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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 20.
- As El Nino returns, world faces record temperatures in 2023
- ‘Frightening’: record-busting heat and drought hit Europe in 2022
- Private equity to play growing role in renewable energy, storage and other cleantech: S&P Global
- A Caribbean island’s quest to become the world’s first climate-resilient nation (“The Caribbean island of Dominica is one of the world’s most at-risk places from climate change. Can it fulfil plans to become the world’s first climate-resilient nation?”)
- Net zero study finds Australia needs nearly three terawatts of wind and solar
- A Record Number of Journalists Were Detained Worldwide Prior to WSJ Reporter’s Arrest
- Exclusive: The Russian military commandant who oversaw reign of fear in Ukraine town
- Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine
- Yellen Says Security Worries on China Eclipse Economic Interests
- As Xi Befriends World Leaders, He Hardens His Stance on the U.S.
- Netanyahu Offers Post of Israel’s Consul General in New York to ‘Proud Racist’ May Golan (Disgusting.)
- Almost 80 die in Ramadan crush in Yemen’s capital Sanaa
- Biden Blasts GOP ‘Wacko Notions’ Amid Debt Limit Standoff
- McCarthy proposes $1.5T debt limit increase in push for key vote next week
- House GOP debt limit plan would block Biden’s student loan agenda, prohibit future relief
- Washington’s Biggest Clean Energy Lobbying Group Pushes Natural Gas-Friendly Policy (There’s absolutely nothing clean about natural gas.)
- CDC allows second covid booster: Who should get it and when (“Federal health officials this week updated their recommendations for coronavirus vaccinations to allow people who are at least 65 years old or immunocompromised to receive a second updated booster shot to strengthen protection for the most vulnerable Americans, even as the virus recedes.”)
- Two days that could shape abortion access and the future of American health care
- Supreme Court temporarily extends access to abortion drug, sets Friday night deadline
- Supreme Court extends nationwide abortion pill access through Friday
- The Supreme Court needs two more days to decide what to do about mifepristone (“The Court can’t seem to figure out how to decide one of the easiest cases it’s ever had to consider.”)
- ‘I got duped’: Republican senator fumes over Trump-appointed judge’s ethics scandal (Did her staff do literally ANY research on this guy? It was clear he was a right-wing extremist if you did a few Google searches.)
- GOP Doesn’t Seem to Care That Americans Are Being Shot for No Reason (“In the span of a week, four people have been shot—one of whom died—for accidentally ringing the wrong doorbell, pulling into the wrong driveway, or getting into the wrong car.”)
- Shot for making a mistake: America reels from shootings of Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis and Texas cheerleaders (“The shootings have devastated communities, intensified calls for stricter gun control policies and deepened a sense of fury over everyday American violence.”)
- What’s going on with all the wrong-place wrong-time shootings?
- Hundreds of Miles Apart, Separate Shootings Follow Wrong Turns
- ‘Fear and paranoia.’ Grandson says Andrew Lester bought into conspiracies, disinformation (This guy watched…wait for it…yep, right-wing media all the time.)
- Citing Neo-Nazi Plots Against The Grid, States Pass Laws Meant To Thwart Climate Protests (That’s f’ed up.)
- Red States Are Trying To Fight The World On Climate (Republican “governance” is a disaster. Period.)
- Thomas’s ethics issues stir GOP unease, set up reform push
- Trump Says He May Skip Rape Case to Spare New Yorkers Traffic Hassles
- Trapped in the Trumpocene nightmare (“Is there any way to escape this era?”)
- Boris Epshteyn, Trump Legal Adviser, Is to Be Interviewed by Special Counsel
- Fox was resigned to a tough trial. Then, a secret mediator stepped in.
- Fox News settlement shows media outlets don’t have a blank check
- After $787.5m settlement, will Fox change its ways? (“Fox may have to balance costly legal battles with a desire not to alienate its pro-Trump audience.”)
- Fox News won. Dominion won. The rest of us lost.
- Why a record-shattering settlement still might not change Fox News (“Dominion is walking away with $787 million. That might not be enough to deter Fox News.”)
- How Fox Helped Break the American Right
- The Fox Settlement Is a Blow to Those Who Believe in Truth
- Fox News settles with Dominion – not that viewers would know it (“The network has agreed to pay $787.5m for promoting election lies, but mentions of the case were few and far between”)
- Angelo Carusone on Fox/Dominion settlement: The case offered “a keyhole view into the day-to-day industrial-scale deceit that takes place at Fox”
- Fox News has learned nothing — the mainstream press can’t let them forget (“Fox desperately wants to be treated like a real news organization — yet they have no plans to start acting like one”)
- The Dominion saga exposed Fox for the propaganda outlet it’s always been, but accountability cannot end with the settlement (“The Dominion lawsuit has always posed a much greater threat to Fox’s bottom line than just a settlement”)
- Dominion had planned to make Rupert Murdoch its second witness
- Don’t get it twisted: Fox’s $787.5M defamation deal is record-setting, massive and painful, experts say (Maybe, but Fox “News” still hasn’t been forced to change its deplorable ways or shut down.)
