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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 11.
- Climate risks dwarf Europe’s energy crisis, space chief warns
- ‘It’s a human rights issue’: young adults take Portugal climate crisis to court
- Europe’s Energy Crisis May Get a Lot Worse (“I don’t think many Americans appreciate just how tense and tenuous, how very touch and go the energy situation in Europe is right now”)
- Designing for 100% renewables with real-time retail pricing could yield benefits of 9% or more
- Sun-Drenched Spain Turns on Europe’s Biggest Solar Power Plant
- How did Ukraine strike deep inside Russian-occupied Crimea?
- Who really attacked a prison full of Ukrainian POWS? Here’s the evidence (“A CNN investigation based on analysis of video and photographs from the scene, satellite imagery from before and after the attack and the work of forensic and weapons experts concludes the Russian version of events is very likely a fabrication. “)
- Satellite pictures show devastation at Russian air base in Crimea
- Russia Lost Aircraft in Crimea Base Blasts, Satellite Image Shows
- Russia struggles to replenish its troops in Ukraine
- The Other Ukrainian Army (“Imperiled by Russian invaders, private citizens are stepping forward to do what Ukraine’s government cannot.”)
- Ukraine war: Crimea airbase badly damaged, satellite images show
- Taiwan president says China’s military threat has not decreased
- South Korea, China clash over U.S. missile shield, complicating conciliation
- Sentence of American Lawyer Held in U.A.E. Is Overturned
- Member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Charged with Plot to Murder the Former National Security Advisor
- N.Korea Leader Kim Jong Un Claims Victory Over COVID-19; His Sister Blames Seoul For Outbreak
- An anxious American west sizes up historic climate bill: ‘We need every tool’
- America’s summer of floods: climate crisis fueling barrage, scientists say
- Inflation drops to zero in July due to falling gas prices
- Gas Prices in the U.S. Fall Below $4 a Gallon
- Inflation falls after Biden takes actions to increase fuel supply & address supply chain
- Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans making less than $400,000
- The GOP’s crazed reaction to the search at Trump’s home shows its true colors (“Republicans are revealing their contempt for law and law enforcement.”)
- FBI Director Denounces ‘Deplorable’ Threats After Mar-A-Lago Raid
- The GOP makes its choice: Trump, yes. Rule of law, no.
- Republicans’ response to the Mar-a-Lago search is disturbing and dangerous
- Congress left with more questions than answers on missing Jan. 6 texts (“Lawmakers have been fuming since being alerted last month that Secret Service messages were ‘erased’ shortly after being requested, while the messages of then-DHS acting Secretary Chad Wolf and his deputy Ken Cuccinelli on Jan. 6 were also lost when their phones were wiped during the transition.”)
- Republican Shock at the Trump FBI Raid Makes Sense If You Ignore His Entire Adult Life
- Opinion: Ominous warnings after search of Trump’s home make no sense
- Trump’s Allies Apparently Unbothered About Possibility of Getting Someone Killed (“From GOP lawmakers to Fox News, the ex-president’s pals have been dangerously—and baselessly—fanning the flames since Monday’s FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.”)
- No exit: After Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump is trapped — and his fear is palpable (“Donald Trump’s lifelong grift is nearing its final act. Across America his power is fading — and he knows it”)
- Merrick Garland is no cowboy
- Trump world gripped with anger, fear and a host of conspiracies about the FBI search (The “Occam’s Razor” explanation, of course, is that Trump committed a LOT of crimes!)
- The fabricated claim that the FBI “planted evidence” at Mar-a-Lago is taking the right by storm
- Analysis: Trump Claims He’s a Victim of Tactics He Once Deployed
- Hell Week: How Trump’s Problems All Converged at Once (“Trump is fighting a number of battles all at the same time: the Mar-a-Lago raid, trouble with the Trump Org, Fulton County, tossed-out NDAs, his tax returns, and the Jan. 6 panel.”)
- With Feds Circling, Trump Asks Allies: Who’s ‘Wearing a Wire’?
- Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where (“The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents”)
- FBI Quest for Trump Documents Started With Breezy Chats, Tour of a Crowded Closet
- Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
- Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge
- Yearning for a Banana Republic (“Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies.”)
- Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering (“When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before WWII”)
- Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data shows
- Republicans dream of vengeance — and dismantling the federal government (“In their rage over the search of Mar-a-Lago, they fantasize about tearing the government apart piece by piece.”)
