by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 28.
This horrific climate flooding in Pakistan yesterday wasn’t even mentioned in the New York Times. It is caused by burning fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry systematically lies and blocks action. Climate damage is irreversible. The media is failing humanity and the Earth https://t.co/5wQp5NonUH
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) August 28, 2022
- NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age (“NASA will launch the Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday morning.”)
- Pakistan declares floods a ‘climate catastrophe’ as death toll tops 1,000 (“Flash flooding from ‘monster monsoon’ washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless”)
- Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’
- Western Countries Breathe New Life Into Old Nuclear Plants
- Climate change could bring back wind as the future power source for ocean cargo ships
- Energy Crisis Tearing Through Markets Leaves a Trail of Losers
- Russia dodges economic collapse but the decline has started (“Wave after wave of punishing Western sanctions are having an impact, but not in the way many had expected”)
- Ukraine Latest: Germany Warns That War ‘Could Last Years’
- Ukraine war: Russian recruitment drive unlikely to have impact – UK
- Cities near Ukrainian nuclear plant shelled
- The Kremlin Offers More Incentives for Ukrainians to Stay in Russia
- What Is Going On at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant? (“As international inspectors work to gain access, shells keep falling at the facility, and a temporary power outage has prompted fears of a meltdown.”)
- War Is Revolutionizing Women’s Roles in Ukraine
- Rival Chechen fighters take war to battlefields of Ukraine
- US warships sail through Taiwan Strait for first time since Pelosi visit
- Iran Says Talks to Revive Nuclear Deal Extend Into September
- Biden navigates Iran clashes in Syria as negotiators inch toward nuclear deal
- UN calls for Libya ceasefire after deadly clashes
- ‘The US could lose the right to vote within months’: Top official warns on threat to democracy
- Congress tries to protect the planet from an overreaching court
- Republicans Would Like to Offer You Some Resentment
- Intel officials to assess national security fallout from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents
- US intelligence chief tells Congress she’s conducting damage assessment of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago
- Judge announces intent to appoint special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents (Why?)
- Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives
- Trump’s Lawyers Don’t Seem to Have Much of a Defense
- Once unthinkable, Democrats now see narrow path to keeping the House (It was mostly “unthinkable” to people like…WaPo reporters and pundits.)
- Trump is turning the midterms from a referendum into a choice
- Promoting His Memoir, Kushner Offers Tortured Defenses of Trump (How has Kushner not been charged with crimes?)
- A $1.6 billion donation lays bare a broken campaign finance system
- ‘This will change everything for me’: Americans react to Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20k in student loan deb
- Trump Didn’t Kill Reaganism. These Guys Did. (“A new book argues that Ronald Reagan’s election actually marked the end of an era of conservatism — and opened the door to the angrier politics that took Reaganism’s place.”)
- Republicans and the crisis of “manhood”: Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America? (“Republicans are fixated on bizarre sexual fantasies, maybe because of their twisted relationship with You Know Who”)
- Shane Hernandez is Tudor Dixon’s lieutenant governor after lengthy MIGOP nominating convention
- Crist urges Democratic donors to help stop DeSantis before he becomes too powerful. But Florida is a tough sell
- As DeSantis Campaigns on Education, Crist Picks Teacher as Running Mate
- First on CNN: Motorist charged with threatening Utah Senate candidate with gun
- Ted Cruz mocked for blasting ‘slacker baristas’ after Biden scraps some student loan debt
- Trump’s Truth Social Is in Trouble (Of course…)
- Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows
- McCLARY: Whither the American patriot? (“Abigail Spanberger is that kind of patriot.”)
- Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Releases Two TV Ads, Highlighting Her Work to Pass the PACT Act and Jen Kiggans’ Efforts to Ban Abortion (One ad features Cheryl Mercer, a lifelong Republican and former Vice President of the Virginia Beach Republican Women’s Association, who’s supporting Rep. Luria)
- DNC: “Youngkin traveling to Michigan to campaign alongside another abortion extremist and election conspiracy theorist in Tudor Dixon tells you everything you need to know about his toxic brand of politics and today’s Republican Party.”
- [UPDATED] In Michigan to Campaign for Far-Right-Extremist Gov Candidate, Youngkin Praises Trump’s “1776 Commission” Chair, Theocratic Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, as “a beacon of hope for our entire country” (Arnn previously said that teachers “are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country,” and that “‘anyone’ can teach.”)
- Youngkin tells Michigan Republicans his campaign blazed a path to follow (It definitely didn’t.)
- Virginia Gov. Youngkin: Haven’t had chance to think about running for president (Another wild lie by Youngkin.)
- Opinion: Abortion ban would land Virginia in poor company
- A judge ordered the Virginia Employment Commission to make changes. But some say the agency’s problems haven’t been fully fixed.
- Youngkin announces plan to reverse law requiring Virginia to phase out gas vehicles by 2035 (The only way would be to pass a different law.)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Bivalent…COVID booster will be available in the near future”; “As trigger laws about abortion go into effect in several states, I really worry about the situations my emergency physician colleagues will face”
- Virginia health officials projecting first decrease in overdose deaths since before the pandemic
- Editorial: There’s no quick fix for violence (“A midnight curfew in downtown Norfolk may be part of a larger strategy for violent crime, but it cannot be all that City Hall proposes.”)
- Editorial: Helping a college and a region grow
- Arlington bus system to offer free rides for middle, high school students
- D.C.-area forecast: Heat, haze and humidity continue through Tuesday
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