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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 29.
- Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world
- In much of Asia, tiger populations are rebounding
- Chevron Posts Record $11.6 Billion Quarterly Profit
- AEMO urges quicker shift to renewables amid coal failures and soaring fossil fuel costs
- Countries Across Europe Prepare for a Winter Energy Squeeze
- BA.5 Shows COVID Is Evolving Fast. Why Aren’t We Fighting Back?
- Inflation hits record 8.9% in 19 countries using the euro
- Euro-Zone Inflation Hits Record, Backing Calls for Larger Hikes
- Euro zone economy grows 0.7% in the second quarter despite gas crisis and inflation surge
- Ukraine could be turning the tide of war again as Russian advances stall
- Russia says shelling killed dozens of Ukrainian POWs
- Isolation complication? US finds it’s hard to shun Russia
- Ukraine’s shadow army resisting Russian occupation
- Russia Is Making Heaps of Money From Oil, but There Is a Way to Stop That
- I’m Ukraine’s Foreign Minister. Putin Must Be Stopped.
- Biden, Xi Plan In-Person Meet as Taiwan Tensions Intensify
- China’s Xi warns Biden over Taiwan, calls for cooperation
- Chinese invasion of Taiwan may come sooner than expected
- Pope’s 6-day Canada pilgrimage leaves ‘deep hole’
- UK heatwave: Weather forecasters report unprecedented trolling (That’s really f’ed up.)
- Biden Administration Plans to Offer Updated Booster Shots in September
- Summer boosters for people under 50 shelved in favor of updated boosters in the fall
- Number of migrants crossing border is dropping, in part due to U.S. agents helping nab human smugglers in Central America
- Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy (“Despite what Meta has to say”)
- Recession or jobs boom? It’s not so simple.
- GDP declined again — but that might not mean we’re in a recession
- Gas Prices Are Plummeting Across the Country
- 22 Republican States Sue Biden Admin for the Right to Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ School Kids (“Unfathomable cruelty is the point.”)
- Abortion foes downplay complex post-Roe v. Wade realities
- Alito dismisses foreign criticism of Supreme Court’s abortion ruling (A few adjectives that come to mind when thinking about Alito: cruel, nasty, crazy, extremist, unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.)
- Justice Alito Mocks World Leaders Who Criticized Court’s Abortion Ruling
- How the Supreme Court’s “fauxriginalists” are warping the Constitution (“Right-wing justices claim they’re delving for true meanings beneath the Constitution. It’s another Big Lie”)
- EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutors prepare for court battle to force former White House officials to testify about Trump’s January 6 conversations
- Jan. 6 committee tees up 20 witness transcripts for DOJ
- Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli (“Neither Cuccinelli nor Wolf responded to requests for comment. DHS’s Office of Inspector General did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”)
- ‘Stop the Steal’ speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI info on rally organizers, more than a dozen others as part of plea deal
- Why did the GOP reject a bill to help veterans exposed to toxins?
- ‘Total BS’: Democrats Threaten To Delay Senate Recess After GOP Tanks Veterans Bill (“Legislation to aid veterans exposed to toxic burn pits was upended at last minute by unexpected Republican objections.”)
- Jon Stewart Rips Republicans For Blocking Veteran Aid: ‘America Is F**ked’
- 2016 Campaign Looms Large as Justice Dept. Pursues Jan. 6 Inquiry
- 41 Republican senators break their promise to protect veterans’ health
- Comedian Jon Stewart erupts after Republicans vote against military burn pits bill
- Blindsided veterans erupt in fury after Senate Republicans suddenly tank PACT Act
- Biden enters the Always Be Closing phase of his first term (“Suddenly, overnight, real progress has been teed up for the White House. Can the president deliver?”)
- House passes bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips in win for Biden
- House passes chips and science bill, sending measure to Biden’s desk
- Splitsville: McConnell and McCarthy break on big votes
- Internal GOP tension rises as McConnell’s deal-making puts him at odds with McCarthy
- Fox News is incoherently mad about Manchin striking a deal
- Joe Manchin’s Latest Reversal Could Be a Game Changer (“Finally, some positive news for President Biden and the Democrats despite the new G.D.P. report.”)
- ‘Getting Rolled’: McConnell Was Outfoxed With His Own Playbook
- Manchin and Schumer’s Astonishing Climate Deal
- Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism
- The huge, hidden bonanza in getting Joe Manchin to yes
- House Dems rally behind Manchin deal
- Joe Biden hails Senate deal as ‘most significant’ US climate legislation ever
- Renewables welcome ’11th hour reprieve’ from Manchin
- Inside the secret Manchin-Schumer deal: Dems shocked, GOP feels betrayed
- How secret negotiations revived Joe Biden’s agenda and shocked Washington
- Here’s What’s in Democrats’ $370 Billion Climate Spending Deal
- Joe Manchin’s climate deal isn’t enough, but it’s still a miracle
- Joe Manchin Says He Wasn’t Trying To Trick Republicans
- What’s in and what’s out of Manchin’s surprise climate deal
- What’s in the “game changer” climate bill nobody saw coming
- Susan Collins: Democrats’ Climate Deal May Doom Bipartisan Efforts On Same-Sex Marriage (Maine voters had a chance to replace Collins with someone much better. Why didn’t they?)
