by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 8.
- Attack on Ukraine nuclear plant ‘suicidal’, says UN chief as he urges access to site (“Atomic watchdog is seeking access to Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest atomic energy plant, after fresh shelling damages radiation sensors and injures worker”)
- Bolsonaro Is Afraid of Going to Jail, and He’s Right to Be (Just like Trump, the “Trump of the Tropics” committed MANY crimes and should be in prison the rest of his life.)
- China-Taiwan: Beijing conducts new military drills near island
- Iran, U.S. Close In on Nuclear Deal Text but Hurdles Remain (Feels like “Groundhog Day”)
- Israel and Palestinian militants declare Gaza truce
- The market’s biggest winners and losers in the Inflation Reduction Act
- The Senate just passed one of the biggest bills to fight climate change, ever (“What’s in the ‘game changer’ climate bill nobody saw coming”)
- Analysis: Senator Chuck Schumer managed to resurrect and pass the measure with help from G.O.P. missteps.
- Senate delivers a major boost to Biden’s agenda
- At Long Last, the Senate Has Passed Sweeping Climate Legislation
- Senate Democrats send their big tax, climate package to House: Five takeaways
- How Biden’s big win could have a massive impact on Americans (“Democrats and the White House say the bill could have a massive impact by helping Americans struggling to pay for vital medicines”)
- Senate passes sweeping climate, health and tax package, putting Democrats on cusp of historic win
- Winners and Losers in Democrats’ Signature Tax and Energy Bill
- Landmark US climate bill clears Senate hurdle
- Why the climate bill’s Senate passage matters (“If the House approves the Senate-passed bill unchanged, sending it to President Biden’s desk, it has a plausible chance of slashing domestic emissions and resetting the dynamic in global climate talks.”)
- Biden’s BFD (“Joe Biden has defied expectations, earning a legacy as a president who got big things done with a deeply divided Congress.”)
- Statement by President Biden on Senate Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
- Senate passes $739bn healthcare and climate bill after months of wrangling
- The Sinema-Manchin split that shaped Dems’ deal
- Pro-SALT deduction House Democrats say they’ll back Senate bill
- Republicans block cap on millions of patients’ insulin costs
- Republicans Just Shot Down a Cap on Insulin Costs
- How the Democrats Finally Got It Done
- Analysis: Democrats score big wins on climate, drugs with $430 billion U.S. Senate bill
- History’s Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen (“Democrats in the Senate passed a bill that would, for the first time ever, use Congress’s power to push the U.S. to decarbonize.”)
- Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal (The House should kill this “side deal”)
- In a massive victory for Democrats, Medicare is poised to negotiate drug prices
- Opinion: For a President many believe is failing, Joe Biden sure is racking up wins
- Senate Democrats strike a blow against cynicism — and hopelessness
- Energy Experts Say Climate Bill Could Help Consumers Cut Utility Bill Costs
- Republican lawmaker: Abortion could hurt GOP in November if party goes too far (It’s already gone waaaayyyyy too far!)
- Democrats see new signs of hope ahead of midterms
- Juan Williams: Seniors get nothing by voting for the GOP
- What the Alex Jones trial means for the future of conspiracy culture
- That Cheney ad speaks volumes about the GOP’s rot
- Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show (If you’re endorsed by Trump, there’s almost certainly something really bad about you.)
- Michigan AG calls for special prosecutor in case now involving her Trump-backed opponent
- Mass shooting leaves at least 9 injured in downtown Cincinnati
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘No One Can Convince Me’ Jan. 6 Rioters Weren’t Antifa (She’s completely insane.)
- Exclusive: Rachel Maddow Gives Her First Interview as She Steps Back From the Nightly Grind and Revs Up for Her Next Act
- 3 Republican Primaries — And A Special Election — To Watch In Minnesota And Wisconsin
- ‘People are beginning to panic’: Fourth Muslim man killed Friday night
- What happened to Glenn Greenwald? The former trans ally now sides with right wing transphobia (“Once a defender of trans rights and friend of Chelsea Manning, Greenwald has drifted toward the culture-war right” Evil.)
- Kemp Slams Stacey Abrams for Thing She Didn’t Do—but He Did
- Strangers huddled together under a tree. Then lightning struck.
- Tim Kaine has long Covid. That’s not moving Congress to act.
- Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Celebrate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act (“The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will fight inflation, reduce the deficit, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030”)
- Video: After All-Nighter, Last-Minute Snag on Inflation Reduction Act Sen. Warner Announces “The End Is Near – I Hope” (And now, in part thanks to Sen. Warner, the Inflation Reduction Act has passed, with VP Kamala Harris breaking a 50-50 tie!)
- Statewide police conduct standards will soon be enforceable almost two years after law passed
- Gov. Youngkin, Sen. Surovell weigh in on Virginia’s teacher shortage (I generally will not link to the odious, far-right Sinclair “news” – in this case WJLA TV7 in northern Virginia – but I’m doing so in this case because Sen. Scott Surovell says, correctly, that “teachers are leaving because conservatives like the governor are making it unpleasant to be a teacher today by micromanaging how they should teach and what they can say in the classroom.”)
- Dogwood Dell: a massacre foiled or a tale too good to be true?
- ‘Murder is sticky’: Mapping homicides in Hampton Roads — and understanding their toll
- Falling light fixture mistaken for gunfire sparks panic at Tysons, police say
- D.C.-area forecast: Steamy through Wednesday with some storm chances
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