by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 29.
- International aid reaches flood-ravaged Pakistan
- Pakistan floods: plea for help amid fears monsoon could put a third of country underwater (“Foreign minister urges countries and IMF to help stricken country after climate change minister speaks of climate ‘catastrophe’”)
- EU faces awful winters without gas cap – minister
- Europe’s Plan to Wean Itself off Russian Gas Just Might Work
- German-Danish Baltic Wind Hub to Offset Russian Gas (“Bornholm Energy Island will have 3 gigawatts of capacity”)
- Germany secures link to planned Baltic Sea renewable energy island
- ‘Inflation Fever’ Is Finally Breaking — But Central Banks Won’t Stop Hiking Rates
- Analysis: Pain of breaking inflation will reverberate around the globe
- Putin’s army expansion may not help Russia much, U.S. and British officials say.
- Six months in, how are sanctions impacting Russia’s economy? (“Fuel embargoes and private sector divestment are further isolating Russia.”)
- IAEA to visit Ukraine nuclear plant amid renewed shelling
- Inspectors on way to Ukrainian nuclear plant at center of radiation disaster fears
- Analysis: U.S. and Iran finesse issue of IAEA’s nuclear probes, for now
- China’s drought-hit areas get rain, bringing flood risks
- Analysis: Why China’s response to US warships in Taiwan Strait surprised analysts
- Boris Johnson wants to ‘do a Berlusconi’ back to power, says Rory Stewart
- Brazil election: Bolsonaro and Lula trade insults in first debate
- Iraq’s Sadr says he is quitting politics
- Artemis: Nasa ready to launch new era of Moon exploration
- ‘Artemis generation’: Nasa to launch first crew-rated rocket to moon since 1972 (“Test flight that will have no human crew aboard aims to return humans to the moon and eventually land them on Mars”)
- NASA’s next-generation megarocket set for debut test launch to moon
- America Is Trying to Make the Moon Happen Again
- Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out Before Human Testing Is Completed
- Climate Change Measures Are a Lot More Popular Than Americans Think (“Most Americans significantly underestimate the level of public support for government climate and clean energy policies, newly published research finds.”)
- Forced Parenthood and Failing Safety Nets: This Is Life in Post-Roe America (“The states with the strictest abortion laws are doing the least to help poor families. What could possibly go wrong?” Everything.)
- Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over (“He’s had win after win—including overturning Roe v. Wade—yet seems more and more aggrieved. What drives his anger?” Alito is deranged.)
- Trump’s Legal Team Scrambles to Find an Argument
- Trump Tries Mobster-In-Chief Role With Attacks On Law Enforcement
- ABC’s Jon Karl Reports Trump’s Inner Circle is Freaking Out Over Their ‘Comically Inept and Inexperienced’ Legal Team
- Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives
- Graham predicts ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump prosecuted over classified docs
- Biden channels Harry Truman — to his party’s delight
- Juan Williams: GOP’s embrace of extremism dims its midterm hopes
- The G.O.P. Is in a Grand Old Pickle
- Biden Becomes a Boon for Democrats
- Republicans Signal Worries About Trump and the Midterms
- GOP seat lead shrinks as Biden approval ticks up — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
- Trump’s followers are delusional and dangerous — but don’t call them hypocrites (“As Mar-a-Lago makes clear, Trump supporters love his lies and mendacity. That’s evil, but not hypocritical” How about both?)
- It Took Joe Biden, Career Centrist, to Cancel Student Debt
- Here’s what could happen when an election denier becomes a chief election official (“Trump-aligned secretary of state hopefuls are campaigning against ballot counting machines and could complicate mail voting with red tape, among other changes.”)
- Trump Family Dunks on DeSantis: You’re ‘Stealing’ Our Bit!
- Rep. Lauren Boebert Accuses Biden of Taking Americans’ Money to Fund Degrees in “Lesbian Dance Theory” (Boebert is one of the worst Republicans in Congress, which is saying a lot, given how bad most of them are.)
- Truth Social’s ugly truth
- Beto O’Rourke off the campaign trail in Texas with bacterial infection
- Journal Poll: Lujan Grisham has 7-point lead over Ronchetti
- “What Governor DeSantis Did Is Un-American and Undemocratic”: Four School Board Members Suspended Following Parkland Mass Shooting Report
- Virginia heads into the fall as a barometer for U.S. House control
- On 59th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Daughter Bernice Calls on Gov. Youngkin to Go “beyond acknowledging my father to embracing the work of ensuring policies, including in education, that reflect his teachings” (In fact, today’s Trumpist GOP is diametrically opposed to everything Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in and fought for.)
- Video: Rallying Before Small Crowd in Michigan for Extremist Gov Candidate Tudor Dixon, Glenn Youngkin Spews Out Right-Wing Talking Points, “makes Trump look like Travolta” (Youngkin: “How about Tudor Dixon?!? Hellloooo Michigan! Tudor! Thanks for those INSPIRING words, and oh by the way, the spirit is in the sky!”)
- Ellis denied Gay Student Union co-sponsorship request as student, archives show (“The decision came just a month after a controversial event featuring a prominent eugenics supporter”)
- Virginia’s backdoor gas car ban
- Four takeaways from Virginia’s post-pandemic standardized test results
- Dominion offshore wind project: how much risk should customers assume?
- 4 months after Norfolk police chief’s abrupt retirement, the search for his replacement is underway
- Additional security measures, new curriculum resources coming to Arlington schools
- D.C.-area forecast: Steamy start to week, but more pleasant after Tuesday
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