by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 22.
- Monkeypox outbreak: WHO working on sexual contact theory, top adviser says
- ‘Long covid’ is going to be a long haul
- Worst floods in decades hit Bangladesh and India (This is the climate crisis; get off of fossil fuels ASAP!)
- As the world watches Russia’s war, other global crises see critical support fading
- Zelenskiy signals readiness for new talks if Mariupol troops are not harmed
- Ukraine forces prepare for possible attack on Belarusian border
- Ukraine Latest: Poland Wants Fast EU Candidate Status for Kyiv
- Russia bans 963 Americans, including Biden and Harris — but not Trump
- Russia tries to rebound in Ukraine as prospects for victory fade
- Fate of 2,500 Ukrainian POWs from steel plant stirs concern
- Belarusians join war seeking to free Ukraine and themselves
- Ukraine rules out ceasefire deal that gives land to Russia
- Putin is starving millions of people around the world
- Mitt Romney: We Must Prepare for Putin’s Worst Weapons
- Poland’s President to Address Ukraine’s Parliament as Russia Seeks Gains in Donbas
- Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite
- Biden pushes economic, security aims as he ends SKorea visit
- Biden offers message for Kim Jong Un as he wraps first leg of his Asia trip
- U.S. walks out of APEC talks over Russia’s Ukraine invasion
- U.S., South Korea to consider expanded military exercises
- Climate Won Australia’s Election. Wielding Power Will Be Harder
- Australia’s ‘Climate Election’ Finally Arrived. Will It Be Enough?
- Albanese elected Australia’s leader in complex poll result
- Australia PM Concedes Election Defeat, Ending Decade Of Conservative Rule (“Opposition leader Anthony Albanese will be sworn in as prime minister after his Labor party clenched its first electoral win since 2007.”)
- Australia election: Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change
- Australia election: A great shock to the system
- Australian Election Results: Revenge of the Barbecued Koalas
- Analysis-In sharp switch, Australia votes for climate action
- Australian women unleash new political force
- Haiti’s Lost Billions (“King Charles of France was portrayed as a liberator of Haiti’s people. But ledgers and documents reviewed by The Times show a very different history.”)
- People In Counties That Backed Trump Were Twice As Likely To Die From COVID: Study (“Lower vaccination rates were critical to the death-rate difference, say researchers.”)
- Opinion Abbott CEO: We’re sorry about the formula shortage. Here’s what we’re doing to fix it.
- Stock Market Bottom Remains Elusive Despite Deepening Decline
- A Consequential Gun Ruling After the Buffalo Massacre (“The racist killings showed the horror of firearms; the Supreme Court may be about to make the problem worse.” This Supreme Court is extreme and largely illegitimate.)
- How Donald Trump’s 2020 Election Lies Have Gripped State Legislatures
- AP source: Giuliani interviewed for hours by 1/6 committee
- House Democrats scramble after redistricting lessens competitive edge
- Judge Approves N.Y. House Map, Cementing Chaos for Democrats
- Republicans vow to kill domestic terrorism bill in Senate (Wow, that really says a lot about Republicans…nothing good!)
- Analysis: Harangued by Trump, Georgia’s governor poised to rebuke him in midterm vote
- Perdue Had Trump. In Georgia, Kemp Had Everything Else.
- Utah hunting guide faces felony charge for Donald Trump Jr.’s big-game hunt (Why doesn’t Trump Jr. face a felony charge?)
- Lauren Boebert targeted by same group that took out Madison Cawthorn
- This working mom is Republicans’ best shot at unseating Marjorie Taylor Greene — if they want to
- The top elected official in Texas’ smallest county is charged with cattle thef
- ‘SNL’ says goodbye to Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson
- VA10 Republicans Nominate Hung Cao, Who Backs “Off-Label Alternatives” to Treating COVID, Is 100% Anti-Reproductive Freedom, Rails Against “Insidious Grooming…of Students” by “government-backed organizations,” etc. to Take on Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10)
- VA05 Overwhelmingly Republicans Re-Nominate Extremist, Insurrectionist, Science Denier, Bigot, etc. Rep. Bob Good (Here’s some background showing how not GOOD this guy is.)
- VA10 GOP Nomination Decided Today; DPVA Says “These candidates…are just an embarrassment to Virginia”
- Rep. Bob Good gets nod for 2nd term in Va. GOP convention; Cao also wins (“First-time candidate Hung Cao emerges as victor in crowded 10th District contest”)
- Early Virginia GOP primaries conclude after a busy political weekend
- Hundreds of dementia patients in Virginia are sent to state-run psychiatric hospitals that aren’t equipped for them
- Editorial: They want to ban books (“As Virginia Beach school officials remove a book from school libraries, a separate effort could restrict sales by private bookshops.”)
- Video: Far-Right VA Del. Tim Anderson (R) Urges Parents “All Over Virginia” to Go to Court to Decide Which Books Children Should Have Access To; Cites “Gender Queer,” “A Court of Mist and Fury,” “Handmaid’s Tale,” etc. (“This is so un-American”; “This is what fascism looks like”)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “There’s certainly a lot of COVID going around the community.”; “I am definitely back in my N95 at work” (“So, this brings us to Monkeypox, which was not on my 2022 Bingo card”)
- Virginia board is set to return names of the Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, Turner Ashby and Robert E Lee to two schools after they were changed during George Floyd protests
- D.C.-area forecast: A steamy Sunday with hefty afternoon storms likely
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