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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, December 7.
- COP15: UN warns of the cost of ‘humanity treating nature like a toilet’ (“Heated negotiations expected at summit over funding to deal with damage to environment and wildlife” Humanity has MASSIVELY f’ed up. Time to deal with it.)
- Biodiversity Needs To Be a Climate Priority
- Society Can’t Slow Climate Change Without Reining in Big Tech, New Report Warns
- India Chases Clean Energy, but Economic Goals Put Coal First (UGH.)
- U.S. pledges to ramp up supplies of natural gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak seek to cut off Russia
- Ukraine appears to show ability to strike deep in Russia
- Top US conservatives pushing Russia’s spin on Ukraine war, experts say
- Frozen Ground Will Help Ukraine Make Progress, Military Officials Say
- Ukraine Just Showed That Russia Is Way More Vulnerable Than Anyone Imagined
- Russian Oil-Price Cap Adds to Fiscal Pressure on Moscow
- Xi’s Swift Covid Retreat Shows China Masses They Have Real Power
- China Scraps Most Covid Testing, Quarantine Rules
- China eases anti-COVID measures following protests
- China’s COVID Wave Is Coming (“The world’s most populous nation is being forced onto a zero-COVID off-ramp.”)
- German Officials Arrest 25 on Suspicion of Planning Armed Coup (“Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup.” Far-right, of course.)
- Strikes Across Iran Lead to Shuttered Shops and Ghost Towns
- Dissolving Iran’s morality police won’t change much of anything
- 1,200 university students ‘poisoned’ the night before planned anti-regime protests
- U.S. Court Dismisses Suit Against Saudi Ruler in Khashoggi Killing
- U.S. troops to expand patrols in Syria despite tension with Turkey
- Argentina court hands VP Cristina Kirchner 6-year jail term in graft case
- US Jews fear collision with expected Israeli government
- So Republicans want to read the Constitution? They should look at these parts.
- The Supreme Court Is Turning Into a Court of First Resort
- Arizona GOP legislator: Danger to democracy in Supreme Court case isn’t theoretical
- Scorecard: Leading States Cutting Costs for Residents with Energy Efficiency, but More Progress Needed
- Environmental leaders urge Democrats to drop deregulation bill
- Manchin’s last-gasp permitting effort fails (“The final text of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act released Tuesday night did not include language that would have shortened timelines for National Environmental Policy Act reviews and limited citizen judicial challenges for proposed energy projects…Manchin’s failure is a victory for an unlikely coalition of progressives and conservatives, who again came together to fight the permitting plan after successfully blocking it from being attached to the stopgap government spending measure back in September.”)
- Democrats, don’t cave to Republicans on military vaccinations
- 7 things we learned in 2022 (“Yet another tumultuous year in politics is coming to a close.”)
- Justice Dept. subpoenas Ariz., Mich., Wis. officials in Trump Jan. 6 probe
- House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says
- Will Trump Make the Jan. 6 Referrals List?
- Family of fallen officer snubs McCarthy and McConnell as Congress honors law enforcement who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6
- Trump’s horrific month
- This kind of week could break Donald Trump
- Trump Organization Found Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme
- Put This on a Red Hat: Trump’s Family Business Found Guilty of a Whopping 17 Different Crimes (“Adds a nice shine to Trump’s third bid for the White House.”)
- Donald Trump’s Company Is a Convicted Felon
- Trump Companies Convicted on All Nine Counts in Criminal Tax Fraud Trial (“Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.”)
- Trump Organization convicted in N.Y. criminal tax fraud trial
- Please Try to Contain Your Amazement, but Trump Org Was Doing the Fraud
- Trump Is Unraveling Before Our Eyes, but Will It Matter?
- The Warped Electoral Logic Behind Trump’s Antisemitism
- Analysis: Warnock’s Win Forges Democrats’ Path Through the New Battlegrounds (“Forget Florida and Ohio: Senator Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how Georgia and Arizona are poised to be the next kingmakers of presidential politics.”)
- The implications for Senate Democrats and the Biden administration extend well beyond the single Senate slot.
