by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, June 12.
- Why bankers close their ears to the ‘climate nut jobs’ talking about the end of the world (Because they bankers are greedy sociopaths?)
- Climate change a bigger threat than war, Fiji tells security summit (Much bigger.)
- The race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisis
- Subsidized Ocean Fishing Threatens the Sea’s Bounty (That absolutely should NOT be subsidized. Nor should anything that harms the environment.)
- Several factors are converging to push gas prices higher
- The pricey Lightyear 0 EV can go months without charging thanks to solar power
- Zelensky Pushes E.U. Membership Bid as Key to Ukraine’s Security
- The world will face ‘a severe food crisis and famine,’ Zelenskyy says
- Ukraine’s leader says his troops keep defying predictions
- Chemical plant hit as fighting rages in Ukraine’s east
- Russians are on the verge of capturing key Ukrainian city. In neighboring Bakhmut those with nowhere else to go brace for their arrival
- Russia likely to seize all of Luhansk in coming weeks, U.S. official says
- Russia says it destroyed depot with Western weapons in Ukraine
- Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia’s Vladimir Putin
- Ukraine, U.S.-China relations dominate Asia security meeting
- Biden Says Any Saudi Visit Would Focus on More Than Energy
- ‘China’s Taiwan’: Beijing’s defence minister rails against ‘smearing and interfering’ US
- French go to polls to give Macron working majority or not
- Estonian PM set to form new coalition after conservative party joins talks
- Poland Illustrates Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned
- A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless (“A string of negatives can still presage a clear-as-day positive.”)
- Sizzling Prices Complicate Fed’s Inflation-Fighting Strategy
- Food Prices to Keep Going Up, as Costs Surge
- Donald Trump, American Monster
- Capitol attack pardon revelations could spell doom for Trump and allies (“Disclosure that many House Republicans sought presidential pardon may show they believed election fraud claim was false”)
- Jan. 6 Committee Appears to Lay Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump
- Does the Justice Department want to charge Trump? Here’s what could happen
- Pence-world’s final takedown of Trump’s Jan. 6 bid to remain in power revealed in his lawyer’s memo
- ‘I’m not afraid of clowns’: Republican defends vote to impeach Trump
- Woman accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop met with man who planned to shoot up synagogue: prosecutor
- Homeschooling, bulletproof backpacks: Parents take drastic steps to protect their kids after Uvalde
- How Did Guns Get So Powerful? (“Decade by decade, firearms have become deadlier—and tightened their grip on our collective imagination.”)
- ‘March For Our Lives’ protests against gun violence sweep nation following hundreds of mass shootings
- ‘Enough is enough’: Thousands demand new gun safety laws
- The shadow race is underway for the Republican presidential nomination
- Police: 31 members of white nationalist group arrested near Coeur d’Alene pride event
- ‘Losers!’: Mob of White Supremacists Busted Near Idaho Pride Event
- A Georgia woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming
- New York has a chance to generate all its electricity from clean energy by 2030 (Every state needs to push for this.)
- DNC cuts 3 contenders as it chooses new early state presidential lineup
- Brooks hits back at Trump over Britt endorsement
- Palin nabs early lead in Alaska US House special primary
- Palin, Begich, Gross and Peltola are top 4 in early results from Alaska’s special US House election
- Video: At Summit of the Americas, Sen. Tim Kaine Hits Trump for Not Coming Four Years Ago, Stresses the Importance of Being “Present” for Our “Vecinos”
- Troubled past charts unlikely rise to power for Virginia Democrat
- Gov. Youngkin, who ran on culture wars, takes cautious approach to Pride (First of all, they’re not “culture wars,” they’re a Republican assault on LGBTQ people, teaching the history of racism in this country, public education, etc. Second, why didn’t the WaPo report *during the campaign* that Youngkin was running on these things, instead of pretending that he was a “moderate” or “mystery date” or whatever?!? Third, what does “cautious approach to Pride” mean? This is journalism?)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “The experience we had in the ER that night [of 1/6/21]” (In COVID news, cases “running about 20% of the max we saw during the winter”)
- Some college degrees in Virginia never pay off. Others provide an immediate return.
- Behind Virginia’s mystery marijuana provision: Measure came from Governor’s office, with help from two Democrats
- In early February, the Commanders played down talk of a stadium ‘bidding war.’ That’s no longer an issue.
- CASEY: Whither the Roanoke Tea Party?
- D.C.-area forecast: Heating up with multiple storm chances the next few days
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