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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 15.
- U.S. climate envoy Kerry outlines carbon offset initiative for developing nations
- UN chief calls for renewable energy ‘revolution’ for a brighter global future
- California rains a wake-up call to climate upheaval to come
- Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Triggers Renewable Energy Rush, Say World Leaders In Abu Dhabi
- Ukraine Seeks Weapons to Beat Back Russia: Here’s What It’s Got
- Russia fires new waves of missiles at Ukraine and hits energy infrastructure (Russia under Putin is a terrorist state and should be labeled as such.)
- Time Is on Ukraine’s Side, Not Russia’s
- As Russians Steal Ukraine’s Art, They Attack Its Identity, Too
- Ukraine Latest: 20 Dead After Russian Missile Strike on Dnipro
- Sunak confirms UK will send tanks to Ukraine ‘to push Russian troops back’ (“Sending Challengers puts pressure on Germany to agree to re-export Leopard tanks as part of wider effort to boost military aid”)
- For Families and Detainees in Russian-Occupied Areas, a Grim Wait (“Russia’s retreat from the city of Kherson raised expectations that other parts of Ukraine’s south would soon be freed. Those hopes have been dashed.”)
- The U.K. pledges tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles target multiple cities
- Bloody Bakhmut siege poses risks for Ukraine (“Ukraine faces difficult choices about how much deeper its military should get drawn into a protracted battle over the besieged city of Bakhmut, as Kyiv prepares for a new counteroffensive.”)
- How Ukraine became a laboratory for western weapons
- Dnipro attack death toll rises to 20; Kyiv revives call for advanced air defenses
- When Russia bombs a building full of people, this is the aftermath
- WHO appeals to China to release more COVID-19 information
- China sharply revises death toll linked to covid outbreak to 60,000 from 37
- Tens of thousands in Israel rally against Netanyahu’s far-right government (“The plan, announced less than two weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government took office, has deepened political divisions and stoked fear among some that the heightened tensions could tear Israeli society apart.”)
- Israel’s Herzog tries to prevent ‘constitutional crisis’ over judicial reforms (“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to rein in the Supreme Court. Opponents, who protested Saturday, say the plan would cripple judicial independence and set back minority rights.”)
- Bolsonaro’s ex-justice minister arrested in Brazilian capital
- ‘We Will Die for Brazil’: How a Far-Right Mob Tried to Oust Lula
- After the rampage: Brazil’s new leaders to fight hard in wake of ‘insane’ coup attempt (“Lula’s government claims it has ‘absolute control’ after storming of capital by Bolsonaro supporters, but failed putsch is not over, say insiders”)
- 68 confirmed dead after plane crashes in Nepal resort town
- Peru Declares State of Emergency in Lima Over Protests
- Peru’s violent unrest shows no signs of stopping (“Protests after the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo emphasize Peru’s deep stratification.”)
- Despite Easing Price Pressures, Economists Still See Recession This Year (As the joke goes, economists have correctly forecast 9 of the past 5 recessions. LOL)
- Wonking Out: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Pessimist on Inflation
- Our debt ceiling crisis could hit as early as June. Here’s how Biden can sidestep it. (“Joe Biden can use executive power to defuse the debt ceiling bomb, but that comes with risks of its own.”)
- ‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk (“Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective”)
- What the right’s gas stove freakout was really about (“The Biden administration isn’t proposing to outlaw the fossil-fuel-powered appliances. But they’re at the center of a growing nationwide debate about city and state gas bans — and the latest Washington culture war.” Stop using the phrase “culture war”; it’s moronic and inaccurate.)
- The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
- Merrick Garland Has Risked Justice by Betting on Impartiality
- Biden’s Documents Case Isn’t Similar to Trump’s. It’s Really Like Hillary’s.
- Democrats worry Biden controversy will be Clinton emails repeat (Only if the media is as irresponsible in this as it was with Hillary Clinton’s emails.)
- White House’s response to Biden documents frustrates Democrats inside and outside the West Wing
- Here’s what we know about the classified documents found at Biden’s home and office
- Biden’s Classified Documents Should Have No Impact on Trump’s Legal Jeopardy
- Biden’s Document Blunder Is Nothing Like Trump’s Crime (“Trump is facing charges because he defied the law”)
- Total number of Biden documents known to be marked classified is about 20, source says
- There’s one winner in the Biden documents discovery: Donald Trump
- Another scandal regarding classified material: There’s too much of it
- Kevin McCarthy Open To Idea Of Expunging Trump’s Impeachments (Expunging impeachments?!?)
- Most Republicans approve of McCarthy’s election after messy Speaker battle: poll (Bizarre.)
- The House GOP is managing to be both high-risk and low-energy
- Jan. 6 rioter becomes first to be acquitted of obstruction charges
- California flooded by yet more powerful atmospheric river storms
- ‘Dismay and anxiety’ on college campuses as DeSantis ramps up anti-CRT campaign (DeSantis is evil.)
- Kathy Hochul’s Terrible Judicial Pick Sends the Exact Wrong Message to Young Lawyers (What on earth is Hochul doing?!?)
- George Santos Allegedly Wore a Stolen Scarf to Stop the Steal Rally in 2021
- Santos Raised Money for Company the SEC Says Was a Ponzi Scheme
- PolitiFact VA: Virginia GOP delegation repeats debunked IRS claim
- Youngkin Goes on Fox (Where Else?) and Spews “Wild Dishonesty” (What Else From Him?) About Virginia’s Jobs Recovery from the COVID Pandemic
- Opinion/Editorial: Cutting abortion funds for poor women’s abnormal fetuses is barbaric and heartless
- Opinion/Column: History teaching standards look better (Better than the last ones, which were godawful.)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: The “hospital is full,” but “we have also seen a decrease in the amount of COVID we’re diagnosing”
- At rally, prison justice activists and formerly incarcerated demand DOC attention, reform
- Morrissey, estranged wife trade allegations in public rift
- Morrissey calls police after seeing injuries on son’s body (If Morrissey’s account is accurate.)
- Loudoun4All Reiterates Call to Release LCPS internal report on Sexual Assault Incidents (“This is not a game or a political cause but a need for public discussion on solutions”)
- Commentary: My party is poor people
- Commentary: The many problems in Spotsylvania schools
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny but still brisk and breezy today, warmer tomorrow
