by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 11.
- World ‘way off track’ from climate goal, Kerry says
- How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World
- Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial
- Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time for counter-offensive
- US approves transfer of seized assets from sanctions-hit oligarch to Ukraine
- Russians being pushed back in parts of Bakhmut, Kyiv says; Kremlin says emotions are ‘boiling over’
- Taiwan is urging the U.S. not to abandon Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant facing ‘catastrophic’ staff shortage amid Russian evacuation
- China pours cold water on bilateral meeting with US defence secretary
- Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza; Cairo presses on with efforts to mediate truce
- Sanna Marin: Finnish PM to divorce as she prepares to leave office
- Aramco Postpones Giant Energy-Trading IPO Over Market Volatility
- US debt standoff overshadows G7 finance leaders’ meeting
- What’s Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border? (“The U.S. is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era policy lifts at the end of the day Thursday, but it lacks control over crises in Latin America.”)
- Yellen says it should be ‘unthinkable’ for the U.S. to default on its debt
- Yellen Doubts Biden Administration Can Avoid Default Without Congress
- Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down
- An EPA proposal to (almost) eliminate climate pollution from power plants (“Owners of those plants have been allowed to spew climate-warming carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere for more than a century. If these proposed regulations are finalized, they would come close to putting a stop to that practice.”)
- Biden’s Plan to Cut Planet-Warming Pollution Spares Most Gas Plants (“Proposed requirements would force coal plants to stifle nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions.”)
- White House Unveils a New Climate Fix: Building Codes and Energy Retrofits
- In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan
- Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates
- DOE proposes framework for national transmission corridors to spur new lines, ease grid congestion
- Trump’s CNN Town Hall Was a MAGA Rally
- ‘Shameful’ And A ‘Disaster’: CNN Blasted After Lie-Filled Trump Town Hall
- Trump Doubles Down On His Jan. 6 Lies, Won’t Apologize To Pence At CNN Town Hall (“The prime-time special continues the media’s whitewashing of his Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to end American democracy, said a police officer nearly killed that day.”)
- Toe-curlingly bad television: Trump’s torturous town hall backfires on CNN (“Truth didn’t stand a chance as the former president talked too fast to be factchecked and too shamelessly to be interrupted”)
- Trump’s ‘Stupid,’ ‘Stupid’ Town Hall
- First Thing: Trump repeats conspiracy theories and election lies in CNN town hall
- Donald Trump Is Not a Legitimate Candidate for President (“He may have legal standing to run, but anyone who attempts to stay in power after American voters tell them to leave should be barred from holding any office of the public trust.”)
- Takeaways from Trump’s CNN town hall: election lies and attacks on E. Jean Carroll
- Entirely Unrepentant (“In an unhinged town hall, Donald Trump repeated familiar lies and tested new talking points.”)
- Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed.
- CNN Is Hosting a Town Hall for a Guy Who Tried to Get Me Killed
- Trump’s Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall
- ‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally
- Trump just (essentially) won the 2024 GOP primary. Here’s why.
- Takeaways from town hall: Trump says sexual assault case was ‘fake,’ calls Jan. 6 ‘a beautiful day’ (Trump is a fascist. Period.)
- Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’
- CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump’s election lies
- Trump Railroads Kaitlan Collins With Lies In CNN’s Shitshow Town Hall (“The evening was an epic disaster, beyond even the worst expectations for what would unfold.”)
- Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall
- Trump dismisses sex abuse verdict and gloats that it will help his 2024 bid
- CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall
- Trump Steamrolls CNN—and the Truth—in Town Hall Debacle
- ‘Putin’s Puppet’: Chris Christie Puts Trump On Blast Over Ukraine Claim (“The former New Jersey governor slammed the ex-president after the CNN town hall debacle.”)
- The Panic Over Biden’s Age Is Manufactured
- Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars
- Surprise: Ex–White House Employees Say Donald Trump Behaved Grossly With Women While President
- How George Santos’s federal indictment could shake up Congress
- Kevin McCarthy Mocked For ‘Spineless’ Response To George Santos Indictment
- George Santos: An Accused Con Man Who Happened to Trade in Politics
- Congressman George Santos Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering, Theft of Public Funds, and False Statements
- Did George Santos lie about everything?