- Editorial: Surprise Senate deal on climate change should be only the beginning
- Opinion: How overhauling this 1887 law could protect US elections
- 5 factors that give Democrats a fighting chance in November
- Dynamic shifts between Fox News, Donald Trump
- Could the US highways that split communities on racial lines finally fall? (“The freeway removal movement is being boosted by $1bn in federal funding. Will it be enough to reverse decades of damage?”)
- Oz’s Great Escape (“Republican Party insiders are increasingly frustrated with what they perceive as a certain laissez-faire attitude from the poorly-polling G.O.P. Senate candidate, who has spent nearly as much time on vacation as on the campaign trail”)
- Fox News Poll: Oz supporters lack enthusiasm in Pennsylvania Senate race
- Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testifying voluntarily before Congress (“A spokesperson for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform confirmed Snyder began giving his deposition Thursday morning virtually and in private. The hearing is not public.”)
- Judge: Wisconsin probe found ‘absolutely no’ election fraud
- Why Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned her blue suit at a disability rights meeting (Anyone attacking VP Harris for being considerate and accommodating blind people is a really, really bad person.)
- Josh Hawley is writing book on masculinity. Senator’s ‘Manhood’ goes on sale next May. (Hahahahahahaha. I mean, does Josh Hawley consider being a traitor and a sniveling coward to be “masculine?” LOL)
- Vance would vote against codifying right to marriage for same-sex couples
- Mastriano under fire for payment to ‘Christian nationalist’ platform
- Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail
- Why the third-party talk from Forward goes nowhere
- Fox News Poll: Georgia’s Senate and governor races are tight
- ‘Double-digit deaths’ expected in Kentucky floods that have already killed 8, governor says
- Catastrophic flooding spreads across the Appalachia
- President Biden, Virginia’s Congressional Dems Celebrate Passage of “job-creating, cost-cutting, national-security-strengthening” CHIPS and Science Act (In contrast, batsh*t-crazy Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) rants maniacally about how bill supposedly doesn’t “adequately address the threat of Communist China” and “will fund radical climate change initiatives.”)
- VA07 Republican Nominee Yesli Vega Beholden to Koch-Funded Dark Money Group that Opposed CHIPS and Science Act (“Their shared agenda is a threat to Virginia’s economy and America’s national security”)
- VA02 GOP(Q) Nominee Jen Kiggans Campaigns with Conspiracy Theorist, Climate Science Denier, Anti-LGBTQ Bigot, Anti-Roe, Koch-Funded US Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Who Backed Trump’s Coup Attempt and Even Nominated Him for the Nobel Prize!
- White supremacist propaganda on the rise in Virginia as groups work to fight back against hateful messaging
- Pope & Schapiro: Microchips, job approval and an old scandal
- Could Virginia play a role in the national semiconductor push?
- Youngkin’s culture wars are good for him but bad for Virginia business
- Love Letters to Glenn Youngkin: Getting Media Adoration While Going After My Kids – and Worse (“Do you know who we got no support from? Definitely not Greg Schneider of the Washington Post…Molly Ball of TIME Magazine…Karen Tumulty, the Deputy Editor of the Washington Post”)
- Judge dismisses lawsuit over Virginia’s failure to meet its ‘bed of last resort’ law
- Equality Virginia and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Transgender and Non-Binary Students in Virginia Schools (“The harm of differentiating transgender students from their peers and failing to affirm their identities is well-established in the courts”)
- Virginia school district leaders ask court to uphold teacher firing in transgender student case (“The brief, which was submitted by LGBTQ+ advocacy group Equality Virginia and more than 35 signatories, asks the Supreme Court of Virginia to uphold the King William Circuit Court’s dismissal of former teacher Peter Vlaming’s lawsuit against the West Point School Board.”)
- UVA infectious disease expert says to take ‘monkeypox quite seriously’
- Thursday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 31,228; Hospitalizations at 779 (Highest Level Since Early March)
- Virginia Aquarium expecting endangered crocodile eggs to hatch this summer
- Destructive jumping worms spotted throughout Virginia
- Governor Youngkin declares state of emergency after flooding in Southwest Virginia
- Rescued Envigo beagles getting ‘second chance at life’ at CASPCA
- Democrat Bob Shippee – a Champion for Climate, Clean Energy, Democracy, Public Schools, Women’s Reproductive Rights, etc. – Enters Race in Newly Drawn, Henrico-Based, “Tossup” HD57
- Editorial: Norfolk officials’ actions put Military Circle project at risk
- D.C.-area forecast: Steamy, with strong storm risk this afternoon and evening
