by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 17.
- Extreme heatwave live updates: hundreds of millions from US to Europe and Asia hit by severe heat (“Italy told to prepare for most intense heatwave ‘of all time’ and 100 million Americans remain under extreme heat advisories as climate crisis bites”)
- Millions in the U.S. and around the world face record-breaking temperatures
- A Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From the Air to the Ocean
- UN Security Council To Hold First Talks On AI Risks
- Ukraine attacks key Crimean bridge with drones, official says; Kremlin to end grain deal until demands are met
- Russia halts wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain. It’s a blow to global food security (Putin’s Russia is a terrorist nation.)
- Traffic stopped on Crimean Bridge due to ‘emergency’ – Russian-backed governor
- Russia blames new Crimea bridge attack on Ukraine
- Explosions disrupt traffic on a key bridge from Crimea to Russia’s mainland
- Ukraine’s NATO Push Hit a Bump. Joining the EU Will Also Be Tough.
- Top Taiwan Presidential Candidate Lai to Stop in US Next Month
- Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. ‘Yes, We’re All Worse Off.’ (“An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation. Then came Covid-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine.”)
- Kerry Says U.S. and China Must Set Aside Politics to Tackle Climate Change
- US, China aim to revive climate talks as planet reels under extreme weather
- China Growth Disappoints as Beijing Hints at Muted Stimulus
- America Can’t Build a Green Economy Without China
- US working with India to make investment easier for energy transition – Yellen
- Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests (“Authorities announce new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, after policing was scaled back following mass protests last year”)
- US heatwave: high temperatures forecast, northeast braces for rain
- Heavy rains swamp Northeast again as flash flooding claims at least 5 lives in Pennsylvania
- Is the Media Finally Waking Up to a New Kind of Supreme Court Coverage? (“Judicial coverage has long sidestepped the politicking that goes on in and around the Supreme Court. Post-Dobbs leak, and amid mounting ethics concerns, that may be changing. ‘It needs to be covered in a more comprehensive way,’ a legal affairs reporter says.” Duh.)
- The far right’s war on “woke” has real-world consequences for the military
- Judge in Trump documents case under the spotlight as arguments near
- Trump praises judge overseeing his classified documents case, saying she ‘loves our country’
- Trump’s outbursts met with silence so far by prosecutor, judge (“Other defendants might get in trouble for publicly calling the prosecutor a deranged drug user. Not Donald Trump.” Why does Trump keep getting special treatment?)
- Chris Christie Rips Trump for Touting Indictments as a “Great Badge of Honor” (“The former New Jersey governor ramps up attacks on the GOP presidential frontrunner.”)
- Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 (That would be an unmitigated disaster.)
- GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism (But they won’t publicly denounce it or take any actions against it?)
- The House G.O.P. Bomb-throwers May End Up Bombing Their Majority
- Billionaires aren’t okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes (“From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality”)
- The media industry is in turmoil, and that’s not changing any time soon (“Media companies are struggling with two Hollywood strikes, slumping ad revenue and money-losing streaming businesses.”)
- Hollywood strikers face behemoths that politicians have let run wild
- Senator Manchin speech stokes speculation of White House run
- Third-party No Labels will not be a ‘spoiler’ in 2024 election, chair says (Everything about “No Labels” is moronic and harmful.)
- GOP donors fuel RFK Jr’s presidential campaign
- Top House Democrats rebuke Jayapal comments that Israel is a ‘racist state’ as she tries to walk them back (No, but some members of Netanyahu’s government are virulent racists and extremists in general.)
- Author of spoof story shared by Greg Abbott calls him one of ‘dumbest people in the country’ (“Texas governor shared fake article by Christopher Blair about Garth Brooks being booed by ‘patriots’ in made-up city”)
- How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold (“The Governor’s strategy has two parts: to grow, Michigan needs young people; to draw young people, it needs to have the social policies they want.”)
- 6 of the Biggest Downgrades…and 10 of the Biggest Upgrades in Virginia Politics Since 2000
- AG Miyares shows support for lawsuit challenging CFPB (Douchebag.)
- Virginia General Assembly can ensure public education’s strength with key investments
- Virginia reseachers look into whether ‘forever chemicals’ are building up in fish
- Business crossing state lines over Virginia’s new hemp law: ‘I feel like I’m being thrown out of my state’
- With upheaval on Twitter, some Virginia lawmakers make the move to Threads
- Emmett Hanger spends final month in Richmond battling budget impasse
- D.C.-area forecast: Typically hot with storm chances peaking midweek
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