by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 10.
- Canada’s Wildfires Expose the Climate Change ‘Spiral of Silence’
- Canada wildfires: Will they change how people think about climate change?
- Climate activist Greta Thunberg graduates from ‘school strikes’
- UN aid chief says Ukraine faces `hugely worse’ humanitarian situation after the dam rupture
- Seismic activity adds to evidence that explosion caused Ukraine dam collapse
- Russia Wrestles With How to Send More Troops to Ukraine Without Another Call-Up
- Drowned zoo animals and rescued pets: Ukraine counts ‘catastrophic’ environmental cost after dam blast (Russia is a terrorist state.)
- Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russia under way
- Putin Cops to ‘Significant Losses,’ Inferior Weapons in Stunning War Admission
- Viral Pentagon explosion hoax took off from pro-Russian accounts
- Russian Nationals Charged With Hacking One Cryptocurrency Exchange and Illicitly Operating Another
- Russia has received hundreds of Iranian drones to attack Ukraine, says White House
- New U.S. intelligence shows Russia’s deepening defense ties with Iran (“The Biden administration aims to disrupt the ‘full-scale defense partnership that is harmful to Ukraine.'”)
- With Russia claiming Bakhmut, Ukraine tallies cost in lost lives and limbs
- Nord Stream Sabotage Probe Turns to Clues Inside Poland
- From ‘Pariah’ to Partner, Saudi Leader Defies Threats to Isolate Him (“Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has repeatedly leveraged Saudi Arabia’s wealth and influence to overcome condemnation of its human rights violations.”)
- Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament
- Boris Johnson’s shock exit reverberates through British ruling party
- Colombia plane crash: Four children found alive in Amazon after 40 days
- Quebec hopes rain, outside help can be turning point in fight against fires
- ‘Magical’ wildlife-rich rainforest being planted in Devon (“Thirty-hectare site above Dart valley will include lichens and ferns and could take a century to reach maturity”)
- Wonking Out: How Low Must Inflation Go? (“The question is, how low does the inflation target have to be for the public to lose interest? I now worry that 4 percent may be a bit too high. But 3 percent almost surely isn’t.”)
- On heels of debt fight, House GOP rolls out tax-cut package (Evidence yet AGAIN that Republicans do NOT care about the debt. At all.)
- Democrats Push for Debt-Ceiling Overhaul After Default Scare
- Climate Deniers Are Hounding Educators Again (Evil.)
- Analysis: Trump faces difficult odds in classified documents case
- Trump Says He Wants Quick Vindication. Don’t Count On It. (“The possibility of a trial happening before the November 2024 election is remote at best.”)
- ‘Devastating’: Current, former officials shocked over military secrets found at Mar-a-Lago
- Trump Left the Justice Dept. No Choice
- The Trump Indictment Speaks for Itself (“Against the former President’s miasma of lies and disinformation, finally, a damning set of facts.”)
- Boxes in a Mar-a-Lago shower? It’s only the start of a damning Trump indictment.
- Merrick Garland and Jack Smith come through: Trump will face justice
- Donald Trump Indictment: Former President Kept Classified Docs in Shower, Tried to Hide Them From His Own Lawyers, DOJ Alleges in 38-Counts (“The explosive allegations include Trump having documents detailing U.S. nuclear programs and sharing classified information with others.”)
- Trump’s indictment is tragic for our country but an imperative for justice (“Accountability has overcome fear.”)
- The Craziest Details From the Trump Documents Indictment (“Pics or it didn’t happen? No problem.”)
- The Federal Indictment of Donald J. Trump: Historic…and Wild
- 7 Wild Takeaways From Donald Trump’s Indictment
- Nuclear weapon secrets in the bathroom: five revelations from Trump’s unsealed indictment (“Trump took classified documents including information on nuclear weapons and secret plans to attack a foreign country”)
- Former President Donald Trump’s second indictment, annotated
- Special counsel describes gravity of alleged crimes, experts call charges ‘damning’
- Documents in Trump Indictment Were Among Nation’s Most Closely Guarded
- ‘This Is Still a Secret’: Indictment Shows Trump Shared Attack Plan With Guests
- Trump Tried to Hide Documents, Share Secrets, Indictment Alleges
- The Indictment Is Stunning. Will Trump Supporters Care?
- The dangerous Republican freakout about Trump’s indictment (“The paranoid reaction to the Justice Department’s charges reveal a party gripped by the politics of perpetual apocalypses.”)
- The judge assigned to oversee Trump’s criminal case was appointed by Trump himself (This is completely unacceptable.)
- Why are the 31 documents listed in the indictment so sensitive?
