by Lowell
Here are a few international, National and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, June 26.
Miller: President Trump… I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday pic.twitter.com/RqxmbT8jx5
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 26, 2022
- Scientists Are Pursuing Flood-Resistant Crops, Thanks to Climate-Induced Heavy Rains and Other Extreme Weather
- Here’s The Latest Data On Climate And Food And It’s Not Good
- World Health Organization says monkeypox is not a global health emergency right now
- Energy prices are causing chaos in Asia. Here’s why the rest of the world should worry
- EXPLAINER: Why Germany is pushing for a ‘climate club’
- Pro-life is not just opposing abortion, Vatican says after U.S. ruling
- Russia Is Hours Away From Its First Foreign Default in a Century
- Russia strikes Kyiv as troops consolidate gains in the east
- Biden: G-7 will ban Russian gold imports to deny Putin revenue for war in Ukraine
- Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict
- Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say
- G-7 Latest: Biden Urges Unity in Talks With Scholz Before Summit
- G-7 Negotiators Put Russia Oil Price Cap on Agenda for Leaders
- Iran and US ready to restart talks on nuclear deal (“EU foreign affairs chief says stalemate broken after meeting with Iranian foreign minister in Tehran”)
- ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future
- A Defiant Boris Johnson Says He’ll Stay UK Leader Into 2030s (Hahaha, wuuuut?)
- Oslo shooting: Norway attack being treated as Islamist terrorism, police say
- Can the International Community Avert Disaster in the Red Sea? (It had better!)
- The Supreme Court radicals’ new precedent: Maximum chaos
- LGBTQ community braces for rollback of rights after abortion ruling
- Emotional protests continue after Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade
- Abortion rights groups grasp for a post-Roe strategy
- Roe’s gone. Now the GOP wants to push further.
- Republicans are eyeing a nationwide abortion ban. Can they pull it off? (“The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe has made a national ban possible, but Republicans face considerable political obstacles.”)
- How Did Roe Fall? Before a Decisive Ruling Came a Powerful Red Wave. (“The downfall of the constitutional right to abortion began 12 years ago, after Republicans swept state house elections and passed hundreds of restrictions.” The 2010 and 2014 elections were absolute disasters whose repercussions are still being felt. Then came the 2016 catastrophe. And now, we are in deep, deep sh*t as a nation.)
- Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Bans (“Demand Surges for Medication Abortion, Setting Stage for Legal Battles”)
- We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse
- SCOTUS Conservatives’ Big Flex: “Restless” Court Steers Far Right
- ‘A mockery of democracy’: US supreme court in question after abortion ruling
- Chief Justice John Roberts lost the Supreme Court and the defining case of his generation (“The Chief Justice apparently never had momentum against the five anti-Roe justices and was outmaneuvered by them”)
- The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court
- Democrats Focus on Abortion Fight in Upcoming Elections
- GOP Insiders Doubt Ending Roe Will Cost Them
- 18 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America (“A range of thinkers on the future of abortion post-Roe in America — and how that will affect everything else.”)
- Abortion foes, supporters map next moves after Roe reversal
- A ‘sucker punch’: Some women fear setback to hard-won rights
- The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is (“The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law.”)
- Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe
- Abortions are now illegal in 7 states but more bans are coming
- Republican-Appointed Justices Push for a Society Awash in Guns
- “The Great Regression”: “right now the arc of history is not, as we often assert, bending toward justice in the United States” (“And absent…the momentum of progress, we will surely decline and fail as a nation.”)
- Angry Democrats call on Biden to do more on abortion
- Pro-Choice Protesters Attacked And Threatened As Roe Demonstrations Continue Into Day 2 (“In Iowa, a truck driver plowed into a group of protesters. In Los Angeles, a cop shoved a journalist. In Mississippi, men harassed volunteers at an abortion clinic.”)
- The Supreme Court guts gun laws, while Congress finally acts
- Biden signs landmark gun legislation: ‘God willing, it’s going to save a lot of lives’
- “Lives Will Be Saved”: Biden signs gun violence bill into law but is it enough?
- Illinois Republican tells Trump rally that Roe verdict a ‘victory for white life’
- Rep. Miller thanks Trump for ‘victory for white life,’ campaign says she misread remarks
- MAGA Rep. Mary Miller Thanks Trump for Giving ‘White Life’ a Win
- Jan 6 hearings: Four big things we’ve learned
- Editorial: Legal in Virginia — for now
- Del. Sally Hudson Explains “what *exactly* we mean when we say abortion is still legal in Virginia” (Be warned, though: Youngkin, Sears, Miyares, Gilbert, etc. will take it away in a second if we let them…)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: Moderna’s New Combination Vaccine Booster “could be available later this summer” (Also: A new study finds that “20 million deaths were prevented worldwide during 2021 because of the vaccine”)
- CASEY: Among readers, Jan. 6 revelations elicit shock and dismay
- Editorial: Roanoke City Council candidates on the road to a November election like no other
- ‘No room for this in Virginia’ — Gov. Youngkin decries vandalism at crisis pregnancy center
- Commanders lawyers worked to keep Dan Snyder’s ‘sweetheart’ comment out of Congressional testimony (It’s hard to imagine wanting to be a lawyer who’s job is to keep scumbag clients like Dan Snyder out of trouble.)
- SBQ: Tourism makes a comeback in Southside, Southwest and central Virginia
- D.C.-area forecast: Summertime heat today, some showers tomorrow
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