by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 15.
- Global wind energy will exceed 1 TW by the end of 2023
- The clean energy milestone the world is set to pass in 2023
- G7 energy, environment leaders haggle over climate strategy
- G-7 Agrees to Accelerate Phase-Out of Unabated Fossil Fuels
- G7 ministers agree to cut gas consumption and speed-up renewable energy
- Putin signs bill allowing electronic conscription notices
- The Harrowing Vanishing of Orphaned Teens Trapped in Russia
- Alexei Navalny ‘seriously ill’ in Russian jail
- Jailed WSJ Reporter in Letter Home Says He Is ‘Not Losing Hope’
- India’s population overtakes China’s, but numbers mask a bigger story
- India’s Population Surpasses China’s, Shifting the World’s ‘Center of Gravity’
- Leaked secret documents detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons
- Leak raises fresh questions about Pentagon’s internal security
- Jack Teixeira’s charges in full: ‘Top secret’ access, leak searches and the Espionage Act
- Republicans Are Trying to Sell Leak Suspect Jack Teixeira As Some Kind of Whistleblower
- Leaked documents detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons
- China Blasts Polish Leader for Comparing Taiwan to Ukraine
- Macron Gets Europe’s China Problem — and He’s Making It Worse
- German Minister Warns of Taiwan ‘Horror’ on Testy China Trip
- Tearful Biden meets priest in Ireland who gave son last rites
- ‘United by history, heritage’, Biden tells Mayo crowd
- US, Vietnam pledge to boost ties as Blinken visits Hanoi
- Spanish industry kicks off EU green hydrogen race
- Sudan: Fighting erupts in Khartoum as army and paramilitary force clash
- Japan PM evacuated after apparent smoke bomb blast (“Fumio Kishida leaves the scene unharmed as officers jump on a 24-year-old man who is later arrested.”)
- U.S. charges El Chapo’s sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking
- McCarthy prepares his opening debt-limit bid — and it’s full of potential pitfalls
- Racial disparities are working against disaster recovery for people of color. Climate change could make it worse
- US grid congestion costs soared to $13.3B in 2021, will likely grow until transmission capacity is built: report
- 40 Percent of Supermarket Meat May Have ‘Superbugs’ (“Take this as a sign to give tofu a try.”)
- A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster. (“Factory farming’s disaster problem, explained.”)
- The Supreme Court temporarily restores full access to key abortion medication
- The Supreme Court hits pause on the abortion pills lawsuit (“Tonight’s order doesn’t mean much, but it does mean that mifepristone is still legal, for now.”)
- Alito keeps access to abortion pill unchanged — for now
- Republicans, facing devastating fallout from “Dobbs effect,” refuse to quit abortion bans (“They brought this on themselves”)
- Great ruling, 5th Circuit! I was feeling worryingly like a person. (“Clearly I have been addled by having too many rights, too much autonomy. All the voting had gone to my head.”)
- Abortion bans raise fears inside GOP about backlash in 2024
- CREW files civil and criminal complaint against Clarence Thomas
- Clarence Thomas Has Always Hated Disclosure. Just Look at His Jurisprudence.
- Senators call for probe of Thomas amid report of real estate deals with GOP donor
- Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas’s Benefactor, Is Not Just Another Billionaire
- Clarence Thomas, Playing a Game of Who Can Best Delegitimize the Supreme Court, Winning by a Long Shot
- Hiding behind SCOTUS’s skirts (“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas never disclosed that Harlan Crow purchased three properties owned by Thomas and his family.”)
- Joe Biden says he will announce 2024 presidential run ‘relatively soon’ (“US president says Ireland trip ‘reinforced my sense of optimism about what can be done’”)
- Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule
- Pence swipes at Trump on Ukraine, entitlements at RNC retreat
- Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos
- Mike Pence is booed at the NRA convention in his home state
- Six Takeaways From Trump’s New Financial Disclosure (“In a 101-page filing, Donald J. Trump revealed lower-than-expected values on his social media company and sizable bank loans”)
- Trump’s Business Empire Is Worth at Least $1.2 Billion Since He Left Office
- Why Mitch McConnell’s return to the Senate matters
- Pompeo passes on a presidential run
- Rape, Incest Victims Must Show Proof to Get Exception to Florida’s New Abortion Ban (Sick.)
- Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point
- Dianne Feinstein digs in (Selfish and stupid.)
