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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 28.
- U.N. climate summit in Dubai to be hosted by oil executive. Really?
- Cracks emerge in Europe’s united front against climate change
- Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate
- ‘The time has come to take back what is ours’: Ukraine signals counteroffensive is coming
- Oleksiy Danilov interview: Ukraine counter-offensive ‘ready to begin’
- Russia launched ‘largest drone attack’ on Ukrainian capital before Kyiv Day; 1 killed
- Ukrainians fighting outside Bakhmut see Russian mercenaries withdrawing
- Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in past year than England
- After bitter campaign, a divided Turkey votes in critical runoff election
- The US’s multiple Indo-Pacific strategies, explained
- Voters in Turkey choose between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in presidential runoff
- Turkey presidential election decides if Erdogan should have five more years (He most definitely does NOT deserve five more years, but he’ll probably get it unfortunately.)
- More than 1,500 arrested during Netherlands climate protests
- When Your Sexuality Is Against the Law (“We should be outraged at how far the Christian right has gone to support the persecution of gay people in African countries. These laws need to change, but I doubt that equal and opposite meddling is the solution.”)
- U.S., Saudi Arabia call for extended ceasefire in Sudan
- Biden, McCarthy reach ‘agreement in principle’ to raise debt ceiling
- Biden, McCarthy have tentative US debt ceiling deal – sources
- Kevin McCarthy’s Freedom Caucus headache is just getting started
- Debt-ceiling deal: What’s in and what’s out of the agreement to avert US default
- Biden, GOP reach debt-ceiling deal, now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
- Debt-Limit Deal Omits Broad Overhaul to Speed Up Energy Permits
- Here’s what’s in the deal to raise the debt ceiling
- McCarthy’s next challenge: sell debt-ceiling deal in Congress
- Ron DeSantis Faces Three New Lawsuits After Signing New Voter Suppression Bill (“The new law could devastate community voter registration drives.”)
- Ron DeSantis Wants To Take His ‘War On Woke’ National. There’s One Big Problem: The Constitution.
- DeSantis accused of ‘catastrophic’ climate approach after campaign launch (“Republican ‘trying to out-Trump Trump’ on climate, expert says, as governor says he rejects the ‘politicization of the weather’” In a sane world, this would be an automatic disqualifier.)
- DeSantis says he would welcome bill to abolish ‘corrupt’ IRS: ‘We need something totally different’ (DeSantis is a fascist.)
- Lev Parnas claims text messages show close ties to Ron DeSantis
- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz stand with Texas AG Ken Paxton as impeachment vote about to begin (That says it all.)
- Texas AG Ken Paxton impeached, suspended from duties pending outcome of Senate trial
- A Judge Temporarily Blocked South Carolina’s New Abortion Ban (“Every Southern state except Virginia has moved to limit abortion rights since the Dobbs decision.”)
- Pastor at Christian college arrested for letting his ‘spiritual mentor’ sexually abuse young boys (Sensing a pattern here?)
- Opinion: In rebuking Youngkin, court depoliticized election administration
- Reform-Minded Prosecutors in Northern Virginia Face Primary Challenges
- Is John Dantzler a Democrat – or an Opportunist?
- When Satan Club went to school: What’s behind the group that created controversy in Chesapeake
- D.C.-area forecast: A few showers possible today. Memorial Day could be a bit wetter.