- The Stupidest Crimes Imaginable (“The federal indictment of Donald Trump depicts a man who knew that what he was doing was wrong and went to great lengths to cover it up.”)
- National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through presidential records in rare public statement
- Donald Trump kept boxes with US nuclear program documents and foreign weapons details, indictment says
- Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says
- Here are the 37 charges against Trump and what they mean
- The Indictment and Trump’s Four Tests for America
- The Trump indictment was a great day for democracy (“If the GOP had its way, the work of ordinary citizens doing their civic duty would be thrown in the trash.”)
- The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated (“The Justice Department on Friday unveiled an indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with 37 criminal counts.”)
- A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case
- The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
- An Exit from the GOP’s Labyrinth of Trump Lies
- ‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War
- Donald Trump uses his legal woes to plead for money from supporters – again
- They Just Don’t Care (“Why won’t Republicans consider the possibility that Trump is guilty?” It’s a cult.)
- From a Pardon Offer to Condemnation: Trump’s Rivals Respond to His Indictment
- 12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power
- Trump set for first public appearances since federal indictment, speaking in Georgia, North Carolina
- Conservatives, aren’t you sick of Trump’s nonsense?
- Trump indictment not politically motivated, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says in Utah
- Here are 11 key takeaways from the Trump classified documents indictment
- Kevin McCarthy blasts Biden DOJ over Trump indictment: ‘A dark day in America’ (McCarthy is disgusting.)
- In the House, a spectacular flameout (That’s Kevin McCarthy.)
- Trump taps lawyer Todd Blanche to helm indictment as two others resign
- Legal drama around the former president may add to ‘Trump exhaustion syndrome,’ says Cuccinelli
- Trump aide Walt Nauta indicted in classified documents case
- Fact check: Trump’s baseless ‘1,850 boxes’ attacks on Biden’s legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection (And by “baseless,” they mean FALSE.)
- House GOP responds to Trump indictment with renewed FBI scrutiny (Republicans continue to assault law enforcement and the rule of law.)
- Trump’s Rivals Are Absolutely Terrified of Criticizing Him
- Joe Biden’s Trump Indictment Strategy: Stay Quiet, Let It Play Out (“The president’s team thinks a rematch with Trump would play in their favor in 2024, but don’t expect them to jump into the fray over the former president’s legal woes.”)
- Biden Names New Border Patrol Chief as Immigration Policies Come Under Scrutiny
- Judge required Pence to answer most of special counsel’s questions, newly unsealed court docs show
- Companies that publicly condemned legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community send political contributions to state lawmakers who advanced anti-LGBTQ+ bills
- The Shake-Up at CNN: The Latest Development in the Media’s Identity Crisis (“The ouster of the CNN CEO on the heels of a damning magazine profile is just the latest symptom of an old order’s waning adroitness across legacy media, digital media, and social media.”)
- Man who crashed U-Haul near White House planned other attacks, prosecutor says (“The man who crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier outside the White House last month wanted to overthrow the government and replace it with a dictatorship ‘fueled by Nazi ideology,’ and he had planned other attacks”)
- President Biden Delivers for Virginia with Invest in America Agenda
- “Glenn Youngkin once again attacks the rule of law…insults Virginia parents by bringing them into his twisted defense of Trump” (“When it comes to Donald Trump, Liz Cheney has more courage in her pinky than Youngkin does in his whole body.” – Larry Sabato)
- Youngkin blasts Trump indictment as proof of ‘two-tiered justice system’
- As negotiations drag on, Virginia budget amendments hang in the balance
- Two longtime allies now competing in bitter Virginia Senate contest (“Former delegates Jennifer Carroll Foy and Hala Ayala are battling to reenter the General Assembly after losing 2021 bids for governor and lieutenant governor.”)
- Here’s who The Post endorses in Northern Virginia state Senate primaries (Regardless of who you support, do so for your own reasons, not because the moronic WaPo editorial board – which has sucked when it comes to Virginia politics since at least 2005 – tells you to do so.)
- Officials investigating if fish along Roanoke River have PFAS in their bodies
- Hanover re-enters the book ban battleground
- Coal community leaders from 10 states visit Southwest Virginia to learn from energy projects
- Mayor Stoney addresses plans for gun violence prevention this summer
- How Loudoun Co. schools are responding to rise in hate incidents
- Arlington Board Candidates Make Last Pitches Ahead Of Primary Election
- Bedford County School Board approves policy limiting discussion of sexual orientation and gender (Why?)
- D.C.-area forecast: Warmer today, and turning hotter for Sunday
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