by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 5.
- Climate change: ‘Sand battery’ could solve green energy’s big problem (“Using low-grade sand, the device is charged up with heat made from cheap electricity from solar or wind. The sand stores the heat at around 500C, which can then warm homes in winter when energy is more expensive.”)
- Another Step Toward Climate Apocalypse
- Democrats have a month to revive the climate deal our planet needs
- After losing Luhansk, Ukraine forces gather for defence of Donetsk
- High cost of Russia gains in Ukraine could limit new advance
- Griner sends letter to President Biden pleading for his help
- Ukrainians displaced near Kyiv fear for war-damaged homes
- Russia is set to switch off the gas for work on a key pipeline — and Germany fears the worst
- NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
- Think democracy isn’t endangered? Just look what happened in Hong Kong.
- Bullet Too Damaged to Prove Who Killed Palestinian American Journalist, U.S. Says
- Haiti a Year After the Presidential Assassination (“Justice evades Jovenel Moïse’s family and the rest of the country.”)
- Israel’s Spies Hit Iran Hard. In Tehran, Big Names Paid the Price. (“After a series of damaging failures, a senior Iranian intelligence official lost his job and a Revolutionary Guards general was said to have been arrested.”)
- The BA.5 COVID Surge Is Here (“Last week, the U.S. test positivity rate — which is now a more reliable indicator of case surges than official case counts — reached a seven-day average of over 15 percent for the first time since February 3.”)
- A Clunky Mask May Be the Answer to Airborne Disease and N95 Waste (“Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced.”)
- US Recession Chances Surge to 38%, Bloomberg Economics Model Says
- Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster with Unfilled Judicial Vacancies (“There’s only one way to fix it.” Do it!)
- This July 4, let’s declare our independence from the Founding Fathers
- Lincoln’s political party is recklessly testing his wisdom
- Gen. Russel Honoré: Trump’s coup attempt “put us in the banana republic club” (“Retired general who studied Capitol security says ‘our government failed’ on Jan. 6, and White House was complicit”)
- After the abortion ruling, digital privacy is more important than ever
- Biden urges unity in his July 4th speech, while acknowledging the country’s sour mood
- Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next
- David Rothkopf: This July 4th, “I am not over-confident and none of us should be. But there are reasons to be hopeful” (We must, however, face the fact that “we are in one of the great struggles in our history. One of our two major political parties, the GOP, seeks to turn back the clock & strip away essential rights we thought had been won.”)
- Trump 2024 run could upend midterms – and deflect risk of prosecution
- Seven close races that could decide control of the House (VA02 and VA07 on this list.)
- Democrats Seize on Roe Backlash to Court Moderates
- With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him
- Election deniers are spreading misinformation nationwide. Here are 4 things to know
- Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving (“Their claims were dismissed as baseless, but many attorneys have never faced discipline and have found new business as go-to MAGA lawyers.” Why have they not been disbarred?!?)
- Army Bases That Honor Confederate Traitors Could Soon Be Renamed for These Heroes
- An endless arms race: How to fight the NRA’s absurd solution to mass shootings (“More armed guards everywhere, more guns everywhere. Do you want to live in that country? It’s time to say no”)
- Horror in Highland Park: the Sixth US Mass Shooting in Seven Weeks
- 6 dead, 30 hurt in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade
- As gunfire explodes in Chicago suburb, ‘nowhere is safe’
- Witnesses describe terror and ‘horrific injuries’ after rooftop shooter opened fire on July 4 parade
- Horror on the Fourth: Suspect in custody after 6 killed, dozens wounded at Highland Park Fourth of July parade
- Chicago shooting person of interest left online trail of violent imagery
- GOP Guv Candidate Darren Bailey Says ‘Let’s Move On’ After Parade Shooting (“Following the mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, a Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate bluntly urged the community to ‘move on.'” Completely f’ed up.)
- Portrait of a victim: a 76-year-old grandfather who hadn’t wanted to attend the parade.
- Inside the Sick Posts of Massacre ‘Person of Interest’
- Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11): “The gun lobby and its Republican puppets have robbed Americans of our sense of safety in just about every place imaginable,” Including at Fourth of July Parades (Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) decries “another mass shooting in the United States”)
- 6th District race unlikely to be impacted by Roe v. Wade ruling, political scientist says
- Jewish community leaders will fight attempts to restrict abortion in Virginia
- Audio: Former VA Secretary of Education Atif Qarni Rips Time Magazine “Nonsense and Baloney” Article on Youngkin; Says Teachers Are “Angry,” “Worried,” “Hate the Youngkin Administration” for Creating a “Toxic Environment”
- Virginia prepares to launch its first recovery high school
- At Roanoke rally, abortion rights supporters say they won’t go quietly
- Richmond’s urban heat islands — Scott’s Addition, Jackson Ward, Manchester — put communities in danger (Inexcusable, really…horrible planning, failure to plant trees, etc.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Heat, humidity and thunderstorm chances return
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