- Fox Can Claim Tax Writeoff For Defamation Settlement (That’s completely f’ed up.)
- Everybody Knows What Fox News Is Now (The problem is, a lot of people STILL don’t know how heinous Fox “News” is.)
- Fox News’s next big problem: Smartmatic
- DeSantis’s Electability Pitch Wobbles, Despite G.O.P. Losses Under Trump
- Ron DeSantis, Bigot Extraordinaire, Bans Discussing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Through 12th Grade (“The original ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, applying to kindergarten through third grade, went into effect last year.”)
- ‘Deeply frustrated’: Florida legislators worn out by DeSantis (“DeSantis didn’t wow D.C. It’s not great in Tallahassee either.” And yet they keep doing his bidding and refuse to stand up to him.)
- After high-flying start, DeSantis hits stumbling blocks on road to 2024
- So-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules expanded through 12th grade in Florida
- ‘Don’t Say Gay’ expansion requested by DeSantis approved
- Exclusive: Two More Congressmen From Florida Plan to Endorse Trump in Blow to DeSantis
- DeSantis-backed board moves closer to nixing Disney pact
- Lawmaker Files Bill to Lure Disney World to North Carolina Amid DeSantis Feud
- Florida poised to make DeSantis’ travel records secret (“Open government advocates called it one of the worst ever proposed exemptions to the state’s much-lauded Sunshine Law”)
- No Labels Took More Than $100,000 From Clarence Thomas Buddy Harlan Crow (“No Labels” is a horrible group.)
- Anti-Abortion Activist on 10-Year-Old Rape Victim: ‘A Woman’s Body Is Designed to Carry Life’
- Montana Republicans want censure while misgendering lawmaker
- Capitol rioter who was armed with gun is found guilty on all charges
- Marjorie Taylor Greene silenced in committee after accusing Mayorkas of lying
- Oklahoma Official Who Discussed Killing Reporters Resigns
- Elon Musk and “Tucker Carlson Tonight”: A distracting match made in misinformation paradise (“Elon Musk’s much-hyped two-night interview that aired on Fox News coincides with major developments with Twitter”)
- Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Discuss “the Urge to Have Sex and Procreate” in Creepiest Interview to Ever Air on TV (“Naturally, the two men are not fans of birth control or abortions.”)
- Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform
- Twitter promises it’s really, actually removing legacy blue checks very soon
- Twitter quietly edited its hateful conduct policy to drop transgender protections
- DeKalb County releases autopsy in ‘Cop City’ protester Manuel Teran’s death
- The Kennedy campaign the Kennedys don’t want to see (RFK Jr. is bats*** crazy.)
- Kaine looks for answers from brass on Navy suicides
- Kaine calls for accountability in case of leaked documents
- Senator Kaine cosponsoring bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress
- Video: Under Questioning From Sen. Mark Warner, IRS Commissioner Commits to Doubling Processing for Business Tax Credits (“Commitment will reduce the backlog of Employee Retention Tax Credit claims and help Virginia businesses get their money back from the IRS”)
- Video: On MSNBC, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Calls Putin’s Arrest of American Reporter an “absolute horror,” the Point Being to “ensure…that there is no sunlight shed on [Russian] atrocities…in Ukraine and elsewhere”
- “It’s a sad day for students in Virginia…[VA Secretary of Education] @AimeeGuidera didn’t listen. There is minimal change, despite 85% of public comments rejecting the #YoungkinStandards.”
- As AP course enrollment dips, Virginia students eye dual enrollment
- The effort to include Virginia’s labor history into education standards
- For expectant and new mothers in Virginia, a troubling COVID-19 trend (“The wide gap between maternal death rates for Black, white mothers persists”)
- With 1Q23 Campaign Finance #s In, Chaz Nuttycombe Rates VA Senate and VA House of Delegates “Lean D” (Nuttycombe makes “5 district rating changes, 3 in the Senate and 2 in the House. 4/5 of these changes favor Democrats”)
- Youngkin Says Big Fundraising Haul Will Boost State Races
- How a 2020 bill might have prevented election drama in a Va. GOP Senate race
- Schapiro: Fairfax County’s losses are downstate’s gains
- 2023 Virginia General Assembly elections: Southwest and Southside
- The unnamed Virginia coal plant the Dept. of Energy flagged as a possible nuclear reactor site
- Scientists track bobcats in Virginia, hoping to protect them and other wildlife
- Amazon HQ2 was thought up pre-pandemic. But the world is hybrid now.
- New Potomac Yard Metro station to open May 19, officials say
- George Washington Parkway overhaul will bring delays through 2025
- Prince William Co. middle, high schools to get security screeners starting in August
- Here’s where Chesapeake Walmart lawsuits stand as the site of November shooting reopens
- D.C.-area forecast: Summerlike heat today and tomorrow, with rain likely Saturday
