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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 20.
- The state of the climate in 2023 (“This latest report is likely to ’emphasise that time is running out for the easier solutions and the more gradual transitions to a carbon free economy'”)
- Nations approve key UN science report on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions
- The United Nations is expected to issue a major new climate change report
- UN science report to provide stark climate warning
- Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration
- Coal Use Seen Peaking Next Year as India, China Determine Future
- The Truth About Long COVID Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought. (“This time, fortunately, the surprises are mostly on the positive side. Long COVID is neither as common nor as severe as initially feared”)
- UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for more than $2bn
- UBS-Credit Suisse Deal Fails to Stem Strain in Financial Assets
- ICC to plead for extra money to pursue Russian war crimes in Ukraine (Give the ICC whatever it needs for this.)
- As Xi visits Russia, Putin sees his anti-U.S. world order taking shape
- China’s leader Xi in Moscow for meeting with Putin
- Why Xi Jinping is still Vladimir Putin’s best friend
- China’s Xi visits Moscow as alliance with Russia grows; Putin’s trip to ruined Mariupol angers Kyiv
- ‘Good old friend’: Putin offers praise for Xi ahead of first trip to Russia since Ukraine invasion (“Russian president lauds Xi ahead of meeting, while Beijing calls for a ‘rational way’ out of the crisis” Disgusting.)
- Why China and Russia Are Closer Than Ever (“This week’s meeting between the leaders of China and Russia marks another key moment in the deepening relationship between the two powers.”)
- Xi makes ‘journey of friendship’ to Moscow days after Putin’s war crime warrant issued
- How Ron DeSantis Ignited a Republican Civil War Over Ukraine
- The state of the U.S. Navy as China builds up its naval force and threatens Taiwan
- Taiwan’s Ma Set to Become First Former President to Visit China
- Macron faces no-confidence votes over hated pension reforms
- The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie that Launched the Catastrophic War
- Kim says North Korea must be ready to launch nuclear counterattack as daughter watches latest missile test
- Why the Press Failed on Iraq
- Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
- Finland Crowned World’s Happiest for Sixth Year Running in Ranking Dominated by Nordics (So wait, the social democracies – which the far right claims are evil, Marxism, etc. – are the happiest countries? LOL)
- Rishi Sunak Charts Post-Brexit Role With Pivot From ‘Global Britain’ (The huge mistake continues.)
- Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year
- US Banks on ‘Bumpy’ Path as First Republic’s Troubles Deepen
- Offshore wind isn’t to blame for whale deaths. Developers plan to keep it that way (“As Dominion Energy prepares to build its 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, the company is working with federal agencies and marine life advocates to ensure it doesn’t harm the vulnerable North Atlantic right whale.”)
- Not just Florida: The entire GOP is waging a nationwide racism-fueled war on public education (“In ‘an upfront power grab,’ Texas Republicans take over Houston schools by force”)
- The right wing’s ‘woke’ obsession could come back to haunt it (It’s utterly bizarre.)
- Wyoming banned the abortion pill. Some states are trying to go even further.
- Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic
- Clarence Thomas rewrote the Second Amendment. We can do it again.
- Why a Trump indictment would have huge political and national implications
- The Secret Service’s Day of Reckoning Approaches (“An indictment of former President Donald Trump would offer the agency a chance to restore its tarnished reputation.”)
- Inside the Payoff to a Porn Star That Could Lead to Trump’s Indictment
- Former Michael Cohen Lawyer Expected to Testify in Grand Jury Investigating Trump
- Dissecting Charges That Could Arise From the Trump Investigations
- Trump Grand Jury Could Hear From Critic of Prosecution’s Star Witness
- Trump in panic mode as he braces for likely charges in Stormy Daniels case
- Trump Allies Pressure DeSantis to Weigh In on Expected Indictment
- Why an indictment may help Trump — and threaten the GOP
- Pavlov’s Press Corps: Trump Once Again Got Journalists to Willingly Serve as His Incitement Mules
- The First Case Against Trump Is…This? (There is far, FAR worse Trump criminality out there.)
- Trump’s call for protests get muted reaction from supporters
- McCarthy pushes back against Trump’s calls for protests: ‘We want calmness out there’
- Pence Downplays Trump Protest Threats, Says People Have Right To Assemble (Pence is really, really horrible.)
- Sen. Warren calls for lifting deposit insurance cap, blasts Fed
- DeSantis’s pivotal service at Guantánamo during a violent year (“‘Hey, you can actually force-feed,’ Ron DeSantis advised, which detainee lawyers said amounted to torture”)
- ‘Despicable’ Pandering: Ron DeSantis Roasted For Odd Claim About His Upbringing
- McConnell’s absence leaves colleagues wondering about GOP’s future (“There’s no word yet on McConnell’s date of return, but some lawmakers expect he may not come back to the Senate until mid-April, after the two-week Easter and Passover recess.”)
- Proud Boys bloodied and jailed during NYC drag queen story hour protest
- ABC’s Jon Karl Confronts Pence With Stunning Audio of Trump Defending ‘Hang Mike Pence!’ Chanters: He’s ‘Justifying’ People ‘Calling for You to Be Hanged!’
- Sununu on possible Trump arrest: ‘Democrats have misplayed this’ (Sununu is now officially a joke.)
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says “every time you think [Trump’s] bottomed out, he goes even further,” This Time to “incitement to violence” (Sen. Kaine also calls out Putin for “so many war crimes,” his “little Potemkin village-type visit” to occupied Ukraine yesterday)
- It’s Maryland vs. Virginia on Capitol Hill, with billions on the line
- Feds identify ‘significant’ ongoing concerns with Virginia special education
- No losses, no gains for Virginia farms and farmland in 2022
- How a 2019 vote on Virginia’s red flag law is shaking up a GOP primary in 2023
- In Hanover, a name is more than a name (“The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge”)
- New grant program will provide funding for Southwest Va. schools to go solar
- Virginia Tech beats South Dakota State to reach Sweet 16
- Commanders sale believed to be ‘imminent’ as Snyder family prepares for transition
- D.C.-area forecast: Warming up this week as winter shifts to spring (“Highs reach the 70s Thursday and Friday.”)
