by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 18.
- Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief
- ‘Climate change affects everyone’: Europe battles wildfires in intense heat
- Europe Fears Economic Fallout if Russian Gas Outage Drags On
- Europe Must Slash Gas Demand Now Before ‘Hard’ Winter, IEA Warns
- Britain Braces for Its Hottest Day Ever as Heat Wave Moves North From Europe
- France, Spain fight spreading wildfires as Europe swelters
- UK heatwave: Country may have hottest day on record with 41C forecast
- Why the US Dollar Is Booming and Creating a Possible Doom Loop
- Economics of war: Pain for Europe now, later for Russia
- Germany Breaks Solar Record as Heat Wave Sears Western Europe
- Ukraine military says several Russian attempts to advance in Donetsk have been repulsed
- Ukraine war: Zelensky suspends security chief and top prosecutor
- Afghan Economy Crumbles Since Taliban Takeover
- Khamenei adviser says Tehran ‘capable of building nuclear bomb’ -Al Jazeera
- Sri Lanka acting president declares emergency amid protests
- Tory leadership: Rivals get personal in latest TV debate
- Analysis | The U.S. plan to avoid extreme climate change is running out of time
- Climate Activists Pivot to Local Action, Frustrated by Washington Gridlock
- New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t Be.
- When Will the BA.5 Wave End? (“By every available metric, the surge of cases continues to grow”)
- Ex-Trump counsel gears up for starring appearance in Jan. 6 hearing
- Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes
- Trump won’t blunt January 6 inquiry by entering 2024 race, panel member says
- Jan. 6 committee expects Secret Service to meet Tuesday deadline on text messages
- Kinzinger says Trump would probably lie under oath to Jan. 6 committee
- What is Steve Bannon planning in his war room?
- ‘We will never concede’ (“In an effort to sow chaos in the GOP and crush Democrats, Steve Bannon is pushing to install election workers who believe the 2020 election was stolen” That should be an automatic disqualifier to be an election worker. Period.)
- Trial expected to begin for ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon
- Trumpism is on trial with Bannon in court and Jan. 6 hearing in primetime
- Joe Walsh’s MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect “major violence”
- Juan Williams: McConnell teeters on the high wire
- The Senate is nearing a deal on immigration that could also lower food prices
- Just 3 Weeks Post-Roe, The Stories Emerging Are Worse Than Anyone Imagined
- Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Enforcement of L.G.B.T.Q. Protections (Trump-appointed judge, OF COURSE!)
- Moms for Liberty’s conservative activists are planning their next move: Taking over school boards (VERY dangerous.)
- Joe Manchin’s Fickleness Is a Needless Catastrophe
- Sanders says Manchin ‘sabotaged the president’s agenda’
- At Least 120 Republicans Who Deny The 2020 Election Results Will Be On The Ballot In November (Every one of these nutjobs should be defeated.)
- Sen. Ted Cruz says Supreme Court ‘clearly wrong’ in decision legalizing same-sex marriage
- Texas House report on Uvalde shooting blames all agencies at the scene
- Damning report, new footage show chaos of Uvalde response
- “Systemic failures” in Uvalde shooting went far beyond local police, Texas House report details
- First on CNN: Uvalde video shows children scrambling for safety and a chief fumbling with door keys
- A year before Uvalde shooting, gunman had threatened women, carried around a dead cat and been nicknamed ‘school shooter
- Gunman kills 3 at Indiana mall; armed bystander kills shooter, police say
- Doug Ducey rebukes Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor
- Pence endorses in Arizona governor’s race, putting him at odds with Trump
- For Wyoming Democrats, voting for Cheney is another chance to vote against Trump
- Focus groups: Wisconsin swing voters say Trump guilty for Jan. 6
- Reps. Wexton and Connolly, Former VA Sec. Education Qarni Demand Answers in Case of Loudoun-Based Civil Rights Attorney Asim Ghafoor’s “politically motivated arrest” by the United Arab Emirates (Ghafoor “previously served as a lawyer for slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi”)
- Video: On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Says Trump Running for President Doesn’t “change how we are conducting this investigation” Into the 1/6/21 Insurrection
- Luria touts new evidence, witnesses ahead of highly anticipated Jan. 6 hearing (“The Virginia Democrat said there would be people included whose testimony has not been featured thus far.”)
- Republicans’ hasty attacks on women show they were never pro-life (“The forced-birth movement is about controlling women, not protecting life.” Obviously.)
- Anti-abortion zeal among rural GOP lawmakers may be toxic to Republicans running in suburbs (“Del. Dave LaRock, R-Loudoun, is recommending to Youngkin that he withhold funding from hospitals at state-supported universities that provide abortion services, even though the procedure is fully legal in Virginia. And the Richmond Times-Dispatch quoted LaRock as saying that Youngkin is “paying close attention” to his request.”)
- Virginia’s mental health hotline launches amid fears it won’t meet expectations (“New 988 number, billed as part of the state’s crisis system expansion, won’t guarantee immediate access to services”)
- Virginia’s prison population declined, but trailed the national average
- To ban or not to ban? (“A Washington County official fights to have a controversial book removed from the local public library.”)
- Fairfax Co. police in contact with suspect who allegedly killed wife in Springfield
- D.C.-area forecast: Here comes the hottest week of the summer so far
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