- Parler Shut Down by New Owner: ‘A Twitter Clone’ for Conservatives Is Not a ‘Viable Business’
- Fox News viewer who crushed officer with a shield on Jan. 6 sentenced to over 7 years in prison
- The Dominion v. Fox News Trial Will Not Be Televised: “It’s a Gift to Fox News” (“The Judge in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has banned audio and video recordings at trial. Reporters worry the restrictions will dampen the impact of major testimonies and increase the risk of reporting mistakes. ‘We’re basically, on some level, screwed,’ says one.”)
- Fox News has covered the absurd Bud Light controversy far more than the Texas abortion pill ruling
- New audio shows Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo followed Trump campaign directives to promote January 6 (“The Trump campaign told Bartiromo to push January 6, 2021, as the date to overturn the 2020 election. Then she did it.”)
- Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar
- Man died after being ‘eaten alive’ by bugs in filthy jail cell, family says (Horrifying and 100% unacceptable.)
- Global food giant Cargill cuts ties with slaughterhouse cleaning firm PSSI that hired migrant kids
- Minneapolis to pay $8.9M over Derek Chauvin’s actions before George Floyd’s death
- Colorado Governor Signs Abortion, Transgender Care Bills
- A rural Texas county just blinked on library closures. Pressure worked. (But why were they even THINKING that way?!?)
- Lauren Boebert’s Son Fails to Show in Court — Unbeknownst to Mom
- Anheuser-Busch CEO responds to uproar over Dylan Mulvaney sponsorship
- Liz Cheney says Greene should lose security clearance for defending suspect in Pentagon docs leak (Greene shouldn’t have a security clearance for many reasons.)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Martyrizes Alleged Pentagon Leaker
- Leaked Audio of the Tennessee Republican Dingbats Shows They’re Really That Stupid
- An Acute Attack of Trumpism in Tennessee (“Shame is a toxic emotion, and it often causes people to direct hostility outward.”)
- Tech Executive Was Left to ‘Slowly Die’ After Stabbing, Prosecutors Say (“Bob Lee was stabbed three times on a dark San Francisco street after what appeared to be an argument over a personal relationship, prosecutors said in court documents.”)
- Sarah Sanders blames ‘design error’ for form asking job applicants to name something nice about her (She’s the worst.)
- Utah’s Great Salt Lake risked disappearing. Unprecedented weather is bringing it back
- U.S. Sen. Kaine talks clean energy manufacturing tax credits in Big Stone Gap
- Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) on the House Republicans’ First 100 Days of Failure: “These MAGA Republicans are a disaster” (In stark contrast, 100 days into 2021, the Dem-controlled House had passed a slew of important legislation.)
- Video: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07), a Former CIA Officer, Wonders, “How were there not alarm bells going off” About Jack Teixeira, Who Published National Security Documents Online, Given His Anti-Government Views
- Far-Right-Extremist, Insurrectionist, Bigot Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) “Excited to host America’s Governor, Ron DeSantis for breakfast this morning in Lynchburg” (That really says it all about today’s MAGA/Trumpist Republican Party…)
- VA Dems Chairwoman Susan Swecker’s Statement On Ron DeSantis’s Speech At Liberty University (Live Video) (“DeSantis is trying to sell his extreme agenda to Virginia today, and one look shows it would be a disaster for our people.”)
- Virginia agency ‘inadvertently’ shared registered voter list
- Youngkin Gives 2024 Presidential Run the Cold Shoulder
- VA Dems: Youngkin Endorses 2020 Election Conspiracy Theorist, January 6 Rally Attendee (“This wouldn’t be the first time Youngkin’s embraced election denialism” (e.g., he campaigned for a bunch in 2022))
- Virginia lawmakers kill Youngkin amendment to define nuclear energy as renewable
- Dominion Energy says small modular nuclear reactors could be a part of the grid in Va, in a decade
- Dominion’s renewable projects approved by regulators despite cost concerns
- SCC approves major Dominion solar push
- Schapiro: Robb, Wilder – the old married couple of Va. politics
- Va. law aimed at telling schools about employee arrests to go into effect in July
- Judge cuts award to family whose Bent Mountain land was taken by a pipeline
- Expert warns flooding may plague Virginians regardless of where they are
- Mother of 6-year-old who shot Va. teacher wants plea deal, lawyer says
- Fairfax County teacher accused of sexual contact with student
- D.C.-area forecast: Passing showers and storms today, then warm and sunny Sunday
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