- Walker, Trump’s Celebrity Pick, Underscores Trump’s Fall
- 5 takeaways from Georgia’s Senate runoff (“51st seat gives Democrats true majority…Trump fumbles another Senate seat”)
- GOP smells blood with wounded Trump
- Midterms deliver one last Trump loss: 3 takeaways from Georgia’s Senate runoff
- Georgia’s runoff was a resounding rebuke of Trumpism. Will Republicans hear it?
- Herschel Walker’s loss is just more bad news for Trump
- Georgia Senate runoff vote: What Warnock’s win means for him, the Senate and Georgia
- Herschel Walker Didn’t Just Lose; Raphael Warnock Won (“Trump’s candidate was terrible, but that isn’t the whole story”)
- Warnock’s win expands Democratic power in the Senate as his own star rises
- Herschel Walker’s loss is just more bad news for Trump
- Warnock’s win in Georgia is a bad omen for Trump – but there’s no room for complacency
- Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker
- Warnock defeats Walker, giving Democrats 51-49 majority in Senate
- Warnock’s Narrow Victory Solidifies Georgia as a Battleground State for 2024
- How Raphael Warnock’s Win Reflects the Entire Midterm Cycle (“The year of Republicans blowing it is now complete.”)
- Georgia Senate Runoff: How Raphael Warnock Secured Democrats A 51st Senate Seat
- Kari Lake goes out with a whimper: She couldn’t galvanize Trump’s Jan. 6 army (“Katie Hobbs was certified as Arizona’s next governor, as Kari Lake’s mini-Trump act fizzles out in MAGA frustration” Glenn Youngkin called her “AWESOME!” LOL)
- Amazon, Uber ads appear on Twitter pages of white nationalists restored by Musk
- Senators Kaine and Warner; Reps. Luria, Spanberger, Beyer, Wexton and Connolly Urge U.S. Senate to Remove Deadline to Ratify Equal Rights Amendment (“For over 250 years, American women have been denied the same legal rights and protections as men under the law. This is unacceptable.”)
- Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Statement on Being Elected Battleground Leadership Representative (Since 2018, Spanberger has certainly shown that she knows how to win in a “purple,” highly competitive district!)
- Va. Rep. McEachin to be laid to rest; Pelosi, other dignitaries to honor him
- Spanberger wins Democratic leadership post for battleground districts
- “Trump is gonna do what he’s gonna do”: At “CEO Council Summit,” Youngkin Dodges, Attempts to Shift Blame on Trump (Youngkin falsely claimed that Trump had “walked back” his comments on “terminating” the Constitution…even tried to blame *Democrats*!)
- Youngkin vows to reimburse shutdown violators who paid ‘unjust’ fines
- After restaurant raid, Youngkin says state should stop enforcing COVID-19 violations
- Virginia regulators enter into agreement with menhaden fishery (“Following months of negotiations on proposed regulations and hours of testimony Tuesday, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission approved an agreement with the menhaden industry that will restrict fishing in the Chesapeake Bay but doesn’t carry any enforceable penalties.”)
- Editorial: Does antisemitism report reflect a smarter Youngkin? (The report was a mixed bag, let’s not get carried away. Also, Youngkin is who he is…)
- Proposed changes to Virginia’s marijuana law headed to General Assembly — while other controversial ones are not
- Arlington Public Library’s Hosting of Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator of the “1619 Project”) Rankles the Right-Wing (The talk took place as Gov. Youngkin’s draft history standards were criticized for errors of judgment and intentional misstatements, omissions, etc.)
- Loudoun County to Vote on School Segregation Study
- Loudoun School Board Fires Ziegler
- [Richmond] City Council to allocate millions in unexpected tax revenue
- Special prosecutor: no conspiracy in Pulaski County’s Big Red Barn dispute
- ‘Catfishing’ Virginia cop who killed California family was detained in 2016 after violent threats
- Stores dedicated to unregulated skill game machines proliferate in Bristol (“Bristol planned to ask stores to cease operations prior to Monday, when a judge extended an injunction allowing games to continue.”)
- Remembering Tyneka Johnson: Chesapeake Walmart shooting victim ‘was just beginning to live her dreams’
- D.C.-area forecast: Still dreary and damp before drying out later today and tomorrow
