by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 22.
- Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb
- Ukraine’s tragic week shows there’s no safe place in war
- Ukraine live briefing: Baltic states urge Germany to provide tanks ‘now’ after no deal reached
- Former Navy SEAL killed in Ukraine
- Ukraine Latest: Poland Plans Small Coalition to Transfer Tanks
- A Brutal New Phase of Putin’s Terrible War in Ukraine
- Ukrainians are bracing for the next Russian onslaught
- Europe’s Leaders Are in Battle of Wills Over Ukraine War (“Fear of receding U.S. support for Kyiv is raising pressure in Europe for bolder action.”)
- Russia increases shelling in regions outside Ukraine’s Donbas
- Germany’s Reluctance on Tanks Stems From Its History and Its Politics
- Germany Beat Putin’s Energy Squeeze. But for How Long?
- Over 100,000 protest against Netanyahu’s government in Israel
- Israel’s Netanyahu fires Cabinet ally, heeding court ruling
- Israel’s new right-wing government is even more extreme than protests would have you think
- India blocks BBC documentary on Modi from airing in India
- China Covid Deaths Top 12,600 in Week Before Lunar New Year
- Lula sacks head of Brazilian army after far-right insurrection (“Júlio Cesar de Arruda reportedly stopped police detaining suspected rioters who took refuge outside army headquarters”)
- It’s time for a climate moonshot in America
- Yellen: Defaulting on debt could cause “self-imposed calamity” (Right, except it would be “imposed” by House Republicans, nobody else.)
- How the U.S. Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt (“Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing, setting the stage for another federal showdown.”)
- Avian Flu’s Spread Affects Eggs, Wild Birds, Even Bears (This is why egg prices are so high.)
- The December Omnibus Bill’s Little Secret: It Was Also a Giant Health Bill
- Is a Nationwide Abortion Pill Ban Coming?
- Dobbs didn’t end the anti-abortion movement (“The end of Roe v. Wade was a decades-long goal. It’s not clear what’s next for the movement.”)
- Anti-Abortion Voters Have Picked an Early 2024 Favorite. It’s Not Trump
- Could Trump Run to DeSantis’s Left in 2024?
- Mike Pence Is Courting Controversial Anti-Gay Pastors (“He’s appearing [Sunday] with John Hagee, who said Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights.”)
- ‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance
- Takeaways from Sundance’s secret Brett Kavanaugh documentary
- A top Border Patrol official resigned after allegedly pressuring female employees for sex, officials say
- Ron Klain Expected to Step Down as Biden’s White House Chief of Staff
- White House chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down in the weeks after State of the Union
- This prominent pastor says Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy’
- FBI searches Biden’s Wilmington home and finds more classified materials
- The Biden-Documents Mess (“House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.”)
- A Black professor defies DeSantis law restricting lessons on race
- Rep. George Santos Admits to Dressing in Drag, Denies Being a ‘Queen’
- Long Island Publisher Recounts Disturbing Early Meeting With ‘Pure Evil’ George Santos (“The North Shore Leader newspaper warned last year that Santos was a ‘fake,’ a ‘fabulist,’ and ‘bizarre, unprincipled and sketchy.'” Perfect for today’s Republican Party, in other words.)
- ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
- 9 killed in shooting near LA after Lunar New Year festival (“Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said”)
- At least 9 dead in Calif. shooting (“Monterey Park incident occurred on a night of Lunar New Year celebrations”)
- Nine killed in mass shooting in Los Angeles area, police say
- Diamond’s Memorial Goes Off the Rails With ‘Poisoned’ Claim
- Video: Sen. Scott Surovell, Del. Mark Sickles Rebut Gov. Glenn Youngkin on National Merit Awards Notification “Faux Outrage” (“I don’t see this as a human rights violation, I don’t see it as something we ought to be investigating”)
- Opinion: Youngkin’s Clean Cars attacks threaten climate progress
- Virginians want shared solar: Lawmakers should give it to them
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “We’ve seen a steady decrease in the number of patients who require COVID isolation over the past month.” (“Will there be a trivalent booster in the near future?”)
- Opinion/Editorial: Cops in schools can’t save ACPS if parents fail kids
- New supermajority of Portsmouth City Council scraps previous request to change recall process
- Missing Middle Opponent Natalie Roy To Run For Arlington County Board (Anyone running for County Board who opposes this proposal needs to present THEIR proposal. If they don’t, then they’re not really serious.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Rain later today and tonight, windy tomorrow (“Next storm system set to arrive early Wednesday.”)
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