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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, December 30.
- Hydrogen made a surprising comeback in 2022 — but it’s still not the green fuel of the future (“Hydrogen is the caviar of alternative fuels, not the meat and potatoes — and also a fossil-fuel delaying tactic”)
- After $18 Trillion Rout, Global Stocks Face More Hurdles in 2023
- The Charts That Show World Economy’s Turbulent Course Over 2022
- Evidence of Russian crimes mounts as war in Ukraine drags on
- US Weighs Sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Bolster Ukraine
- Putin, unaccustomed to losing, is increasingly isolated as war falters (“With the Russian president refusing to back down in Ukraine, Russia’s elite is split between those who want the war to end and those supporting further escalation.”)
- The Bravery and the Recklessness of Ukraine’s Improvised Army (“Helping repel the Russian invasion are army units with limited military experience. The question for their country is whether they can stay alive long enough to succeed.”)
- Sudden Russian Death Syndrome (“It’s not a great time to be an oligarch who’s unenthusiastic about Putin’s war in Ukraine.”)
- Inside the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war
- Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage
- Belarus says it downed Ukraine air defence missile
- The Looming GOP Crisis Over Ukraine
- How China Is Using Vladimir Putin (“Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with ‘no limits.’ The reality is more complicated.”)
- China Has No New Covid Variants as Sequencing Efforts Strengthen
- Risk of a dangerous new Covid variant in China is ‘quite low,’ U.S. health expert says
- Lawyers exit Hong Kong as they face campaign of intimidation
- Chinese Jet Buzzed Air Force Plane From Just 20 Feet Away, US Says
- Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ has died
- Court in Myanmar again finds Suu Kyi guilty of corruption (Suuuure.)
- U.S. says nearly 700 ISIS operatives killed in Syria and Iraq in 2022
- Scoop: White House sending Jake Sullivan to Israel for talks with Netanyahu
- Benjamin Netanyahu sworn in as leader of Israel’s likely most right-wing government ever
- US response to the climate emergency: key moments of 2022
- How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry
- A Town-by-Town Battle to Sell Americans on Renewable Energy
- Biden signs $1.7 trillion bill funding government operations
- 2022 Could Have Been Worse—Much, Much Worse (“For Biden and a crisis-battered country, an oddly optimistic end to an objectively bad year.”)
- The best, worst, and just plain dumb of American politics in 2022 (“From dinner with Kanye West to orating about werewolves, 2022 was strange.”)
- Why 2022 was a very good year
- The Supreme Court is manipulating its own calendar to lock GOP policies in place (“Arizona v. Mayorkas, the Court’s new Title 42 decision, appears to be the latest act of gamesmanship by a Republican Supreme Court.”)
- Republicans could cause US to default on its debt, top Democrat warns (“John Yarmuth, outgoing House budget committee chair, sounds alarm about GOP going into ‘blow-it-up mode’ on Capitol Hill”)
- How the 2022 Midterms Rewrote American Politics
- Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities (“To survive, cities must let developers convert office buildings into weird apartments”)
- Special Report: Boy Scouts, Catholic dioceses find haven from sex abuse suits in bankruptcy
- Key findings from the latest Jan. 6 panel transcripts, including from Donald Trump Jr. and others
- Pro-Trump protester Ray Epps told Jan. 6 committee ‘crazy’ conspiracy theories tore apart his life
- What the January 6 Committee Missed (“To focus on Trump, the committee pulled some important punches.”)
- Trump’s tax returns to be released Friday after long fight
- What to look for in Trump’s tax returns
- Biden outpacing Trump, Obama with diverse judicial nominees
- Conservatives’ latest McCarthy ask: A broad Biden admin investigation (Bonkers.)
- McCarthy offers his critics a key concession in effort to clinch House speakership (“House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has offered a key concession to critics of his bid for the House speakership during private conversations this week: reducing the threshold that is required to force a floor vote on ousting the sitting speaker, according to six Republican sources familiar with the internal discussions.”)
- House committee staffers face no pay if speaker isn’t decided by Jan. 13, officials warn
- The hell with “compassionate conservatism”: In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time (“Moderation to win swing voters? Forget it. Today’s GOP is all about vengeance against anyone who’s not like them”)
- George Santos Is the Cherry on the Cake of 2022 Politics
- Federal prosecutors open investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos over congressional campaign
- In George Santos, the GOP gets the representative-elect it deserves
- George Santos Has Treated the Nation to a Mudslide of Non-Facts About Every Aspect of His Existence
- A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal, but no one paid attention (That’s the fault of the bigger news outlets.)
- Santos, a Suburban House and $11,000 in Campaign Payments for ‘Rent’
- What Can the House Do to Address George Santos’s Falsehoods?
- George Santos said 9/11 ‘claimed my mother’s life.’ She died in 2016.
- Misogynist Influencer Andrew Tate’s Rough Week Capped by Romanian Rape Arrest
- Elaine Chao addresses Donald Trump’s repeated use of “racist taunt” about her
- How Southwest Airlines Melted Down
- Southwest says flight schedule will “return to normal” on Friday
- What’s Gone at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper. (Musk is batsh** crazy.)
- Kris Mayes wins attorney general race over Abe Hamadeh after recount, but margin narrows
- GOP doubts grow over Kari Lake’s future in Arizona
- Questions loom at CNN after difficult year
- Editorial: Stand up for teachers in the new year (“Relentless attacks on teachers and public schools helped define 2022. Citizens must stand up for education in 2023.”)
- Sen. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine Applaud Signing of Government Funding Bill for FY2023 (“Includes $200 million in dedicated funding secured by Warner and Kaine for Virginia projects”)
- McEachin, Bridgewater officers, UVa football players among notable deaths
- So this was 2022, for better and for worse
- Editorial: Governor Jekyll and Governor Hyde
- Glenn Youngkin, Floated as Potential 2024 Contender, First Faces Tests in 2023 (“Democrats have pledged to block his top two agenda items: 15-week abortion ban and tax cuts”)
- 22 of the Worst Things Glenn Youngkin Did in 2022 (Note that this list could be a lot longer. The worst first year for a Virginia governor in decades?)
- Pope & Schapiro: Campaigns in 2023 and far beyond
- Editorial: What we will be watching in 2023 — Gov. Youngkin
- Virginia nursing home labor force inches back up — but some still in ‘crisis,’ survey shows
- Virginia to cut 1.5% in sales tax for groceries, hygiene items starting New Year’s
- Here is Virginia’s plan to grow its network of express lanes in 2023 (“More than 80 miles of express lanes have been built in Northern Virginia in the last decade and more are coming in 2023 and beyond.”)
- Dulles Toll Road users will pay more beginning Sunday
- Trouble in Spotsylvania County Schools sparks action in Albemarle
- VCU mistakenly told applicants they had been accepted for fall 2023 admission
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and warm today, with showers likely New Year’s Eve
