by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 11.
- The International Criminal Court Turns 20 in Turbulent Times. Should ‘Ecocide’ Be Added to its List of Crimes?
- Melting Glaciers, Dying Coral Sounds Add to Climate Research
- What Does a Melting Glacier Sound Like? More Data for Climate Scientists
- Deep-Sea Mines Can Send Noise up to 310 Miles Underwater (Completely unacceptable.)
- Integrated wind and solar still cheapest, and green hydrogen costs falling fast: CSIRO
- EU Mounts Urgent Call for Covid-19 Boosters as Cases Rise Again
- How Uber won access to world leaders, deceived investigators and exploited violence against its drivers in battle for global dominance (Horrible.)
- Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
- Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals
- Former EU digital chief secretly helped Uber lobby Dutch PM, leak suggests
- Ukraine official says Russia strikes ‘absolute terrorism’
- Europe on high alert as Russia temporarily halts gas flows via major pipeline
- Ukraine aims to amass ‘million-strong army’ to recapture south, says defence minister
- 18 dead, dozens trapped after attack on Donetsk apartments; Kyiv says Russia isn’t taking an ‘operational pause’
- Former Gov. Bill Richardson expected to travel to Moscow to work on securing the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan
- Ukraine’s Defense Minister Says It Has ‘Passed Test’ on New U.S. Guided Rockets, Needs More
- Ukraine dismisses its ambassador to Germany after controversial remarks. (“Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, fired his ambassador to Germany, a week after the diplomat gave an interview in which he defended the legacy of a World War II nationalist leader who collaborated with the Nazis.”)
- Former Saudi official calls Mohammed bin Salman a “psychopath,” says Saudi crown prince fears what he knows
- President Biden will find a changed Middle East on his first trip to the region as president.
- Shinzo Abe’s Party Triumphs in Parliamentary Vote, Extending Legacy
- Mother of Abe killing suspect is Unification Church member, church says
- ‘Terrorism’: Abe killing seen as attack on Japan’s democracy
- Sri Lanka in political vacuum as talks go on amid crisis
- China crushes protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back
- Boris Johnson’s Fall Is Populism’s Latest Act of Self-Destruction
- Boris Johnson is going, and strategists are betting on big changes to the UK economy
- Boris Johnson Diminished Britain on the World Stage (“He promised to make the U.K. great again. Instead, he left it as just another U.S. sidekick.”)
- As the BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of coronavirus reinfection grows
- America has decided the pandemic is over. The coronavirus has other ideas. (“The latest omicron offshoot, BA.5, has quickly become dominant in the United States, driving a wave of reinfections across the country.”)
- Biden to unveil first photo from James Webb Space Telescope (” The image, known as ‘Webb’s First Deep Field,’ will be the deepest and highest-resolution view of the universe ever captured. Biden is scheduled to release it on Monday.”)
- US nears 50% emission free electricity, wind & solar set records, solar up 23%
- ‘Under Siege’: Facing School Shootings and Book Bans, US Teachers Have Had It
- Rep Jamie Raskin: What Trump did makes Watergate look like “work of Cub Scouts”
- Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump’s 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy
- ‘Closing argument’: Jan. 6 panel makes final hearings push
- Trump associates’ ties to extremists probed by Jan. 6 panel
- Cassidy Hutchinson: Why the Jan. 6 Committee Rushed Her Testimony (“Sequestered with family and security, Ms. Hutchinson, 26, has in the process developed an unlikely bond with Representative Liz Cheney, the panel’s vice chairwoman.”)
- Trump documentary exposes family divisions over Capitol attack
- Bannon, dangling possible testimony, brings new focus to Jan. 6 role
- Bannon initiates talks with January 6 panel on testifying over Capitol attack
- President Trump Wrecked Lives on Jan. 6. I Should Know.
- The big win the January 6 panel has already scored (“The committee’s evidence and its use of videotaped testimony has revealed a head-spinning narrative”)
- Jan. 6’s Tangled Web Of Extremism
- Paul Ryan was ‘sobbing’ as he watched the US Capitol attack unfold, new book says
- Chuck Todd suggests Americans can’t ‘handle’ a Trump prosecution (Chuck Todd should have been fired years ago. Why is he still there?)
- Trump Will Say Literally Anything—Except “Vaccines” (The Trump GOP is truly a death cult.)
- 6 Awful GOP Candidates Who Could Save the Democratic Senate
- Republicans struggling in several marquee races in fight for control of the Senate
- Most Democrats Don’t Want Biden in 2024, New Poll Shows (“Among Democratic voters, 64 percent said they would prefer a candidate other than President Biden, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. A pervasive sense of pessimism across the U.S. has driven Mr. Biden’s support lower. His job-approval rating is 33 percent.”)
- Biden has put the forced-birth crusaders on notice (“The Supreme Court lit a fire under the pro-freedom majority.”)
- F.D.A. to Weigh Over-the-Counter Sale of Contraceptive Pills
- Klobuchar, Warren press Meta on “censoring” of abortion posts
- Biden Says Emergency to Defend Abortion Rights Is Still on Table
- Kamala Harris urges voters to elect a ‘pro-choice Congress’ in midterms
- Schumer making last-ditch bid to pass reconciliation bill this summer
- Democrats see hope for spending deal with Manchin as Congress returns
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tests positive for covid (“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tested positive for Covid and will be working remotely this week, according to his spokesperson. — ‘The Leader is fully vaccinated and double boosted, and has very mild symptoms’”)
- Twitter Assembles Legal Team to Sue Musk Over Dropped Takeover
- Elon Musk may have to complete $44bn Twitter takeover, legal experts say (“Tesla chief wants to terminate deal but he could be compelled to go through with it or pay a break fee”)
- Twitter Shares Slump As Musk Deal Backtrack Sets Scene for Legal Battle
- Musk Laughs Off Twitter Lawsuit in Characteristic Meme Fashion (Musk is nuts.)
- Where a wounded Twitter goes from here
- Rep. Elaine Luria campaigns in Chesapeake and Suffolk
- Rep. Good, Del. March urge eliminating abortion with no negotiation or compromise at Richmond rally
- Congressman calls for abortion ban in Virginia: ‘Republicans should not be negotiating’
- Youngkin on running in 2024: ‘That’s not a decision we have even begun to undertake’ (Suuuuure.)
- Video: On “Face the Nation,” Youngkin Does a Lot of Dodging and Lying; Also Says He Believes “Life Begins at Conception,” Which Of Course Implies a Ban on Abortion (Youngkin dodges on whether he’d support insurrectionists/extremists like Doug Mastriano.)
- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pushes 15-week abortion ban after Supreme Court decision
- VA President Pro Tempore Sen. Louise Lucas Vows to “put abortion rights and LGBT rights into Virginia’s constitution so no politician can ever play this game again” (To do this, “we will have to make @DonScott757 Speaker of the House in next year’s election.”)
- ‘A slap in the face’: Prisoners, families have hopes dashed by governor’s amendment (Truly disgusting by Youngkin.)
- Youngkin’s anti-mandate approach fails to boost Virginia vaccination rates
- Wildflower projects sprouting in southwest Virginia (“In Floyd County just off route 8, a meadow of yellow and pink wildflowers is one of the sites for a new project, called Floyd Flower Power. Floyd isn’t the only place in southwest Virginia with flower projects in the works. A regional initiative across 20 counties, called Plant Southwest Virginia Natives, is working to promote the abundance of flowers and plants that thrive here.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: A nice summer week with highs mostly in the 80s
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