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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, March 25.
- IPCC Report Will Likely Shake Up U.N. Climate Talks (“Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks”)
- Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’
- War on cow gas is stinky but necessary job in climate-change struggle
- EU, Germany Reach Deal on Car Emissions That Allows for E-Fuels
- How European Businesses Survived the Ukraine War and Last Year’s Energy Shock
- Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker
- Russia presses along Ukraine front after reports of Bakhmut slowdown (“Moscow’s winter campaign to fully capture Ukraine’s industrialized Donbas region has yielded scant gains despite the deaths of thousands of troops on both sides in the war’s bloodiest fighting.”)
- Conflict in Syria Escalates Following Attack That Killed a U.S. Contractor
- Biden warns Iran after U.S. forces clash with proxy groups in Syria (“President Biden said that while the U.S. wants to avoid a wider confrontation with Iran, indiscriminate attacks on U.S. troops would be met with force.”)
- TikTok admits it banned former NBA player critical of China
- Chinese Authorities Raid Office of U.S. Investigations Firm Mintz Group
- Transgender track and field athletes can’t compete in women’s international events
- Prosecutors accept deal with George Santos in Brazilian fraud case
- India Expels Rahul Gandhi, Modi Critic, From Parliament (Totally unacceptable.)
- Justice Department Announces Arrest of the Founder of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Disruption of Forum’s Operation
- Mexican president pushes back on US criticism on violence
- Biden and Trudeau promote strength of democratic alliance on heels of Putin, Xi meeting
- Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities
- Analysis: Wall Street push for bank rescues clashes with Washington realities
- Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of People
- Don’t be fooled by the GOP crusade against ‘woke Wall Street’ (“Everything Republicans are saying about ESG investing is bogus — and so is the idea that they’ve undergone an ideological shift.”)
- Republicans Propose Nationwide Offshore Wind Ban, Citing Unsubstantiated Links to Whale Deaths (Completely bonkers.)
- America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’
- We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? (“Many have asked: Was the media up to the task of covering a government led by Donald Trump, with his pattern of mendacity and anti-democratic impulses?” And the answer is…NO!)
- Ethical no man’s land: can the US supreme court be trusted to police itself? (Obviously not.)
- Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder and Author of Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 (R.I.P.)
- Donald Trump Will Burn It All Down to Save Himself
- Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege
- Trump warns of ‘death & destruction’ if charged with a crime (He should have been arrested a LOOOONG time ago.)
- Bragg, DA probing Trump, received death threat letter with white powder
- Why Is Donald Trump Kicking Off His 2024 Campaign in Waco?
- Trump Is Holding His First Rally in Waco. That Shouldn’t Surprise You.
- Donald Trump in Waco: It’s a signal to the darkest elements of the far right (“The Waco siege of 1993 was a grotesque tragedy — but for elements of the far right, it’s now a sacred symbol”)
- Remembering WACO — There are no accidents when it comes to the locations Trump chooses for his rallies.
- Trump’s Weekend in Waco Promises to Be Whack-a-Doo
- Trump lives rent-free in Americans’ heads amid possible indictment
- Trump, Who Incited a Violent Riot After Losing the Election, Calls for “Death and Destruction” If He’s Indicted
- Squeezed by investigations, Trump escalates violent rhetoric
- ‘Unhinged’: Trump Ripped In Withering Editorial From Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post
- ‘Reckless’ Trump rhetoric could get someone killed, top Democrat warns (“House leader Hakeem Jeffries condemns former president over behavior related to expected indictment in New York”)
- Ron DeSantis’ donors and allies question if he’s ready for 2024
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Leads Congressional Visit To Jan. 6 Rioters At D.C. Jail (Greene is a fascist.)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Cops on Heckler With Whistle
- “Fact-checking” is a feeble, inadequate way to respond to racist, antisemitic incitement
- The Plan to Keep Michael Cohen on ‘Right Page’ With Trump (“The Daily Beast obtained hundreds of emails and internal documents showing how Cohen went from a Trump confidant to the lead witness against him for paying off a porn star.”)
- The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared
- Who Is Marco Rubio Afraid Of? (“Rubio thinks someone will “shred the country” if Trump is indicted. Who, exactly, is he talking about?”)
- ‘No One Has Control Over Tucker’: How Fox News Let Its Biggest Star Go Rogue
- A Red State’s Anti-Abortion Judges Just Made a Chilling Declaration of Their True Beliefs
- Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
- Don’t say “period”: How Florida Republicans are taking aim at basic sex education
- Tornado in Mississippi kills at least 14, with more trapped under rubble
- Unions Have Been Under Attack For Decades, But Michigan Just Gave Them A Big Win
- Wisconsin media should ask Daniel Kelly why he’s campaigning with a QAnon conspiracy theorist
- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, Rep. Jennifer McClellan Vote Against Extreme Legislation to Censor Public Education and Defund Schools
- Lawmakers, advocates question Youngkin’s policy affecting felons’ voting rights
- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Changes Process for How Convicted Felons Restore Their Right to Vote
- Virginia budget negotiations paused amid economic uncertainty
- Schapiro: A golden parachute makes for not-so-soft landing
- Virginia’s new Superintendent of Public Instruction will face several challenges
- Youngkin Scrambles to Re-Staff His Education Department After High-Profile Departures
- Youngkin signs bill creating $300 tax credit for gun safes
- Reporter’s subpoena underscores that Va. lacks ‘shield’ law
- New grants will fund study of siting, supply chain for small nuclear reactor in Southwest Virginia
- Fairfax Dems Statement Regarding the Unnecessary Killing of Unarmed Black Man Fleeing Police at Tysons Corner Shopping Center
- PolitiFact VA: Sturtevant flips again on support for red flag laws (Sturtevant has lurched to the far right.)
- Man who drove into Verizon store in Alexandria sentenced to 10 years (“Employees at the store had told Chip R. Daniels they could not help him disconnect his phone service, authorities said.”)
- George Mason University students start petition to remove Gov. Youngkin as 2023 commencement speaker
- Arlington officials clear homeless people out of condemned hotel (“At least five people had been living inside a shuttered three-star hotel that still appeared to contain beds and pillows.”)
- Couple identified in apparent murder-suicide on Fairfax County trail
- D.C.-area forecast: A damp and chilly morning gives way to warmth late
