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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 29.
- Why $60 billion collapse in major cryptocurrency is not the industry’s Bear Stearns moment
- Ukrainan defenders hold out in Donbas city under heavy fire
- Ukrainians say they’re badly outgunned by Russia in the battle for the Donbas
- Ukraine can’t regain all Russian-held territory by force, Zelensky says
- Russia squeezes Luhansk in ‘indescribably difficult’ battles, Zelensky says
- Ukraine war: Putin urged to hold ‘direct, serious negotiations’ with Zelensky
- Zelensky expects ‘good news’ on weapons from West
- Russian troops storm city amid eastern Ukraine bombardments
- Ukraine Latest: EU Plan to Exempt Key Pipeline in Nod to Hungary
- Severodonetsk military chief: Ukraine in ‘tough defensive position’
- Unrest erupts at Jerusalem site ahead of nationalist march
- Severe water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq
- Iran Says Revenue From Energy Exports up 60% From Last Year
- You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again
- More baby formula shipments arrive from overseas in an effort to ease the shortage
- US Economic Data Signals Firmer Growth That May Ease by Yearend
- Police failed to act quickly in Uvalde. Experts say their inaction allowed for the massacre to continue and led to catastrophic consequences
- Police mistakes in Uvalde should not take focus off the real issue: guns
- When the Cost of Liberty Is the Occasional Massacre
- The Atrocity of American Gun Culture (“After mass shootings like those in Uvalde and Buffalo, pro-gun officials say they don’t want to politicize tragedy. But the circumstances that allow for the mass murder of children are inherently political.”)
- The U.S. is uniquely terrible at protecting children from gun violence (Thanks almost exclusively to the NRA and the GOP)
- The Delayed Police Response to the Tragedy at Uvalde Has Made Pro Law-Enforcement Lawmakers Furious
- Why appeals to altruism won’t budge the US gun lobby
- ‘Too much fear, too much grief’: Biden to visit Uvalde amid scrutiny of police response to shooting
- Uvalde shooting: Kamala Harris calls for assault weapons ban
- Inside Mitch McConnell’s decades-long effort to block gun control
- The gunman in Uvalde carried more ammunition into Robb Elementary School than a U.S. soldier carries into combat
- Uvalde picks up pieces as shifting accounts of attack trouble officials
- Jacobs proposes gun safety measures after Buffalo massacre: ‘This has been a profoundly impactful event’
- GOP Congressman, former NRA endorsee says he would support ban on assault weapons in aftermath of Buffalo, Uvalde
- Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
- Texas police chief who delayed response did active shooter training in December
- The Staff of Uvalde’s Local Paper Cover the Worst Day of Their Lives
- Uvalde a mix of pride and anger as it grieves school attack
- Uvalde mourns after harrowing details emerge
- Survivors of Uvalde shooting paint horrifying picture of terror and tragedy
- No evidence of exploitation of Dominion voting machine flaws, CISA finds
- This Dude Truly Bested Trump This Week
- How a Mapmaker Became New York’s Most Unexpected Power Broker
- GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy Booed By Trump Supporters At Rally
- Man Confronts Ted Cruz At Restaurant: ’19 Dead Kids, That’s On Your Hands’
- Proud Boys leader Tarrio loses latest bid for release from jail
- “An embarrassment to Virginia”; “It’s the guns Ms. Sears…IT’S THE GUNS!!”; “Enough is enough. Do your damn job.” (No, mass shootings do NOT “happen because of no prayer in school, society emasculating men…Black on Black crime…”)
- Schapiro: At Virginia’s Capitol, Youngkin capitalizes on disruption
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “What happened in Uvalde, Texas this week is hard to process”; “After two years of wearing goggles, I tried out a face shield”
- David J. Toscano: In the room at the time: Origins of the Amtrak train from Charlottesville
- With tents outside county office, Fairfax reviews pledge to end homelessness (“Officials said nearly 1,200 people in the county are without homes since 2018.”)
- Williams: 2 years later, George Floyd’s lasting impact on Richmond
- Following delayed adoption, thousands of Richmonders will be located in new voting districts
- At CNU, his vision became reality. Retiring president Paul Trible reflects on 26 years leading the school.
- Leesburg Starbucks unionizes, protests ‘unfair labor practices’
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and seasonable today, then heating up into the 90s
