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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 2.
I made a promise to the American people that we’d continue to conduct effective counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and beyond.
We have done that. pic.twitter.com/441YZJARMX
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 2, 2022
- After Unprecedented Heatwaves, Monsoon Rains and the Worst Floods in Over a Century Devastate South Asia
- Sunrise brief: Bloomberg analyst forecasts a 30% increase in global PV deployment this year, and double-digit growth through 2025.
- ‘Dirty ol’ coal’ is making a comeback and consumption is expected to return to 2013′s record levels
- Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’
- Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes
- Nuclear annihilation just one miscalculation away, UN chief warns
- Food prices soaring in developing world amid Ukraine crisis, World Bank finds
- Russia Redeploys Troops as Focus of Conflict Turns South
- Bad weather in Black Sea slows 1st Ukrainian grain shipment
- U.S. fears Russia is using a ‘nuclear shield’; Zelenskyy calls grain shipment a ‘positive signal’
- U.S. Sends More Arms to Ukraine, Bringing Its War Total to $8 Billion
- As Russia threatens Europe’s energy supplies, Ukraine braces for a hard winter: “Our goal is survival.”
- Nancy Pelosi to Visit Taiwan as China Threatens Military Action
- White House warns China not to overreact to expected Pelosi visit to Taiwan
- Pelosi leaves Malaysia, tensions rise over Taiwan visit
- The World Is Bracing for China’s Response. Here’s How It Could Hit Back
- US says Beijing has no reason to turn Pelosi’s expected Taiwan visit into a ‘crisis’ (“National security council says speaker has ‘right to visit’ after China warns its military would ‘not sit idly by’”)
- Chinese warplanes buzz line dividing Taiwan Strait before expected Pelosi visit – source
- Taliban under scrutiny as US kills al-Qaida leader in Kabul
- U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Kabul
- Biden: Killing of al-Qaida leader is long-sought ‘justice’
- How Joe Biden and his team decided to kill the world’s most wanted terrorist
- How Biden and his team decided to kill al-Zawahiri
- Zawahiri death settles another 9/11 score — and hands Biden a political win
- Bin Laden was the face of al-Qaida, but Ayman al-Zawahiri was its hate-filled heart
- The Strike That Killed al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahiri Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds Like
- Biden administration task force reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump (“Most of the parents had been deported while their children remained in the U.S. Now the parents can come to the U.S. and live and work legally for three years.”)
- Climate advocates join Biden in saying Inflation Reduction Act is must-pass bill
- Analysis Deems Biden’s Climate and Tax Bill Fiscally Responsible (It’s actually Manchin’s and Schumer’s bill…)
- Can Inflation Reduction Save the Planet?
- Reduce Climate Emissions and the Deficit? It Might Yet Be Possible.
- Manchin-Schumer side agreement would overhaul environmental review
- Manchin secures commitment to complete Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Koch network pressures Sens. Manchin, Sinema to oppose $739 billion tax-and-spending bill
- The ticking time bomb still threatening the big climate deal (“Poison pills could bring it all crashing down.”)
- Don’t sink this bill, Sen. Sinema (“There’s simply no excuse for her or any other lawmaker who purports to care about economic justice to oppose it or eliminating the carried interest loophole.”)
- Democratic anxiety grows over Sinema’s silence
- The Jan. 6 committee showed Congress how to run a blockbuster hearing (“Forthcoming hearings on critical matters should follow the Jan. 6 model.”)
- DHS watchdog asked the Secret Service for all Jan. 6 texts, then retracted the request in an email
- Top Democrats, Alleging Cover-Up, Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts
- Jon Stewart shows Democrats how to respond to GOP cruelty (“Call out the GOP lies.”)
- G.O.P. Reversal Imperils Bill to Treat Veteran Ailments From Toxic Exposure
- Senate GOP backtracks after veterans bill firestorm
- The Electoral Count Act must be fixed. A new proposal doesn’t go far enough.
- Will 3 Pro-Impeachment House Republicans Survive Tuesday’s Primaries?
