by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 4.
- Can’t discuss shocks to world economy without mentioning climate
- Valued to be $26 Billion by 2026, Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance Slated for Robust Growth Worldwide
- Latest Western arms will help Ukraine recapture Lysychansk, Zelensky says
- Ukraine war to shift to Donetsk after fall of Luhansk; Russia claims major victory
- Russia’s Jews fear resurgent anti-Semitism amid Ukraine war (“Jews have fled Russia in droves, but those who remain are scared of a return to the darkest days of discrimination.”)
- ‘Hell on earth’: Ukrainian soldiers describe eastern front
- Ukrainians taken captive by Russia say they were held in brutal conditions: ‘Everyone was beaten’ (More war crimes by Putin’s regime.)
- US Ambassador Urges China to Stop Spreading Russian ‘Lies’
- As Province Falls, Russian Forces Can Focus Farther West (“Russia now controls large parts of the Donbas region, and can turn to capturing the last Ukrainian holdout in neighboring Donetsk.”)
- Judge asks U.S. if Saudi crown prince should be immune from suit
- Official: 17 unaccounted for in Italian glacier avalanche
- 3 feet of rain sets up 4th round of flood misery for Sydney (Climate crisis.)
- Sydney is flooded, again, as climate crisis becomes new normal for Australia’s most populous state
- Copenhagen gunman shot people at random – police
- Labour’s Starmer Vows to ‘Make Brexit Work’ as He Breaks Silence
- Macron reshuffles cabinet after losing parliamentary majority (“Ex-health minister Olivier Véran becomes French government spokesperson in second shake-up in six weeks”)
- EXCLUSIVE Pope Francis denies he is planning to resign soon
- Biden Might Soon Soften Chinese Tariffs, in Decision Fraught With Policy Tensions (“The White House wants to take steps aimed at easing inflation while still looking tough on China.”)
- Updated Covid Shots Are Coming. Will They Be Too Late? (“Pfizer and Moderna said that they could deliver doses no earlier than October, and cases are rising now.”)
- Commodity Price Slide Raises Hopes Inflation May Ease (“Oil, wheat, natural gas, lumber, corn and other raw materials ended the quarter near to or lower than March prices, stirring hopes that a significant source of inflationary pressure might be starting to ease.”)
- Climate change fight gets harder after Supreme Court rules on EPA case (Absolutely inexcusable from this far-right, illegitimate Supreme Court.)
- The five most damaging allegations against Trump from the Jan. 6 hearings — so far
- Cassidy Hutchinson testimony prompts reassessment of Trump legal culpability
- Jan 6 panel: More people turn up with evidence against Trump
- Multiple criminal referrals of Trump possible, Cheney says
- GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: More Witnesses, Evidence Surface In Jan. 6 Probe
- New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts
- Opinion/Editorial: Election deniers threaten American independence
- Don’t venerate or vilify the Founders. Vindicate their radical vision.
- Nearly every American has a foreboding the country they love is losing its way
- Trump: Maybe This is a Good Time to Tell People I’m Running Again
- Liz Cheney Hints She Might Run Against Donald Trump in 2024 (“A man as dangerous as Donald Trump can absolutely never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again.” )
- Juan Williams: Justices lied before Roe v. Wade died
- Will Dobbs Change the Way We Feel About ‘Good’ Republicans? (“It’s time to reconsider whether to keep lionizing people like Mike Pence and Liz Cheney.”)
- How Dobbs is affecting abortion care, one week on
- A record number of abortion measures are on the ballot in 2022 (“Ballot measures could shore up — or obliterate — abortion rights in five states.”)
- Trust in Supreme Court falters after Roe decision
- Abortion Bans Will Affect Americans Rich and Poor
- McConnell wants to win the suburbs by defusing cultural hot buttons. Trump and his own party have other ideas.
- Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims (Good, bankrupt the mother@#$@#s!)
- Bezos Slams Biden Over Call for Lowering of Gas Prices
- Mississippi’s governor: Full speed ahead with new abortion restrictions
- Trump-backed Michigan secretary of state nominee said abortion is ‘child sacrifice’
- Gov. Kristi Noem Implies a Raped 10-Year-Old Might Be Forced to Give Birth
- Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times (“Police on Sunday released footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car to flee a traffic stop last week.” Yet again, a traffic stop and a wild overreaction by police against a Black man.)
- Kemp racing to stay competitive with Abrams in fundraising
- Va., Md. leaders: Supreme Court justice safety request raises First Amendment concerns
- Senate Democrat Urges Biden to Repeal Tariffs to Fight Inflation (“Kaine says in op-ed it would be fast way to lower prices; US tariffs on China ‘taking dollars out of Americans’ pockets’”)
- Tim Kaine: Roll back the Trump tax on American households
- Spanberger cranks up campaign in Culpeper, Orange, Prince William and Fredericksburg
- IL Governor’s Chief of Staff Says Karen Tumulty’s WaPo Op-Ed Arguing Youngkin’s a “Sane” Republican Is “one of many reasons democracy is in such peril” (The WaPo, of course, is the same newspaper that falsely/bizarrely claimed, a few weeks before the 2021 election, that Youngkin was some sort of “mystery date.”)
- Youngkin’s New Appointees to the VMI Board Include a Herschel Walker/Donald Trump Donor; a Former Trump-Pence Campaign Advisor; One Who Believes We Need “four more Clarence Thomases” on the Supreme Court; etc. (From these picks, it’s very obvious that Youngkin does NOT want to address the “institutional racism and sexism” found in a 2020 report on VMI)
- Audio: Former VA Sec. Education Atif Qarni Says Youngkin’s Assault on the Community College System “Borderline Illegal”; Interference with Selection of New Chancellor “Really Worries Me” (Qarni says Youngkin thinks community college leaders are “woke…socialist…talking about critical race theory and equity” and “he truly hates that.”)
- Virginia professor watches grass grow to save the buffalo
- As debate over books in schools continues, relatively few formal complaints have been filed in Hampton Roads
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and warm for Independence Day; storm chances return Tuesday
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