by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 13.
- Climate disasters collide with Ukraine war to deepen hunger crisis
- Can We Tech Our Way Out of Climate Change?
- In Africa, Conflict and Climate Super-Charge the Forces Behind Famine and Food Insecurity
- How the ‘Energy Shock’ Has Upended the Global Economy
- Major crypto lender Celsius freezes withdrawals as markets tumble
- $5 gas is largely Putin’s fault
- Ukraine Fears Defeat in East Without Surge in Military Aid
- What’s Russia’s endgame in Ukraine?
- Russian Forces Move Into Center of Sievierodonetsk
- What will Biden do if Putin goes nuclear? Experts say a nuclear response is unlikely but not impossible.
- ‘They’re Wiping Us From Earth’: Evading Russian Artillery With a Ukrainian Military Unit
- Key Donbas city ‘could be cut off’ if final bridge destroyed
- Evidence of widespread use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv (War crime.)
- Russia-Ukraine war: river crossing operations in Donbas likely to determine course of the war, UK MoD says – live
- China Alarms US With Private Warnings to Avoid Taiwan Strait
- In Asia, Defense Ministers Issue New Warnings to China
- China Is Walking Back Virus Loosening Weeks After Reopening
- If Australia Can Stop Mass Shootings, Why Can’t We?
- Biden planning July trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel
- India destroys houses of several Muslim figures after religious riots
- How Bolsonaro Is Using the Military to Challenge Brazil’s Election (Very, very dangerous.)
- How Shireen Abu Akleh was killed (“A Washington Post analysis of available visuals, audio and witness statements shows an Israeli soldier likely fired the fatal shot”)
- Brazil police: Items owned by missing men found in Amazon
- Emmanuel Macron’s coalition level with new leftwing group in French elections
- US: Pfizer COVID-19 shot appears effective for kids under 5
- Inside Biden’s frustration with soaring prices
- US Bonds Flag Recession Risk With 75 Basis-Point Hike in Play
- Powell Facing Choice Between Elevated US Inflation and Recession
- Futures Put S&P 500 on Course to Enter Bear Market
- Democrats: Biden must drop the word ‘rational’ when talking about Republicans
- 7 questions I want the Jan. 6 committee to answer at its upcoming hearings
- Trump Campaign Chief to Headline Jan. 6 Hearing on Election Lies
- Does the Justice Department want to charge Trump? Here’s what could happen. (“A person familiar with the matter told NBC News there have been conversations inside DOJ about the implications of pursuing a case against the ex-president, should it come to that.”)
- Ex-Trump campaign manager will testify before Jan. 6 panel
- Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump
- GOP governor says Trump is ‘politically, morally responsible’ for Jan. 6
- Trump Is Still a Threat
- Jan. 6 committee to detail the origins and reach of Trump’s election lies
- Trump Campaign Chief to Headline Jan. 6 Hearing on Election Lies
- Major TV networks, including Fox News, plan to televise Monday’s hearing of the January 6 committee
- Raskin says Garland knows ‘what’s at stake’ on possible Justice Department indictment of Trump
- Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ takes center stage in second Jan. 6 hearing
- The sedition didn’t stop on Jan. 6. It must be stopped.
- Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence (“Former Moonie turned mind control expert says up to one-third of Trump’s faithful are ready to support violence”)
- Taking Aim at DeSantis, Spooked Trump Considers Launching 2024 Bid in Florida
- Senate Dems’ best chances to expand majority may run through 2 unconventional lieutenant governors
- Senators strike bipartisan gun deal, heralding potential breakthrough
- Analysis: Gun Deal Is Less Than Democrats Wanted, but More Than They Expected
- What to Really Look for With the Senate Deal on Guns (“The proposal is nowhere as robust as a majority of Americans want—but could have further benefits.”)
- Senators reach bipartisan gun control deal after mass shootings (“Proposals fall way short of assault weapon ban, but would end reform stalemate”)
- Senate compromise on guns is a real breakthrough – yet a tenuous and modest step
- 3 reforms left out of the bipartisan gun deal
- The Senate’s bipartisan gun deal is an encouraging first step
- Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam
- Senators strike bipartisan gun deal, heralding potential breakthrough
- Bipartisan group of senators announce agreement on gun control
- Juan Williams: How the GOP stokes white fear of Black gun violence
- What’s in the bipartisan plan for gun control (“The forthcoming bipartisan agreement could be the first new gun control laws enacted in decades.”)
- Photos From Saturday’s “2022 March For Our Lives” Rally on the National Mall
- John Allen Resigns as President of Brookings Institution Amid Qatar Controversy
- Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
- President Biden, Virginians React to Announcement of Bipartisan Gun Deal
- Sen. Tim Kaine releases statement on bipartisan proposal to reduce gun violence
- Video: On Meet the Press, Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Rips Trump’s “Dereliction of Duty” on 1/6/21, Says “if [being on the 1/6 committee] means in November I don’t get reelected, I can sleep at night” (“If we can’t preserve [our democracy], I don’t know what the country will look like for my daughters”)
- Study: Virginia could lose 42 percent of tidal wetlands to sea level rise by 2100
- What Virginia changed since the last high-profile school shooting
- A micromanagement masterpiece: Where telework works, why mess with it?
- Monticello plans Juneteenth events to honor enslaved people and their descendants
- Democratic primary candidates to appear at forum Thursday
- D.C.-area forecast: A steamy week that could brew some big storms
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