- 5 factors that will drive the midterms
- Post-Roe special elections show potentially encouraging signs for Democrats
- Pelosi has found the Democrats’ midterm strategy
- Trump’s bond with GOP deepens after primary wins, FBI search
- Republicans Are Outraged at Joe Biden for Accurately Describing the Economy
- Why Scott Perry stands out in the FBI’s investigations of Trump allies
- Scott Perry’s phone was seized. Here’s what that tells us.
- FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say
- Seizure of Congressman’s Phone Is Latest Sign of Escalating Election Inquiry
- Trump and James sat across from each other for hours as he said ‘same answer’ again and again.
- Amid tumultuous week, Trump takes the Fifth on hundreds of questions
- Trump, Who Once Said ‘the Mob Takes the Fifth,’ Takes the Fifth (“The former president says he has finally learned about the value of the Fifth Amendment after repeatedly mocking people who invoke it.”)
- Trump Says He Invoked Fifth During Testimony In Civil Investigation
- Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. have all been deposed by NY’s attorney general’s office — now what?
- GOP Vows Revenge for Trump Probes as Pillar of Congress Takeover (Do NOT put these lunatics in charge!)
- GOP scrambles to unify as ‘red wave’ hits obstacles
- Media critic Margaret Sullivan to depart The Washington Post
- Why Media Critic Margaret Sullivan Is Exiting The Washington Post (“After a decade writing columns puncturing—and praising—the press, the ex–New York Times public editor and departing Post columnist has a new mission.”)
- They Don’t Make Connecticut Republicans Like They Used To (The Republican Party of Lowell Weicker is looooong gone.)
- Liz Cheney’s Kamikaze Campaign (“Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, the Wyoming representative is willing to lose her seat to take down Donald Trump.”)
- Shock, shame among some Muslims as Afghan accused of New Mexico murders
- Virginia Republicans rally to Trump (“These are Virginia Republicans telling us who they are: They are loyal to a disgraced real estate developer and former reality TV game show host.”)
- Watch now: Kaine rips Youngkin tweet on Trump search, Loudoun schools
- Editorial: Virginia officials’ lack of restraint was reckless (“Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Sen. Jen Kiggans rush to join the GOP outrage chorus instead of waiting for facts about the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s home.”)
- Sen. Tim Kaine: “For Gov. Youngkin…to trash the Department of Justice in that way, shows a severe lack of judgement” (“Kaine adds that Republicans should be “protectors of our democracy and the rule of law,” not “water carriers for Donald J. Trump, private citizen.”)
- President Biden Signs Into Law PACT Act, Including Spanberger’s Legislation to Demand VA Investigate Health Impacts of Jet Fuel Exposure on America’s Servicemembers
- Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star Editorial Board: Yesli Vega Offers “Arrogance, Ignorance, and an Iron Fist for Anyone Who Disagrees” (“First came her incoherent, rambling statement during an event in Stafford County about rape…”)
- PolitiFact VA: Spanberger backs Biden in Congress, but they don’t agree on every issue
- Schapiro: Va. pol with prez potential – and not the one you think
- Gov. Northam’s Secretary of Education, Atif Qarni, Rips Gov. Youngkin For Talking About Forcing Schools to “Out” LGBTQ Students, Arguing It “would open up a whole can of worms…it’s a *safety* issue!” (Qarni: “the Youngkin types…need to get their heads out of the gutter, it’s really really twisted”)
- An unusual deal gave Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin $8.5 million in stock. He paid $0 in tax on it. (“A shareholder of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm formerly led by Youngkin, alleges in a new lawsuit that a 2020 deal enriched executives at the expense of cops and firefighters.”)
- Asked about transgender student privacy policies, Youngkin says schools have ‘obligation’ to keep parents informed (As Northam’s Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, this would endanger LGBTQ students.)
- Wai: Youngkin needs to acknowledge global climate emergency
- Here’s How the Inflation Reduction Act Will Help Virginia Families
- Editorial: Five years later, “Unite the Right” still a grim wake-up call
- The Obscenity Pivot (“Virginia Republicans are testing a new way to ban books and restrict their sales. In the long run, it might just work.”)
- Wednesday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 33,022; Hospitalizations at 784 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- Fairfax Co. teacher resident program helping school system overcome staffing shortage
- Climate Groups Continue Push Loudoun Board on Environmental Plan
- Windsor officers sued over traffic stop of Black man protected from some claims, judge rules
- Parents can now challenge Virginia Beach school library books, but one board member says that’s not enough
- Alexandria sent emails in error to those eligible for monkeypox vaccine
- D.C.-area forecast: Clearing skies, declining humidity and spectacular days ahead
