Korea tests new weapon ‘to improve tactical nukes’
- Several Million Seen Staying Out of Labor Force Indefinitely (“Survey shows many labor-force dropouts plan to maintain social distancing after the pandemic, raising implications for the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve policy.”)
- Utilities Plan Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills
- What Is a ‘Rigged’ Election Anyway? (“Republicans claim Democrats are breaking election and voter laws. But deep down the complaint may be that perfectly legal votes are bad for the GOP.” Bingo!)
- Audio: Far-Right Paramilitary Member Warned 1/6 Committee Witness Against Speaking Out
- 12 injured in shooting at South Carolina mall; 3 detained (As a country, we continue to allow this, unlike any other country on earth. Insanity.)
- 2 juveniles killed and at least 9 others shot in the East Allegheny area of Pittsburgh, officials say
- Sarah Palin is running for Congress. Many Alaskans are skeptical of her.
- Elon Musk ‘funding secured’ tweets ruled false, new court filing suggests
- Florida’s education department rejects math textbooks, saying some had critical race theory (This seems like parody/satire, but…it’s real, with Republicans in charge!)
- Florida’s Anti-Woke Crusade Has a New Target: Math Textbooks (“More than a third of K–12 textbooks were rejected for references to topics like critical race theory and Common Core material.”)
- Georgetown Prof. Thomas Zimmer: After “Punching Down” at Student Newspaper, Feeding the “Moral Panic” Over Mike Pence Being “Cancelled” at UVA, the WaPo Should – But Won’t – Examine “what they got wrong, why they got it so wrong”
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Reflects on 15th Anniversary of the VA Tech Shootings, Calls It “One of the Worst Days in My Life” (“I’m also thinking with admiration of your spirit, which I know is as strong today as it was then and will remain so for a very long time.”)
- Editorial: Adults in the room (“Tit-for-tat partisan squabbles continue in Richmond while the important work of the people goes unfinished.” Classic false-equivalence, “both-sidesism” bullshit by the Virginian-Pilot. Pathetic.)
- VMI alumni push to reverse diversity reforms, invoking critical race theory
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Although we all know people who are testing positive, generally the vaccines and boosters are working to keep people out of the emergency department”
- Ex-Parole Board Members Get New Youngkin Administration Jobs (“Also among the announced appointees was Jackson Miller, a former longtime Republican member of the House of Delegates, who will serve as director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services.”)
- Longtime NBC Washington anchor Wendy Rieger dies after fight with cancer (Rest in Peace.)
- VCU receives funding for gun violence, early childhood education initiatives
- D.C.-area forecast: Much cooler today into midweek, rain likely Monday
