Tuesday News: “The global heat waves should be a warning for the future”; “Secret Service set to turn over ‘erased’ Jan. 6 texts”; “Virginia Republicans Do the Kremlin’s Bidding”; “Youngkin is stumping out of state while stumbling at home”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 19.

• More Mountain Glacier Collapses Feared as Heat Waves Engulf the Northern Hemisphere
• The global heat waves should be a warning for the future
• BA.5 doesn’t care that you just had Covid-19
• Europe Wind Generation Increases, Providing Some Relief to Power Costs
• Heatwave: Ferocious European heat heads north
• Experts saw Europe’s devastating heat wave coming
• After warmest-ever night, UK braces for record-smashing heat
• Death toll mounts in Europe as wildfires and heatwaves inflict havoc
• After 363 years tracking summer heat, U.K. could see an all-time high
• EU Expects Russian Gas Supplies Won’t Be Restarted on Schedule
• Costs of Ukraine war pose tests for European leaders – and things may get worse
• Putin’s Trip to Tehran Aims to Boost Ties With Iran, Turkey
• Putin heads to Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey
• ‘France Has Delivered Almost Nothing’ (“Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s former secretary-general, is not impressed by Emmanuel Macron’s diplomacy with Russia over Ukraine.”)
• Ukraine says multiple Russian assaults into Donetsk have been resisted
• Volodymyr Zelenskiy appoints new spy chief after Russian infiltration
• Ukraine Faces Difficulties Getting Western Weapons to Front Lines
• Where Dalí Once Painted the Sea, Wind Turbines Are Set to Rise (“Contentious plans to erect a wind farm off the northeastern coast of Spain are part of a tense debate over where to locate new renewable energy projects across Europe.”)
• China Warns Taiwan Visit by Pelosi Would Have ‘Grave Impact’
• US Gasoline Prices Fall to Two-Month Low With Pump Pain Easing (“Prices are on a 35-day slide, the longest run of declines since April 2020.”)
• Democrats Want Biden To Go ‘Beast Mode’ And Fight Climate Change Via Executive Action (“Time is of the essence if the U.S. wants to avoid a global climate catastrophe, Democratic senators warned after hopes for climate legislation faded once again.”)
• Biden could declare climate emergency as soon as this week, sources say
• ‘It goes up like tinder’: unprecedented blazes envelop Alaska
• Climate Politics Are Worse Than You Think
• How states could play a key role in climate fight with Congress stalled
• ‘Pro-life’? Women’s suffering is forced-birth zealots’ doing.
• Are Republicans coming for marriage equality next? Yes they are.
• Will the January 6 Committee “Open People’s Eyes” to Trump’s Malfeasance?
• Secret Service set to turn over ‘erased’ Jan. 6 texts
• ‘Sprint through the finish’: Why the Jan. 6 committee isn’t nearly done
• Opinion: The next January 6 panel’s hearing will be another blockbuster
• First on CNN: Former Trump National Security Council official will testify at Thursday’s January 6 hearing
• Report: Conservative Newsmax peddles Jan. 6 misinformation (Ya think? LOL)
• First look: Jan. 6 committee report will be major publishing event
• Bannon trial set to open Tuesday as jury selection winds down
• Report: Trump Thinks Running for President Again Is His Get Out of Jail Free Card
• Garland’s caution may have put the Justice Department in a quandary (“Is the attorney general about give Donald Trump a pass?” If he does, he’ll go down in history as the worst Attorney General.)
• Editorial: Joe Manchin’s dangerous betrayal on climate change will weaken America
• Sanders’s eruption at Manchin highlights a deeper party difference
• Joe Manchin Is a Symptom, but It’s the Senate That’s Sick
• Republicans ready grenades against Democrats’ dwindling dream bill
• As Biden eyes 2024, one person weighs heavily: Trump
• House to vote on same-sex marriage, push back against court
• A clever plan to foil a 2024 coup attempt quietly advances
• How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right (And everything about it is based on 100% LIES.)
• How to prevent Republicans from worming out of questions about Trump (“This is not rocket science. Yet the media keep getting it wrong.”)
