by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 5.
- Ukraine Latest: Europe Urged to Speed Up Battle Tank Offers
- One night in Bakhmut: Civilians wait for the end as Russia draws closer
- Ukraine’s situation at the front is getting tougher, Zelenskiy says
- Russian Forces Cutting Off Ukrainians From Bakhmut, Says U.K.
- China Aids Russia’s War in Ukraine, Trade Data Shows
- Oil’s New Map: How India Turns Russia Crude Into the West’s Fuel
- U.S. downs suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic coast (Thank goodness, our long national nightmare is over! LOL)
- F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast
- Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too
- The inside story of how the U.S. shot down the Chinese balloon
- Before Chinese Spy Balloon Sighting, Classified Report Highlighted Foreign Aerial Spying
- China plays down Blinken’s canceled visit over balloon
- US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China
- Challenging the U.S. Is a Historic Mistake (“Like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, today’s China is a rising power determined to dominate its region and convinced that American strength is waning. It runs the risk of experiencing a similar fate if it attacks Taiwan.”)
- China Swings From Contrite to Confrontational in US Balloon Saga
- U.S. Pops China’s Balloon: Updates
- ‘SNL’ Lands Exclusive Interview With the Chinese Spy Balloon (Haha, very funny!)
- Biden brought down a Chinese spy balloon. But he hasn’t tanked bilateral ties (“Biden and Xi can choose to climb an ‘escalation ladder’ or turn the page on this incident in order to not worsen bilateral relations”)
- In China’s Covid Fog, Deaths of Scholars Offer a Clue
- Flowers, Fresh Fish and Movies: China Is Spending Again, Cautiously
- Imran Khan’s Double Game (“Following an assassination attempt, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister discusses his views on the Taliban, his relationship with the military, and why he’s more ‘evolved’ than other people.”)
- Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s ex-president, dies aged 79
- How Turkey is ruining NATO’s moment of unity (“President Erdoğan is blocking the quick membership addition of Sweden and Finland to the alliance.”)
- Pope makes final bid for peace, forgiveness in South Sudan
- The labor strikes in Britain are years in the making
- Liz Truss exclusive: ‘I assumed upon entering Downing Street my mandate would be respected. How wrong I was’
- UK’s shortest-serving PM Liz Truss blames economic ‘orthodoxy’ for downfall
- Israel protests: thousands rally for fifth week against government’s legal reforms (“Protests were held in 20 cities across Israel, with demonstrators also decrying proposed settlement expansion in the West Bank”)
- In West Bank, Settlers Sense Their Moment After Far Right’s Rise
- Induction Ranges Gain Favor as Gas-Stove Concerns Grow (There really are serious health issues with gas stoves.)
- Upbeat Economic Data Keep Investors on Edge About Fed
- Oil Industry’s Windfall Fails to Excite Wall Street
- Why does ‘The 1619 Project’ worry people? It offers a peek at the truth. (Bingo.)
- The New G.O.P. Takes the Country Hostage with the Debt Ceiling (“Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.”)
- A Historic Vote Just Reshaped the Democratic Primary. But There Are Battles Ahead. (“Don’t use pen to mark the dates just yet.”)
- Democrats Overhaul Party’s Primary Calendar, Upending a Political Tradition (Good riddance Iowa caucuses!)
- Forget Trump, Democrats Are Preparing Ways to Beat a DeSantis Campaign
- House Republicans Still Want Us Jumping at 100-Year-Old Skeletons and Bogeymen
- Much-Touted Trump Era Fundraising Platform WinRed Lost Millions In Midterm Elections (Should be called LOSEred? LOL)
- DeSantis ramps up ‘war on woke’ with new attacks on Florida higher education
- Florida weighs mandating menstrual cycle details for female athletes (Remember, Youngkin thinks DeSantis is doing “a lot of really impressive things to lead.” ‘Nuff said.)
- Ron DeSantis Moves To Strip Florida Venue’s Liquor License For Christmas Drag Show (What is it with the right’s obsession with drag?)
- The Democrat Who Could Take Down Kyrsten Sinema (Go Gallego!)
- Family found dead in Pennsylvania made a ‘joint decision’ to kill themselves, police say (“A Pennsylvania family found shot dead in their backyard last week in what police say appears to be a suicide pact, included a mother and daughter who loved bowling and were devout Christian conservatives, people who knew them said.”)
- Ex-staffer claims George Santos sexually harassed him, violated pay rules
- “Great news for my Republican colleagues, they can stop panicking about a balloon now” – Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08)
- Editorial: Governor’s school funds mishap (“Incompetence or malevolence? These are the two most plausible reasons why the Youngkin administration plunged school districts across the commonwealth into fiscal uncertainty last week…A greater focus on nuts-and-bolts governance and less on teacher tip lines and the critical race theory boogeyman would be a good place to start.”)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “COVID numbers continue to move in the right direction.” (Also: “Narcan can be a life saving drug for someone who overdoses on opioids”)
- Former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA05) on the “Deeper Why” of SW Virginia Voting for Mark Warner Heavily in 2008, Then Voting AGAINST Him Heavily in 2020 (“Dem embrace of a Black president was a breaking point”; “solid local media outlets were bought out by conservative conglomerates alongside the emergence of info bubbles.”)
- Column: Va. must fund critical care to medically fragile children
- Column: How a regional initiative addresses severe energy burden
- New revelations from Richneck: Claim contends assistant principal failed to react to several warnings about 6-year-old
- Roanoke County school system scraps equity position
- $1.3 million payment would settle suit over death in Arlington jail
- D.C.-area forecast: Trending toward spring this week, after we shake off early-Sunday chill (“Most of us should reach highs in the 50s the next few days, and could top out near or above 60 by Wednesday.”)
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