by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 10.
- As NATO Gathers, Unity Among the Alliance Has Become Harder to Sustain (“The international cooperation celebrated by President Biden has been challenged as the war in Ukraine drags on and questions linger over that country’s membership.”)
- Five things to watch for at a crucial NATO summit
- Why Ukraine’s plea for NATO membership is such a profound dilemma
- CNN Exclusive: Biden says war with Russia must end before NATO can consider membership for Ukraine
- US and Germany resist pressure to advance Ukraine’s Nato bid
- Sappers risk their lives to win Ukraine back, inch by inch
- Ukraine live briefing: Putin met with Wagner chief after rebellion; Biden in U.K. ahead of NATO summit
- President Biden Defends Controversial Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
- NATO needs to deter Russian aggression — or it will invite future threats
- Russia’s top general Gerasimov shown in video for first time since failed June 24 mutiny
- Zelenskyy to ABC: How Russia-Ukraine war could end, thoughts on US politics and Putin’s weakness
- Europe Can’t Supply Ukraine With Weapons Fast Enough. Here’s Why
- Why Ukraine Is Struggling to Puncture Russia’s Formidable Defenses
- Erdogan says Turkey could approve Sweden’s NATO membership if Europeans ‘open way’ to Turkey EU bid
- POLITICS
Yellen’s latest trip helps set a new normal for the U.S.-China relationship - Yellen’s China Trip Offers Economic Guardrails for Rivalry
- China Slides to Brink of Deflation, Adding Stimulus Urgency
- China kindergarten attack kills six, sparks safety worries
- Brazil’s Supreme Court Looms Over Indigenous Land Rights (“Approval of ‘marco temporal’ theory would upend tribal claims and increase deforestation”)
- US drones ‘harassed’ by Russian jets kill top Islamic State leader in airstrike: Officials
- Israeli Ministers Vote to ‘Prevent Collapse’ of the Palestinian Authority
- Joe Biden meeting Rishi Sunak before King Charles visit
- Biden visits U.K. ahead of NATO summit amid alliance divisions (“The United States and the United Kingdom, largely aligned on global issues, are also working through some of the differences in their approaches to Kyiv.”)
- UK should quit ‘climate-wrecking’ energy treaty, say official advisers
- Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets (“HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken down”)
- US swelters as south-west braces for record-breaking heatwave up to 120F (This is the climate crisis.)
- Historic Rainfall Triggers Flash Floods Across New York State and Northeast
- Catastrophic, life-threatening flooding expected in Vermont starting Sunday
- A Hotter Climate Demands That We Clean Up Our Rivers for Swimming
- A year after Dobbs, here’s how states are legislating abortion
- Investigation finds Clarence Thomas accepted more undisclosed gifts from wealthy friends through elite association (Thomas is utterly corrupt, has ZERO business being on the Supreme Court – or any court.)
- What Biden got right about the wrongheaded Supreme Court decisions (“The president prepared for bad Supreme Court decisions.”)
- Chief justice John Roberts urged to testify on ethics scandals for ‘good of democracy’
- GOP states quit the program that fights voter fraud. Now they’re scrambling. (Completely irresponsible and moronic, including by Youngkin here in Virginia.)
- ‘A deranged ploy’: how Republicans are fueling the disinformation wars
- Trump’s violence has been normalized: Why the media ignored MAGA’s threat against Barack Obama (“Donald Trump’s threats of eliminationist and other forms of violence have only escalated since being indicted”)
- Social media injunction unravels plans to protect 2024 elections (This crazy ruling needs to be overturned by higher courts, ASAP.)
- They opposed the infrastructure law. Now, some in the GOP court its cash.
- Congress returns with lots to do but little time to do it (“Lawmakers return to Washington this week, kicking off a three-week legislative sprint before they return to their states and districts for the August recess. The Senate is back today and the House convenes on Tuesday. At the top of the agenda: making progress on the annual spending bills that Congress must pass by Sept. 30 to avert a government shutdown.”)
- Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
- Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ’84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection
- DeSantis’s stumbles have GOP mulling other Trump alternatives (“One Republican strategist said Youngkin’s camp ‘isn’t ruling anything out’ yet, despite his statement in early May that he wouldn’t be running for president ‘this year.'”)
- Ron DeSantis’s Only Hope Is to Beat Trump From the Hard Right
- Ron DeSantis Is Betting the Farm on Trans Hate (“The era of tepid acceptance is over.”)
- Greene’s Freedom Caucus ousting underscores GOP-conservative tensions (They’re not really “conservative,” so much as far-right extremists.)
- Religious right gets blindsided by angry parents in a Southern California school district (Good, because not just far-right parents matter – ALL parents matter, including of all races, ethnicities, religions – or no religion at all, sexual orientations, etc.)
- Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users
- Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads (“Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover”)
- PGA Tour policy board member resigns over LIV merger
- Violent brawl breaks out at Michigan GOP committee meeting
- Senate GOP lands a top recruit in Nevada (“Sam Brown, a former Army captain, launched a campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen with the endorsement of the Senate campaign committee chair.”)
- What Might Virginia Politics Look Like Today If Hillary Clinton Had Won in 2016? (With Hillary Clinton in the White House, there obviously wouldn’t have been the massive anti-Trump “resistance” backlash we saw here in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. That would have had MASSIVE implications for Virginia politics.)
- Virginia’s mental health hotline one year later
- Va. National Guard deploys 100 to Texas border on Youngkin orders
- Next step for Virginia’s gang violence prevention campaign: targeted ads
- Roanoke County supervisor candidate McCracken: Christians being ostracized (Quite the contrary, actually.)
- At the very least, Loudoun school official deserves apology from Miyares, Youngkin
- Loudoun schools spokesman Wayde Byard returns after perjury acquittal (“Wayde Byard, the longtime Loudoun County Public Schools official acquitted of perjury, is writing his next chapter on his own terms.”)
- Some in Lynchburg want to recall a city council member. Here’s why that’s so hard.
- $5,000 Reward in Alexandria: Sausages Found Embedded with Fish Hooks Aimed to Harm Dogs (Evil.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Drying out for a few days before more mugginess and storms
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