by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, January 14.
- World ‘Way Off Track’ With Climate Goals, Says UAE COP President
- The War in Ukraine Upended Energy Markets. What Does That Mean for the Climate?
- Bill Gates: We will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, nuclear can be ‘super safe’ and fake meat will eventually be ‘very good’
- Charting the Global Economy: World Growth Forecasts Slashed
- Russia’s Tycoons Fear Tightening Kremlin Squeeze as Putin’s War Drags On
- NATO’s internal standoff is a gift to Putin
- Analysis | How Europe Is Muddling Through Putin’s Energy War
- Ukrainian officials report Russian missile attack on Kyiv
- The Epic Arsenal of Western Guns Coming for Putin This Year
- UK will provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine – Sunak
- Japan sells Tokyo as US linchpin of security against China, Russia
- Bolsonaro Faces Investigation for Inspiring Brazil’s Capital Riot
- The new right pretends to be isolationist. Their rhetoric on Brazil shows that couldn’t be further from the truth.
- Cleaning Up After the Bolsonaristas in Brasília (“President Lula’s government spent the week reassuring Brazilians that the threat of a coup had been contained.”)
- Sweden Says It Has Uncovered a Rare Earth Bonanza
- Ecuador Tried to Curb Drilling and Protect the Amazon. The Opposite Happened.
- German Industry Sees Signs Worst of Energy Crisis Has Passed
- Alireza Akbari: Iran executes British-Iranian dual national
- Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
- US cancer deaths drop 33% since 1991, new report says
- U.S. will hit its debt limit Thursday, start taking steps to avoid default, Yellen warns Congress
- Biden administration warns House GOP about debt ceiling deadlines
- House Republicans prepare emergency plan for breaching debt limit
- U.S. will begin ‘extraordinary measures’ to stay under debt limit
- House GOP tempts fall government shutdown with impossible spending demands
- Yellen says U.S. will hit debt limit Thursday, warns of ‘irreparable harm’
- Yellen warns of U.S. default risk by early June, urges debt limit hike
- Sticker shock at the egg aisle? Blame flu. (“Rising demand for protein around the world has created a constant cycle of animal disease. Growing meat in labs might offer a solution.”)
- US to Simplify Offshore Wind Regulations to Meet Climate Goals
- Justice Department announces new rule to regulate pistol-stabilizing braces
- Supreme Court takes up Christian postal worker’s religious claim
- Supreme Court Investigators Have Narrowed Leak Inquiry to Small Number of Suspects
- Risk of prosecution on Biden, Trump docs differs due to cooperation
- Obama-era White House counsel will represent Biden on classified documents
- Democratic allies grow frustrated with White House response to Biden’s classified documents
- Biden worries the Secret Service may be loyal to Trump, according to a new book
- Bipartisan coalition making new push to ban congressional stock trading
- Kevin McCarthy Uses First Full Week in Power to Assure Nation He’s Still Donald Trump’s Lapdog
- Can you govern on a lie? House Republicans give it a try.
- Trump Organization receives maximum fine for N.Y. tax fraud scheme
- Trump’s Attack on NY Sexual Assault Law Called ‘Absurd’ By Judge
- Under Oath, Trump Hurled Insults About Woman Who Accuses Him Of Rape
- Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells CNN that his office’s investigation of Trump Org. will continue
- Paul Ryan, Like All of Us, Doesn’t Understand Why George Santos Is Still in Congress
- Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans
- I Ate at the Italian Restaurant Where George Santos Is Often, for Some Reason, Spending Exactly $199.99
- Republicans Won’t Say If They’ll Return Donations From George Santos
- Adam Kinzinger Holds Nothing Back In McCarthy Review: ‘Kevin’s a Piece of S**t’
- ‘Stop the Steal’ Founder Tipped Off Paul Gosar to Brewing Violence on Jan. 6
- Indiana Lab Worker Fired Following Vicious Threats To Rep. Eric Swalwell, Family (Appalling.)
- Missouri lawmakers adopt stricter dress code for women in state House
- Arkansas Latinos see Huckabee Sanders’ ban on ‘Latinx’ as a distraction from urgent issues (Huckabee-Sanders is as bad a governor as everyone thought she’d be.)
- Kellyanne Conway Tells Trump To Blame His Advisers for Losing in 2020 (“In a new op-ed, Trump’s estranged strategist offers a pitch for 2024 that gives the former president a new villain.”)
- The New York Times Gives Kellyanne Conway a Platform to Write That Everyone Against Trump Is a Loser
- ‘Slugging’ culture in D.C. region threatened by commuting shifts
- As new Congress debates debt ceiling, Va. fears another sequestration
- Schapiro: Youngkin embraces ‘Reds-under-bed’ politics
- VA Sen. Jennifer McClellan Rips Gov. Youngkin “turn[ing] away business investment and jobs from Ford Motor Company, due to political considerations and a new obsession with China”
- Youngkin says he blocked Ford battery plant on China concerns
- Planned Parenthood: Abortion & Reproductive Health Care Legislation to Watch During the 2023 Session (Abortion bans, “HOV Personhood,” Criminalize Health Care Providers, etc.)
- Virginia Dems to Youngkin: not so fast on your budget proposals
- Another hot year, fossil fuels, and Virginians’ health
- Video: VA Senators Deeds, Boysko, Marsden, Ebbin, Petersen Discuss Their Gun Violence Prevention Bills(Lori Haas: “My own daughter was injured with a weapon equipped with a high-capacity magazine…It’s far past time that Virginia regulates these weapons of war.”)
- Amid wave of shootings, Virginia Democrats push gun violence prevention bills
- An effort to ban solitary confinement in Virginia is moving forward
- In some Virginia schools, ‘equity’ seems to mean hiding achievement (I’m including this column, by the odious George Will, to show how the right wing has latched onto this narrative.)
- At Virginia Beach mass shooting commission hearing, a shocking accusation and ‘a breath of fresh air’
- School searched 1st-grader’s backpack before teacher shot
- 6-Year-Old School Shooter Case Grows Even More Disturbing
- Superintendent: 6-year-old’s backpack searched before Richneck shooting
- Community members get sneak peek of new Fox Elementary design
- Williams: The investigation of Virginia’s “catfishing” cop needs to extend beyond his hiring
- Albemarle School Board renames Meriwether Lewis Elementary
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly today, only slightly warmer tomorrow with a bothersome breeze
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