- The Fringe Is Now the Republican Mainstream
- Trump’s next tests
- Trump is Pushing for a Slate of Election-Denying Loyalists to Win Arizona’s GOP Primaries: A Guide
- Trump Supporters Think They’re in a Fight to the Death
- More than half of voters think Trump should face indictment over Jan. 6: poll
- Final stretch of primaries will showcase a divided GOP
- Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt gets longest Jan. 6 sentence, but no terrorism enhancement
- Abortion Moves Up on “Most Important Problem” List
- Abortion bans violate religious freedom, clergy say in new legal campaign
- It’s time to retire the ‘third’ party conceit
- Right-wing sheriffs are doing some really shady political organizing against the election system
- Impostor Who Wooed Secret Service Agents With Lavish Gifts Pleads Guilty
- Republicans Keep Making Things Unnecessarily Hard for Themselves (“What to watch for in tonight’s primaries.”)
- 3 Senate races show how MAGA candidates are dragging down the GOP (“There is a reason things are looking brighter for Democrats.”)
- Coalition of news organizations sues Texas Department of Public Safety over withheld records on Uvalde shooting
- Florida schools ordered to disobey federal LGBTQ protections (This is Glenn Youngkin’s role model governor, Ron DeSantis, in action.)
- Arizona AG says most alleged 2020 dead voters were alive
- Trump endorses ‘ERIC’ in Missouri primary, a name shared by rivals
- The Memo: Republicans are worried that things are going wrong for Dr. Oz
- What Arizona’s primaries will tell us about the GOP
- Graveyard grift? Ivana Trump’s Bedminster burial site might be a secret tax windfall, experts say
- Hawley vows to vote ‘no’ on adding Sweden and Finland to NATO
- Kentucky Flood Deaths Rise To 35 With Hundreds Still Missing
- Lawyer: Sandy Hook parents isolate with security due to safety concerns during Texas Alex Jones trial
- Misleading text urges ‘yes’ vote in Kansas to ‘give women a choice.’ Source is unknown
- California governor declares monkeypox state of emergency
- Senators Kaine, Murkowski, Sinema and Collins Introduce “Reproductive Freedom For All Act” to Codify Roe v Wade, Protect Contraception Access
- Tim Kaine and Lisa Murkowski cosponsor bill to codify abortion rights
- Extremist/Insurrectionist Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) Goes “full Stalinist,” Cosponsors House Resolution Condemning “CRT” as (Supposedly) Having “Marxist roots” and “pos[ing] a significant threat to the United States Republic” (This fall, VA05 voters really, really need to get rid of this embarrassment and replace him with Josh Throneburg.)
- Kaine joins bipartisan group of senators on bill ensuring nationwide abortion rights
- PolitFact VA: National Republican group muddles Spanberger’s record on police funding
- Every Holler, Every Hill, Every Vote: Canvassing in Rural Virginia to Hold Congress
- Federal judge throws out second redistricting suit seeking new Va. House elections
- Va. House elections appear set for next year; judge dismisses second suit
- Wednesday Is the Last Day to Express Your Opposition to the Proposed VA Board of Education Policy That Would Notify Parents of Any “Sexually Explicit” Materials Assigned in Their Child’s Class (The policy could “include everything from teaching LGBTQ+ history to excluding the discussion of LGBTQ+ families in family life classes”)
- We might finally get the truth about allegations against Justin Fairfax
- Monday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 28,774; Hospitalizations at 757 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- Youngkin names former Rep. Dave Brat to economists panel (Appalling.)
- CASEY: Roanoke (and plenty of other local governments) are hiring!
- Virginia Delegate Accused of Damaging Neighbors’ Property
- Williams: The Hanover School Board needs more diversity and less religion
- No criminal charges warranted against Windsor police officer involved in controversial 2020 traffic stop, special prosecutor says (“A special prosecutor has determined a Windsor police officer didn’t violate any state laws during a controversial 2020 traffic stop involving a Black Army lieutenant, but suggested that the officer should be investigated for possible federal civil rights violations.”)
- Richmond has more than 150 open classroom positions as pandemic continues to intensify teacher shortages
- D.C.-area forecast: Heating up through Thursday, while storm chances return Friday
