by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 7.
My snack for the vote-a-rama this year is ice cream sandwiches from Richmond-based Nightingale!
The cookie dough flavor is going to get me through the late night votes. pic.twitter.com/Yr3fuigymP
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) August 7, 2022
- We Are Not Freaking Out Enough About Climate Change
- Food Price Inflation Imposing Heavy Burden on Poorer Countries
- Shift in war’s front seen as ships cleared to leave Ukraine
- U.N. watchdog warns of ‘nuclear disaster’ from shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant
- Russian men, dying in war, leave many families sad, angry and silent
- Taiwan: US hits out at ‘irresponsible’ China amid attack rehearsal claims
- Chinese and Taiwanese warships play high-seas ‘cat and mouse’ as drills due to end
- China’s Military Spectacle Is Narrowing Its Options for Winning Over Taiwan (“The military exercises were designed to deter Taiwan from moving further from Beijing, but they also indicated how few policy carrots China has.”)
- China’s Export Growth Stays Surprisingly Robust
- Israel prepared for “week of operations” in Gaza as fighting intensifies
- Israeli airstrike kills 2nd top Islamic Jihad commander
- Ex-rebel sworn in as Colombia’s president in historic shift
- As Haiti sinks into pandemonium, the international community is silent
- Climate and Tax Bill Scales Senate Hurdle, Paving Path to Passage
- Democrats’ Climate And Health Care Bill Survives First Hurdle
- Harris breaks 50-50 deadlock to advance landmark climate, tax, health bill
- Senate Democrats kill off amendments as vote-a-rama goes all night
- One More Hurdle for Democrats’ Tax, Climate Bill: ‘Vote-a-Rama’
- Dems push Biden climate, health priorities toward Senate OK
- Senate parliamentarian OKs most of Dems’ drug price controls
- Democrats plan to challenge parliamentarian on insulin cap
- Senate Democrats Close In on Passing Climate, Tax Bill
- No, You’re Not Dreaming. Congress Really Is on the Verge of Doing Something for the Planet.
- The Right-Wing Plot To Destroy Public Libraries (“There’s a long history of book-banning in the U.S. But conservative groups are emboldened like never before, and they’re taking their mission to a new level.”)
- Secret Service hands agents’ phone numbers to Jan. 6 committee: Sources
- Democratic ads boosted extremists in Republican primaries. Was that wise? (“Now, as the primary season nears its conclusion and the political battlefield takes shape, Democrats will soon learn whether the gambit was successful.”)
- The uncomfortable problem with Roe v. Wade (“The Constitution doesn’t tell us which rights it protects, and now the power to decide that question rests with people like Samuel Alito.” Shuddderrr…)
- Some Women ‘Self-Manage’ Abortions as Access Recedes in the U.S.
- A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there
- Indiana’s sweeping abortion ban leads to immediate political, economic fallout
- ‘Not her body, not her choice’: Indiana lawmakers on abortion ban (That’s Republicans’ attitude, in a nutshell, towards women.)
- Kansas’ vote on abortion rights turns spotlight on the next battlefront: State constitutions
- Tracing the Republican Party’s devolution to one man: Newt Gingrich (Gingrich is truly evil.)
- Here’s Why Jan. 6 Investigators Want to Get Their Hands on Alex Jones’ Phone
- Trump easily wins Texas CPAC 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll; DeSantis second
- Trump’s grip on GOP activist class on display at Texas conclave
- Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out (Youngkin certainly is.)
- Forward! Is America’s latest third party marching to power – or oblivion? (Hopefully the latter. What a vapid, empty, ridiculous joke.)
- Deplorables Are Real
- GOP Senators Refuse To Rule Out Supporting Donald Trump Again — Even If He’s Indicted
- Ted Cruz to “wait and see” if Trump runs before making 2024 decision (Ted Cruz is certainly deplorable.)
- After 246 Years, Marine Corps Gives 4 Stars to a Black Officer
- Biden Tests Negative for Coronavirus but Will Keep Isolating
- Greg Abbott appoints Austin officer charged with aggravated assault to agency that regulates Texas law enforcement
- Arizona Has Become a Paradise for Election Deniers (“And the GOP could pay a price in November”)
- Why Is Ron Johnson Still Competitive Despite, You Know, Everything?
- Fourth Muslim man murdered in New Mexico in ‘targeted killings’
- ICYMI: Yesli Vega Appears on Same Stage with Far-Right, Anti-Semitic Dictator (“Vega, Orban Lay Out Dark Visions of America”)
- Video: Insurrectionist/Extremist Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06) Spews Out Lies at Far-Right CPAC Conference, Rants About “the Squad,” the “Green New Deal,” “folks who think that a boy is a girl,” etc. (Cline also foams at the mouth that the “left” supposedly thinks right wingers are “less than” “because we love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”)
- Video: Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Releases Ad Highlighting Her Commitment to Gold Star Families (Ad “features Kristen Fenty, a Gold Star Mother who worked closely with Congresswoman Luria to pass the bipartisan Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act “)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “The number of new COVID cases we diagnosed in the ER fell to its lowest level in a month”
- Opinion/Editorial: Kids and parents teach the governor about compassion (“If he weren’t so busy putting politics over public health, the governor could learn a lot from these folks.”)
- Editorial: Don’t threaten road funding (“Gov. Glenn Younkin won a lot of legislative battles during his first six months in office, but his proposal to temporarily suspend the commonwealth’s gas tax this summer was not among them. That defeat seems to have stuck in his craw. He cannot let it go. And now he’s making preposterous arguments to advance the idea that his initiative was correct and Senate Democrats were wrong to block it…Youngkin has a lot of budget wins he is right to celebrate, but his determination on this one setback, knowing the potential implications, defies reason. It’s time he puts his energy toward more productive ends.”)
- Virginia’s guidance on context on war monuments: a slow crawl on rethinking remaining images celebrating the Lost Cause
- Editorial: Psychiatric hospitals, police should not be pitted against each other in Virginia
- An industrial site in Norfolk’s Bruce’s Park could be leveled for new housing. But not before the EPA steps in. (“Globe Iron, a defunct steel manufacturing plant in Norfolk, could become be torn down for new housing or commercial uses. But the site may be contaminated after years of industrial use. The EPA has stepped in to help.”)
- Virginia State, Virginia Union universities intend to open lab schools
- Editorial: Stoney, Smith owe Richmonders a real explanation on alleged Dogwood Dell plot
- Pardoned but still in prison: Advocates work to free man caught in system (“Vince Gilmer was a beloved doctor convicted of murdering his father. Pardoned because of a rare disease, he’s in prison as advocates try to get him treatment.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Staying hot and humid, with fluctuating storm chances through midweek
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