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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, Memorial Day, May 30.
- Another monster hurricane season looms as we dawdle on climate change
- Watchdogs Tackle the Murky World of Greenwash (“Government enforcers are on the hunt for companies making misleading claims about their so-called ‘eco-friendly’ products.”)
- How a cheap component could help kill off combustion cars
- Europe Wants to Kick Russian Energy. Local Opposition May Get in the Way. (Ugh, NIMBYs are the worst.)
- Analysis: How the Ukraine conflict is reshaping global oil markets
- War in Ukraine adds to food price hikes, hunger in Africa
- Bombed Bridges, Closed Ports Keep Ukrainian Grain From a World That Needs It
- EU to discuss watered-down oil embargo on Russia as Hungary holds firm (Kick Hungary out?)
- Heavy fighting as Russia advances into key eastern city
- A Ukrainian Woman Greeted Troops With a Soviet Flag. Now, She Tells Putin to Stop Killing Ukrainians.
- Russian Forces Push Into Pivotal City in Eastern Ukraine
- Negative views of Russia mainly limited to western liberal democracies, poll shows (“Annual global survey of attitudes to democracy finds many countries maintain positive views of Russia”)
- Russian troops entering Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine
- Ahead of this week’s EU summit, France and Germany urge Putin to meet Zelenskyy
- Ex-U.S. Commandos Are Training Civilians to Crush Putin Army
- For NATO, Turkey Is a Disruptive Ally (“President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s block on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland is likely to be managed, but the rest of the alliance is exasperated.”)
- Russia Comes Up With a New Bond-Payment Plan to Avoid Default
- China falls short on big Pacific deal but finds smaller wins
- Stocks Gain as China Virus Easing Spurs Optimism: Markets Wrap
- How the U.N. became a tool of China’s genocide denial propaganda
- Despite the war in Ukraine, Biden understands China matters most
- Plane wreckage found in Nepal mountains; 17 bodies recovered
- Ex-rebel, businessman to vie in Colombia presidential runoff
- In Colombia, a Leftist and a Right-Wing Populist Head for June Runoff (Two bad options.)
- Season’s 1st hurricane aims heavy hit at Mexico tourist zone
- Garland Warns of Threats to US Democracy in Harvard Speech (“He vows to ‘hold accountable everyone who was criminally responsible for the January 6 assault.'” Every one of them should be in prison for a loooong time.)
- Merrick Garland warns of democracy under threat in Harvard speech
- Prof. Thomas Zimmer: Media Needs to Stop Covering Latest “Deranged Nonsense” from GOP as Credible or Serious in Any Way (That obviously includes people like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Winsome Sears, etc.)
- Trump calls Capitol attack an ‘insurrection hoax’ as public hearings set to begin (The word “FALSELY” should be in the headline.)
- Democrats rush to push gun safety laws after mass shootings as Republicans stall (“New York governor seeks to ban people under 21 from buying assault rifles, while California governor intends to sign restrictions, including the right to sue gun manufacturers”)
- The Hard Truth: Gun Safety Must Be Everything That Republicans Fear
- 9-year-old describes escaping out a window during the Uvalde school shooting as anger mounts over law enforcement’s response
- Uvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’
- Biden visits Uvalde, a city in mourning
- Biden Grieves With Survivors During Visit to Texas
- I’m from Uvalde. I’m not surprised this happened. (“First, you would be challenged to find a more heavily armed place in the United States than Uvalde. It’s a town where the love of guns overwhelms any notion of common-sense regulations, and the minority White ruling class places its right-wing Republican ideology above the safety of its most vulnerable citizens — its impoverished and its children, most of whom are Hispanic.”)
- DOJ Reviews Police Response to Uvalde School Shooting
- Biden visits Uvalde as DOJ announces review of how police responded to the attack
- Biden travels to Texas to meet with families of school shooting victims
- 78 Long Minutes — When families learned that a gunman had entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde …
- Fox News Anchor Makes Impassioned Call for Gun Control, Cuts Off Colleague Who Said Biden ‘Isn’t Uniting’: ‘He Can’t Do It Alone
- Kinzinger says he is ‘open’ to ban on AR-15 and other gun reforms
- Opinion: Mass shootings have a lot in common with another American horror
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Loudly Booed At Uvalde Memorial Site (“‘Shame on you, Abbott!’ a crowd member yelled as Abbott arrived with the Bidens at the school where 19 children and two teachers were killed.”)
- Why the press will never have another Watergate moment
- Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns (Disturbing.)
- After losses in Ga., Trump sets sights on ousting Liz Cheney in Wyo.
- Hit Hard by High Energy Costs, Hawaii Looks to the Sun (“The state is seeking to replace coal and oil with solar energy, aiming to rely extensively on rooftop panels on single-family homes.”)
- Lawmakers reach deal on Virginia budget after months-long stalemate
- Va. budget leaders include new marijuana crime in spending plan
- ‘Obscenity’ is narrowly defined by the law. Ruling in Virginia Beach ‘would be a rarity.’ (“The Virginia Beach Circuit Court has found probable cause that ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ and ‘A Court of Mist and Fury’ are obscene, but under Constitutional law, that determination is a difficult one to make.”)
- ‘Not where it needs to be’: Start of summer season brings new staffing challenges to Hampton Roads and Outer Banks
- D.C.-area forecast: Three hot days ahead before gradual relief