- George Santos Is Just a Funhouse Mirror Version of the House Republican Caucus
- House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden
- Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden
- New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat
- Tucker Carlson Is Daring Fox to Stop Him (“Lachlan Murdoch wants to act like Carlson’s show is a thing of the past, but the ex-host’s Twitter announcement puts Fox News in a tricky situation.”)
- Elon Musk Is Wrong. Encouraging Voting Isn’t Nefarious. (Musk is wildly wrong about EVERYTHING.)
- Feinstein casts her first Senate vote in months, finally shedding light on health issues
- Sen. Tuberville rises to the defense of racists in the armed forces (Yep, Tuberville is not just utterly brain dead, but also a white supremacist. Great job, Alabama voters. Ugh.)
- RFK Jr.: Ron DeSantis invited me to breakfast, said he wanted to burn the NIH “to the ground” (Very, very dangerous, irresponsible, bonkers.)
- Gosh, how do the Trumps keep “accidentally” hanging out with Hitler fanboys? (“Eric Trump wants to hide it, but he’s speaking alongside anti-semites at a QAnon-linked rally at a Trump resort”)
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Anyone Willing to Default on the National Debt “beyond the pale,” “stupidity on steroids,” “irresponsible and frankly doesn’t belong in any position of responsibility” (Sen. Warner’s referring, of course, to US House Republicans.)
- Biden-Harris 2024 Announces Campaign National Advisory Board, Including Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney
- CASEY: Sen. Mark Warner promises to address Roanoke Valley mail woes
- Sen. Kaine: allowing U.S. to go into default ‘foolish’ (“The Virginia Democrat accuses House Republicans of ‘brinksmanship.'”)
- Virginian requests federal funding for state Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Fund
- Va. Attorney General Miyares defends staying out of abortion pill case (Miyares clearly made a political calculation.)
- Virginia’s Top Republican Just Reminded Everyone that Abortion is on the Ballot in November
- Schapiro: Stoney, Spanberger help others, eye governorship
- Over 20,000 Virginians lose Medicaid coverage a month into unwinding
- Wilder says Youngkin wanted VCU’s Research Institute for Social Equity renamed
- Virginia hid execution files from the public. Here’s what they don’t want you to see
- Virginia could be key to abortion access in the South. Its laws could hinge on this Democratic primary.
- Will Republicans Pick the *DEMOCRATS’* Nominees in Virginia Primaries on June 20? (“It feels like a failure on the part of the local party, however, if their nomination procedure leads to an outcome that is not supported by the majority of their members”)
- Del. Dan Helmer Denounces Glenn Youngkin and MAGA Republicans for Hypocrisy on Anti-Semitism (Helmer is “a Jewish member of the House of Delegates and subject of a blatantly antisemitic mailer from the Virginia GOP in 2021”)
- Video Released of Joe Morrissey Exclaiming: “I’m Proud to Vote Pro-Life and I will Side with Republicans in the Future on this Issue.” (Lashrecse Aird: “I refuse to allow Joe to misrepresent his position and deceive voters during a critical time such as this”)
- Experience vs. generational change: Deeds and Hudson square off for Democratic state Senate nomination
- Automatic license plate readers are a bad deal for Virginia. That’s why we already rejected them (“The General Assembly rejected two bills to allow law enforcement to use this technology. Now the Criminal Justice Services Board may bypass legislative intent.”)
- Virginia Beach Mass Shooting Commission member says state delegate sent copy of shooter’s laptop
- Virginia Beach School Board’s ‘nondiscrimination’ resolution sent back for revisions amid concerns on pronouns, athletes
- After Latest “News” Story by Sinclair (WJLA TV7), the “pro-Trump, conservative company taking over local news,” Loudoun4All Calls Them Out For “smearing Democratic politicians” (Sinclair “reporter” interviews person who “made comments about LGTBQ+ people calling them immoral and unnatural”)
- Mother of 6-year-old who shot Va. teacher says her son has ADHD (“Deja Taylor, who is charged with child neglect and recklessly storing a firearm in connection with the shooting, spoke in an interview with ABC News.”)
- Irvo Otieno judge declines to issue gag order on prosecutor
- D.C.-area forecast: Mostly sunny 80s return before showery start to weekend
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