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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, March 22.
- UN to World: The Climate Emergency Is No Longer Emerging, It’s Here
- We need the right kind of climate optimism (“Climate pessimism dooms us to a terrible future. Complacent optimism is no better.”)
- World hurtling toward critical global warming benchmark, but IPCC report highlights clean energy potential (“For the electric sector, demand-side management technologies could play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report by the IPCC.”)
- The new UN climate report airs the dirty truth about fossil fuels
- Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021 (“Boreal forests store huge amounts of carbon, but the warming and drying climate is leading them to burn bigger, hotter and more frequently.”)
- Analysis: Latest IPCC report confirms climate change is worsening, but we have the tools to combat it
- Climate protesters call on banks to divest from fossil fuels
- The climate warnings are consistently bad. And about to get worse.
- UN warns against ‘vampiric’ global water use
- Clean energy can help to ease the water crisis
- Some people who seek abortions can face prison time in more than 120 countries, analysis shows
- A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach (“A key set of data could shore up the case for a purely animal origin. So why aren’t scientists sharing it?”)
- Ukraine war: Four dead as Russia launches new attack on cities
- No path to peace: Five key takeaways from Xi and Putin’s talks in Moscow
- Putin’s two-day charm offensive with Xi underlines who’s boss (Putin is most definitely the junior partnership, as China is FAR stronger – economically, militarily, etc. – than Russia at this point.)
- Russian oil finds ‘wide open’ back door to Europe, critics say
- Ukraine to clinch first IMF loan to nation at war
- Here’s the real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting
- Xi Aligns With Putin Against US, But Hesitates on Gas Deal
- U.S. will speed transfer of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Pentagon says
- Ukrainian soldiers are nearly finished with training in the U.S. on Patriot missiles.
- Murdoch succeeded where Putin failed. Time for a Fox hunt (Murdoch is one of the worst people in the world.)
- The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies
- Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ (Disgusting.)
- A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change (“Ocean-based renewable energy could play a big role in decarbonizing the U.S., and healthier oceans can help stabilize the climate, the Ocean Climate Action Plan suggests.”)
- Decision on interest rate rise on knife-edge amid banking crisis fears
- Fed Caught Between Inflation and Bank Crisis in Crucial Meeting
- A Big Question for the Fed: What Went Wrong With Bank Oversight?
- To prevent more bank runs, the Fed should pause rate hikes
- US authorities focused on stability, First Republic as Fed meets
- TikTok CEO to tell Congress app ban would hurt U.S. economy
- ‘An indictment would help Trump!’ is wholly premature
- Republicans Planned a Retreat to Tout Policy. Donald Trump Sucked Up Oxygen—Again
- Trump plunges GOP into more turmoil with legal troubles (Republicans in disarray!)
- Everything you should know about the potential Trump indictment
- Justice Department convinces federal judge Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime in classified docs probe
- Sources: Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote
- Trump denounces ‘crime-fraud’ ruling forcing attorney to testify in documents probe
- Trump holding his next rally in Waco, Texas, sends a message to the far right, experts say
- The Trump Protests So Far: Mostly Press and Also Someone in a Diaper
- Trump Claims He’s Ready for Perp Walk if Indicted
- Republicans are once again sticking by Trump as an indictment looms
- Oops: Trump’s Lawyer Called the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal “Illegal” in 2018
- Trump Is Taking His Looming Criminal Indictment in Typical Stride—By Losing His Mind
- Dems play it cool on Trump’s legal jeopardy
- Trump campaign prepares for ‘new normal’: Running under indictment
- Trump’s campaign 2024 campaign strategy revealed — and it’s even worse than his first 2 campaigns
- Trump’s Potential Indictment Could Alienate Some G.O.P. Voters in 2024
- MAGA protesters in Manhattan crowded out by anti-Trump rivals
- Exclusive: Communications between Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney turned over to Manhattan DA
- Michael Cohen’s Long Arc From Trump Ally to Chief Antagonist
- Mike Pence’s 2024 Support Might Be Even Weaker Than It Looks (“The former veep is polling in the single digits. He’s alienated just about everyone, so it’s hard to see how he could improve”)
- Tracking the 2024 Republican Primary: DeSantis’ Support Dips, Tying Record Low
- DeSantis, Doubling Down, Presses Questions About Trump’s Character
- DeSantis’ Midwestern Roots Go as Deep as Astroturf
- Ron DeSantis rips Trump’s character, chaotic leadership style
- Graham warns Trump arrest would ‘blow up our country’ (Lindsey Graham is completely f’ed up.)
- Florida GOP lawmaker who wrote ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill facing up to 35 years after pleading guilty in COVID fraud case
- Folks at Fox Have Started to Turn on Each Other
- “There will be no ‘fact checking’ today”: Fox News producer’s lawsuit makes it clear Fox is not a news organization
- Trump’s Legal Peril Has Fox News Pundits Back in His Corner
- “The customer’s always right”: New Fox News lawsuit explains why the GOP is captured by conspiracies (“Republican voters, party leaders, and propagandists share a fundamental belief: That the truth doesn’t matter”)
- The behind-the-scenes toxicity of Tucker Carlson exposed by a lawsuit from one of his staffers
- Fox News promoted Tom Lowell to oversee all of its editorial content. The Dominion filings show he knew the network was pushing election lies.
- Fox News drops lawsuit seeking to gag Tucker Carlson producer suing them for discrimination
- Tucker Carlson Desperately Tries to Walk Back Trump ‘Hate’ (Relentless dishonesty.)
- In Lexington, Pence says Republicans have better choices than Trump in 2024 (Definitely not DeSantis, definitely not Haley, definitely not Pompeo, definitely not Pence…)
- Oklahoma Supreme Court finds ‘limited right’ to abortion in state constitution
- Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies, partly due to ‘political climate’
- The massive Los Angeles public school worker strike, explained
- Biden honors Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling
- “We the People for Education” Launches, with Goal of “push[ing] back against organizing from those seeking to divide parents and undermine public schools” (Members include former VA Secretaries of Education Anne Holton and Atif Qarni, 2021 VA Teacher of the Year Anthony Swann, VEA President Dr. James J. Fedderman, Former First Lady of VA Pam Northam, etc.)
- Former state superintendent gets settlement equal to year of salary (“Balow will receive $266,213 in 24 semi-monthly settlement payments over the next year, according to confidential severance terms that the Richmond Times-Dispatch obtained through a public records request.”)
- General Assembly tracker: Everyone who says they aren’t coming back next year
- A look at some of the 51 bills Youngkin signed
- Dinwiddie grand jury indicts 10 people in Irvo Otieno murder case
- Virginia Beach’s $2.5 billion proposed budget includes fee increases on public utilities, no increase in real-estate tax rate
- Richneck teacher recalls day of shooting, says she will ‘never forget’ 6-year-old student pointing gun at her
- Williams: Eliminating the Gandy name would epitomize Confederate score-settling in Hanover
- Va. man who fiercely attacked police in Jan. 6 riot sentenced to 52 months (Fiercely attacking police should get a sentence of 52 YEARS, not 52 months.)
- As channels fill, Middle Peninsula gets OK for faster dredging approvals
- Inmates dig out of jail with toothbrush, get caught at IHOP, officials say (“The escapees, who sheriff’s officials say exploited a ‘construction-design weakness’ at the Newport News, Va., jail, were recaptured at an IHOP the next day.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Seasonably mild 60s today, then jumping into the 70s tomorrow