• Democrats embrace law enforcement to hit GOP on crime
• Manchin Makes Bank As World Burns
• Local print and digital coverage often caved to anti-abortion spin after Roe was overturned
• How media coverage drove Biden’s political plunge (“The mainstream media has played a huge, underappreciated role in President Biden’s declining support over the past year. Its flawed coverage model of politics and government is bad for more than just Biden — it results in a distorted national discourse that weakens our democracy. The media needs to find a different way to cover Washington.”)
• CNN Poll: Most Americans are discontented with Biden, the economy and the state of the country
• Biden can’t control the one thing that could save his presidency (“It’s inflation, stupid.”)
• Texas’ Uvalde Report Shuts Its Eyes to One Obvious Conclusion
• 3 takeaways from Texas’s investigation of the Uvalde school shooting
• America is resigned to mass shootings — but not to police who fail to act (No, “America” isn’t “resigned to mass shootings,” the majority of us most definitely are NOT, but Republicans block action in the US Senate and at the state level.)
• Texas killer earned ominous nickname: ‘school shooter’
• Gov. Greg Abbott did not attend funerals for any of the Uvalde shooting victims (Abbott isn’t just a right wingnut, he’s a bad human being.)
• “Pro-Life” Idaho Republicans Declare Women Should Be Left to Die to Save Fetuses
• Twitter, Musk to Argue Over Trial Timetable
• Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy (Thiel is evil.)
• Pulitzer board rejects Trump’s challenge to Post, Times Russia stories
• Election 2022: Maryland voters choosing Gov. Hogan successor
• Democrats are raising more money than Republicans in Virginia’s competitive Congressional races
• Virginia Republicans Do the Kremlin’s Bidding
• Virginia Democrats Dominate in Q2; Republicans Suffer Disappointing Quarter (“The anemic fundraising from NRCC’s Virginia candidates is proof that donors and voters alike are turned off by the extremism and endless embarrassing headlines”)
• Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA04): “Extremist” Youngkin Pick for Historic Resources Board “shows a blatant disregard for Virginia’s sordid history with racism” (Youngkin’s pick of Ann Hunter McLean “demonstrates a frightening lack of cultural and social wherewithal to effectively lead Virginians or steer our great Commonwealth forward”)
• Audio: Gov. Youngkin’s New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a “Morally Fine Human Being”; “Secession Was NOT Treason”; the North’s “Invasion” of the South Was “just like we see Russia invading Ukraine”; etc.
• DPVA Chair Susan Swecker Rips “disgusting remarks from a Youngkin appointee” Comparing the Union During the Civil War to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Defending Secession, etc. (Chair Swecker: “We also hope Ann McLean’s advisers, for her own sake, don’t let her near a microphone again.”)
• Governor Youngkin’s Divisive 6 Months Filled with Far-Right Culture Wars and Outright Incompetence (“Youngkin isn’t some mild-mannered fleece vest-wearing moderate, he is an incompetent far-right culture warrior who puts our Commonwealth at risk.”)
• Youngkin is stumping out of state while stumbling at home
• Speculation grows about Virginia Gov. Youngkin’s presidential ambitions
• Your electric bills are skyrocketing. Blame our failure to invest in renewable energy.
• Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 86% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 676 From ~4,000 in January; But at Highest Level Since Early March
• Judge Bars Envigo From Breeding & Selling Dogs to Labs (Criminal Charges Still Possible) (Also note: “PETA conducted a seven-month undercover investigation into Envigo”)
• Shelters, rescue groups helping find homes for Envigo beagles
• Portsmouth’s city manager filed a defamation suit last year while chair of the Virginia Parole Board. A judge has thrown it out.
• Norfolk’s housing authority is in ‘dire’ financial condition, bloated after years of failing to downsize
• Wilder sues VCU’s Rao, others, for not firing employee who sent crude messages
• A Virginia Beach man smirked at the family of a teen he admitted to killing. A judge found him in contempt of court.
• Richmond mayor, council reach agreement on collective bargaining ordinance
• Richmond council expected to vote on city employees collective bargaining next week
• Youngkin appointee Flores leaves LGBTQ board, moving to Florida for job
• D.C.-area forecast: Heat and humidity trending upward this week